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Red Ryder posted:I've been working on my first album for far too long and I finally decided it's finished: Your song "Adorable" is the poo poo. Reminds me of the old Elephant 6 stuff. Thinking of The Gerbils. If you don't know them, check out the album "Are You Sleepy?" It's in a similar vein, and I think you'd really dig. I finally finished up a solo full length I've been working on for the better part of a year. Perfect for fans of mostly clean guitars, motorik style grooves, monotonous basslines, and whiney vox. It's called "Achievements in Large Scale Topiary". I'm really proud of it, but I wish I'd had the resources to record the drums properly. At the time of recording, I only had the means to do a 2 microphone setup. https://monsterfurniture.bandcamp.com/album/achievements-in-large-scale-topiary Recorded in my room/practice space with a Scarlet 2i2 on Logic Pro X. Mixed on Logic Pro X.
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Been lurking in this thread for a while and love hearing everyone's projects. A band I've been playing in for a while now has been working on an album that's almost entirely self-produced and it's been a real learning experience. Never really tried my hand at sound recording and mixing before, but here it is for your approval/disapproval! https://churchandpuppets.bandcamp.com/track/skinny-2
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I did an album for National Solo Album Month in November. I've recorded several songs over the past little while, but this is my first attempt at an album. https://soundcloud.com/the_door_is_scary/sets/the-air-conditioner-graveyard I used Xfer Records' Cthulhu plugin a lot on this one.
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im_sorry posted:I did an album for National Solo Album Month in November. I've recorded several songs over the past little while, but this is my first attempt at an album. https://soundcloud.com/the_door_is_scary/sets/the-air-conditioner-graveyard This is pretty cool stuff man, I'm digging it. That reminds me I haven't used Cthulhu in a while and should play around with it today.
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The Latin band I’m in is mixing and mastering our 1st album now. It’s been one of the smoothest processes I’ve experienced. Our funk band is also 2/3rds done with our second album. The process hasn’t been as smooth, but we have a lot of material to work through. Here’s a demo of my favorite, minus horn stuff. (I hope this link works) https://www.dropbox.com/s/4m4o7dqtttqjl2k/Emptiness%20-%20160327%20%281%29.wav?dl=0 Also sold out and played Bari Sax on a Christmas Album, here’s the link to some clips of it. https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/entouragejazz12 blueberrysmith posted:Been lurking in this thread for a while and love hearing everyone's projects. A band I've been playing in for a while now has been working on an album that's almost entirely self-produced and it's been a real learning experience. Never really tried my hand at sound recording and mixing before, but here it is for your approval/disapproval! I love this; the best way I can describe it is being outside on a slightly windy winter’s day. FartingBedpost fucked around with this message at 22:59 on Jan 30, 2019 |
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I posted in this thread roughly a year ago about making records. Here's the follow-up to my testimony: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3417644&pagenumber=548#post492348894
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I guess I'll join in. I've been writing an album on and off for years. Since I started playing and writing music. It's gone through many iterations. A five track EP, a 30 track double album, and so on. At the moment I have 33 tracks written to various stages if completion. Of those I cut it to ten tracks for the album. Here's the Soundcloud of the demos for the album: https://soundcloud.com/indigo-monsoon/sets/clutter I'm pretty proud of it. Once vocals are written I'll be rerecording everything properly. If I were to describe it I'd say "Smashing Pumpkins ripoff blended with some Australian Alt Rock".
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Rotten Cookies posted:Helping a friend (drums) write/record an album. He wrote 11 songs while he's been working from home. Brought another friend (guitar/bass) and myself (keys/guitar) to help him flesh it out and make it real. He has a pretty good idea in his head of what he wants it to sound like, but decoding that into actual chords and notes is not his strong suit. So, helping my friend about once a week with this album, 18 months later, garners this: https://soundcloud.com/wernotron/sets/birthday-bike-comparisons/s-v8NS7 Comparisons between some tracks as they are now (not done, still loving with em) and the original-ish demos. Rotten Cookies fucked around with this message at 17:32 on Mar 10, 2019 |
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syntaxfunction posted:I guess I'll join in. I've been writing an album on and off for years. Since I started playing and writing music. It's gone through many iterations. A five track EP, a 30 track double album, and so on. At the moment I have 33 tracks written to various stages if completion. Of those I cut it to ten tracks for the album. I wrote a song a very long time ago that's literally Solid Body, that intro riff is (except for how it's played) note for note what I had written which I just find amazing because it is beautiful, and cool that we managed to come up with the same thing. Riffs are solid, the songs are very nicely written and I think you've got some good stuff here! I think the only thing that is lacking is a more driven vocal approach because what you've got I think could be really huge.
