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Although hiding my vocals is probably somewhere there, the main reason I used the effects is because I'm new to recording vocals and don't quite have time to spend getting it right (microphone, placement etc), so I opened up Voice Jam Studio and ran through some of the presets. I quite liked the idea of the announcement of the end being made through a megaphone, so that was that.
I usually do things as an experiment, so the beginning was a way to start somewhere and then it be transformed suddenly. Also I really want to create a realistic Cajon solo with DrumPerfect, and although this isn't there yet, it's a step in that direction. Again, thanks for listening and commenting.
@geminiknight05, don't know if there is a genre of Electro/Metal? Seemed an ominous mix of Metallica/B52’s with synths. I was waiting for some growling thrash singing, but someone like Black Francis would do too (Iggy was taken by someone else). Well mixed and played.
@JohnnyGoodyear, I know you say this group is not about polished but your song is pretty close to something I would buy. The voice, and the way it is recorded and mixed is perfect, it's really intimate and creepy (in a good way, of course). Also the backing is just right. Sad, soft piano, a shivering organ, creating a phone left off the hook. Very good, sir.
@Fitz - Thanks a lot for your very positive comment on my second track ('Where I Belong') . Love to hear these positive words about it. I like that one too a lot, it is the first song with singing I did.
To compare it with my first track is doing the first track not (sort of) justice, they are completely different tracks.
Nice you like RDM 2 so much and you are getting it, is a great drum app! One if its strengths is the variation it produces. On my second track I didn't use it, there the drums are from Drum Loops HD. This app excells in a great sound, but not in variation. Nevertheless I like it too. No variation (you can however manually accomplish variation, but thats too complicated for me), but I never heard a better sounding drums app (or PC software) than Drum Loops HD.
@richardyot - About your question: is it possble that ios 8 is creating some additional latence?
I have GB and I have Auria, seldom use Auria but did a few tests a few weeks ago and concluded Auria has the same sync issue as GB.
It is not latency, it is the opposite of latency : what I hear after I recorded it is definetly before the beat. I did several tests - I even started a thread about the issue - with pictures of the issue, see
http://forum.audiob.us/discussion/8270/sync-problem-garageband-records-before-the-beat-and-not-on-the-beat
The picture of Auria in that topic is clarifying my point a lot.
It seems that ios 8 is somehow moving what you record to the left (before the beat). I don't know if this specific problem is a general problem, or just my problem. I am pretty shure that it is not my playing skills that causes it.
Edit: in that thread I was on ios 8.2 and now I am on 8.3 , so perhaps I it less now.....NO...just did a test - see picture - it is still there
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It is not latency, it is the opposite of latency : what I hear after I recorded it is definetly before the beat.
This is your superpower. You are living fractionally in the future.
@JohnnyGoodyear - lol, yeh that must be it
I'm on the edge of a beach in Wales, on a rock, looking out to sea....far away from glitches and sync issues. Later, armed with red wine in our rented cottage I'll be back to explore this thing you call 'The Gadget'
O Lucky Man. These are the good days, you know that right? Loving family, toes in the ocean, the freedom to make things and the luxury to complain as required. Drink it in my friend....
Oh I am, though if Monzo Jnr would behave himself for a few minutes and stop winding up his mother it'd be even better...
I don't have time to test this in iOS7 right now, but if this is yet another iOS 8 issue it's a huge deal.
My post for May. Careful with your volume if you are using headphones.
Any and all criticism/obervations are welcome. Thanks
It's an experimental piece, and I don't mind the disjointed rhythm and the discordance of the two-note melody, but it lacks focus for me.
I quite like weird and experimental music, but it should still make me feel something (other than disjointed), it works best for me when there is some contrast with a groove or a melody. At the moment I get a sense that the song is more about you enjoying making music rather than trying to get something across to me as a listener.
So maybe the intro could stay as it is, but then the song could settle into a groove at least for a while, a groove that makes me want to tap my feet or dance, or alternatively a more melodic bassline or lead, to contrast with the weirdness. At the moment it feels like some disparate sections that are a bit dissonant and unsettled, but I'm just not sure what the song is trying to say.
Thanks for the comments @richardyot. I understand how some of these pieces may be quite hard to listen to on first encounter. I am enjoying making them, it is my own little adventure after having played fairly conventional indie-ish guitar for 25+ years and I am throwing myself in the deep-end with electronic music without much preconception of where I will end up.
Saying that I have lived with some of these for several months ,listening and re-listening, tweaking here and there until I get a sense that they mean something, at least to me. In this one I am playing around with a very slow drawn out melody over the abrupt percussion sections and the intermittent bouncy bassline.
