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!
Giovanni! I just want to start of by saying that you already doing this at 16 with this amount of intent and focus is very impressive. I don't even know what I did at your age but it sure as hell wasn't what you're doing. Keep it up!
I took a listen to non so cosa vuoi dirmi and these are the notes I have made:
1. The most obvious is how far back the lead vocal is in the mix. You could easily turn them up a notch while also carving out space for them from competing instruments (google lead vocal sitting in pocket to find tutorials).
2. The guitar coming in at 1:24 is too present for my liking. I would both turn it down a bit as well as take out some high mids from them.
3. Just an overall tip. Try to start listening to music actively. This means to pay attention to your favorite artists sound selection, how the songs are mixed as well as overall arrangement. Arrangement is huge in creating palletable music and focusing on that will never go wrong.
I will stop there for now as I see no point in continuing pointing out minute mixing details. My most important tip to you by far though is to get more experience. So continue writing and producing more songs. That will teach you more than any feedback will ever give you. It will develop your own signature sound which is very important for artists such as yourself. While feedback is good it's very seldom 100% objective. It's often based on people's own musical taste which makes it fundamentally complicated.
Let me repeat myself Giovanni. The fact that you're this far along mindset wise at 16 years old is a MASSIVE gift. Nurture it.
Good luck and keep creating! =)
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Nov 16, 10:59