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Song of the Month Club - January 2016

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  • @aaronpc I loved this one, partly because it has a unique kind of sound: the percussion that sounds like old saucepans being hit and the wonderfully detuned lead instrument (no idea what it is, some kind of mad organ) and despite the slight weirdness of the sounds the tune has a soaring quality to it and a great groove underpinning it all.

    Doesn't need vocals IMO, just great as it is. Quirky and bizarrely uplifting. I'm off to listen to your other SoundCloud tracks.

  • @High5denied thanks for the feedback. I'm glad you enjoyed the song. The guitars are all either Bias fx or Tonestack. I think the one you refer to is a preset I downloaded of the tone loud in Bias.

  • @richardyot thanks for the kind words. I appreciate the commercial comment. I tried to make a big track inspired by M83. I had to try And give it a little quirkyness or weirdness, I don't know if I have ever made something that accessible before (not that I'm ever @Igneous1 or @Jocphone .

    @rickwaugh said:

    @BvsMV, that's a great piece of music. Fantastic movement and life through it. "Allegro Con Brio." Mix seems pretty well spot on. I like rhythmic breaks in music, to slow things down a bit, then build them back up, that kind of addition to the piece I'd like, but the piece stands well as it is.

    Thank you for the comments on the mix, there's a lot of reverb and sounds so I have been working hard on not having muddy mixes. I feel like I am on the right track. I also appreciate the thoughtful comment on the song structure.

    As for your track, fantastic guitar playing and also good job mixing all of the sounds. I love the stereo lead guitar and the bass is really nice. The drums are too nonexistent for my tastes, but the crash adds a nice ambience to everything. Nice mellow, interesting track.

  • @Bluepunk said:
    @BvsMV "BIG" is an apt title for your new tune. Very nice intro & the two snare beats in about 0.50 went very well with the style you were playing. That part reminded me of an early Tears for Fears track which I can't remember the title of but still made me think of good memories. A thrusting Big beat along with a lower, pumping bass line hold all your lovely synth parts together in the faster, main body of your song.

    It gave me an overall 80's feel, a bit of Howard Jones maybe & I pictured you with synths & drum machines spread around your recording space. Flying from one to another on a fast wheeled chair. Not chaotically but with planned & deliberate intent to create this piece. Nice one sir. :smile:

    Thank you yet again for a wonderful and thoughtful comment! I wish that I had the room you envisioned, that would be wonderful! Alas, I just have a a desk with a Milrokorg, Launchpad, a cheap guitar, a Mac, and an iPad. Not that I'm complaining however! I'll take those comparisons and be on to my next track!

  • edited January 2016

    @hellquist Thank you so much for the comment! Using TF7 was on my to do list because I knew I wanted to have an 80s vibe to the song, and what better than an FM synth (or a bunch)! It's really easy to play and sounds great. Also, thanks for the comment on the melodies. I am not a very talented player of any instrument, so I really try to weave together little loops etc that I can play. Finally sorry for putting you in a good mood ;)

    As for your song, beautiful track! I love the synth lines and the parts when they bend and modulate. The guitar fits nicely, and I love the soothing playing of it. It's. Wonderful ambient journey , and the synth lines and guitar create a beautiful wash of sound. The mix is really good as well.

  • @crouchie, got some Cake going on in there. Great driving song, gets you moving. I'd like a bit more rhythmic variety, but that's just me.

    @aaronpc, not sure if there is quite enough there to stand alone as an instrumental, but it's pretty darn fine. Great breaks in it. A song with longish notes would work over top of this. It would also make great movie music. Love the ending. Very dark and lovely,

  • Thanks to all who commented on my submission (Blotto Staccato). I was finally set on leaving it instrumental until @rickwaugh commented (thanks). I tend to agree something else is needed and that long tones are what I hear as well. Now I just need to track down an old Spanish man and a flamenco dancing chica. Mostly the chica. I can handle the first part in a pinch.

