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Drink-Mix Man posted:Thanks, man. That's very encouraging. I'm glad you liked that, even though I was probably biting Fujiya & Miyagi like crazy. I guess I sort of don't know where to take the drums. I was considering doing them in double time at that guitar part in the middle, then returning to the main beat with some minor variations? I have a problem mixing songs whose elements have a lot of bass, too. nishi koichi fucked around with this message at 03:28 on Apr 24, 2016 |
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bad posts ahead!!! posted:This is so incredibly chill. It's so difficult for me to give any crit about a song when it's this good. I get a Gary Numan vibe from it in some places. Nice ending with the drums, too. The drums are way too mechanical and perfect for the awesome, kind of sloppy rest of the track. I would suggest that you want a rock kit, small room, more of a straightforward, non-syncopated beat on this one. Something you'd find on a Black Keys record. I love the idea of it though, please keep working on it! As for me, I recorded some more robot farts tonight: constellation.
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sofullofhate posted:The drums are way too mechanical and perfect for the awesome, kind of sloppy rest of the track. I would suggest that you want a rock kit, small room, more of a straightforward, non-syncopated beat on this one. Something you'd find on a Black Keys record. I love the idea of it though, please keep working on it! Had this track on loop for a while. I love how you added texture with the granulized(maybe?) element. It's really hypnotic. Everything sits really well in the mix, wish i could do that. You avoid monotony well with the higher synths and bleeps and bloops. The track reminds me of Blue Monday, which is awesome. You're totally right about the drums. I feel like I want to keep them kind of hiphoppy, but I'm not sure how to do that and make it less mechanical. Would tapping it out on the Maschine instead help? Here is another track, this one's kind of f&m/radiohead/damon albarn-ish? Think the drums are more interesting than the last song I posted. It's so not done but I've been messing with this track for a month and a half now, and practicing so I can actually play the stuff I came up with... and I need to remember not to eat the mic. https://www.soundcloud.com/pointnineteen/sastrugi I asked about upstrokes while palm muting in the guitar thread specifically because of this song. The middle is terrible, but I like the idea of it. It's also the first song I started working on after getting tapewound bass strings. nishi koichi fucked around with this message at 15:52 on May 4, 2016 |
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Imaginary Friend posted:Just picked up the guitar after almost a year of not recording anything and did a little crappy sketch today. There's some crappy parts but it's starting to sound like a song at least! Feedback on this as it seemed to get missed. I'm digging the feel, and there are definitely parts that could be picked into songs. Specifically 0:23 to 0:47ish, sounds like the start of a song. You've definitely got the chops, man. Take that core and add in some melodic classical stuff and there's a song! bad posts ahead!!! posted:Here is another track, this one's kind of f&m/radiohead/damon albarn-ish? Think the drums are more interesting than the last song I posted. It's so not done but I've been messing with this track for a month and a half now, and practicing so I can actually play the stuff I came up with... and I need to remember not to eat the mic. It really does remind me of that Gorillaz The Fall era stuff (Which is I guess their newer stuff? Whatever). I think you need some more prominent vocals to help carry it melodically. Rhythmically it's fantastic, got that groove going. The middle part is fine, I like it anyway. I have a number of things but the ADD Jamz has encouraged me to do a full thing. Years and years ago I "wrote" this: https://soundcloud.com/syntaxfunction/summer-hare-old-old-old Well, after a couple ciders and some inspiration I decided go big or go home: https://soundcloud.com/syntaxfunction/summer-hare-mock-v4 My one requirement is that it sounded huge, and I think I achieved that. It's a bit sloppy (the aforementioned cider). It started out as a blend of Disarm and Nutshell and turned into this. I'm digging it. I think it'd fill the epic quotient of any release I decide to do.
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syntaxfunction posted:I have a number of things but the ADD Jamz has encouraged me to do a full thing. Years and years ago I "wrote" this: https://soundcloud.com/syntaxfunction/summer-hare-old-old-old This is a fantastic sketch. I love the depth and width of the sound - nice decisions on the layers, and when they come in. I want the drums to be a bit more interesting. I want you to make this into a finished track. I can hear Sam Roberts style vocals over it. Make it so! I spent some more quality time with my modular, and this happened: novae. The tuning is all over the show because I started out with that drone, which is a pair of TZFM oscillators messing with each other, causing the weird overtone / undertone / chordal relationship within the sound - at, of course, no particular pitch. Good times. It feels kind of fragile to me, which I dig.
