{"id":36403,"date":"2017-04-18T13:19:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T18:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/?guid=2e9c1bcc77981cd35c4e563461eb9c34"},"modified":"2017-04-18T13:19:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T18:19:00","slug":"trail-dust-kid-by-uncle-spider-the-electric-dirt-clods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/18\/trail-dust-kid-by-uncle-spider-the-electric-dirt-clods\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail Dust Kid by Uncle Spider & The Electric Dirt Clods"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Uncle<\/p>\n

Broadjam Artist: <\/b>Uncle Spider & The Electric Dirt Clods<\/a>
Song: <\/b>Trail Dust Kid<\/a><\/p>\n

Reviewer: <\/b>Drew Hale<\/a><\/p>\n

Positive Comments: <\/b>Great guitar tone, some nice playing particularly in the moving chordal lines.<\/p>\n

Constructive Comments: <\/b>Constructively, I don’t know how much I can say here. This sounds like a rough demo recorded so you wouldn’t forget a melody. Which is great. Everyone should have those. As far as being a marketable piece, there are a good deal of adjustments that would need to be made short of a full re-record. First. The piece has a decided swing to it. But the drum loop is straight, with no swing matching the guitar lines. This was incredibly distracting to me as a listener. I couldn’t ever settle into a groove, and I wanted to because some of the lines you played were really beautiful. Second. The overall time of the piece is all over the place between the drums and guitars, particularly when the drums drop out. The guitars immediately speed up, and do so at separate paces. Time is a major issue throughout the piece.Third. The recording. You can hear the floor noise “hiss” from the beginning, and it is prevalent throughout the piece. An easy fix would be to record your instruments at a higher volume, keeping them just at yellow on your meter at their highest level. This will ensure you have plenty of gain on the track, and will help keep floor noise down. I would also recommend using a little compression on your channels in post. This will warm up your tones, as well as help keep your levels consistent, and again allow you to keep track levels a bit hotter, and avoid floor noise.I hope this review hasn’t come off negatively. I really do wish you the very best, and hope to hear more from you in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"Uncle<\/p>\n

Broadjam Artist: <\/b>Uncle Spider & The Electric Dirt Clods<\/a>
Song: <\/b>Trail Dust Kid<\/a><\/p>\n

Reviewer: <\/b>Drew Hale<\/a><\/p>\n

Positive Comments: <\/b>Great guitar tone, some nice playing particularly in the moving chordal lines.<\/p>\n

Constructive Comments: <\/b>Constructively, I don’t know how much I can say here. This sounds like a rough demo recorded so you wouldn’t forget a melody. Which is great. Everyone should have those. As far as being a marketable piece, there are a good deal of adjustments that would need to be made short of a full re-record. First. The piece has a decided swing to it. But the drum loop is straight, with no swing matching the guitar lines. This was incredibly distracting to me as a listener. I couldn’t ever settle into a groove, and I wanted to because some of the lines you played were really beautiful. Second. The overall time of the piece is all over the place between the drums and guitars, particularly when the drums drop out. The guitars immediately speed up, and do so at separate paces. Time is a major issue throughout the piece.Third. The recording. You can hear the floor noise “hiss” from the beginning, and it is prevalent throughout the piece. An easy fix would be to record your instruments at a higher volume, keeping them just at yellow on your meter at their highest level. This will ensure you have plenty of gain on the track, and will help keep floor noise down. I would also recommend using a little compression on your channels in post. This will warm up your tones, as well as help keep your levels consistent, and again allow you to keep track levels a bit hotter, and avoid floor noise.I hope this review hasn’t come off negatively. I really do wish you the very best, and hope to hear more from you in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36404,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36403\/revisions\/36404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}