[rock] just What You Wanted (mp3) vocal

[uncloned]

Ever want to make music designed to irritate...  I did.

No vsts or synthesizers are used in this recording resurrected from 1999 or in the remix - I just added a filter to the bass to bring out the distortion and adjusted volumes.

The drums are from a keyboard and played live as well the rest, guitar, bass, and vocals

All effects are from cool edit or physical guitar pedals (like the vocals run through a whammy pedal)

I love the effects in this - but it does get a bit muddy

The three tracks of drums get and odd effect in the stereo image here and there.

Yes, the performances are not quite in tempo in places - but I have faith in your ears to over look this.

cakewalk pro audio
cool edit
casio keyboard
fender mustang
various effect pedals

The lyrics are not very deep I'm afraid....

Just what you wanted
Living free
What I could give
You've stolen from me
x2

Talk all you want,
it don't change a thing
The past don't ever
go away

Do what you want,
it won't change a thing
Its a history
that always stays

Just what you wanted
Living free
What I could give
You've stolen from me
x4

Lie to them, lie to me
Your words don't mean a thing
How am I to sort this out?

All the things you promised
and never did
How am I to figure it out?

You've stolen from me
stolen from me

Just what you wanted
Living free
What I could give
You've stolen from me
x2

Stolen from me
x2
Good Bye...
x2

http://clones.soonlabel.com/mp3/just3.mp3

[Sam_Zen]

I will overlook the tempo stumblings indeed.
Lyrics are as said a bit mediocre, but considering the time of making a very nice tune.
Maybe it gets a bit muddy because for example the 'howling guitar' sound has a bit of the wrong reverb, therefore losing force.

[uncloned]

wrong reverb?

what do you mean?

I have the individual tracks so this can be isolated

almost everything is run through cool edit noise reduction at extreme settings

[Sam_Zen]

No complaints about the NR.
Maybe 'wrong' is not the right word. But the kind of reverb sets the dry sound a bit too much in the background.
This can be due to the fact that often a reverb of a sound is placed in exactly the same panorama without further notice.
So it's sort of straight 'behind' the original. Then the total sound will be a bit 'dragged' back.

Sounds can get a kind of virtual reflection environment by reverb.
But in reality one doesn't have to choose the straight 'shoebox' all the time.
Reflections also can be different qua L/R circumstances.
So to keep the distinction between the dry original and the reverb, it's often enough to place both in a different position in the pan.
Sometimes a small percentage of + or - deviation from the center for each of the sources is sufficient.

[uncloned]

in that sense I'm stuck

all of the effects are hard into the wave either from guitar pedals or from CE

but - I could add more and offset that....

PS - good point about the placement