Randall822

Hi D2d,

Sorry for the very late reply. I have been working all my days off lately, and am slow in getting reviews back to people for this tune as there was quite a few.

I will listen to one of your tunes later today and give a review back as I am off and have more time. I appreciate your comments very much!
Randy

Hello DextDee,

Glad to have to stop by and listen to my latest tune. I hadn't seen your name before in any of my reviews, so that is cool to have a new person listen to my songs. I will review one of yours in a few minutes and give feedback in return.

As for the synths taking over the sound of the violins a little, that is quite possible and I appreciate your advice. However, I also wish to say if your listening to the song with tiny computer speakers, then it will sound a lot different than say, regular near field monitors speakers about 5 inches on up.

My Dell Laptop seems to compress the sound itself and it doesn't sound as good as it does with with bigger speakers. I have a subwoofer built into my laptop, but I doubt that it is much bigger than 1 inch in diameter from what I can see of it from the outside. :-)

Anyways, again, thanks for your review.
Randy in NY

Hello there Jahknow,

Thanks for stopping by. I don't believe I've seen your name before in any other of my other reviews. So if this is a first for listening to my tunes, then your very welcome to listen to whatever you like. :-)
Rock, Blues, Country is what I am into as I also play several different instruments.

I appreciate your comments on this tune and invite you to take a listen to 'Heavy Metal Highway' if you like heavy metal. I am NOT trying to advertize my tunes, but it's had over 500 plays, and some say it is the best they have ever heard for heavy metal. So you be the judge I guess. I am not really in to metal much either. I did it for a friend in Serbia.

I also play slide guitar and will feature a little in my next tune which will basically a Funk type tune. A 1st for me and maybe my last! :)

I will take a listen to your tunes as well and give you feedback. Can't this minute as I am at work.
Later then ....and thanks again for the nice review.
Randy

Hello there Tris,

Thanks a lot for listening/reviewing my latest track. As I mentioned in the description, I left the tune fairly empty so others could add vocals or some more lead. So go to it if your inclined to add to it.

I am a little behind in giving reviews back as far as listening to others tunes because of work....but be sure that I will review one of your tunes soon and give a review back to you.

Been working 12 hours a day lately and don't have much energy left to do much when I get home. (I am at work now in fact, but can't listen to tunes here easily).

Thanks again,
Randy

Hello there Frenchkid,

I appreciate you coming by and checking out my tunes. I don't recall seeing your name before so welcome!
I see your from Nice, France. I was stationed in Metz and Toul, France for 2 years in the Army Quite an experience for me.

I am glad you enjoyed this blues medly. The other one I did was an acoustic one with very slow slide guitar.
I do a variety of music as I had my own band and we played Country, Rock, Pop and some Blues....so my other tunes here will reflect all this.

I will check out your songs and give a review back in a day or so.
Thanks again,
Randy

Hi again Sob Story,

Thanks for stopping by my corner of Looperman.
I appreciate your comments very much and hope you'll check out all my tunes eventually...as I try and put a quality mix together, and sounds in all my tunes.

Vocals are welcome to any of my tracks.

I have 2 Korg keyboards that have awesome sounds in them and I am trying to put more of synth sounds into my music these days.
My last song.."Rock This Way" was one of the first.

So again, I appreciate your review and yes...there are quite a few very good musicians on here.. As I see now....there are 182,385 members. Not all have songs loaded up, but there are 21,090 tracks available for your listening pleasure. ;)))

Randy

Hello Sob Story,

Glad to have you check out my tunes. I appreciate the review as well and will checkout your songs and give a review back. At the moment, I am about 2 weeks behind because of work. It is 2:45am now even.

The guitar distortion can be achieved via several ways. To get the type of amp sound you want, Line6 company has RTAS or VST software that you can get with hundreds of combinations of ampfliers and speaker cabs and all kinds of effects combined in any order. Cost about $99.

Much better sound than you can get at home with your own amp....plus you don't keep the neighbors awake. :-)

Also, EQ and Compression will do a lot for distortion sounds.

Thanks again,
Randy

Hi there M........!
I appreciate your review and will return the favor shortly for sure.
I am glad it brought back some memories for you.

Thanks again,
Randy

Hello sir,
Thank you so much for listening and reviewing my Van Halen mix tune. I don't believe I have seen your name review any of my previous tunes, so your certainly welcome.

Shortly, I will review one of your tunes and give you feedback as well.

Mixing 2 tunes togather isn't easy and I have heard it done only a few times before. But now and then you hear a song and say to yourself, "now that sounds like another song I am familiar with", and thus the idea is born of trying to mix 2 songs together. That's what happened here.

Thanks again,
Randy

Hi there BigPete,

Hey man, I appreciate your comments very much. As you have listened to my past earlier music, you can see how I am learning and progressing as time goes on.
It certainly is fun and enjoyable to listen to the final outcome after many takes and experimenting of what will fit and what won't.

I am geting up there in years and am relying on looping more as my fingers slow down. Many tunes I make, are originally slower as I create the 'tricky parts', and then I decide upon a tempo for the final output.

Thanks again for your review and I appreciate your comments always.
Randy

Hi there Chrilsh,

Your very welcome on your comments and I appreciate them a lot. Always do the best you can as in my note to AJ below, your music will long outlast you. How do you want to be remembered after your gone? That's how I look at things.

But then again I just turned 65, so I won't be around that much longer. ha ha

Thanks so much for your review, and I will get to your page and do a review in a day or two.

