Month: November 2018

Broadjam Artist: Howard Siden
Song: Broken Flowers

Reviewer: Randal Dunkle

Positive Comments: I love the way this song starts with the lead guitar, sounds a lot like Santana. I also really think it has a professional feel to it – all the instruments really blend well together – very cool tune!

Constructive Comments: Very good instrumental, great guitar licks and just a great sound all around. The only thing that I would do different is I would bring a piano in at about the 4 minute mark and soften it similar to the song Layla but that’s just my opinion, the song is great just the way it is.

Broadjam Artist: Susan Nikas
Song: I Can’t Go Back Now

Reviewer: Good Advice

Positive Comments: was very well done, a lot to this song that pleases my ears.

Constructive Comments: With the sound of your vocals and the instumentation every song you make is FOLK not country. Anything you put in any genre other then folk is mislabeled.

Broadjam Artist: Susan Nikas
Song: I Can’t Go Back Now

Reviewer: Good Advice

Positive Comments: was very well done, a lot to this song that pleases my ears.

Constructive Comments: With the sound of your vocals and the instumentation every song you make is FOLK not country. Anything you put in any genre other then folk is mislabeled.

Broadjam Artist: Signal 30
Song: Obsession

Reviewer: Good Advice

Positive Comments: I admire your courage to sit there and have a 5 minute orgasm as you lay down vocals. All I could think during this song was that it would make the perfect background music for a porn compilation video that people upload to porntube and what not. You should consider it, would be great advertising.

Constructive Comments: As sexy as you tried to make the vocals, they lacked a little umphf. A little production work in the mix could have made them more haunting and added a little punch to them so the listener would have really been able to experience your orgasm with you.

Broadjam Artist: Greg Lambert
Song: Rock and Roll

Reviewer: Good Advice

Positive Comments: This was a very fun song, and it would have gotten better overall ratings if the mix was better.

Constructive Comments: The irony is that you say during the song “don’t need no post-production” when actually that is what this song is desperately lacking. There is no balance between the instruments and vocals. The levels are all over the place and nothing has been subtley panned to help differentiate the sounds. Everything is just washing together. While I liked the vocals, a tweak here and there with an EQ would have made them pop and carry more punch. The background vocals which were perfectly used were so low in the mix and lacking in any production help to make them stand out they are almost totally lost.The only thing you did from a song construction standpoint that I did not like was you overused the gimmicks. The “ows” and the talking to the band. Don’t let them become a crutch, and when you use them you have to use them very judiciously otherwise it just gives a listener the feeling that you ran out of lyrics to your song.You did a pretty good job editting the song itself as you made it, but you need to put that kind of thought and effort into the mix as well. If this song only had half of the recording flaws it has (all of which are pretty easy to address) I would have added it to one of my playlists, and it would have gotten at least a 4 if not a 5 for overall rating. By not putting in the time and effort in post-production you really robbed this song of a lot of life and energy which is a shame and quite ironic considering the lyric choice you made about “post-production”.

Broadjam Artist: Greg Lambert
Song: Rock and Roll

Reviewer: Good Advice

Positive Comments: This was a very fun song, and it would have gotten better overall ratings if the mix was better.

Constructive Comments: The irony is that you say during the song “don’t need no post-production” when actually that is what this song is desperately lacking. There is no balance between the instruments and vocals. The levels are all over the place and nothing has been subtley panned to help differentiate the sounds. Everything is just washing together. While I liked the vocals, a tweak here and there with an EQ would have made them pop and carry more punch. The background vocals which were perfectly used were so low in the mix and lacking in any production help to make them stand out they are almost totally lost.The only thing you did from a song construction standpoint that I did not like was you overused the gimmicks. The “ows” and the talking to the band. Don’t let them become a crutch, and when you use them you have to use them very judiciously otherwise it just gives a listener the feeling that you ran out of lyrics to your song.You did a pretty good job editting the song itself as you made it, but you need to put that kind of thought and effort into the mix as well. If this song only had half of the recording flaws it has (all of which are pretty easy to address) I would have added it to one of my playlists, and it would have gotten at least a 4 if not a 5 for overall rating. By not putting in the time and effort in post-production you really robbed this song of a lot of life and energy which is a shame and quite ironic considering the lyric choice you made about “post-production”.

Broadjam Artist: Nigel Barrett
Song: Goodbye Yesterday

Reviewer: Good Advice

Positive Comments: This was excellent. So many people make piano pieces, and they either don’t add any accompaniament or the add inappropriate accompaniament. This had just the right amount of backup instruments chiming in, and with sounds and tones appropriate for what you were doing. So good job with that, I hope you are that judicious with all your editting.

Constructive Comments: I have only one real complaint, the ending seemed a little abrupt and needed about another 5 seconds worth of thought added to the end to make it more poignant. But other then that it was very well done. Keep up the good work.

Broadjam Artist: Nigel Barrett
Song: Goodbye Yesterday

Reviewer: Good Advice

Positive Comments: This was excellent. So many people make piano pieces, and they either don’t add any accompaniament or the add inappropriate accompaniament. This had just the right amount of backup instruments chiming in, and with sounds and tones appropriate for what you were doing. So good job with that, I hope you are that judicious with all your editting.

Constructive Comments: I have only one real complaint, the ending seemed a little abrupt and needed about another 5 seconds worth of thought added to the end to make it more poignant. But other then that it was very well done. Keep up the good work.

Broadjam Artist: Saebella
Song: Checkmate

Reviewer: Good Advice

Positive Comments: I have reviewed a few of your songs now and this was the most complete effort I have heard so far. It has the most unified flow to the beat and instrumentation, and has the most mature and well developed lyrics.

Constructive Comments: One thing you really need to be careful of going forward is you have a tendency to pick a single word and repeat it a lot in your lyrics. It seems to happen every song with you and you need to break that habit. If you put out an album and every song had that feature it would get very stale and gimmicky before I was finished listening to the album. I fear its becoming a crutch for you lyrically. The word check is overused here. It doesn’t ruin the song, but its definitely overused. So for this song its not that bad, but since I have heard most of your other songs and that is a feature of those as well, it is starting to become tiresone to hear you fall into that rut everytime of making a single word the entire refrain.

Broadjam Artist: Saebella
Song: Checkmate

Reviewer: Good Advice

Positive Comments: I have reviewed a few of your songs now and this was the most complete effort I have heard so far. It has the most unified flow to the beat and instrumentation, and has the most mature and well developed lyrics.

Constructive Comments: One thing you really need to be careful of going forward is you have a tendency to pick a single word and repeat it a lot in your lyrics. It seems to happen every song with you and you need to break that habit. If you put out an album and every song had that feature it would get very stale and gimmicky before I was finished listening to the album. I fear its becoming a crutch for you lyrically. The word check is overused here. It doesn’t ruin the song, but its definitely overused. So for this song its not that bad, but since I have heard most of your other songs and that is a feature of those as well, it is starting to become tiresone to hear you fall into that rut everytime of making a single word the entire refrain.