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Very similar workflow to me, except I don’t have Pro-R. Have to write it all on Gadget on the phone or i’ll never get anything done.
Anyway, I liked this. Some really good ambient tracks this month. Keys are lovely and set it off really well. Could’ve been a bit longer tbh, would’ve enjoyed just listening to those pads a bit more. Well done
Liked it. V different approach and style to mine and so it’s really nice to hear it. Ok, there are few little irregularities in the mix, but I think most of us here have them and it would take a Moreno cultured ear than mine to be able to diagnose them. I like the check out front sounds and I works really well for me. Well done
There’s a lot to like here, and I’m no house expert. I would take some of the keys off the beat so the swing a bit better, layer them and add some delay. And then add more pads and an arp maybe, not all at the same time obviously 😉. My stuff is still quite sparse but I am always trying to layer each sound up subtly to really round it out. No idea how well it works, or if I’m making any sense, but I think your tune definitely shows potential. Well done
Well done, you’re right the poem fits well and I like the distorted delivery. I’m not quite so taken by the backing, it feels it just needs some thing to make it ‘pop’ a little more. Not quite sure how to express it, but there is a lot of drama in the lyric but the backing seems to plod a little, and maybe it needs more ebb and flow to complement the spoken words? Just a thought. Well done though, enjoyed it!
Thank you for the listen and the kind words about the track! I agree that this ambient type music either appeals or not and I’m happy some people seem to like it. Its primarily what I have been focusing on lately and it feels good to start jamming and then find the feeling and ultimately develop an enjoyable (to some) piece.
Thanks for the kind words! I must have been in a dark place the night I initially came up with this one haha. I was going for a feeling of being stranded out at sea in the dark and not knowing whether land was anywhere close.
This has been a great forum and I am really enjoying listening to everyone’s work. It is all so diverse and inspiring! Also glad to be here with other newbs!
I really enjoyed this. Your workflow, other than Gadget, is very similar to what I do in Auria. I think I will need to check out Gadget. Great job!
I concur on both points here - I think the lyrics are great, and fit the feel of the track really well. There's a real driving beat to the chords and lead line that really works well both with the lyric delivery and especially with the repeated "ride!" I think that what this track might really benefit from is to throw side chain compression on the vocals and then crank the music tracks way up? It feels like the composition wants to be way louder than it is, but can't be without stepping all over the vocals, and as I understand it side chain compression is one way to make those conflicting goals work together better.
@crouchie thanks for giving such a generous amount of feedback to everyone here!
Good god! Just opened the thread for the first time (I was on a ~2 month long trip out of the country). I played a few second of each track and I'm floored by 1) how awesome and interesting every track is, and 2) how many people are contributing, which is amazingly awesome (though it adds a little pressure to up my game).
I'm just now trying to figure out if I can pick up one of the songs I'd started before leaving and finish it for the October thread
https://m.soundcloud.com/brain53/your-jocundity An original based on a saying that an old friend of mine from high school taught me. The sax solo is not as polished as I’d like, but it gets the point across.
Edit
Recorded this on the phone while traveling. I had built several scenes in Groovebox indebted to the man from Minneapolis. I triggered the various scenes while improvising the vocal. Groovebox, Vio, Audio Reverb, recorded and mixed in AUM, finished in Grand Finale.
Thanks for listening.
@BayingRidges Very interesting track. I liked that it maintained a consistent atmosphere. Images kept popping into my head of a lonely lost boat with dark things circling underneath just out of sight. shudder Very cool!
@Martyreasoner There’s some really cool stuff going on in there. I loved the record scratch sounds, and the chord progressions were interesting as well. Overall a very nice track! Great job!
@Jmcmillan Loved it. The piano with echo is great and maintains a good melody throughout. I loved the transition to the subdominant halfway through, which gave the piece a nice overall structure. Great stuff, your wife’s yoga class is in for a treat!
@hlprmnky Good job on your first entry! I heard what you meant about the Troublemaker distortion. This kind of thing can happen when the instrument itself is too hot (if you set that channel to 0db and the level is hitting 0db it’s too hot and you can get distortion even when you turn the channel level down; you’d need to turn down the output from the instrument itself in this case). But without seeing the actual setup with signals flowing that’s the best guess I can offer. Anyway, other than that I think you did a good job on the mix. Welcome to SOTMC!