    @richardyot Glad you like, thanks. The saucepan secret is a liberal dose of Thesys sauce on a metal/glass sample. There's also some sneaky Effectrix in there too, helping with the whirly thing.

    The commenters have done a great job covering most of my points already for other submissions, but I'll add what I can here:

    @crouchie Definitely pump the lyrics. Most people can't pull off having the vocals be the star, so don't hesitate to put it front and center. Plus I need all the help I can get understanding the words, as my ears have a horrible american accent.

    @orchardman Great song, but the vocals need something. Not the singing itself, but maybe a different mic, some EQ magic or less reverb? They just seem fuzzy against the very clear music beneath. Getting the real world and the digital world to sound like they're in the same space is always a bitch.

    I guess I'm a little vocals obsessed at the moment.

    @theconnactic Fun song with tons of energy and skill. I guess the only thing I would say I was dying for some variation in the drums. Not a lot, as guitar is definitely the star here, but it's a little auto pilot.

  • Hey, @aaronpc, thanks for the review! :)

  • @BvsMV said:
    My triumphant return: more ambiance, atmosphere, less downtempo, and this one is BIG. I finished this up right at the end of the year for a compilation and wanted to share it with you guys. I used TF7 and GarageBand iOS for pads, and a desktop Synth, Gadget, and my microkorg for leads and bass. I started by recording my microkorg, TF7, and my guitar through Audiobus into Cubasis for 8 bars. I recorded a bunch of Gadget lines through Audiobus as well into it live, but only used them in the transitions. Recorded the beginning drum beats in iMachine with their Neon Drive pack. I overdubbed the finale drums in GarageBand on my iPhone. I exported the whole lot in Abelton and converted some to midi again and recorded with Synth 1 for Mac. I arranged and mastered in Abelton. Sorry I know that's a lot! Anyway I look forward to hearing what the crew has to offer this month!

    https://m.soundcloud.com/bvsmv/weve-come-so-far-to-new-beginnings

    Really liked that, bit of an epic feel to it, bit of emotion in there. Might benefit from a little bit of a breakdown in the middle, just cos that mid range pad does dominate the mix a bit. Love to hear it with the beat glitched up a bit, but that's just my taste. Lovely job

  • @hellquist said:
    Right, my first submission:

    It is basically me and FabFilters Timeless2 bouncing things around. One take for the master track, then adding a few other tracks to enhance/emphasize things. Good lesson as a first project with midi in Auria Pro. :)
    I actually intended to add all kinds of things to it, such as a beat and a defined bass etc, but everything I added made it all sound wonky/weird, so I scaled it all back down and went with the basics instead.

    Sounds great, v atmospheric, great tune, personally I would love that to be drenched in reverb and delay, make it properly epic. Feeling my way with Auria Pro too, so I understand where you're coming from. Great tune, cheers

  • @orchardman said:
    First post. Something I wrote about my feelings following the Paris atrocities. All instrumentation is IOS mixing mastering and vocals in Ableton Live. Thanks to my wife for the vocals and the melody. All feed back welcome.

    Really impressive, good rounded song, liked nearly everything in the mix, nice and clear. Just a little thing, during the guitar break it would be really boosted by a strong bass line and a different drum pattern, would make it even better. The backing track reminds me of Bad Old Man by Babybird, which is a definite compliment from where I'm sitting. Great stuff

  • @theconnactic said:
    My first song of the year! Happy 2016 you all! Dimitri.

    Great stuff, full of life. The breakdowns make it for me, particularly the second one. Has a great disco feel and I'm humbled by your ability with the guitars. I felt the mix was a tiny bit crowded in places, but that's probably just my novice ears, but it's a great tune. Great stuff.

