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Spidericemidas Gadget Track - “Lost”
Not a brand new track as such, but just dropping it here as a bit of fun made in Gadget, for those who have not heard it. No mastering, just straight outta Gadget.
Hope you find it fun, thank you ☺️🙏
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Thanks for reminding us all that there is literally no excuse for not making release-worthy tracks with the apps we already have available
I do find it fun. Excellent production!
I bow to the greatness which is @Spidericemidas I was just thinking about you the other day. Hope all is well! Great to hear this track...so much beauty and depth and emotion in it. Tingles and Heads a-bobbing Galore Brother!!!!
I think those chemicals are crawling up my spine again mate!
You ever do 1:1 Sessions. I'd love to learn some of your mastering techniques. Your work always sounds spot on perfect.
What's your Hourly rate?
Sit back, headphones on, and enjoy! Brilliant!
Excellent grooves
Sounds uncannily similar in production style and smoothness as Aural Imbalance
Your last name wouldn’t happen to be huxtable would it lol
Qualiteeeeeeeee!!! Very nice indeed. Great tune, quality production.
Some interesting processing on the vocals. I'd be interested to know more what you did there.
sounds great!
This works well as a wake-up song, too, I can happily confirm. 😀
Oh yeah! I’m guilty of having hundreds of music apps, but when it comes to making actual tracks, old faithful Gadget is still my go to. Thanks! 😃🙏
Thank you! Means a lot coming from you, Sir! ❤️
Heh! Doing alright here, thanks man! Busy with work stuff, but still finding time for some iPad tinkering.
Also got a new hobby to squeeze into the available time now. Wine making! Lol. Brewed three batches so far of Chardonnay and Savignon Blanc! Doing a Rosé next. They turn out really good, tasty and very clear. Well pleased with the results. It’s a lot of fun! 🥂
There’s no mastering on any of my tracks. They’re just straight out Gadget renders. So every instrument gets a compressor and EQ in the fx slot to do the best I can with balance and space. The sounds in this one were a pain to EQ and I didn’t enjoy it, lol, loads of mid range to scoop out.
Quite a bit of Darwin and Milpitas in this one, both of which I don’t normally use in tracks, and had to apply Exciters in the fx slots to get them sounding how I wanted.
I think if you work really hard with the mix and EQ on every instrument to begin with, there’s little need for mastering. That’s my excuse anyway, not knowing anything about mastering. 🤣🙏
Thank you very much for listening! 😊
Thanks! It’s not my usual style of music making, it was completely driven by the vocal samples I gleaned from Blocs Wave. It kind of wrote itself! 😊
Cheers mate!
Thanks for checking in! 😃👍
Great track and groove.
Like you said: doing the eq part per instrument results in a very well balanced mix without a special need for mastering.
Congrats!
Thank you, mate. There’s also a teeny weeny (but still detectable) bit of sidechain compression on the bass from the kick, just to try to keep the kick pushing through and to give the bassline a little ebb and throb. It’s very subtle, though.
Thanks for listening! 😃👍
There’s not much choice of useable vocals within Gadget, so I had to take these ones out of a Blocs Wave pack and put them into Bilbao and Zurich.
The only things I did with them in Gadget was to apply some auto-pan, filtering, some EQ work and delay in the fx slots. The rest is whatever was already baked into the original samples.
Late to party. Amazing piece and a reminder that we have all the tools to make great tracks. Thanks!!!
Excellent production @Spidericemidas! I’ve never been too much into EDM, but every now and then a track will come around that makes me question my taste. The synth that comes in at 3:49-3:50 literally gave me goosebumps! Love the dreamy sound with the vocal effects, everything! Well done!
This^^^
Thanks for the break down on your process. Truly appreciate it.
Making Wine now huh? Awesome. Let me know when the first batch of SpiderIceMerlot will be available. Congrats on the new hobby and success in crafting wine.
Haha. I wish it could be as easy to share my wine with you as it is to share my presets with you!
Yeah I think it’s pretty quick and easy to come up with decent loops and grooves, especially with all the amazing iOS tools we have at our disposal. The difficult trick is then weaving them together into something cohesive that has direction, purpose, momentum, variation and ebb n flow.
You know like transitions and turnarounds, using risers, fills, breakdowns, crashes and whatnots on downbeats, introducing a new melodic instrument part just before the next bar kicks in to lead into the next section more smoothly and naturally to try to distract the ear away from the grid based structure it’s made in. All that type of good stuff I’m still learning and practising! 😅
Thanks for giving it a spin @Edward_Alexander Is that the Bass stabs you’re referring to at 3:49? That was something I tweaked out of the Miami Gadget. It’s got a 1/4 speed rampdown on the filter and some Crush and X-Mod for grit. I like its stereo presence in this mix. Miami has a stereo widener knob on it which is pretty nice.
Great example that it is the artist and not the tools. While I think Gadget to be a great tool the mix is outstanding. Amazing work and fun to listen to.
Thanks a lot! Very much appreciated! This one was driving me crazy and it took me a few weeks of keep coming back to it just to fiddle with the mixing and EQing 😅🙏
It was well worth the effort. I am usually much to lazy (and allegedly no even able) to EQ my tracks with this sophistication - if I finish them at all. Most of the time it remains in some kind of preset sound collage state. I was not aware that it is actually possible to create such deep, broad and spacey and nuanced mixes with Gadget. This is very inspiring. No excuses anymore for anyone not to have the right equipment at hand. Its only about talent these days. Thanks again for sharing and keep them comming.
Love it 👊
Thanks! 😃
Yeah I know what you mean. I’ve got loads of “sections” of music from things like Groovebox and AUM setups that have potential. The difficult thing is orchestrating and stringing them together to make them flow into a full track!
I don’t speak with any training or authority on music mixing/EQing/production. But I found that Gadget starts to sound good when you push each instrument with a Compressor and spend time EQing each part against the others by soloing a few at a time. It might sound strange, but cut off all frequencies above a kick and bass, cut off all frequencies below a high hat etc. Maybe even a tiny bit of sidechain on things to make them duck slightly out of the way. Even if you think they don’t need it, even if it’s not immediately audible, there’s always some rogue frequencies that will overlap and muddy the mix. A bunch of barely audible frequencies together will stack up and interfere with each other eventually. It’s physics! 🤣 🤓 Usually there’s loads of stuff overlapping around 500Hz so that’s the area I pay most attention to. Also I almost never boost anything on an EQ, it’s always a subtractive process getting rid of frequencies to allow others space to come through instead of just boosting them. If I really want to enhance anything, I use an Exciter. I think by only ever subtracting frequencies, you can push things more with the Compressor .
A little auto-panning also helps space things out.
There’s no spectrum analyser or graphical representation of EQ in Gadget. So your ears are the most important tool! I only use the standard limiter in Gadget, and I only dial it up a few notches.
I don’t know if any of this is standard accepted practise, but it seems to work alright for my needs. 😃🙏