Tribal Jam

[flyon90]

I was messing around with the presets on my Alesis Dm5 and found these cool African sounding drum patch settings, so I came up with the beat and the rest just followed. 

[Blooby]

Another cool tribal post.  Love what's going on here although I admit that the timbale-sounding drum in the left channel is driving me to distraction as I find it a bit loud in the mix.

I like the contrast between the organic percussion and the processed guitar.  It works.

Blooby

[Tony W]

Blooby hit the nail on the head with the timbale sounding drum. It detracts away from how cool this piece really is. The rest of it is fantastic.

[flyon90]

Thanks for the feedback, listening to it again I do agree that the drums are too loud. I think I might have used too heavy of a compression in the mix down? The drums did not sound that loud in the original mix so that is the only explanation I can think of.  Any way I'll keep that in mind if I do another track with these kinds of drums in it. 

[fenderbender]

nice one -great guitar style and sound 

[Tony W]

What I'm finding is that I'm mixing with Cans on, and everything sounds great until I listen through other means. I'm not sure if there is a magic way to change that dynamic other than experience.

[Wiley]

I agree.  When mixing doesn't always come out like it sounds on cans.   At first it was distracting. But as it gets going I think it is fine.  I think it is a fresh new sound.  Love it  The only other thing is maybe the drum beats would be better centered and the guitars etc. off to the sides.

[SenhorLampada]

To work around the percussive distraction (yep, got me too! ), you could leave the bass centered (eq. a bit on the lower freqs too), and probably you could leave the percussion like 60-70% to the left...
and then the guitar like 60-70% to the right...
You would probably achieve a nice panning! (or I may be wrong! )

Other thing you could do is leave a clean guitar to the right, and then a lower, chorused guitar to the left...

Anyway... I started rambling here!
It's a nice tune... Love this tribal rythm!

[Wiley]

Either way it is good.!!!

[SenhorLampada]

Exactly