Debut offering

[anaxcrosswords]

Hope I’m going to be OK posting this. I don’t post stuff the band does because it’s all covers, but the guitarist and I have occasionally written and recorded our own material. The only thing that makes me nervous is that drums/percussion/keys are either programmed or sampled and I know that can come across as cheap. We’ve always done it that way simply because we haven’t had the musicians available to learn and then record parts (it’s a difficult ask) and, for us, it’s never been serious enough to warrant that sort of investment.
Anyway, as far as basslines goes this is the only one where I was able to let fly a little, and while it’s not a technically difficult line it has a nice, prominent role in the mix.
As well as bass, my role here was drum sampling/programming, brass sampling and manipulation(!), a few keyboard bits and the vocals.
Dave added guitar, a couple of arrangement tweaks and a rather good job of home recording and mixing.

[url="https://soundcloud.com/mayercarter/no-chilli"]https://soundcloud.com/mayercarter/no-chilli[/url]

Let the ‘What were you thinking?’ questions begin…

[Truckstop]

Wow, as far as amateur songwriting and production goes that's pretty much at a pro level! Sounds great and I really enjoyed the song. I think I might have preferred louder drums, but that's purely a personal thing.

Nice one!

[anaxcrosswords]

Thanks truckstop. Yeah, the drums were loop sample based and the kick was a tad weak. Given the chance I'd probably use HotStepper to add beefier kicks but I don't know if we still have the master. It's a recent upload but we did the track about 5 years ago.