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All comments welcomed. This is a first rough version so I am open to any and all recommendations.

 
Very interesting. I really like the golden throat effect or is that what you are using? The keyboard sounds a bit harsh when the vocal comes in. It could just be because I am listening on the phone. It may just be a volume thing. I got a bit of a Doors vibe from the song. Very unique
 
First two sets of vocals are going through a Vocoder. The last part is just cheesy delay (intentionally overdone).

Since this is all keyboard driven with the exception of the Bass Guitar, are talking about the E-Piano? I have a tendency to overdrive the sound on that program (called EZ Keys). I like to think of it as nasty piano. No red line on the mix, so I am over driving the sound.

Thanks for listening.
 
Not many comments.

The song was slammed together in about two days. I was jacking around with the SD cocktail set. It started out as Cocktails and Bass. Then after the thread about the relevancy of electric guitars, thought I would try my hand and keep them out. So the only guitar is a Bass.

To make it a little humorous the vocals go like this, first vocals, "No electric guitar" through a vocoder. The second vocal, "Is shredding dead" also through another vocoder. The last vocal just cheesy delay singing "Where are the wankers".

From the comments, I can see the joke landed kind of flat. (Thump, thump, is the mic on?)
 
Bring down the vocal a db or .5.
I think that the rhythm track sounds well balanced but a few of the elements that are introduced later on in the song stab in a bit too loudly or have a harsh sound.

Cool bass.
 
The vocoder effect is so drastic, you can't tell what is being said without your translation. The delayed vocal is a little too loud and the e-piano is probably what some people are thinking of harsh - it's not that bad thru decent monitors, but the ping-ponging part at the end would be ear-tiring if it went a little longer, so you might want to pull down the 2K-3K area a little on it.
Interesting exercise - now plug in a f*ing guitar! :spank:
 
What is a wanker?

Other than the overboard keys at the end, I love that this song has no guitars or wankers. :)
 
That's what the lyric sounds like to me. 'Where are the wankers?'
 
dobro said:
That's what the lyric sounds like to me. 'Where are the wankers?'
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I heard it too.

Seems maybe we are wankers for getting it right?

I still do not understand what a 'wanker' is.

Please forgive me, for I am a simple white boy of German-French decent in US. No affiliation to any religion or political view. Just a dumb white guy without a mullet....


:)
 
This is pretty cool in an electro thingo sense - the bass guitar really anchors it though - good on bass.
The effected vocal is ultra essy & and annoying.
Where are the wankers? There is a sub group of young men in every city named Wayne Kerr who have a solid grip on the realestate in places like Tuggerah Lakes.
 


For clarity sake, this is what I meant by wankers:

wanker can carry suggestions of egotistical and self-indulgent behavior
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Thanks for listening.
 
Listening to mix #2 on some consumer 5.1 speakers...

I think that most of it sounds balanced to me. I like the snare sound, and all of the rhythm parts sound good to me. The bass guitar and kick don't excite my subwoofer like other songs do, but I'm still kinda new to this speaker system.

I think that the first vocoder bit could come up a little, and there's a mid or mid-hi frequency resonance on the 2nd vocoder bit that is a little overbearing.

Just out of curiosity, what vocoder(s) did you use on this? What did you use for the carrier signal? I've been fiddling with a vocoder myself lately so I'm just wondering what went into your vocoders to produce this result.

Oh, and for the uninitiated: wanking is a euphemism for masturbation. Wanker was originally a term for one who masturbates, but has become more of a general insult. I think that DM60's definition above is pretty apt.

*edit*

I went downstairs to listen again on my studio monitors. Bass and kick sound much better down here (one day I'll figure out the response of my 5.1 sub upstairs...)

The stabby keyboard part is a little too loud, and that 2nd vocoder part still has that mid-hi frequency resonance that is overbearing.
 
On the vocoder, a couple of things, as I am learning it as well. This one comes with Ableton, but I am sure they all operate the same. I am using a (external synth, comes in from another track) sound with a fast attack and I use a note at the start of the each word. Then hold the note for as long as the word, next word new note.

That mid-freq. you're talking about is what I have been trying to control (there is a type of freq EQ that you control what freq pass through), I heard the same thing and tried to tame it and still get a the sound I was looking for. I thought I had it under control (I didn't sound bad to me cause I had heard it so many times when it was worse), but I know what you are talking about. Real annoying after a pass or two.

I tried pulling down the stab, work on that a bit more, couple of ways I can do that, the velocity, I hit the keyboard pretty hard, so it is high, or try turning it down on that channel. I will see if I can get those things dialed in a little better.

Thanks for the feedback.
 
I like the second mix better. The 'is shredding still alive' part is pretty piercing, but the first one is fine to me. Now that I've posted, a wanker has arrived.
 
I think I got the second vocoder sound under control. Reduced some volume on two synthesizer sounds, and pulled some of the upper end out of it so it doesn't make the ears bleed.



Anyway, thanks to all who listened.
 
This sounds great (mix 3) - except for that piercing part in the middle. I'm not sure if it's frequency or volume but it (momentarily) took away my enjoyment of the track. The rest sounds "done" to me.
 
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