hi! I'm a 16 year old from bergamo, Italy, i started playing guitar in my bedroom(self-taught) a couple of years ago, the started writing songs and last year in december I bought a focusrite and a mic and started producing my own songs, i do it every day because it makes me feel less alone and I have met lots of people with my same interest , I first started playing guitar because i saw Nirvana's mtv unplugged and that inspired me a lot, then I was inspired by jeff buckley, elliot smith and started singing and taught myself how to sing, now I listen to a lot of rap(MacMiller, Eminem ecc) and trap.
I am called gio__pando on instagram and one month and a half ago i started to post consistently because I decided it's time to show myself to people, my name on soundcloud is gio and friday I will be releasing on Soundcloud(and eventually on Youtube) my first mixtape in italian of 9 songs. I would be glad if you listened to even just one of them(i recommend -trucco=+bella= or carenza di sodio) and told me what you think I should fix or pay more attention to. thanks!
You have some great ideas and intuition! I am sure others have mentioned these items, but I don't know Italian. In (non stare in) silenzio the chorusing vocal effect is a little too forward and thick. This makes it difficult to hear your lead vocal clearly. Lower the volume of that part and decrease the delay by a few milliseconds for clarity and cohesion.
I really liked -trucco=+bella. The sub bass was quite a lot though. I think toning that down just a touch will help highlight that excellent snare sample and tighten up the song overall. Also, again I don't know Italian, so I have no idea what the song is about, but that lets me focus on the feeling and rhythm. The vocal lines do not always sit very well with the underlying rhythm of the bass and drums.
I think it is much better at your stage to be going overboard and needing to pull elements back than to be too timid and limiting yourself. I appreciate your drive and creativity and hope you continue to make music.
It's something we're all still working on. The thing I've found to be most helpful is to spend lots of time listening to well-mixed music on a reliable system.
Also it works really good to A/B with songs that you have as reference. There are a lot of VSTs or standalone programs for this. That way you can compare the track without much latency. As well as comparing the tracks through something like 'Tonal Balance' from izotope.
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