Month: June 2017

Broadjam Artist: Patrick Dude
Song: Bleeding Society

Reviewer: Mitch Siegal

Positive Comments: very pink Floyd, trippy cool stuff

Constructive Comments: a little too much efx for me had a difficult time understanding the lyrics, what I could make out was good. but that’s mostly because I’m old 🙂

Broadjam Artist: FRED GROSS
Song: Walkin’ the Walk

Reviewer: Rick Daley

Positive Comments: Nice instrumental. Good players. But it doesn’t seem to have an “identity”. Just a bit rambling.

Constructive Comments: Focus on a theme and bring that out

Broadjam Artist: Patrick E. Muth
Song: BEFORE THE WORLD STOPS SPINNIN!

Reviewer: Rick Daley

Positive Comments: Good start but needs polish

Constructive Comments: Make hooks stand out more. Sounds like a good time jam session got recorded.

Broadjam Artist: Chet Nichols
Song: My Baby’s Bringing In The Dough (from “Live” CD, “Black & White”

Reviewer: Mitch Siegal

Positive Comments: if this is truly live, I love the airy instrumental sound. the vocalist is terrific, really sells it.. lyrics soulful. nice work here!

Constructive Comments: other than a bridge or hook somewhere, I think its really good.

Broadjam Artist: Uncle Spider & The Electric Dirt Clods
Song: You’ll Never Know / New Age

Reviewer: Dave Haddad (CenterPeace)

Positive Comments: You had me at the intro. Love the production… panning is effective, the right amount of reverb, very transparent but present. Pretty composition I enjoyed the ensemble breaks, pauses and attention to detail. Song builds just right. Guitar solo in the end was pleasant. Song sounds very full, I really dig the pad sounds, the subtle parts really glue all the parts together.

Constructive Comments: When the drums comes in the groove lags a little, he is not consistent and doesn’t sound confident with the song. Sometimes the higher frequencies on the acoustic guitar were jumping out, that and maybe the same for the hi-hat, a little high freq. cut. In the fade, at 3:33 some thing drops out and there’s a noticeable dynamic sonic change (sometimes there’s nothing we can do about parts which may be loud of have noise suddenly end, maybe fade is out early and gradually or dump a bunch of verb on it at that end point… just a couple ideas.

Broadjam Artist: Lisa Vivienne
Song: Holy Lullaby

Reviewer: Jimmy Joe Lee

Positive Comments: The opening of the recording is very ear arresting. The melody has an Asian quality which I like. The singer also, at least in this song, has that same feel. The song calls to mind a hit from way back when 1963 i believe. http://www.npr.org/2013/06/28/196618792/bittersweet-at-no-1-how-a-japanese-song-topped-the-charts-in-1963

Constructive Comments: I think the song is held back by the recording process used. I’m not sure exactly what the problem is. There is a sound conflict of some kind. It may a variety of things. The recording starts out very clear. Then, when the song starts with the vocal and other instruments, what should be clear, isn’t.I wish I could be more descriptive. I’m not a sound engineer. The ingredients to bake the cake are there. I suggest listening to the recording found at the above link. Its very clear and even though its in a language you are most likely unfamiliar with, you’ll hear the emotional clarity your recording should have to make it something special.

Broadjam Artist: Keith Taylor
Song: All American Girl

Reviewer: Jimmy Joe Lee

Positive Comments: The artist is on the right track. The song structure is good and the theme is strong.The recording, however, doesn’t excite me.

Constructive Comments: The lack of excitement may be due to the key of the recording. I suggest experimenting with key placement. Pushing to a higher key can generate a more exciting vocal sound.I recall a discussion amongst the Eagles. They spoke about the issue of searching for just the right key for a song how important they consider it. The traditional country singer Webb Pearce used to complain about his producer pushing him to a higher key than Webb felt comfortable with. The producers entire rationale was to get more excitement in Webb’s voice. It must have worked as he had several hits.

Broadjam Artist: Jeff Roberts
Song: Ever Since the Rainbow

Reviewer: Jimmy Joe Lee

Positive Comments: I liked the over all feel of the recording. It has a pleasant relaxed quality. While not exactly like the Doors, i kept thinking of them as the song played. That’s a good thing.i think the tempo is right on.

Constructive Comments: I didn’t suggest a title as I’m certain it has one. I couldn’t catch enough of the lyric to discern the title. I confess to being a stickler when it comes to hearing the lyric clearly. Though the trend is to push the lyric back in the track, I like to hear every word clearly. This is not necessarily a criticism. Lyric placement is subjective. One can think the lyric is too up front and another think the opposite.

Broadjam Artist: Nick Kushner
Song: Dark Chocolate Craving

Reviewer: Jimmy Joe Lee

Positive Comments: Good for TV or movie theme. I like the tempo. The song hangs together well.

Constructive Comments: The ending seemed too abrupt. A fade should work or a dead end with a bit of hangover.

Broadjam Artist: Margie & Art Corey, S. & A. Corey
Song: Now You’re Free Instrumental

Reviewer: Brenda Craven

Positive Comments: Loved this piece! Great rhythm and beat,and it flowed perfectly well. Nice tempo. Instruments were nicely balanced and mixed. Vocals were good and I loved the saxophone on this. Absolutely great!

Constructive Comments: The only thing that I would suggest would be to bring up the volume on the vocals a little bit so that they are clearly heard. But other than that this song is rockin’. Well done