Hey, I just listened to this again and it's really good, except for the bass. It's just so out of line. I'd love to hear a bounce without any bass at all. Any chance you could provide that? I dig all the treatments. Well done!
Yeah, gives me a good break in the writer's block. Worthy of note: yeah, the bass is a little loose but the tam and the shaker don't quite agree, either. I'm assuming the drum loop is built in a machine, yeah? So it should be rock solid. Where'd the arpeggio come from? 'cuz if it's an internal synth it should be rock solid, too... and if it isn't, it should be re-triggered every measure or so. So you've got a few triggers for rhythm to go off of with the guitars and vocals, and sometimes you follow one, sometimes you follow another. I moved the drum loop like a 128th note in one spot and like a 64th note in another because they weren't starting on the downbeat... but it didn't help that much. There are other bits that need to be brought into rigid time and that's a tedious exercise that would take me the better part of a day. Fundamentally, the timing be loose, yo.