Next To You - AtticElla

I love the plucky lead at 1:04. The synths and effects underneath sound great as well. Great track.

love the vibe ... cool !

well Ella?
We 65'rs can be proud on our selfs and there are not much woman of our age starting with this.
So we need to ATTACK LM with our music lol.
And who knows? Maybe you will be a dj on Party's 1 day.
Im sure you can with your experience from the past and your will.
If you dont use your bike for a long time you are a little insecure in the beginning but the next day its like you never stopped cycling .
For me its a great hobby and ofcourse i want to become better but the most importend to leave my music for my children and grandchildren as a memory 1 day.

Very classy and very cool with beautiful instrumentation, beats and melodies weaving in and out in a gentle hip hop - lets call it medium - fi : )

Nice brightness and great movement, I enjoyed listening. Maybe just a couple more fills?

hahaha im sorry madam.
Nice to hear that there are more madams who wants to create music.
Ok my english is not the best you must now but i want to ask you also something.
How long you making music?
I didd want to try Ableton but when i see how it works on youtube it looks like algebra for me so i will stay on FL.
And the last question...dont need to answer idf you dont want.
Are you the same as me?? Finding out on this age like my age (56) that
making music was something for me but whole my life i diddnt know?
Have a nice day madam and i wish you much plesure and succes with your music and here on LM

Pretty cool mix, it's compressed enough, I can hear all the instruments fine. The track has a mellow, sultry feel to it and some cool, textural elements in it. Neat tremolo effect on the piano too. Nice job Ella! Enjoy the Attic!

Wayne

Generally lo-fi isn't really my thing but I'm digging this! Making a really great chill atmosphere while dishes are being done. Really tasteful use of that synth flute sound!

Yes you didd it!!
Sounds nice clear and clean to me.
Good job mister.

Nice one. Really chill and I like the piano in the back.
Great work again.

Happy to help.

I'm not going to keep blowing up the comments on this track.

This gist is, if you are simulating tape degradation how does a tape degrade? Usually, the highs get all scrambly, and the lows end up taking over, scrambling the highs every time they hit.

To simulate this, you are generally manipulating the master, using the information from the kick.

Here's one way to do it:
Run all tracks into a bus.
Make an additional track all alone for the "noise." Have the noise duck with the kick.
Run the bus, and noise, to another bus.
Put EQ on this bus to wash out some highs and compression to duck the mix with the kick (the noise gets a "double ducking")
Send this track to two separate tracks for separating out the highs.
Put a hint of phase on the highs (wobble). You could side-chain the degree of wobble to the kick for even more effect.
Run those to the master. EQ as needed.
Done.

That's one of many ways do tastefully degrade something. Your original take was very good... but you asked :)

Oh, and don't forget to distort the kicks and 808s (post any side-chaining) if you want your speakers to sound busted :D

Yeah, you knew exactly what I meant. It was too bright.

For reference:
tape fidelity is generally 30 Hz to 16 kHz
vinyl in theory could go as low as 7 Hz, as high as 50kHz, but that doesn't matter to me, I can only hear from about 30 Hz to about 16kHz (like most people). Anything lower than 30 Hz is pretty much a rhythm anyway. My jam band drummer's feet can technically play a "note."

Also a phone is usually about 80 Hz to 14kHz, so most of your listers couldn't hear the "brightness" we heard (it's also why most kick have ridiculous slap now). It's funny, the lowest "lofi" is everyone's crappy phone speaker, not tape or vinyl :D

In other words, watch out for reliance on gauges and meters. Your thermometer can tell a one degree difference in temperature, but all you care about is if it is "hot" or "cold." If it sounds like a phone playing a old digital recording of some degraded vinyl or tape, on your monitors and in nice headphones, then you probably nailed it.

Slicing some Hz off the top is a good "cheater" way to make it "Lofi", and did help the mix, but noise addition (brown or pink, and side-chained to duck with the kick with a long release), pitch wobble (manual or with a plugin), and other tricks will really get you there. You looking for tape or vinyl "degradation" not necessarily a change in fidelity.

If memory serves me correctly, slicing some highs has helped. I hint of side-chained mid-range noise will help more.

If you really want to cheat, try running the tracks through cabinet emulators (or several through the same one).

I hope I opened a can of worms... have fun.

Precioso tema amigo AtticElla, me gusta ese aire de lofi, tiene ese carácter típico de chillout tan característico de este genero. Sonido muy adecuado. Excelente mezcla. Que tengas una buena noche. Paz y salud.

nice track really got that lofi vibe :)

Nice to hear you stretch out beyond the "house."
Nice chord. melodic, and timbre choices.
Mixed too good for lofi :P

But still excellent. Like kingmt77 said... classy.

Wonder what you would sound like if you explicitly avoided possible genre classification?

Keep it up.

Hey Attic, you got me here immediately beautiful sound the bass the snare the keys the chimes coming in wonderfully assembled. Fantastic chillout, I would love to here this with a very soft female vox too, think it would work great even just occisionly single word good job

AtticElla, this is so classy. The keys are wonderful. Your application of saturation and that lo fi vibe is sweet. Thanks for this tune I’m on the road listening.I love your style! Stay safe.
M.T.

cool track ... the mood is very positive ... very much like the progressivity ... great chill-fi ...

fistbump, Danke