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Working on an EP of original material. I've had about 6-7 sketches of songs in the works for years and years, and never really had the time/means to develop them fully myself. A few of them I was able to develop with an old band, but I've since moved away, and haven't been able to find a comparable group where I am now. So I figured what the hell, I'd just do it all myself (except for drums). I'm primarily a bassist, but it's giving me a great excuse to relearn some instruments. For the drums I'm working with a guy I played with for about a decade. He lives across the country, but has access to a good studio... So I send him scratch tracks with a loop that's close to what I have in mind, and he'll send me back the finished drum track. I like to think of it as groove-jazz, or just funk-fusion. I'm heavily influenced by The Meters, The New Mastersounds, Medeski Martin and Wood, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, etc. This track is the most "done": https://soundcloud.com/fro_tone/hop-scotch-on-the-rocks-v3/s-kSEGl Bass and guitar are still scratch-ish, so re-doing those is next on the list. Then I want to insert a brief solo for both the guitar and organ. Tried to work in some trumpet, but really couldn't come up with any phrasing that I liked. These are a few of mine that I recorded with my old band, so I'm going to try and do a re-interpretation of each: https://soundcloud.com/unitfour/jumbly-towers?in=unitfour/sets/knock-on-wood-ep https://soundcloud.com/unitfour/knock-on-wood?in=unitfour/sets/knock-on-wood-ep Scarf fucked around with this message at 20:58 on Jul 2, 2019 |
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Hey! Long time since I posted. I could finally afford my first MIDI keyboard (a launchkey mini) and decided to go on a different adventure with my next set of songs. Plenty of synths and percussion and influences. Just finished a new track called "Night Out" which is a...I dunno...Talking Heads tribute? Maybe a little Bowie? 3 tracks down so far. I'm having a blast! https://shiftershapes.bandcamp.com/album/side This is a big change from what I usually play. And I know that I'm going to try and marry my two styles after I get out of this sheer MIDI honeymoon phase. I was working on these tracks before (been going solo on music), but now that I've got the MIDI keyboard, I've also been getting more heavily invested in my mixing. https://shiftershapes.bandcamp.com/album/our-timid-and-timeless-middle-points Thanks for looking! Can't wait to listen to the other tracks in here as well! Found some great stuff on here in the past! Fiction D fucked around with this message at 03:48 on Aug 24, 2019 |
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Just released an album with a friend. It's dark ambient / noise / experimental. Synths and guitar recorded at my home studio just after it was completed. We focused on creating contrasting textures and then layering a few different performances until things solidified. Definitely some drone and doom elements too. It's been distributed digitally and is available on all streaming platforms. Elder Skeleton - The Return https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_njrDhmYVpER8-i08j4gQT5dklLXlLPCTM https://open.spotify.com/album/2PmGtTgnPIrOq8WIqziSU5 We also released a single earlier this year. Same genre and recorded at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, CA. Elder Skeleton - Obelisk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA33LP8BEUw https://open.spotify.com/album/1lzb5STMZgkp8J3KKHMKVO
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SuperiorToaster posted:Just released an album with a friend. It's dark ambient / noise / experimental. Synths and guitar recorded at my home studio just after it was completed. We focused on creating contrasting textures and then layering a few different performances until things solidified. Definitely some drone and doom elements too. It's been distributed digitally and is available on all streaming platforms. Digging this so far. It's exactly what I'm looking for right now. Love the light touches on top of that heavy crunch. It's dreamy!
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Thanks! During recording the guitar player was using an isocab in the same room so it was pretty loud. Forced me to choose timbres that could cut through the midsy guitar. The bitcrusher on the Roland system 1-m I was using is very musical and did a good job of giving me those sandy or clean high frequency textures without being overpowering of fatiguing. We have another upcoming noisier and heavier album currently going through mastering.
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What do you think of the System 1m? I was thinking of picking one up. It seems like a good balance of capabilities while still having all the controls immediately in front of you without a bunch of menu-diving. A lot of the demos I've seen on YouTube make it sound very buzzy, but I'm not sure if that's just how those demos are done.
