Recent content by killahpl

Agreed that Rob is an amazing guy and extremeley helpful. I also agree that - in an ideal wordl - we should never have to polish turds... but we don't live in an ideal world. That said, I'm a firm believer in not phoning it in whenever possible. Okay, let's see if I can link to something now...

That's a very good suggestion - thanks for the input. I've heard a lot of people swear by EZ Drummer 2 (though, to be honest, I've heard a lot of people swear by MT PowerDrum Kit, too, but people on here don't seem think much of it) plus it doesn't cost a fortune, so it seems like a good...

I really, really enjoyed this. My kind of music, a nice crisp sound. Could use more lows, yeah, but other than that. I certainly hope you've got more stuff like this on your Soundcloud :)

I enjoyed the energy of this track quite a bit. I found it a bit too long, though. I'm surprised I'm saying, because I normally enjoy long, meandering pieces that many people find tiresome, because they're used to the 3-minute radio song. Also, I'm a noob when it comes to mixing, eq, etc. but...

Rob, thanks ever so much for doing this. I cannot express my gratitude enough. I'll reply to your e-mail at length, but address a couple of points here as well. Let me make it clear that I'm not trying to second-guess you in any way; whenever I've asked additional questions, it's just because...

Again, thank you very much to everyone who took the time to reply. I can safely say that I haven't found this kind of support anywhere else. I have now converted both the sample as well as the full cover that I made of the song in question (which I haven't published yet) and there's one thing I...

Thank you for taking the time to reply. To your individual points: 1. "'Left hand' - Rob means your 'strings'/other stuff are low on the scale (lower, bassy notes)". I'm assuming you're referring to the intro part; the first part of that intro in the original song is pretty low though , and...

Thank you for the honest, detailed feedback. I'll try to address each of your points: 1. "The biggest one is the sound source is simply horrible." - Right, I've used a bunch of samples from my DAW. There's literally hundreds if not thousand of samples of a variety of instruments. Some of these...

I think I may have misled you a bit there, sorry - I didn't use my "real" instrument to record that sample - that's just a midi keyboard along with a bunch of sound libraries from my DAW. I'm sure that's part of the problem, but I think there have got to be more things contributing to the...

Hi Rob, thanks again for taking the time to reply. That is indeed the clip I was referring to. I have created a Soundcloud account, but again, the board does not let me post anything outside of text, so perhaps you could search Soundcloud for my username - killahpl_1985 (or: user-352146688)...

Thank you very much for taking the time to reply. Just to be perfectly clear that we're listening to the same version of the song: the one I'm referring to can be found on YT, for example, under the name: Dreamtale - Call of the Wild (song only). The part I'm specifically referring to is...

Hi Everyone, I hope this is the right place to ask this question. I'm a keyboard/piano player and after a couple of years of playing covers I'm at a point where I'd like to start making my own stuff. I'd like to achieve the same kind of sound as the band Dreamtale in the song "Call of the...