  • @rickwaugh said:
    Okay, my first post here. Should have just posted here in stead of creations. This is called Changing Times, and is based on an old improv framework I wrote and have mucked with for years. I wrote it all out in standard notation in Notion, then exported that as a midi file, and imported it into Auria Pro. Drums are using Lyra drums, bass is Lyra bass, the synth is from Fabfilter 2. I redid the guitars, replayed them live. I did one mix of this, then hit a nasty bug in one of the Auria betas, and lost all my plugins and their settings. Redid them all, and used the real time audio warping to fix some looseness in the starting solo. I'm pretty happy with it now, but I would love to get some opinions on the piece and especially on the mix. I hope to become a regular poster, but my productivity is not set to a monthly schedule.

    Great stuff, really enjoyed it. As always in awe of people who can actually play a real instrument. I just press button me. Mix is nice and has a very mellow feel. I wish I knew what real time audio warping is, but I hope I will as I wade through Auria pro. Great tune

  • @aaronpc said:
    First submission. Although it's spent a lot of time getting polished in a desktop DAW, it has enough app DNA in it to merit inclusion. Currently instrumental, but mostly because I'm having a hard time figuring out how to get vocals in there— it's more of a minor key dirge than I normally do, and I have a bad habit of leaving off the vocals until the end and having to get out the musical shoe horn. Maybe it doesn't need vocals anyway. You tell me.

    This thread has become quite the beast. I have little enough time to make music, much less digest this entire thread, but I'll try my best to contribute. Trying to get out of this creative bat cave I've dug for myself.

    Just enough stuttering electronica in there for me to really enjoy that, and a great tune, doesn't need vocals I reckon. I always try to do them as early as possible cos I'm useless at finding space later on. That 1st breakdown is bloody lovely, brilliant stuttering loop. Love it.

  • There is a definite sense of virtuous achievement when you think you have finally caught up on listening to everyone's contributions. I will enjoy it for the short I've it lasts. Brilliant tunes this month.

  • @crouchie said:
    There is a definite sense of virtuous achievement when you think you have finally caught up on listening to everyone's contributions. I will enjoy it for the short I've it lasts. Brilliant tunes this month.

    Good stuff Mister C., and there is no SOTMC without the commentary, because otherwise it's just a bunch of us saying me, me, me (which is how the world operates mostly and why SOTMC is a good little backroom...)

  • Thanks, @crouchie. Real time audio warping allows you move events forward and back in audio files. I had some points in the first solo in my piece, my timing was off. I placed transient markers in the audio to show where the recorded notes stopped and started. I then dragged those markers forward or backward to correct the timing. This happens without affecting pitch or tone. Very, very handy. ;)

  • @rickwaugh said:
    Thanks, @crouchie. Real time audio warping allows you move events forward and back in audio files. I had some points in the first solo in my piece, my timing was off. I placed transient markers in the audio to show where the recorded notes stopped and started. I then dragged those markers forward or backward to correct the timing. This happens without affecting pitch or tone. Very, very handy. ;)

    what is the setting in AUria, something like detect transients, or Auto transient detection? WHen I record ROck DM into AUria, it really messes the beat up. Haven't noticed anything one way or another when I record guitar though. What's it doing in that case?

  • @High5denied, it won't do anything unless you tell it. You can tell it to detect the transients, and it will put in the markers. It doesn't catch all of them, so you then need to go in, place the cursor at the correct point, and then edit/transients/add transient marker. You need to mark the one ahead of what you want to move, and the one behind, so they don't move.

    There is then a field on track, on the left in the editor, that is either off, trn, or warp. You set it to warp, then single tap/hold the transient marker you want to move, and drag it to where it should be.

  • @crouchie said:

    @theconnactic said:
    My first song of the year! Happy 2016 you all! Dimitri.

    Great stuff, full of life. The breakdowns make it for me, particularly the second one. Has a great disco feel and I'm humbled by your ability with the guitars. I felt the mix was a tiny bit crowded in places, but that's probably just my novice ears, but it's a great tune. Great stuff.

    Thank you so much, @crouchie!

