Hi my friends,

On May I will partecipate to an important live contest in my Town. I found the musicians and the singer but now I need your help to find a good name for the band.

The information regarding our band are:

- We are in 5 (4 boys - 1 girl)

- The song is a '80 Rock kind of music

- Our names initials are: A - L - J - K - F (maybe could  be an anagram )

- We like the word "Rock" in the name (but it is not a must)

- We are from 3 different bands

- We are all Italians

- The guitar players are tattoo artists

 Any idea could be good, 

Thanks for the help, Alberto

So i took a two week break to prevent complete and total burnout due to my problems with EQing my vocals. Went back to them today and I feel as though my head's going to explode from frustration. The vocals themselves sound good but I mix it with the instrumental track, it sounds awful and you can bearly decipher anything I sing. Click here for an example. I really don't know what else to do at this point, it seems I've tried everything from turning up the midrange, dropping the bass [yes i know that's a cylob song] I've even tried adding delays to no avail. What do you guys suggest I do in order for it to sound like a clear trackor at least sound better?

thanks for the help

-qukid

Haha this is really funny!

Hi: 

I've set up a bunch of new projects for my album Destiny's Fire with Yolande Strauss.  We're looking for "reliable" musicians to help us out on these.  It seems our plans have changed...some musicians "seem" to have a "real" life - didn't know that was allowed hahah!

The three "consistent" elements on the album will be Yolande, myself and the final mixer.  Everything else will be anybody who can help us out.

Take a look and see if anything interests you.  Some of the lyrics may seem a bit depressing but it doesn't mean that is what we want.  Contemplative, jazzy, upbeat, pop-rock is also great with sad lyrics...my favorite actually.  I tend to write sad and Yolande tends to sing sad but not always what we want, that would get boring after awhile.  We want a mix.

If you have a new idea for an existing lyric to make it more exciting we are definitely open to hear what you have.  Would love this group on Kompoz to help us out.  It seems 14 songs are what album buyers are expecting these days.  Thanks everyone in advance.  My projects are labelled clearly, I think you can figure out which ones I need help with.

Thank you....Casia x

New neighbours have moved in upstairs yesterday. The apartment upstairs had been empty for a few months, and before a guy was living there - he was pretty silent and used to came back home from work late in the evening. Very few noises from upstairs, ideal environment for recording.

But, the new neighbours seem to be a family - I still have to meet them in person - and noisy: step noises, moving chairs, a crying baby and all the like you can expect from a family. Recording with no background noise could become a problem in my next future. I will see if closer micing and raising my cardioid mic and pointing it more downwards could help making the noises from upstairs less noticeable, but I'm afraid that some noises will be always present. :-/

I will be off Kompoz for an indefinite time due to yesterday's storm.. assessing damage to computer systems will take a few days at least. I can check in once in a while but have no access to any music monitoring or playing. It seems the very expensive surge protectors on my edit system weren't expensive enough.  Have fun!