@FunkMachine Nice lighthearted feel you got going on there. I listen to a lot of electronic music and the whole subgenre thing has gotten out of control! I’ve pretty much given up trying to find the exact genre my pieces fit into. I’m at the point where if it’s not clearly obvious which genre fits just call it Eclectic House and move on lol. As for the track itself, I like it, good overall choices. I’m finding that it’s not too hard to get some decent sounds out of the Gadgets (I’m new to Gadget myself, still feeling my way around) and you’ve done a good job getting sounds that fit well together in the piece. One suggestion is to play around with different bass patches tweaking until you get what you want. The bass is the only part that sounds to my ears like the patch isn’t quite meshing, but that’s just my opinion, it may be exactly what you were going for which is perfectly fine. Good work on the track, keep churning them out!
@DBecker That was awesome! I loved the reversed vocals mixed in. And that “ride” at the end has cool written all over it. I enjoyed this one a lot, looking forward to your next entry for sure!
@Brain That is one hell of a catchy tune there! Really good job on the song. You’ve got a good ear for melodies and harmonies and it shows nicely in this song. From the SoundCloud track artwork it looks like this was done in GarageBand. GB has some great features and instruments. But it is severely limited in the mixing and mastering area. The best suggestion I can offer is to get one of the full-fledged DAWs (Auria Pro is my choice, but Cubasis and BM3 have their followings as well), and when your GB track is where you like it, export each track to the DAW and do your mixing and mastering there. And since you’re doing vocals I really do recommend Auria Pro, it is the undisputed audio king on iOS (now watch the disputers jump in lol). All of that is just to say I really liked the song and would like to see you be able to polish up future songs in a good mixing/mastering environment.
@JeffChasteen Holy crap dude! I absolutely loved it! Those vocals, man. Wow. Didn’t want them to stop and loved every second. I liked them so much I found myself getting a little impatient for them to return during the instrumental breaks. Which brings me to my one suggestion
The vocals were by far the most interesting thing in the piece, and during the breaks I wanted something instrumentally to make up for their absence just a little. Like maybe a “flair” instrument that only comes in during those breaks. Just a minor suggestion though, I loved the track!
Thanks @obijohn
Thank you so much.
That was the very first time I've ever tried to mimic His Purple Majesty! Or even really use my falsetto since my teenage Led Zeppelin cover song days:)
I agree with you that it does indeed need another melodic instrument for filling in between the vocals.
Once again, thanks for listening and for your kind words.
Glad you enjoyed it,
Jeff
@studs1966 I really like the percussion and the rhythm in the latino mix, really cool and gives a great feelgood vibe. Nice job, and perfect for the long hot summer of 18.
@crouchie Nicely minimal piece, a very slight edge to its feel, but overall very nice sounds and an enjoyable listen. Excellent vocal performance (and the level was fine). Really like the little synthy sounds that punctuate the vocals, they're varied and interesting and add some nice flavour and detail to the track.
@BayingRidges wow, that's super-creepy, the low hum and the ominous drone, which sounds like a roar of some sort. Could be the intro to a horror/suspense film. The birds are really cool, they offer a little bit of light in the shade.
My only crit would be that maybe more could happen, more of a journey, but it's a cool bit of sound design and atmosphere.
@Jmcmillan I really like that piece, and I think it's very successful as a meditation piece. Despite the apparent simplicity there's some really interesting melodic and harmonic content because the keys are contrasted with the drone, the bass, and the synth counter-melody that comes in during the second half of the track - so this means there's a lot of interesting stuff to listen to. I like the evolving melodic theme on the piano as well. Really nice track with some strong composition in there.
@DBecker pretty creepy spoken-word song - is that you reading it? Presumably it is, but I like the way it sounds like a sample. Could be Bukowsky reading the poem.
And the message, oppressive at first, but then a slight sense of optimism with the "ride, ride, ride". While all around the world is falling apart.
Thanks @richardyot Yes, it was me behind the reading. The lyrics do take a look at the darker side of life, but not necessarily a page from my own life. After heavily editing the original poem, I sat down with a mic to try to make it all fit together. The end, all those 'rides'...were not scripted. It just sounded right at the time. The reverse lyrics could be edited a little better, I think. I was recently reading a piece on the Beatles and how they made use of reversed audio (common to a lot of music, actually... think cymbal crash), and felt a need to give it a try.
Thank you, v kind as always