Month: November 2018

Broadjam Artist: Scott Tingley
Song: Marina Stump Pass (duet)

Reviewer: Jeff Cowhick

Positive Comments: Sounds to me like this band has been playing for a long time together and have both recording as well as live performance experience. Nice tune and I love both vocals. Reminds me of Jimmy Buffet. Fun tune. Sounds like you are very comfortable playing it.

Constructive Comments: No leads. Maybe a nice guitar lead, or even a sax or piano lead would be nice either in the middle, the end or both.

Broadjam Artist: Scott Tingley
Song: Marina Stump Pass (duet)

Reviewer: Jeff Cowhick

Positive Comments: Sounds to me like this band has been playing for a long time together and have both recording as well as live performance experience. Nice tune and I love both vocals. Reminds me of Jimmy Buffet. Fun tune. Sounds like you are very comfortable playing it.

Constructive Comments: No leads. Maybe a nice guitar lead, or even a sax or piano lead would be nice either in the middle, the end or both.

Broadjam Artist: Steve Dafoe – Songwriter
Song: Won’t Be Hurt Again (Adult Contemporary)

Reviewer: Jeff Cowhick

Positive Comments: These chords are really unusual in a nice way and the changes that occur as you go into the chorus are wonderful. Very unique song with a nice crystal clear vocal! Nice voice and fresh changes that you get to enjoy with really nice picking. The production is smooth. Well done.

Constructive Comments: I have nothing negative to say only one piece of advice. Not necessary at all but it would be nice to hear a soft subtle backing vocal.

Broadjam Artist: Steve Dafoe – Songwriter
Song: Won’t Be Hurt Again (Adult Contemporary)

Reviewer: Jeff Cowhick

Positive Comments: These chords are really unusual in a nice way and the changes that occur as you go into the chorus are wonderful. Very unique song with a nice crystal clear vocal! Nice voice and fresh changes that you get to enjoy with really nice picking. The production is smooth. Well done.

Constructive Comments: I have nothing negative to say only one piece of advice. Not necessary at all but it would be nice to hear a soft subtle backing vocal.

Broadjam Artist: Marc S. Pate
Song: Old Man

Reviewer: Jeff Cowhick

Positive Comments: This song reminds me of the cool stuff from the seventies like ‘Summer Breeze.’ Also kind of fits in with America and bands like that. The recording is seamless and well done. Sounds like a bunch of seasoned pros. Sounds like every one knows their parts well and have been doing this for some time now.

Constructive Comments: I thought the acoustic guitar could have been EQ’d better and that it was a little loud but everything else was about as good as it gets. Some backing vocal accompaniment would be nice.

Broadjam Artist: Marc S. Pate
Song: Old Man

Reviewer: Jeff Cowhick

Positive Comments: This song reminds me of the cool stuff from the seventies like ‘Summer Breeze.’ Also kind of fits in with America and bands like that. The recording is seamless and well done. Sounds like a bunch of seasoned pros. Sounds like every one knows their parts well and have been doing this for some time now.

Constructive Comments: I thought the acoustic guitar could have been EQ’d better and that it was a little loud but everything else was about as good as it gets. Some backing vocal accompaniment would be nice.

Broadjam Artist: Signal 30
Song: Hey Babe (New Version)

Reviewer: Jeff Cowhick

Positive Comments: I enjoyed the song but couldn’t get past all of the recording issues and extra sounds in the recording that weren’t really necessary and did not contribute to helping the piece along. It could be a nice piece but you first need to clean it up alot. Take out all of the sloppy guitar work and work on getting a better eq fro the vocals.

Constructive Comments: The vocals sound really muddy. The guitar isn’t tight, there are large portions of the music that are very sloppy. Go back and tighten up the rhythm guitars. You really shouldn’t settle for less. Its a nice song and sentiment. The extra drums sounds and percussion detracts from the piece. Maybe go with the ‘Less is more’ idea.

Broadjam Artist: MGB
Song: VICTORY (instrumental)

Reviewer: Jeff Cowhick

Positive Comments: This piece sounds to me like it was created with real instruments. I would have to say that these are real instruments but may be sampled and may not be performed organically. Whatever the case is, the quality was very well done and I have nothing else to say for flaws or anything. There really are none to be seen.

Constructive Comments: The only constructive criticism I can offer to this piece would be to add a few more instruments perhaps near the end. The piece is very repetitive and could use a good doubling or tripling of more instruments to help carry it thru.

Broadjam Artist: MGB
Song: VICTORY (instrumental)

Reviewer: Jeff Cowhick

Positive Comments: This piece sounds to me like it was created with real instruments. I would have to say that these are real instruments but may be sampled and may not be performed organically. Whatever the case is, the quality was very well done and I have nothing else to say for flaws or anything. There really are none to be seen.

Constructive Comments: The only constructive criticism I can offer to this piece would be to add a few more instruments perhaps near the end. The piece is very repetitive and could use a good doubling or tripling of more instruments to help carry it thru.

Broadjam Artist: Fred Kimmel
Song: River Flow (Earth Version)

Reviewer: Jeff Cowhick

Positive Comments: That was Awesome stuff! I love it. Keep up the good work. I like the passion in the vocal track. It was very felt and the music matched the intensity of the vocal as well. At first I thought the guitar sound was a little shaky but after I went back and listened again I thought I liked it better and that it was nice to just have it stick out like that.

Constructive Comments: This one is really hard to critique but if I had to I would say that you may want to look into taking out the guitar entirely and see how it holds together. I have a feeling that you want the guitar to sound contrasting like the way that it is, and this will probably fall on deaf ears but I would try a clean guitar sound personally with a lot of preamp so as to be able to hear the picking. In fact, I would try using an acoustic guitar.