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Good few tracks - @richardyot I like the vocals and song structure. Voice sounds a bit Bob Calvertish..
@peanut_gallery - nice synth sounds and song structure.
@Marcel - very pro sounding and dramatic. I reckon it could do with a vocal or souring guitar solo to finish it nicely.
@richardyot
I think I posted before finishing my post... Then refreshed and added the last bit which was:
"I liked it though... I like the fact there are lyrics which obviously mean something (although I couldn't make all of them out) - and some great guitar work.
I felt the kick drum wasn't hitting on the same beat as the guitar too by the way - just a bit off sync.
Looking forward to hearing the next one."
@peanut_gallery
This sounds very well produced and mixed. Is it Gadget?
I think the piano is the best bit personally. I like the solo - it's got some dynamics and pace to it. Structure of the track seems pretty sound.
If you want a criticism, it felt a little bit 'generic 101 dance music' - the super saw sound for example, is maybe a bit overused these days? There wasn't much in the way of interesting stops and starts in the track or samples or any glitches or effects or anything (that I could hear)... You could well argue that it doesn't need anything like that though - it's just a subjective thing.
Hope that's helpful.
Well, this is the country song. May not ever write another. Pretty much one take (finally) and most of that recorded into Auria. Extra vocals added on right there and then. It's loose empty-bar music recorded on a Tuesday afternoon and I think it sounds like it. Unmixed mostly/unmastered completely.
I was lucky enough to get the venerable Austin guitarist Joe Dickens to play on this. He spent ten minutes in total on it, but I guess he might say he's been playing for forty years or more leading up to that moment, so what the hell.
I did take the chance to ask him for some advice about country music in general and writing songs in particular and he boiled it down to five words which I've taken to heart: You talk too much, boy.
About time!
I like it, it rolls along and the vocals are nice - can hardly hear a dayum word yer saying boy but it sounds good to me!
@monzo Thanks, rolls along is good. It was useful experience, especially with Mister Dickens. He's got a lot to teach me, if'n I can get him to talk (or just keeping playing).
I get caught on the lyric clarity etc. I want the clarity but I want the emotion as well. Or it could be that a thousand years ago my mother sent me to elocution lessons so I would speak proper (she did, I do) and I've been in rebellion just about ever since Doctor.
Johnny, you've got a great voice! I can't believe it's taken you so long to actually use it. You can sing, in tune, with a very nice sounding baritone timbre. I like the layering of the vocals, the vocal sound, the mix is great too. In some parts the vocals need to come up in the mix so the words can be heard better.
The song reminds me a little bit of "Whiskey in my Whiskey" by the Felice brothers, but maybe that's because of the hammy accent
You need to write more songs and make use of that voice. But for a first effort that's definitely an A+
Great job on that JGY! I'm not much of a country fan, but I liked that.
The Edge circa Rattle and Hum meets Roger Waters/Floyd ala "Free Four" - I stand behind my crooner remark. I'm sure if you'd had more time you could have tightened up your vocal overdubs. Loose is fine, but loose as a goose maybe less so. Only criticism I can offer in the face of a fine sounding post-modern (but still) country song. Very nicely done, @JohnnyGoodyear - keep 'em doggies rollin
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Joe Dickens was right. As time goes on, you'll realize you're singing will sound more comfortable to you if you're playing a Banjo while you do it. Congratulations, this song redefines you, you can't stop singing now...
Gentlemen, thanks for your (kind) comments. If I learned one thing from this process (and there were many others) it's that trying to write a simple song is far harder work than I realized.
I agree with you @eustressor that the vocal layers are all over the shop, but I also didn't want to get too involved in the processing/mastering/editing straight out of the box. I know it's there for later, but knowing my own (endless) weakness, I knew that if I started to concentrate on that I'd use it as an excuse or mechanism not to get to the intended finishing line. This is a defensive technique I am a long-standing certified master of
Some housekeeping: @NoiseHorse I have no banjo. Pete Seeger always put me off by explaining he never learned to play it, because he'd always played it, from a young boy onwards, I feel sure this disqualifies me...
