Thanks everyone for the help. I did some recording yesterday and indeed the fader is not affecting the recorded volume, so learned something I probably should have figured out already ?
Really, I always thought the level I was seeing on the meter was the one I was recording. But if I'm using a guitar plugin the level to the plugin makes a big difference in gain and the resulting sound of the amp.
When I'm recording a rhythm guitar part it's distracting to hear it really loud in my headphones but I don't want to turn down the input volume that I'm recording. I'm sure there's something simple I'm missing here.
When I first started writing songs they almost all had vocals and every one of them was a struggle to write. I have a ton of melody ideas but finding words is like pulling teeth and I don't really like most of the ones I came up with so instrumental writing is my path of least resistance but I do admire people that can do it.
Wow that's kind of a crazy piece! Great guitar playing for sure. It sounds like the levels of everything are so high that it is distorting is that an effect you were going for ?
Really cool song, very different. Like the sound of the drums and the arrangement. It's cool that it doesn't sound like anybody else, which is always hard to do.
Good song Freddy, I'm not crazy about the keyboard stabs either, the synth sounds a bit out of place with the retro sound of the track. Maybe some out of key guitar licks would fit better.
Catchy song I like it. I lost my friend that I did a lot of recording with, it is nice to have his guitar playing still there, although makes me sad too.