B.SABBATH
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nice vocals!
dobro
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Pedullist - okay, thanks - I'll take a look at the bass again.
lynx - thank to you too.
fprod - I burned a CD of it and played it on a cheapo system, and the kick sounds too loud during the verses I think. I agree about the compression on the guitars though. Again, I noticed that on the cheapo sound system.
Participant, Sam: the opening sounds are an acoustic and a Fruity Loops sound called 'pluck'. There's a synth sound panned to the right as well. Sam, thanks for the feedback about the kick. I just don't notice all this stuff unless I've listened to it on three different systems, and sometimes not even then.
Participant: "How do you set up? Do you just create a palette of sounds, then combine stuff?"
Often, yeah. I got my hands on Fruity Loops a while back and went through all the built-in sounds, and when I found one I liked, I played with it till I got a part I liked. Then added another sound until it fit in. It's nice if you can work quick with a beat-driven program like this though, cuz it can get real *wearing* listening to the same mechanical pattern again and again LOL. What I'd like is a way to de-mechanize the beats: make some slightly off - some a bit too loud or soft, some a bit off the beat.
I think there's a way to do it, in fact. It's called a drummer.
lynx - thank to you too.
fprod - I burned a CD of it and played it on a cheapo system, and the kick sounds too loud during the verses I think. I agree about the compression on the guitars though. Again, I noticed that on the cheapo sound system.
Participant, Sam: the opening sounds are an acoustic and a Fruity Loops sound called 'pluck'. There's a synth sound panned to the right as well. Sam, thanks for the feedback about the kick. I just don't notice all this stuff unless I've listened to it on three different systems, and sometimes not even then.
Participant: "How do you set up? Do you just create a palette of sounds, then combine stuff?"
Often, yeah. I got my hands on Fruity Loops a while back and went through all the built-in sounds, and when I found one I liked, I played with it till I got a part I liked. Then added another sound until it fit in. It's nice if you can work quick with a beat-driven program like this though, cuz it can get real *wearing* listening to the same mechanical pattern again and again LOL. What I'd like is a way to de-mechanize the beats: make some slightly off - some a bit too loud or soft, some a bit off the beat.
I think there's a way to do it, in fact. It's called a drummer.
studioviols
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dobro said:
If you get the chance, get some SONY MDR-7506 headphones, they really are the 'reference standard', you can hear 'everything and they are well balanced. Because they do not 'color' the sound, many say they sound dull or 'flat'. That's exactly what you need in a reference monitoring soluiton.
With the SONY MDR-7506 ... at least you are hearing the whole range of frequencies. Also, trust your meters, it takes a little getting used to say ... if a vocal and a kick are both around 6db on the meter, well, then which one 'appears' louder, well, the kick will probably step on the vocal a bit ... but the meters are very important.
To test your mixes on all sorts of audio solutions is of course advisable, everything from a cheapo clock radio, to a really nice jambox, all the way to a high-end home stereo, and of course you should always check your mixes in a huge stadium over stacks of 20 or 30 4-way combo 250Watt pro PA speakers ... of course
Some day I would like to add a sort of oriental sounding violin motif, and idee fixe repeated thoughout the piece, bees would be appropriate for that. Where sometimes the little violin 'riff' would be a fill, and in the open spots it would seem to be the lead for a moment, and then it would be mixed back as just another structural 'motif'.