@eustressor you and I will have to settle things like gentlemen as regards your crooning insult to both me and all of my family
@funjunkie27 I'm not a country fan either
Never have been. But I reckon you have to sing a little of the music of the people you find yourself with, if'n only to understand them better. Actually, I mentioned my intention to another Austin honk-tonk stalwart and he has decided that this song's (or my) 'style' is a sub-genre he's calling 'Icelandic Country Rock'. I have no idea why or what that means....
Again, thanks for your encouragement and a particular nod to @richardyot for putting up the tent in the first place.
'Icelandic Country Rock'?? Looks like that EveryNoise web site you pointed us to needs some updating!
@JohnnyGoodYear -- congrats man, that was fantastic.
It's the vocals for me; you nailed it and I was transported right into the memory of a night long ago at the Broken Spoke. I'm not a big fan of country music, but as a Texan, it's kinda hard to avoid, and over the years I've been to a few country venues and various Nelson family shows and have learned to appreciate a lot of the music. So, to me you created an authentic feel in this song and...Well, I am just very impressed by this.
@TozBourne Thanks Mister Toz. Was expecting to get pelters from the locals so I particularly appreciate/value your comment.
@JohnnyGoodyear - i'll have a proper listen tomorrow...
Here's my entry for this month:
It was inspired / started off by me getting Seek Beats about 3 weeks ago and @Kaikoo pointing me at the Vector Lovers iPhonica album in the thread (thanks).
Made in Gadget. It uses some sampled hits from Seekbeats bought into Gadget (Abu Dhabi), vocal samples from the 1960s film 'Carnival of Souls'. Helsinki for the long string-sounding notes, Montreal for keyboard, Dublin and Miami bass, London kick and claps, and then lots of me really getting into making weird sounds with Tokyo (my new best friend) using the ring mod, ensemble and lots of reverb and automation.
So it's a kind of homage to drum synths.
Would love feedback please.
(P.S. if i get time, and no one minds, i'll try and post the one with me singing on for some feedback tomorrow)
You guys are inspiring!
@Matt_Fletcher_2000 Love the early keys sound....just right....good humming bass.....drums coming in at 40 secs feels about right too.....samples buzzy (technical term) probably just my cans....much as I love Mary confronting the personal demons of her spiritual insouciance as much as the next guy I find the samples too camp (purely personal taste this).....at 3 mins weird bent saw sound starts off not entirely convincing but grow on me. I want some sort of resolution at the end and don't wholly get it.
Above is my real time, only first-time ever, response. I listened to it a second time and it feels as though this is a four act play....before drums (prologue), before first vocal sample at 1.25 (narrative), upto 'bent saws' coming in at 2.55 (drama), and then bring me home (culmination). Would very much like to hear how your vocals fit in with this and with the samples as they are or if indeed you remove, change around the samples. I'm presuming the former.
Without the vocal it feels (to me) as though it should maybe be three acts not four, but I think this feeling comes from really liking the atmosphere/feel of the first half and then it developing further in a way that doesn't tickle my own rather sedate pleasure bone in the same way. I was ready for Billie Holiday rather than Candace Hilligoss, but that's got far more to do with my limitations than a fair critique of the second half
The underpinning sound is very smooth and assured and while you have plenty of drum synth sounds here it doesn't allow itself to be categorized or pigeon-holed and I think that's an obvious hurdle with producing in Gadget (which I love), so double plus for that Captain.
@Matt_Fletcher_2000 That intro, that intro is amazing, really atmospheric, really had me wondering what was coming next. A great piece of music.
But the rest of the tune didn't live up to the promise of that intro. I didn't really like the sample, I've just heard that kind of thing far too many times for it to be intriguing anymore, it's become too much of a cliché.
I would much rather hear some sung vocals in its place.
The music though is great, I thought the rhythm when it came in beautifully offset the bass and keys, slightly jarring against the smoothness of the instruments. I really think that there is a great tune waiting to happen here, but that (for me at least) the spoken samples let it down.
Ha - thanks @johnnygoodyear and @richardyot
Very much appreciate your feedback.
Yep, ok. The sample gets the thumbs down - fair enough. I did have some of me whispering a few rhymes over the top but I decided late on it was a bit - crap.