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It's an awesome little synth with some weird quirks, has the Roland flavor on the filter and the oscillators are very powerful with some cool and unexpected waveforms, including some added by a firmware update that aren't indicated on the panel. Way more appealing and ergonomic than any of their boutique stuff to me, but uses the same ACB technology (so its a virtual analog essentially). I like to use it as a supplemental voice patched into the external input of my Matrixbrute and controlled via CV. I've never used the plugout feature as the emulations cost ~$150 each and at this point I would probably buy a Behringer MS-101 instead of figuring out some weird alternate mode in the same box. It's big brother the System-8 is also a high quality sleeper synth I think, and there's a keyboard version if you don't care about CV. I do also think its a good value if you wanna get into modular. You get a pair of envelopes, oscillators, and an LFO for a reasonable price. You can also patch external signals thru the filter. Onboard delay & reverb aren't great, but I love the bitcrusher and the master tone control. The biggest things that get in my way are: - 4 voice polyphony is a little restrictive, and can only do mono when CV is patched - cant turn off the green lights - esoteric button combos to change some settings - the CV implementation has some strange choices, like the LFO is 10v bipolar and needs to be attenuated or scaled to be useful with a lot of other eurorack stuff, also the V/Oct CV input doesn't work unless the gate input is also patched, but you can just dead patch it.
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I've been working on an OST of instrumentals that could be used for a video game. Using Moog Grandmother, Drumbrute, Deepmind12, Ableton, and a Behringer interface. I made a music video to sort of show case. Keep in mind, I'm taking riffs from music in the public domain. das crikstar fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Jan 2, 2020 |
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I'm in some freaky new territory, taking my music to a whole different playing field. Prior to this I did psychedelic folk music. Me and an old friend decided to put our heads together to try and build out some black/doom metal tracks as a duo. We just put out our first track late last night. I did voiceovers for video game characters previously, where I played mummies and ghouls and whatnot, so I figured I could do the black metal voice alright. But boy I killed my throat on this track and I didn't even sing that much. Assume it was the projecting that got me. I need to find some ways to adjust. But we tried to mix some atmospheric deathly soundscapes and then twist into a doom rhythm, ending with a spooky, empty soundscape. I have to admit that I had a ton of fun making the switch from acoustic to electric. It's such a new sound that it's really reinvigorated my interest in making music. It's also just good to be collaborating again. In any case, have a listen! https://vileblood1.bandcamp.com/releases?fbclid=IwAR28u9IRXUyKODCk9IYedUjJv6S3lrseVeARstL83xsEnoSAGfP4B_4uP8M
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I took the plunge and made a collection of old and new called LBRY Bytes at https://beta.lbry.tv/@ewe2:f
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I never shared the finished album in here, but here it is! https://open.spotify.com/album/5CDuiMFKm9HsrldNsdmL0I?si=U_81ie3JRmGGutyPoDLy6A
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i put this out about a month ago: https://open.spotify.com/album/2XEXeHUNttlnWAFTrUNGZv?si=NlmE8ql9RTm8tTfEffNHUQ https://shero.bandcamp.com/album/collapse and then me and my buddy do a podcast where we record songs and talk shop, maybe we'll make some songs an album at some point, i don't know: https://open.spotify.com/show/18C586wVFfZipsToxVVLbK?si=ZjpL0QRvStqUb3vkBmrnSA https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/blue-and-gray/id1493440673 https://anchor.fm/blueandgray https://blueandgray.bandcamp.com (songs only)
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I've been meaning to do the fawm.org "14 tracks in 28 days" thing for years, but it seemed really daunting, so I never did. However, this year, I remembered about it at just the right time, and decided to sign up. I've already gotten 7 okay tracks done, so I might actually do this. My fawm page is at https://fawm.org/fawmers/spacehoers420/ - I've been uploading my stuff to Alonetone since I'm almost out of room on Soundcloud, but once it's done, I'll put it on Bandcamp with a proper cover photo (and actual song titles). The Alonetone link is https://alonetone.com/spacehoers/playlists/jar-of-lampreys im_sorry fucked around with this message at 05:12 on Feb 9, 2020 |
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I recently released my first single - currently working on a full album I wanna release this year. The writing part is easy, but man, the production and mixing part can really lead you down the rabbit hole! [alt rock] Pawn Shop Radios - Give It All You Got https://open.spotify.com/track/37z82slhjj2aRkIYzKzesp?si=6GHWZIeVTPeqINmtw-gcyg
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COVID has me wanting to write another album since I'm going stir crazy... but I no longer have the gear to produce all the instrumentals and that would be very expensive. I can write all the rapping... somebody talk me out of buying a whole new set up to make beats...
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Here is a single I just released. It's a lot different than what I usually do. It's aggressive, angry, but somehow positive? Curious what you guys think. http://bixlee.bandcamp.com/track/radicalized
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I'm currently in the process of recording an EP. The process being 1. Get better at guitar, 2. Learn to write songs, 3. Learn recording and production to a decent level, and 4. Put these together to write songs, play them good, record them, and polish them. I'm at about 3., Which means it's time to start recording and cleaning up final versions of songs. I can see this thread isn't *crazy* busy, so I hope it won't be annoying if I start puking updates into it partially for my own sake.
