Sea Ducks

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If you ask me, I wouldn't do a thing to it:D
I really like this song of yours; easy to listen and soothing to your ears!

Well done my friend:)

Cheers!
 
Hello sikter....sorry to hear you lost your house in the big flood. Are you in Room 52 at the hotel? I hope you get back to your own house soon.

Sea Ducks is a very nice piece of music - I enjoyed listening to it. The vocals are very good - they have a tiny bit of sibilence, mostly on the words with "sh" at the end. But overall they are very well done. The acoustics are very well recorded - bright and clear. The backing tracks add a lot too - solid bass and smooth keyboards.

I would like to hear some details of the recording, such as the instruments equipment and software.

And you did this all in a hotel room? Very cool !

:D:):D:)
 
I'm having a prob with soundclick - whe I stream it stutters and stops at 1 sec. When I try to download the mp3 it says 1/2hr + to drop it.
I'll be back.
 
Sikter,
Just one word my friend:
CHARMING.
The fact that it's not in ENGLISH is a defiinite plus. I don't even want to know the lyric translation as my head is full of images creates by the sounds & shapes made by your voice.
The only nit I have is with the string pad that played in the last couple of seconds/outro progression - it was a little cheesie given the rest of the song.
I eventually managed to download the piece - still wouldn't play properly as a streamer.
CHARMING!
 
I'm happy with everything in the mix. I have no gripes. Very mature sound overall. Nice stuff. Erockrazor
 
very interesting and well played.

the only thing that i, personally, would do is ... kill the drum track maybe?

idunno - it just kind of comes in halfway through the does nothing else. I'd like to hear a version without it and see if the last half feels any more powerful.

just a thought though.
 
lifes_a_fallacy said:
...the only thing that i, personally, would do is ... kill the drum track maybe?
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I think the same mate.
I've already told Sikter that;)

The song is too beautiful to ruin it with drums:D

Again, congrats my friend!

Cheers!
 
Very nice Sikter. Very European. Hey, you're in Europe.:D

I agree, I would kill the drums, the song just doesnt need em. My only nit: I would spend a bit more time tuning the acoustic instruments.:o They are close but not 100% nailed.

Other than that, its a very enjoyable and stylish piece of music. Well done.:)
 
Nico:
Thank you very much for your kind words and all support and help.

Ido:
First of all, thank you.
I used a semi electric Takamine Santa Fe and recorded several tracks DI.
(my card is M-Audio F410 and the mixing software is Adobe Audition 2,0)
I played each track on different position on guitar neck and moved those tracks 10 -15 ms back and forward in time from rhythm section.
I wrote bass line in Cubase and so I did the drums. I wouldn’t call it programming because it was so simple.
The plan was to replace it with something better (Like Nico’s Pearl set)
VSTi for bass was Hypersonic but for string pads I used Edirol Orchestral and M1.
I draw everything manually ‘cause my keyboard was too big for hotel room.
Vocals are borrowed from the same guy who sung on “Room 52”.
He sent me just mp3 files to test it in my mix. We’ll retrack vocals ones more.
(I never met this guy in my life, by the way)
And I’m not staying at Room 52.
Room 52 is back in time when I lost my first house in the fire.
I dedicated my song “Water springs” to it.
I know everyone will think I am in some insurance forge business but how
could I possibly make the river grow so much and wild or started the war in the first case?

RayC:
Thank you for everything.
It’s just boring period in the hotel with two years old child.
But don’t feel sorry about us because we are doing fine.
My main equipment and PC are saved.
Only big heavy stuff is destroyed but I don’t need it for recording.

Erockrazor and ”lifes of fallacy”:
Thank you for listening and suggestions. I’ll consider revising.

David:
Thank you!
Interesting observation about tuning. Very good ear!
I was trying to find out what happened with it. I thought first it was something with mp3 compressing. Or maybe I played wrong some parts trying to do different voices. I’ll check all tracks again and let you know

Thank to all others who listened the song.
sikter
 
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