I'm no singer - so I won't be singing over the top myself. I do have an older track where I sing a few words, kindof - which I'll post - then you'll see what I mean. I don't want to spoil this track with my singing
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Glad that the music gets a generally positive reaction. Progressing and resolving tracks after a good start / idea is something I obviously need to work on (it's hard!).
I'm thinking of trying to use more chopped / effected vocal samples to add a bit of vocals on future tracks.
Johnny - feedback coming shortly!
@johnnygoodyear
Gotta say, I think this is really bloody good.
I listened first time a few days ago while not really concentrating and it kind of washed over me. Second listen just now - I really like it.
I think the loose lyric timing adds a lot to it. I really like them. I think they are perfect. There's enough that stays in time to make it work. I think this, and the fact it's a solid song all round make it a real success.
The recording quality sounds great. Your voice (is that all you?) sounds great.
Apart from modern electric country thing - it made me think of punk and the fall etc... Loose, drunken vocals.
Dead good. And a proper track with a beginning, middle and an end.
I deliberately didn't bother watching the video second time - it distracts - and with this track the music is the thing.
Nice track @Matt_Fletcher_2000 - I quite like the 'bent saws', I think I'd echo previous comments about resolving after the intro but it still sounds good - nice, full mix. Looking forward to your singing stuff.
I'm struggling with my own song this month, I think I've got so many new things to muck about with I've become a bit overwhelmed by them.
Thanks @monzo.
I'm still trying to work out which bit the 'bent saws' are
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If it helps I first wanted to describe them as spoony....nah, guess that doesn't help
But WE know what we mean 
Thanks Mister Matt. I appreciate the notes and positivity. I have to say the rough vocals have grown on me (and, for my sins, it is all me). I realized (or remembered from years ago) that the way to sing is to just to lay yourself flat out. The first few takes were very steady and safe and ended up being a good wash, but the best bits are when I let go and just had a good howl. It really does seem a matter that the less fearful one is (of being toe-curling) the less toe-curling one is....
I listened to your tune again a couple of times this morning. There's something very good inside there. You have the hardest part which is true feeling.
Thanks! @JohnnyGoodyear
Ok, this is "all me" too. ("True feeling"? Dunno...)
It's probably the first time any member of the general public has heard me sing since that school carol concert in 1986... or something...
I committed the crime about 3 months ago - but never got round to releasing it.
It's NanoStudio (not Gadget!)
It's got some sounds from the wonderful "Phase rings" app at the start. It's got 1 bar of a pro vocal sample at 1.00 mashed with Egotist. The rest is me singing and speaking, recorded into Loopy and run through that TC Helicon vocal app and Effectrix for the stretching, I think. All against a pumping NanoStudio fuelled acidy unreconstructed dance beat. I wanted it to sound like LCD Sound System. Someone I played it to said it reminded them of Kasabian. Oh well.
Would be well pleased if anyone had time to give any opinions...
Don't know about LCD or Kas, but sounds to me like a well-mannered descendant all these years later of The Cabs after a date with Shriekback. Your voice is sufficiently machine-like not to make the horses cry or scare the children (not certain your own mother, or mine, would recognize it as you...certainly nothing to be so fey about
In contrast to 'Trillion K' (and it IS a contrast) I think this one gets better as the time goes by (love the sample at 1.50 btw) and towards the end the insistent rhythm/hook (ba-ba-ba-BA-ba) was in my head and repeating.
I'll have to listen to this one tomorrow as I don't have the time today, but I'll post back with thoughts then.
Feverishly working to finish mixing vocals for my entry. Like literally - the littlest boy brought home a nasty bug and decided to share, god love him.
Will listen and share feedback sometime between this mad dash of mixing and my High Noon appointment with JGY
Love this "club" - great motivator and opportunity to learn, discover and share!
I'm frustrated I haven't got anything finished - just bits of half finished ideas. Started something interesting tonight though.
Remember Michael Jordan in that game where he had a high fever and scored like seventy points, pouring them in from everywhere; you are him, at home, with a sick child, and a temperature, and you just want to sleep, but Game Time At The Mixing Desk Baybeeee!