Writers Block/Playing Live

Today I have had a bit of a crisis, What kinda of sound do I want?!
It's a tough one, I really want the 8 tracks to mesh well together.
I don't want to end up with loads of random tracks and riffs bolted together.
So with that bugging the back of my mind it has seemed to cause a tiny writers block.
So I think the best thing to do is just plug in and see what happens, keep the good bits and expand on those.
So how do other folks write? What's your process?

Another thing I was asked recently was regarding me playing live......
I'd love to take Indy_Fire live I really would. But none of my ads turned anything up.
Twice I have tried to get others onboard. First time was with to friends of mine, but timing was wrong...and who knows maybe they will say yeah lets do it in the future.
Second time was when I met up with 2 folks who had been jamming for awhile but never seemed to get anything going.
We wrote a few tracks but nothing really solid. However I did take 'Where Are We' from those sessions.
You can hear that here; Where Are We.

Maybe it's how I sell the sound to others It's kinda like hard rock, blues, and desert rock with grunge and metal elements. Kinda sounds a mess when you put it like that.
So should I look for others again and have the joys of writing with others, or go out there alone?
Would anyone pay to watch one man play guitar to a number of backing tracks...I don't think they would.

Anyways stay safe folks. =D

EQ

I have started writing some tracks over the weekend.
I have he start of 2 so far, one is an old one that I have never really got finished which is odd because it's quite a strong one...I just felt I couldn't do it justice.
The second came from a writing session I set myself.

Anyways.....
After writing some riffs and layout for the secind track I thought I'd pop on to Youtube to see if there was any tips on recording at home. Turns out theres loads..too many infact and most if not all had some great info and tips.
Most important of all was EQ and how to use it well. I have never EQ'd a track myself before I just used presets that never really altered the sound by much.
But after watching a few vids I started to get a small understanding. I ain't saying it's right though.....
So wondered if folks want to hear and give me their opinions on the sound. Fancy it?
Ok here's the link;

 https://soundcloud.com/indy_fire/sets/which-is-better

The first part is the EQ'd version of the track, the second is of course the one with no EQ.
The guitar tone my not make it to the final version but either way it all needs re-recording to get it and heavy.
I plan to double track both left and right guitars and perhaps a thickener down the middle.
Unsure as it's been a while since I had that many guitar tracks fighting each other, Hoping a good EQ and balance panning and levels will sort that out. 

As for the style my ideas seem to be taking it sounds like it's going to be quite a heavy set of tracks but going to be broken up with some interesting stuff. I've been looking at using different time sigs...as I tend to be a 4/4 kinda of person.
There will stil be plenty of blues based single note riffs and solos though I'm sure.
I guess peeps are going to say it sounds like Metallica or something, I get that a lot. But they were the reason I picked up a guitar in the first place so it makes sense.

Hope  to be posting again soon, should be able to get some work done tonight.

Stay safe.

First day on the blog .

Hey folks,

This is going to be my sounding off point on all things Indy_Fire.
I'm a guitarist, who realy likes to make tracks and post them as quick as poss....this has lead to some shocking mixes. But that stops here and now, for I have a new goal. 
I hope to share with you my journey into making an album at home on the cheap with low grade gear and no real mixing mastering skills.
In fact at this point I don't even have anyone on board to sort drums, bass, or vocals.
So am I going to do all this myself?
I could, well I mean guitars and bass I can sort easy enough....Vocals, Well depands if I have the balls to do it myself or not, either way the lyrica content may read like a kid has done em. =D
Drums, wish I had a drummer on board and the gear to make decent recordings of the drum tracks.
Instead I have three options......

1; Pay a session drummer to do them for me. You can find folks that will do this for you online, send em your track ,time sig, and bpm and they wil do a track for you and send back over. Up side to this is it would sound far more organic and live. Have feel.
I have used DooleyDrums in the past and he has been excellent. but as far as I know he doesn't supply drums to your tracks.(I could be wrong and maybe I will check this out.)
Downside is cost, can be £50 to £70 per track. Plus you can't be sure if the drummer is to your liking or if your track is to his.

2; Midi....Now I have Ezdrummer and Drum Kit From Hell. Now these were pretty good five years back, but now compared to the better programmes to hit the market mine sound very very dated.
So again it's another fork out some monies but with the added stress of having to program every single beat of you tracks in GuitarPro or other score writing app.

3; Buy ready made loops, I have used a number of these before and have had some great results with them. They come premixed and EQ'd and would save me a hell of a lot of time. I'll probs go with REX2 files as these are more flexible with the bmp you can run them at.
I'll probs use DrumOnDemand for this.
Cost wise we're £35/$54 for around 1,700 loops and these also give you some isolated kit tracks with the basic elements and single hits to buid up your own loops or to add extra depth to your tracks.
Down side to this is it can be limiting.

Anyways......
Please check out http://soundcloud.com/indy_fire 
and on my FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/Indyfire80
Or even follow me on the Twitter https://twitter.com/Indy_Fire

I hope to be posting more blogs and videos and document my findings. I'll be interested to see if I can pull it off and will it sound any better then my current tracks. 
Can we really be artists and sell music to the masses from our sitting room?