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sofullofhate posted:This is a fantastic sketch. I love the depth and width of the sound - nice decisions on the layers, and when they come in. I want the drums to be a bit more interesting. I want you to make this into a finished track. I can hear Sam Roberts style vocals over it. Make it so! This is pretty awesome, it reminds me of chill Knife Party. I like that it has a melodic element, I feel a lot of electronic sketches fall flat in that regard, having a great groove, but ultimately doesn't pull you in. I really like what you're going for though. Suggestions? Drums/kicks are a little anemic, although I'm biased in that I like really heavy hitting drums. Maybe make the rhythmic element of the kick a bit more varied? I got nothing else though, that underlying WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORMPH thing is killer. Also, I am not Sam Roberts but I did some vocals. I think we can agree that vocally it's perfect and lyrically it really speaks to the heart of man. https://soundcloud.com/syntaxfunction/summer-hare-master-awesome-vocals Later Edit: I hate to double post but I took the Pumpkins-y song and ran it through a real home recording set up. I ended up with this: https://soundcloud.com/syntaxfunction/forgetful-take-3 The drums are random MIDI loops run through Independence, bass is DI'd, compressed with Molot and run through the SS bass amp model on Amplitube. Guitars are veeeery lightly massaged in EQ but otherwise exactly how it came out through the mic. Four layers of distorted rhythm guitar and two of the clean. Loving that slight breakup on the clean. Any comments on the sound or generalness of it? syntaxfunction fucked around with this message at 03:38 on Jun 2, 2016 |
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Nigel Tufnel posted:
The riff is pretty sweet but you really need that sub-bass and low mid to get the heavy tone you're looking for. I've been super busy after joining a folk metal band recently, but last night I was drunkenly inspired to redo one of our songs in a cave doom style. So... folk doom? https://soundcloud.com/skudmunky/doomingly-deceived/s-mO6Gn
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I usually do lo-fi and largely instrumental electronica, but I've been taking some rough cracks at doing some more conventional pop and dance-like stuff. Here's a buddy's acoustic ballad I helped him record. Please excuse the rambling intro and some sloppiness in the edit: https://soundcloud.com/eric-zak/when-i-call-my-bluff-remix-attempt-6-26-16 Here's a house-like thing I did, taking a GarageBand drum loop he sent me and adding some layers on it. Again, not the type of stuff I usually do so I'd be interested to hear what you think: https://soundcloud.com/eric-zak/jungle-junk EDIT: While I'm at it, here's also a mellow melodic space thing I've been working on: https://soundcloud.com/eric-zak/coney-island-stardust Drink-Mix Man fucked around with this message at 01:35 on Jul 4, 2016 |
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Jun 29, 2016 22:36
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Here's a sketch. Is this a thing, or ain't it? https://soundcloud.com/danwarren/acoustic-sketch-worlds-gotta-end-sometime
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Aug 31, 2016 01:29
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Pretty much good to go as-is is the thing it is. I like how it vaguely flirts with bossa nova at times and then switches up to straight rock for the chorus. Do you have the guitar part separately? I'd love to give it a shot singing this myself. If that's not stepping on any toes.
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Aug 31, 2016 13:42
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I don't have it separate at present - that was just me throwing out a mic and bashing it out. I could certainly do that, though! Maybe this weekend? I'd love to hear what you do with it. If you want to play around with it, the chords are: Verse (last two chords in each line are held half as long): F9 B7+5 Bb13 A7 F+ Dm7 Dm7-5 G7 C6/9 C+ repeat Chorus: F A7 Dm7 Dm7-5 G Eb+ C C+ F Fm G# G F (2nd chorus only) G# Gm F9 Trig Discipline fucked around with this message at 21:25 on Aug 31, 2016 |
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Aug 31, 2016 21:14
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Trig Discipline posted:Here's a sketch. Is this a thing, or ain't it?  Seriously love this.
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Aug 31, 2016 21:55
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Thanks! I'm seriously thinking I might accidentally be writing a concept album about the apocalypse or something. Or maybe about falling in love with a doomsday prepper?
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Aug 31, 2016 22:22
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Trig Discipline posted:I don't have it separate at present - that was just me throwing out a mic and bashing it out. I could certainly do that, though! Maybe this weekend? I'd love to hear what you do with it. I don't have a lot in mind at this moment beyond just trying to sing it and see how that works out, but you never know whether it calls for some wub or something  Despite loving around for over 20 years, I'm not and will not ever be a musician in the sense that I can create music (except by shotgun approach - I'd have to google what notes are in each of those chords), but I'm growing out of the insecurities about my voice and I need to practice singing into a microphone and how to properly record that. Searching Youtube for crappy karaoke versions of jazz standards gets depressing after a while, so it'll be nice to potentially be part of (be piggybacking on) something fresh for a change. I'm just as curious as to what's actually going to come out of it though 
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Eh, the worst that happens is that it doesn't sound good and you chuck it out. The stakes could hardly be lower!
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Turned out to be a bad day for acoustic recording (loving cockatoos got up early), so I started playing around with a more rock arrangement of it. Very much a rough take but at least I think the skeleton is there. https://soundcloud.com/danwarren/worlds-gotta-end-sometime
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Sep 4, 2016 04:30
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Can't get that link working for some reason. Is it set to private?
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Sep 4, 2016 16:23
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It is private, but try this link instead: https://soundcloud.com/danwarren/worlds-gotta-end-sometime/s-j64Xr Sorry, didn't know I had to get a special link to share private stuff.
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Man the turnaround time on having that in a different arrangement is pretty impressive. Gimme a couple of days to run out of excuses and I'll see if I can do that effort proud.
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Oh I actually had it half-done already, I mostly spent the day tweaking the tempo changes and adding guitars. I'm a huge fan of Bitwig Studio but god drat it turns out to be absolute loving garbage for anything that has a lot of tempo changes and involves recording live audio. I mean not just bad but like the loving thing is actively working against you.
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I'll jump on the bandwagon loving that last sketch. Sucked me right into a reverie and built really well to its climax. I like that outside the apocalypse concept it works really well on the level of being a song about being fed up with mundane life. It taps a relatable nerve without beating you over the head with the fantastical element. Here's an instrumental electronic jam with a breakbeat and lead I've been puttering with. Not sure what kind of genre category it fits into, maybe kind of a soundtracky thing. It was kind of just a live jam I liked and expanded but still feels maybe lacking something to me. https://soundcloud.com/eric-zak/beatup-breakdown-1
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