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I'll take that as a resounding "k" Anyhow, here's what I've got so far, with my chosen songs and my initially-chosen order. These aren't the final recordings, but the cleanest/most representative extant recordings of each of the tracks. So you'll be hearing a huge jumping-around in quality of playing, singing, recording, etc. At least, you would if you were listening to these, which you aren't. You're not even reading this, right now. Artist: Starfolder Album: It Will Always Be [EP] 1. Grave https://soundcloud.com/starfolder/grave-hushed-rendition 2. I Am https://soundcloud.com/starfolder/starfolder-i-am 3. Stitch https://soundcloud.com/starfolder/stitch 4. Serpent https://soundcloud.com/starfolder/serpent 5. December https://soundcloud.com/starfolder/starfolder-december 6. Way https://soundcloud.com/starfolder/way-soft-sweet-version
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I just got into composing / remixing and did a bunch of DOOM remixes + original compositions inspired by the game: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXzVt6etTOxKXKS3E5FW0Dbo902lP_r9i I've never taken any courses in composition/harmony or whatever but I did take piano lessons for a while back in the day and watched a few youtube videos recently
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orly posted:I just got into composing / remixing and did a bunch of DOOM remixes + original compositions inspired by the game: I really dig this! I also got really into making Doom-inspired tracks (although I'd say you did a much better job not only in recreating that specific sound but also in composition) last december. My stuff is here, it's all guitar bass and drums without any true melodic instruments (I decided to put limitations in instruments and length of time, trying to build the songs on the strength of the riffs and keeping it short enough to stay interesting the whole way through). https://skriketmusic.bandcamp.com/
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Greggster posted:I really dig this! I also got really into making Doom-inspired tracks (although I'd say you did a much better job not only in recreating that specific sound but also in composition) last december. Thanks! Well your tracks definitely sound authentically DOOMy to me, though like with more modern mixing and bringing out the metal I guess  awesomeI kind of want to work on building strong riffs as well, keeping things simpler like youre doing orly fucked around with this message at 02:44 on May 27, 2020 |
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I want to put out an EP/Album before the end of the year, heres what I've got so far https://soundcloud.com/hugespiders
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Messing around this is the latest thing...ignore the vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21sNEIdqkFo Looking to some Skinny Puppy/early James Holden thing Halloween Liker fucked around with this message at 19:03 on Nov 20, 2020 |
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I recorded an EP with my old fusion band several years ago before I moved out to Denver. I've been talking to the guys lately and we all want to fire up the engines again and expand it into a full LP. Unfortunately our old drummer is a travel nurse now, and with COVID going on, there's just no way he could put any time into it. But thankfully another drummer I've been playing with for 20 years at this point is down and both he and I couldn't be more excited. Our old drummer was good, but this dude is fuckin phenomenal. It'll be a bit interesting doing this entirely remotely (at least for my part). But everyone has good-to-great recording setups or access to a good studio. Original EP: Unit Four - "Knock On Wood" https://soundcloud.com/unitfour/sets/knock-on-wood-ep I've got a few sketches to add in when we get to it, unfortunately only one fully sketched out and recorded though: https://soundcloud.com/fro_tone/hop-scotch-on-the-rocks-v3/s-kSEGl
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I just released my first album! It's synthpunk, with Devo, Gary Numan, Adult., The Faint, and Atom and His Package as influences, along with whatever else felt right for each song: https://faustbot.bandcamp.com/releases Here's a general mood breakdown: Punk: Open Up!, Masks Off, Hunting Season, Origin 2 - The Ritual Post-punk: Dragon Slayer, Origin 1 - Witness Catchy: Scratch a Liberal, (All You Have To Do Is Not Be an) rear end in a top hat, The Big Hit Single Instrumental: Glitch//Intermission, Origin 3 - Shutting Down This was an entirely solo effort I started back in June when I popped out enough synth focused sketches to turn them into an album, minus two tracks that I couldn't make work. Now to get to work on the surfy post-punk stuff I've been working on for the past decade.
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I’m almost done with my 90’s inspired alt/rock album - if anyone wants to give it a listen and share any thoughts or notes on it, I’d really appreciate it. I’d love to get a few fresh ears on it to give it the last bit of polish before releasing on Spotify: Pawn Shop Radios - Never/Now/Whenever
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