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[Omegastick]

I'm the drummer and backing vocalist for a band called Overboard at the moment and we are in the process of writing our first few songs and recording our first few demos right now. I'm gonna leave a link one of our songs here for you all to enjoy. Critique on our songwriting is appreciated, recording and performance critique will probably be wasted seeing as these are demos we threw together in about half an hour each.

Our self titled song

EDIT: Hehe, forgot to mention that we'll be moving to electric stuff as soon as we get a bassist. Actually, if any of you know a bassist living in the Staffordshire area then tell him to take a peek, we're currently looking for one.

[Duuvian]

I think this link will work: http://www.box.com/shared/02yhzke04c

I composed that and quite a few similar versions of the same song with tempo variations and by using a myriad of easy tricks to make it sound somewhat different. My headphones are finally reaching the final stages of 'barely usable' and entering 'broken' territory so I can't tell if what I make sounds right anymore so I'm just going to wing it and hope the version I uploaded months ago has no digital distortion from being stored or some other nonsense I just made up and that it sounds the way it did when it was uploaded.

[Trapezohedron]

One of my compositions back in 2010, which is also one of the things I'm actually proud of presenting to other people (the rest, I believe they're rubbish). This was made in FL Studio, just before I had the musician's equivalent of Writer's Block.

Link.

EDIT: Fixed Link.

[vikingefar]

Been a b12'er for a long time, but been a musician for an even longer time. I mostly use expensive synthesis gear recorded to computer through pre-amps and shit. like a boss.

http://soundcloud.com/lisbent

[Fishbreath]

One of my compositions back in 2010, which is also one of the things I'm actually proud of presenting to other people (the rest, I believe they're rubbish). This was made in FL Studio, just before I had the musician's equivalent of Writer's Block.

Link.

EDIT: Fixed Link.

I'm not really a fan of the chiptune sort of sound, but I have to say, that's really good.

I'm the drummer and backing vocalist for a band called Overboard at the moment and we are in the process of writing our first few songs and recording our first few demos right now. I'm gonna leave a link one of our songs here for you all to enjoy. Critique on our songwriting is appreciated, recording and performance critique will probably be wasted seeing as these are demos we threw together in about half an hour each.

Structurally, I like it (it has a good driving sound). I will leave off the performance critiques, but I do think that when you're practicing going forward, your lead vocalist really needs to work on hitting notes spot on instead of sliding onto the right pitch, particularly if you're going to have him sing a lot of short notes that are more than a tone away from the one before them.

In the spirit of things, here's me messing around on penny whistle (I think this is my C whistle, which has a much breathier tone than my D), recorded on a headset microphone in my basement. The tune's called either The Killavil or Trip to Killavil, depending on who you hear it from, and the particular melody I'm playing is the one played by The Cottars as part of the song Boholla Medley.

[Omegastick]

My band's recorded another song, you should take a listen.

Overboard - I'm With You

[Heron TSG]

A song I made for an in-progress game called Leech. I believe this will be the menu theme. Thoughts? It's written for a harp/viola d'amore duet.

[Reudh]

Ah, the sultry sound of MIDI. That takes me back. (I was never able to make the music, though I frequented an online forum called Crankeye/RMRK where a good portion of the forum made MIDI music for RPGs. A particular one, HaloOfTheSun - I still use some of his compositions (with permission) today.

[Heron TSG]

As soon as I can figure out how to get all of my recordings to stop clipping when I record from stereo mix, it will sound better. (Any ideas? I've tried changing the output volume, the source volume, etc, and the louder parts of songs will always clip and sound like crap. I'm using Audacity, so help with that or another program would be appreciated.)

[Fishbreath]

What are you recording, and what are you recording it with?

[Heron TSG]

I'm recording out of Finale Notepad 2011 with Audacity, a free waveform editor.

[Fishbreath]

Silly me, you said stereo mix right in your first post. That's strange, although when I've wanted to record stereo mix I've had luck setting the volume for stereo mix very low, to the point where Audacity's little waveform display barely even registers it, and using the amplify tool to get it up to the right level. It's not as though there's enough noise to worry about, and if you still have problems with clipping you'll probably be able to spot exactly where they are.

I've also mostly used Musescore for my dabbling in composing, although it doesn't do some things in playback that I'd love it to do.

[Heron TSG]

Here is a link to a set containing four tracks.

1. Leech Battle - background beat to be added, just the Cello melody for now.

2. Leech Theme - I had to record it a bit quieter than intended for SoundCloud to accept it, so you may need to turn your speakers up a bit. You'll want speakers with good bass, because I put some nordic choir up here.

3. Relaxical Leeches - It's looped three times to check the looping potential. I think I might need to take out the end fade to reduce noticeability, but perhaps not.

4. You Suck - Game Over music. A pun about how leeches feed. Simple and mildly repetitive, but it sounds like you failed.

[Trapezohedron]

Finally got the organs to work properly, since they kept lagging behind and creating artifact sustained notes. Decided to convert the organ into soundfiles properly, and used them instead of putting a bit of a strain to the poor compy's processor.

There's still a few kinks I need to fix, mainly volume cracking at certain parts, and reverb at the end is cut off partway (curse you, .wav file!), but otherwise it's finished. Not going to fix that now though, I'm tired.

Linky

[Reudh]

I ought to have a stab at making music again.