Current Reaper project...

[vicenzajay]

Just for listening kicks, here's a track done completely in Reaper of a young, original metal band I'm recording now:

Cast for Illium Fourth Song.mp3

Enjoy,
Jay

[vicenzajay]

CFI - first song extra voice tracks.mp3

Jay

[vicenzajay]

Here's a jazz track:

Cheesecake Peut de Bleu with drums.mp3

Take care,
Jay

[TexRoadkill]

Only the last link seemed to work. Sounds nice.

[tenkas]

The bass (especially the lick at the begining) is soooo out of tune... The compressor is also working too hard on the bass (for my taste). (That is in the jazz track)

[Slowrider]

Originally Posted by tenkas

The bass (especially the lick at the begining) is soooo out of tune... The compressor is also working too hard on the bass (for my taste). (That is in the jazz track)

No, the bass is in tune but the bassist just missed some notes in the walkdowns. When you're playing harmony notes on bass, they have to be the right sequence to compliment the guitarist. The rest of it sounded great.

By the end, the bass player had it figured out.

[vicenzajay]

The bass line IS the melody on the intro to this tune...and I wasn't missing notes - been playing this tune for over 2 years. I will work on the compression - thanks for that suggestion. For some reason people's ears hear things differently - especially with fretless bass...if I run that line through reatune or any other analyzer, my intonation is actually quite close to spot on...and the notes are correct for the key of the composition.

What are "off" are the drums and the rest of the instruments (as we had no drummer for the original practice). He decided to lay some tracks down one evening - and this is the result. I hear lots of "fighting" between the kick and the rest of the mix...all timing related. There's a little too much "thump" to the kick for this mix as well (imo). All stuff to work on...great fun in any case.


Thanks for listening, though.

Jay

[vicenzajay]

Originally Posted by TexRoadkill

Only the last link seemed to work. Sounds nice.

Appreciate you listening to it!

Jay

[kubeek]

The only two things I don´t like is the sound of the kick, which sounds like the beater hitting a cardboard box. And then I think the bass could be a bit more defined and louder.

But allaround it sounds great.

[kipsus]

Yeah kick is a bit weak. Fretless with rounds right?

[vicenzajay]

Thanks again...yeah, I'm torn on the kick...it's actually a floor tom mounted sideways for the jazz kit...so I'm not wanting it to be "thunderous" in this setting, but it does sound very "cardboardy"...I'm using a D-6 on it for this practice.

Yep - fretless with rounds...and I can make it clearer - thanks for that!

Jay

[vicenzajay]

Of another practice session (Black Orpheus and Song for My Father):

CheesecakeBlackOrpheus_111533.mp3
CheesecakeSongforMyFather.mp3

[IronFlippy]

Originally Posted by vicenzajay

...but it does sound very "cardboardy"...I'm using a D-6 on it for this practice.

Try sweeping around 300Hz and cut a little bit to minimize the cardboard effect.

Good tunes, not bad at all for practice recordings. Gotta love Reaper!

[vicenzajay]

Originally Posted by IronFlippy

Try sweeping around 300Hz and cut a little bit to minimize the cardboard effect.

Good tunes, not bad at all for practice recordings. Gotta love Reaper!

Thanks - Voxengo's span is showing me pretty much the same thing...little heavy on the 200-300 hz range.

I'll do some parametric sweeping in that area for the drum!

Jay

[IronFlippy]

No problem. That range is critical in both kicks and toms. You shouldn't need to cut too much. If you do, really try to zero in on the specific frequency that's giving you the most trouble and use a high Q (small bandwidth in ReaEQ) to get rid of it, doing minimal damage elsewhere.

[vicenzajay]

Originally Posted by vicenzajay

Of another practice session (Black Orpheus and Song for My Father):

CheesecakeBlackOrpheus_111533.mp3
CheesecakeSongforMyFather.mp3

For suggestions on these newer mixes ^^^