As ever, thanks for listening! Joc
Something I would like to try and achieve is combining guitar with more experimental synth-based stuff, I just haven't figured out a way to make it sound good.
A lot of great music has been made with this kind of experimentation, usually by combining the weird with the beautiful. Sonic Youth made a godawful racket for years, but eventually that crystallized into a blend of noise and melody which was amazing. Radiohead did the same thing, only in the other direction
I must concur with my Learned Friend Mister Yot on this one. I know (only too) well what it is to work on every tremor and collision in a piece and know also that they are pregnant with meaning or purpose, but then find others don't connect or see the texture woven there.
To this outsider, I don't hear a song here. Which doesn't mean more than giving you a dataset of one (more), which can be filed on the misguided or traditional or otherwise side of the listening ledger
I disagree with the comments above, I can hear a series of changes and progressions so don't think it lacks focus or deviates too much from song structure - there's plenty of depth in there to keep me interested and listening. The same criticism could be levelled at most experimental, or non-conformist composers. One of my favourites, Terry Riley wandered all over the shop with his 30 minute pieces. And if Radiohead's Thom Yorke can create something that's 18 days long I'm sure listeners can manage three minutes and 5 seconds without nodding off: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/thom-yorke-has-written-a-song-that-is-18-days-long-10275785.html
Unless you're being paid by the minute to write snappy TV jingles or have a recording contract commitment do whatever you like and just enjoy the process. I like it. I like the titles too.
Just for clarification, I don't have a problem with the length of the piece or the dissonance/jarring, I'm just wondering what is it trying to tell me and make me feel? That's what isn't coming across to me.
Thanks for your comments all. I'm out climbing this evening but will catch up and respond later.
Joc
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Climbing what? Where? Inquiring minds want to know
He lives up North I think so he could scaling the high street to get to the corner shop, though I can talk, living in the middle of the Welsh hills...
++1 on this!
I think Machines of Loving Grace did this beautifully on their Concentration album:
@Jocphone - The Teletubbies frolic in a field, oblivious to the approach of a massive comet that could destroy all life on Earth. When the apocalypse strikes, they manage to achieve that magic exit the rest of humanity could not. They go out dancing ...
Ha ha! I love this forum. You lot crack me up.
@JohnnyGoodyear indoor climbing. Leaping gazelle-like up sheer fibreglass precipices. That's the dream. In reality my lack of experience, excess weight and vertigo means that I drag myself slowly up the wall while trying not to curse too loudly. Really challenging but equally rewarding.
@monzo sorry but I left the north around the age of 3 to live in the only slightly bumpy midlands. I managed to inherit the craggy northern demeanour and surreal Lancashire humour. I'm no stranger to the Welsh hills though as some my family live in the middle somewhere.
@eustressor see I knew someone would get it..
And on a serious note..
@richardyot and @JohnnyGoodyear thanks for putting together those observations. It does take a definite effort to make these mostly positive comments, especially when it's not your kettle of fish and I value your feedback as regular and generous contributors to the forum.
And @monzo thanks for your kind comments and pointers to follow up.
I don't listen to a lot of purely electronic or synth based music so I may be operating outside the safety rope a little but I am quite happy to take criticism both good and bad. I also may ignore most advice offered, not out of rudeness but purely because I have ideas that i have waited years to explore and all of a sudden I have this amazing device that will help me in this.
I do find other people's perspectives quite inspiring, the level of discussion on this forum is phenomenal and you always display such generosity even when I do my damnedest to ruin your peace, sonically. That is why I share.
"That was a political broadcast on behalf of the I Need To Go And Lie Down Party"
I prefer to think of the midlands as drafty. I lived in Stoke for a year, and one morning while attempting to battle the road/wind tunnel outside my house to purchase Staffordshire Oat Cakes from the corner shop was actually blown across the moors towards Leek where they only sell Crumpets.
I'm in the middle if Wales, in fact almost exactly in the muddle.
@monzo Yeah I lived for a year on the hill above Hanley. Bloody windy, though I think it was called windmill street so I probably should have guessed. But yeah, oat cakes and Wright's Pies, food of kings!
Hovis still has many times more wheatgerm than ordinary bread.
Totally, I think that it's not really advice that's being offered, merely impressions of the music, which are of course subjective. One of the things about critiques is that there is absolutely no need to act on them if you don't agree with them, they are only worthwhile insomuch as they tell you what other people think. It's always a mixed bag.