  • 'Ello you lot!! Seems I've got some catching up to do eh? Nice to see some new folks on here grabbing the new year by the balls! :wink: I look forward to listening to the tracks I've missed shortly. :smiley:

    So this is my entry for this month.Another collab but this time with a producer buddy of mine who basically gave me a challenge of writing something to one of his tracks.I actually recorded most of the vocal a couple of months back at @richardyot old house.So a big thanks to him for letting me use a "real mic"!! (I finally got my own mic last month! Woop woop! :astonished: )

    I wrote the song about a mate of mine whose having a rough time due to his wife being an alcoholic.Please give me both barrels in regards to critique as this is really a first draft.I can't do anything about the music but anything to do with melody and lyrics would be very helpful.Cheers! :grin:

  • @LostBoy85 said:

    Some great singing there. I probably need to check my headphones, as I once again was wishing for some more "treble" in the tone of the vocals, but there was nothing wrong with the actual singing, in fact the opposite, I'm impressed. As for the song as such, it sounds like a good mix. I have to admit this is quite a bit away from the music I create myself, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate/approve of it. This could be a song on the radio as far as I am concerned. :)

    There was a part, with your vocals, in the first break or 1.35 or something, where you are screaming "my love" which sounds very agonising and suitable. I would like that to be a tad louder. As that is the only critique I have, and it is a very subjective opinion, I would most certainly deem that as un-important/minor in the great scheme of things. Well done!

  • @BvsMV another great entry mate! The only thing that was niggling me a bit was the drum levels.I may well be wrong but I felt they could come up a bit as some of the hits were a little buried.I am however listening on my ear pods.A very nice evolving piece though mate. :smiley:

  • Very good song and mix, @LostBoy85: congratulations!

  • @aaronpc Ah, an extra large helping of paella & chips, yum, yum! On my first listen I thought, Spanish & vocals. The more times I heard your song, the more my opinion changed to, unique & no vocals. Yes, it's got a delightful Spanishy flavour but you've added enough of a twist of hot chilli pepper to create a tune that has a well balanced edge to it. I do try to dance to EVERY song that everyone submits & yours had me trying a flamenco out whilst watching carefully for Señor Bull, who's stalking me & ready to horn me one! Your gentle rhythms holds everything together & I really enjoyed the feel of your whole song. :smiley:

  • @LostBoy85, that's excellent. If you got the music, then wrote the melody and lyrics on top of it, it's perfect. Lyrics are fine. The melody and vocal performance are spot on, lots of dynamics, that work perfectly with the dynamics of the piece. To be frank, I think you've taken a decent, kind of average track, and turned it into a song that has something going on. Your buddy should be pretty happy with that. Mix is good, might be able to add a bit more sparkle to the vocal tone, but I don't know.

  • @LostBoy85 Not my cuppa, but you did a fine job with it. A good mic is a must— especially if you can sing, and especially especially if you can't. I thought I had some minor niggles to bring up, but after giving it another listen I binned them. March on.

    @Bluepunk Thanks! My first crossover hit.

  • @hellquist Welcome mate!! Thanks for your take on my track it's very much appreciated.

    I really enjoyed your track a lot,lovely sounds and it just goes to show that keeping things simple or stripping back a track can sometimes be a more powerful production than if all the bells and whistles were going.Really good ear candy! :smile:

  • edited January 2016

    @orchardman hey dude,nice mood piece,great playing,appropriate lyrics and your wife has a nice voice.I loved the guitar solo.Great job! My only critique is that the vocal has a fair few "pops" throughout which do distract a little bit.Pop filters are useful for that.The good news is that in most cases it's an easy fix.I have to edit my vocals every time and all I do is solo the vocal and cut out any nasties between each word or fade into each word depending on how bad it is.It really does make a subtle but BIG difference.
    I noticed at .56,1.04,2.09 and little ones elsewhere.Like I said it's an easy fix though dude.
    Good job to you both man.Nice song! :smiley:

  • Every month for a year now I've regrettably avoided the 100+ post SOTM threads because I never finish a flippin' song. So, new year, new resolution, I'm making myself post one rather I like it or not. I just downloaded the soundcloud app and look forward to checking out last year's music! So without further ado

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