chillax (explicit language at beginning)

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Its Friday! chillax! (explicit language at beginning)

an easy listening chill out along the lines of AIR's early stuff, well meant to be..called "wtf?"


quite a lot of stereo filled in there with the strings, pad and lead so I had to do quite a bit of side compression and ducking to get it all to fit in...I think it works


bit slow (100bpm), no banging drums (except for my phil collins tom fills lol) and it goes on for 6 and a half minutes so anyone that gets through half it gets a reward :D

any failures that my cloth ears arent picking up?



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the vocoder bit could come up and i think your forgot to pan the last two instances of it...but i like it overall
 
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why thank you, you have great tastes and its an accurate observation...allow me to paypal you some money :)
 
I agree with the previous poster who....oh wait. :p

I listened a few times. Not my thing right out of the gate, but it kind of grew on me over time. I actually thought the vocoder could either come down a bit and/or be brightened up.

The panning of stuff is very cool although less 3d somehow than your recent tracks. The spread of the sound, while expansive, seems more lateral somehow. Not a bad thing, just different. Overall the sound quality seems really good. You sound pretty consistent to me.
 
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cheers Pete...kitten is saved :D


yeah maybe not as much back to front...more swimming in it, and much more background music...not sure about the vocoder bit...but i liked the lead and pad merging into one, well that was the aim



fuck the clinics quiet though....maybe Ill try to drag them out of the cave and listen to some tracks? :)
 
Real nice sounds, good mix. Theres a part that comes in about 2:40 I'd call a chorus. That part would make a great hook. You should think about working with a singer and lyricist (if you dont write words) You have some great parts and sound, make good transitions too for arrangement. I'd like to see you turn that into a 2min song. Just my 2cents.
 
thanks PDP...I write lyrics, pretty easily compared to writing music, I just have no contacts with singers or even think of singers when Im recording the songs..they dont have any melody that jumps out to me..just electronica


anyway updated the vocoder part, brightened it up and tidied up the lead..dunno what else to do with it :)
 
I'm so bloody tired now, I was almost ready to shut down for the night, when I saw this and clicked. Why do I do this to myself?

Now I've got all sorts of ideas for (believe it or not) acoustic drums 'n' fills 'n' stuff for this. I'd get up and play it right now, but it happens to be a bit past my bedtime (as well as the rest of the neighborhood's)...

Anyway... Yeah, dude... My nits are three-fold

  1. Vocals are a bit distracting. Great idea, but could have been executed a bit better... A bit lower in the mix, maybe... I doin't know... I really shouldn't be critiquing at 2AM.
  2. No drum fills... Needs drum fills. I'll take care of that shortly :D
  3. As always... Could use a bit more ethereal padding...

Yeah, dude... for 2AM, all six minutes of this was really easy to listen to. I really hope I can find time to put some simple acoustic tom fills here and there... Don't care if ya use em', but man.. I think it'd be cool.

Great job, Keith.
 
:laughings: PI...youre an hour ahead of me but Im probably a few gins ahead of you :)


fills?


fire ahead..Ill use them....this actually sounded a lot more acoustic than it was meant to..probably the samples, but the toms made me laugh...I dont think I couldve put any more reverb on them :D

you could be right about the vocal bit...I think the stutter and that works but they either need more separation and some volume automation maybe?? actually after this last gin I dont think I'll care lol :)


thanks for listening dude...and the future fills!
 
KC,
I posted a comment about 6 hrs ago but it seems to have disappeared. I'll try to reiterate what I can remeberate mate.
Cool stuff.
NIce fat middle image with plenty to keep the attention on the edges.
I'd rather the vocoder vox not be panned across syllables or words even. To my ear it's be better by phrase - but that's purely personal taste.
Well done squire.
 
rayc said:
KC,
I posted a comment about 6 hrs ago but it seems to have disappeared. I'll try to reiterate what I can remeberate mate.
Cool stuff.
NIce fat middle image with plenty to keep the attention on the edges.
I'd rather the vocoder vox not be panned across syllables or words even. To my ear it's be better by phrase - but that's purely personal taste.
Well done squire.
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Thanks Ray...I must have agreed with you as I took that panning away...it just got lost in the pad anyway by panning it....sounds better now

i was trying to make it really wet so it went around your head rather than dry a layered...not sure how it ended up as I kept have to chip bits of the pad off to make room...the leads main effect is a 12 euro emulation of Rolands Space Echo, its excellent though noisy as fuck :)

cheers for listening mate :)
 
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I don't like the black girl child voice or whatever she's saying. I have no idea what it is and it's just pointless repetitive noise just for the sake of being pointless repetitive noise. The rest is actually pretty good. The bottom end is pretty tight, and none of the spazzy synth sounds get grating on the ears, so I think it's got good balance overall. I listened real loud and it sounded fine and balanced.
 
brilliant, Thanks Greg...


id listened to it so much at one point I couldnt tell if there was any definition at all...

Ill have a go at the voice thing...it'll stay but Ill see if I can make it fit better before sending it to the record company..


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when I say record company I mean my webpage


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when I say my webpage I mean my mp3 player


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when i say my mp3 player I mean the recycle bin


:D
 
Sounds fine, real good actually.

Something I've been messing with this last year or so is having a synth track (I always do this to synth bass tracks) and after I lay it down I record Control Change #74 over the whole track. It's the filter that controls how much hi end the synth has, and you can use it to work with the form of the tune to make the energy vary. It can sound very cool to do it with the tempo really slow sometimes, and turn the filter up on certain accents in a bar.

Another way it works is you go to a section and all of sudden there's no top end, everything is real muffled. That can be a nice contrast.

It comes from how real players tend to be muffled say in the first verse and then open up in the solos and choruses.
 
thanks for listening dinty :D

yeah I use quite a bit of automation, just to keep the synths moving..I have a couple of filters, outboard and itb, but most of the automation on this one is the compressors...just kinda what I thought the track needed, not so much for movement but just to give everything a space when it all came in...

it may be why it sounds more linear than 3d, like more of my recent stuff...still Im pretty happy with it for what it is :)
 
It does sound very good.

You know how it is when you let anybody comment on your stuff, you'll get all kinds of remarks. You should just do what your gut tells you IM(not so H)O. :)
 
generally people opinions here are pretty good, which makes them much harder to ignore ;)


:)
 
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