@PYRON: Unfortunately, we had no call on the sound board or the hook ups during that con. Our bass player is actually a sound engineer by trade but we werent allowed to mess with the equipment that the people who were doing the sound had. We had to make do with what we had. We DO agree that there was no bass IN THE VIDEO but the it was loud and clear during the live performance. The singer was pretty much drowned out so we're pretty surprised you were able to hear her over the crowd (especially the camera man) singing over her. As for our overall performance, we would love to have you see our show live so you can get a better assessment of our band.
@DARTH: Thank you for your warm welcome, we certainly like those kind of welcomes.
Oh I'm not talking about sound board hook ups. But, really... it's up to the band to balance out the sounds of the instruments. Your drummer hardly does this. He pounds way too hard and he's drowning out the rest of the band.
I spent a good amount of time when my friend was in my band playing conductor and telling them how to sound adjust. The drummer in that band was amazing... really amazing and he could steal the show alone, but he realized it was a band and would tone it down to match the paces of everyone else. Lead guitarist originally played in metal bands, moving to a punk rock band, he had to tone it down quite a lot to match with the rhythm guitarist. The bassist knew his place and played accordingly. The vocalist had a wide range, but wasn't fully confident so during lives, the rest of the band needed to compensate with this and match the vocalist accordingly.
As I said, your guitarist needs to learn to play in a band instead of just playing the drums. Your vocalist needs to work on changing her voice to the appropriate song.
She sounds fine in Glamorous Sky but she uses that same voice and expression in all the other songs and they don't match.
You guys can play instruments and she can sing, but you guys suck as a band.
Okay, this isn't... the best example... because the comparison is so different, but the idea is the same. SKIN performed at Anime Expo. All of their members are used to being in the spotlight of their band, so when you put all of them together, each one is trying to explode, but when all of them are doing it at once, as a band, it just sounds like noise. There's no consistency. So even if each member is amazingly talented, by not working together, they sound horrible. I love Yoshiki as a drummer, and I love Sugizo's control, and I love Gackt's voice(though not so much his songs)... Miyavi I think is trash... but when you put all of them together, it just sounds horrible. What I heard of SKIN made me laugh at how horrible they were.
Even though I can hear the ACTUAL quality of your band, I can clearly hear a lot of flaws.
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