Wow long time haven't been here (day job duties :/) and what a wonderfull songs have been posted around. We'll have to spend couple of days listening
Now here it is the latest piece I am working on. Vocals pending some arrangement changes and solos, as well - that's it for the "disclaimers"
Hope you'll like it
Niki

Good rocky intro... nice guitar sound, and great drums - crash cymbal perhaps a bit too high in the mix though.
Definitely needs the vocals, but this is a well constructed and well played piece of music.  Loads going on - very classy choice of instrumental sounds all round.
Not overly keen on some of the speed licks - it sounds like they've been put in there to show you can play really fast! And the end needs work I think too - the rest of the song drives onwards all the time but it kind of fizzles out at the end.

This has lots of potential - the addition of vocals could really bring the song to life.
Good work, I'm looking forward to listening to the finished version.

Interesting meltdown at the 1:30ish mark... Solid lead guitarmanship... Waiting for the vocals...

Hai Ke Yi!

Thanks for listening and the good words:) Definitely will be skipping some of the solos and those will be replaced with vocal lines (hopefully - singers are strange breed ...and my experience is that you can rarely count on 'em).

The drums were excellent. I could use a drummer like that. The guitar sounded well and vocals good too.

Thanks. I do hope that the vocals will sound gound (there aren't any right now ).
I do agree on the drummer comment - I wish I could have Tomas Haake as my drummer, as well, but since I can't - that is Toontracks EZDrummer virtual instrument with the inbuilt samples of his drumkit, as well as some grooves included in it (most of these programmed/played by him)

um, it hada very full sound and nice drums.

how do you set up to record?  and what do you use to mix the song?

Thanks for the listening

It is realy quite simple - have a great guitar (custom basswood body), amp (custom hi-gain), 2x12" cab with Celestion V30 speakers and just put a Sennheiser e906 mic in front of it, then it goes to a Neve style preamp (SCA N72) and into RME audio interface to my computer. Double track it for left and right. And I use Magix Samplitude DAW for mixing, built in effects plus some www.voxengo.com plugins, with some old tricks.
And of'course the arrangement plays very important role as well.