Randy

Hi TJ,

I guess I forgot that your name TJ and Falter is one and the same. :-) Glad you enjoyed this tune and am always looking forward to reviews to see how I can improve.
The subtle riffs and other guitar licks and chords strewn thoroughout, are what makes it more interesting and not a boring tune.

Thanks again TJ. I appreciate your listening and commenting very much.
Randy

Hello Abe!

Congrats, your the 1st to review this new tune. I am glad you enjoyed this tune. I am getting better on my synth I guess.

I have some really cool stuff I want to do on it still. Just that I am not a bonafied keyboard player.....yet.

Thanks again friend.
Randy

Hello there Dave,

Ha....your quick on the draw! Thanks for the glowing review. Glad you liked the tune throughout. I love my new Korg M-3. No...I don't own any leather pants, or never have. haha.

As far as raising the bar, I don't think I can do any better. I messed with this one quite awhile trying different parts out to see what would fit best.
Didn't even know how I wanted it to end....except I didn't want to do a fade out as I sometimes do. So an abrupt stop with a little echo after effect from the keyboard sounded ok, but still a little strange to me. :)

I actually think most anyone on this site that has been playing for a time, could do what I just did...but it's not an overnight type making tune. Have to know the ins and outs of your effects and how to make them work for you...plus some playing skills of course, and thinking outside the box.

I don't play drums, so those are loops. Getting the drum breaks right are a real challenge.

Then I learned how to 'master' as well from reading and watching a fellow studio owner in a local studio. He is pleased with my progress thus far.
I recently got a slew of Line6 RTAS software amp and effects simulations. Those are fun to mess with. Can't wait to do more with them.

So anyways, I appreciate your review and I'll review another of your tunes shortly.
Randy

Hello and welcome macbook1990,

I appreciate your glowing comment about this tune I made last year. It was one of the first Alt. rock tunes I put together and I really like it. I did make a longer version if you'd like to hear it. just send me your address. Basically I just
added in a repeat section, but it sounds nice.

Again, thanks a lot for stopping by and listening and giving a review. It is much appreciated.
Randy

Hi there MCHN,

I appreciate you checking out my latest tune here. As I mentioned, it was no easy feat to do.
I liked both of the tunes as they sounded like they might fit together, so you hear the results.

Many guitarist I knew when I was playing in my band slowed down tunes to learn them them. Slowing down usually gets you half speed and an octave lower is all.
Some handheld recorders let you do this as well these days. Very helpful for learning very fast riffs, etc.

I appreciate your review and hope you'll stop by again.
Randy

Hello Dylanthermos.

I appreciate you coming by and listening to one of my few Blues tunes. I believe on this one I used my Strat mostly. Being tuned to an open 'C', makes it sound a lot different.
On a couple of my other Blues tunes, I used my Tele. Sometimes I switch around during a tune just to give a song a different 'color'.

I always go in direct so as not to get amp hum and by using the many software RTAS or VST's I have.

One my very first Blues song which is slow like this one, I am using an acoustic guitar with that has a 3 band graphic built into the LACE pickup. That one is a Mitchel guitar.
I also own a Resonator (Dobro) guitar that I use and you can hear that sound easily as it is quite different sounding than any other guitar. That is in some Blues and country songs I have up too.

Thanks again,
Randy

Hello Abe,
Funk....? I could as I do have a number of Funky things on my Korg keyboard unit. Plus guitar stuff too that I could put in.

Louder drums? Could have, but am just trying to balance things out so as to make sure the lead is heard.
The kick comes out nice if your playing it on bigger speakers. If your listening to these songs on 1" computer speakers, you won't hear much bass or drum stuff.
On my system, the kick drum is punchy and tight.
In fact to me, the best sound I have made from a kick as far as 'punch'.

I hardly use MIDI anymore. Too much time messing around with it. I just use real recorded drums from www.betamonkeymusic.com these days.

I do know what you mean about not trying to make every beat perfect as then it sounds mechanical. I do have several rhythm settings that will swing the drums so they are not right on and that will give them a better feel.

Just haven't experimented with that section yet. ;-)

Yes, the song is too short. I started it at a reasonable speed, then when it speeded up, there was no stopping it.. ha ha.

Thanks for you review as always,
Randy

Hello Abe,

Well I wrote you E-mail before this, but I wanted to answer some in here as well. I always appreciate your review as you tell it like it is. Of course, we all have different taste and what we want or wish to hear in others tunes.

The Synth was set down and then looped so I didn't have to keep playing it over and over.

I didn't add a lot as I am trying to play two different songs in one and needed to keep things unclutered is all.

Thanks for your review, I appreciate it.
Randy

Hi Peppermint,

Thank you for listening to my Spanish/latin type tune. I am glad you enjoyed it. I like most kinds of music and so I tend to play what I feel like playing at the moment.

Thanks again for stopping by and leaving a review. I just reviewed your latest tune as well. It was really cool! :-)
Randy

Hi ya BigPete,
Yes, I just heard it and left a nice review. Again, if you didn't post a notice to it in the Members tunes section of the forum, then many may have missed it as so many songs are posted oh here each day, they disappear off the front page in hours or less!
Randy

Hello there BigPete,

Happy that you stopped by again. I'll check out your tunes again as well. I don't get on here as much as I should.

I guess I called this one 'Canadian Pride' because I felt that it had an 'Avril Lavigne' sound to it some. As you probably know, she is a Canadian young pop fox!

Your right about being long and boring. That turns me off as well. I just couldn't think of anything else to put in this one. But I did end up making it nearly twice as long by repeating a section not too long after i did it. Just didn't repost it is all.

Thanks for reviewing this.
Randy