My first song...

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Madfrisbee

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Hey, guys, here's my first song recorded on the mr-8.

Just me and my keyboard and a mic. Nothing fancy. Let me know what you think.

I did a couple of auto punches on this, and it seems to make a slight hiccup in the sound. You'll probably hear them right away. Any ideas on how to avoid this?
 
Enjoyed the song frisbee. Bring those vocals up a little and you got it going on. Great playing and singing.
 
Damn fine tune...did you write it? Nice keys! Vox need to come up though. I know you probably weren't looking for "production advice", but I'd love to hear this with some strings and then maybe bring in a bass and drums somewhere about 2:05-2:10 (I didn't really catch the time) just to give it a little more drive.

Very good job,
keep em comin,
bd
 
Thanks...

I was nervous, but I knew you guys would be kind.

I wrote the lyrics and the melody - the guitarist in my band wrote the basic music and couldn't get anywhere with lyrics or melody ideas, so he was good enough to allow me to run with it.

I like the strings and drums idea - my drumming is pretty rusty, but I'll give it a try. Maybe I'll have another mix ready in a day or two.
 
Okay, I posted a mix with the vocals boosted a little.

What do you think of the reverb? Is it too much? I want to experiment a little with varying the wet/dry mix on the ending. Any other suggestions on how to improve the sound of the vocals (aside from my just becoming a better singer, of course!)
 
this is great stuff. as far as the 'more instruments' idea. i'm all for it. I'd love to do drums for it because I like already wrote the drums for this song (in my mind) but I don't have my electronic kit yet.

i wish there were an easier way to share project folders on the internet. perhaps compressing wavs to mp3 and then sending them and leaving it up to the recipient to convert them back to wav and throw it on his/her mr8. is that possible. because wav file size are decreased by like 80% when converted to 192 Kbps mp3s. and that encoding rate is better than cd quality. something to think about.
 
I may be wrong, but I've always heard that converting a wav to MP3 degrades quality and then converting back to wav from MP3 degrades the quality even more.
It is not as quick, but saving wavs to a data CD and mailing the CD is not bad. Only costs whatever a CD costs and approx. $1.25 in postage. That is what we did on the collab project.
 
Mad,
This really IS a good tune man. You didn't know it, but your tune was the first to go through my new nearfields. Now that you brought the vox up, it sounds great!

Add those strings and let us hear it again!


bd
 
gospel i think you're right about the signal degredation factor. by the time the last track was layed down, the whole project would would sound like 56K streaming audio. yuck.
 
I have some web hosting space where I could perhaps post files for collab projects, but the upload/download times would kill all the dialup people. And not everyone has hosting space like that...

bdbdbuck, what kinda nearfields ya got? I use Edirol MA-10D's - cheap, but mix a project on them and it comes out sounding good on everything from boomboxes to big pa systems.

Thanks to everyone for the kind words.
 
bdbdbuck said:
Mad,
This really IS a good tune man. You didn't know it, but your tune was the first to go through my new nearfields. Now that you brought the vox up, it sounds great!

Add those strings and let us hear it again!


bd
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What kind of monitors did you get. That will be my next purchase.
 
Mad and Gospel,
I got a pair of M-Audio Studiophile BX5's. I can't get over the frequency response......makes ALL of my mixes sound like crap! Now I know where the problem has really been all along. I was mixing with headphones and burning a cd and giving it a good listen with a boombox. It's amazing what you can hear with decent speakers.
BTW, Mad...it's a good idea to use web space for a collab. I know the download is a killer, but it's quicker than snail mail.


bd
 
Listened to your other mix. You really have a nice voice frisbee. I also now know that I could get some of those Edirol's and get better mixes than I've been getting. It sounds like you are. At least it might save me from doing a mix, burning a CD, and playing it in my truck. Then going back and correcting everything and burning another CD and listening on my boombox. Then going back and correcting.....you get the picture.
 
I like the song, the playing and the mix. I also listened to it on nearfield monitors and it sounds like a the right amount of reverb. The track is warm and intimate. I have m-audio sp5 b's and compared to my computer monitors, it's like night and day. You guys really have to make the investment in some decent monitors, you'll really love the difference.
I hope to hear this song with other instruments as well, although I have to say, it sounds nice the with this arrangement. Nice job.
 
Great Track...!

Sounds great, I'm from the heavier end of the scale so I would have probably gone for a beefy, yet soulful guitar solo, coming in with the rest of the band somewhere in the middle. It seemed to need to go somewhere.

Having said that it is a really nice song, with nice lyrics and nice melencholy vibe...
 
new mixes

I posted two new mixes - one with strings as requested.

The other adds drums, but I only posted that one to kinda communicate the idea of where I was trying to go with it - the actual drums are pretty awful.
 
Both of the new mixes are 'nwr members only' downloads. Make it so it's not please. I want to hear the stringy version and i don't want to stream it.
 
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