Song Of The Month Club - April 2020

Samflash3

@Bluepunk Song of the year contender. Thanks for the creative video.

Slava

@Bluepunk said:
I’ll take the pill option please...plastic bags take far too long. No kids were harmed during the making of this video. Afterwards is a different story. They had fun. Um.

There is meaning to the two/three word reviews. Hey, I don’t just throw this bollocks together you know All songs are very good and worthy of B Plus grades.

@richardyot @Marcel @baudious @Kitusai @iammane @spiteface @spyrogaia @klownshed @vitocorleone123 @DukeWonder @onkey @Slava @Samflash3 @JanKun @trackedout @Richtowns @FunkMachine

Cool

vitocorleone123

@Jocphone said:
Ahem,

Who knows what day it is?

Good stuff. A little punk-industrial. What can I say? Strong point of view. Maybe the only thing I can think would be a little bit tighter / louder music with the vocals (but vocals stay primary for sure). Did you put a compressor on the mixbus? Maybe it's just more "glue".

Jocphone

@vitocorleone123 said:

@Jocphone said:
Ahem,

Who knows what day it is?

Good stuff. A little punk-industrial. What can I say? Strong point of view. Maybe the only thing I can think would be a little bit tighter / louder music with the vocals (but vocals stay primary for sure). Did you put a compressor on the mixbus? Maybe it's just more "glue".

Thanks @vitocorleone123

It's a real battle to work out how to mix all the elements that go into a SandP song. I felt that this one became more of a poem, that the music was almost incidental, an interruption. Like when someone gets interviewed for TV, in the street or a factory and you get the main voice and the background leaks in during the gaps. I once read an interview with a typographer who had this system of drawing or printing out some words on a slip of paper then scrunching into his shoe and, after walking around town for a week, he would unfold the bedraggled slip of paper and scan it back in as the basis for his logo or font that he was designing.

I tried several different setups with compressors, limiters and the like. I think the final setup was a really severe noise gate over music, percussiom and the discordant horn things so that they chopped in and out abruptly. Then all the music and backing vocals through TB Barricade, add the main vocal and a lighter touch of Barricade. There are a few other tricks in there but that;s the gist. I wanted to keep the vocals as the main focus and this setup stopped the music interfering too much while still keeping a fairly raw sound.

vitocorleone123

@Jocphone said:

@vitocorleone123 said:

@Jocphone said:
Ahem,

Who knows what day it is?

Good stuff. A little punk-industrial. What can I say? Strong point of view. Maybe the only thing I can think would be a little bit tighter / louder music with the vocals (but vocals stay primary for sure). Did you put a compressor on the mixbus? Maybe it's just more "glue".

Thanks @vitocorleone123

It's a real battle to work out how to mix all the elements that go into a SandP song. I felt that this one became more of a poem, that the music was almost incidental, an interruption. Like when someone gets interviewed for TV, in the street or a factory and you get the main voice and the background leaks in during the gaps. I once read an interview with a typographer who had this system of drawing or printing out some words on a slip of paper then scrunching into his shoe and, after walking around town for a week, he would unfold the bedraggled slip of paper and scan it back in as the basis for his logo or font that he was designing.

I tried several different setups with compressors, limiters and the like. I think the final setup was a really severe noise gate over music, percussiom and the discordant horn things so that they chopped in and out abruptly. Then all the music and backing vocals through TB Barricade, add the main vocal and a lighter touch of Barricade. There are a few other tricks in there but that;s the gist. I wanted to keep the vocals as the main focus and this setup stopped the music interfering too much while still keeping a fairly raw sound.

Interesting! Thanks for sharing that. I wonder if the noise gate, which has a nice effect as you described, also had an effect of further separating the music from the vocals. Of course, if that's what you were going for (and it's not distracting, this is me trying to nitpick something!), then it worked. Heh.

If a goal was to have them sit a little closer - and it doesn't have to be - and you've already got a bus compressor working, perhaps it could be as simple as a very light room reverb to tie them together at the peripheral edges. Or perhaps some EQ and gentle side compression.

I had very vague impressions of Nitzer Ebb, Armageddon Dildos, BiGod20, Foetus, Snog, and more.

Marcel

@richardyot - thanks a lot for your words about my track! Great you like it!

@trackedout - about your track. Too bassy for me. Apart from that, like its weirdness. The panning perhaps a bit too much, but matter of taste/liking. Vocals good produced. Thanks for your kind words about my track!

@Richtowns - about your track. Nice reggea tune! Hilarious funny video, hahaha. Very funny

@FunkMachine - about your track. Sound is good! Like the diversity in the track. Thanks for your kind words about my track! Nice your liked the guitar tone. I played it on my PRS, so your observation was correct.