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Thanks man! Yes, I agree, all credit to the lyrics and vocals go to Grotesk indeed. Stay tuned, more to come ;)

Cool man, thanks for listening! I tried to find your song on soundcloud, but no luck. Drop me a link to your track, ill have a listen :)

Thanks man, I am so happy you and many others like it...makes us really happy. I wish I could play withthese guys life, but I don't think that is ever going to happen...too far away... but who knows, maybe one day... dreaming... :)

Thank you :) Yes Static is a sharp dude, he knows his music.

Thanks for listening, appreciate it :)

Hey man, thanks for listening, glad you like it. Yes, that bass sound is kicking ass, although I did not play it...it is bhunt who does that. I only play the guitar and do the mixing. However, we make sure in this band we got a good bass and drum sound. I like everything to be heard, like in a rock band ;) .

Hey Brado, thanks for listening and commenting.

Yes, the bass tone is killer :) I think the secret to this collaboration is that we 3 have been working on quite a few songs already, so we get better at it. In addition, all of us are active at wikiloops.com, so we collaborate with othe people on weekly basis, that does let us hone our production skills. Try it out, you might like it ;) .

For the sound effects, I mainily use freesound.org , but if I am after something I will look at other places too, like soundbible. There are lots...

Anyway, thanks for listening and appreciate the comments :)

Hey man, thanks for listening - your comments are always appreciated.

Yes, I did put in some crowd noises, police sirens, I wanted to give a feeling of an angry mob, maybe workers protesting against cuts, police coming in, you know, related to what Grotesk was singing about. I had to search quite a bit on the net for something that fits, and I did not want it to be too loud.

So yes, we try to sound like a live band although we never play in the same room (or even the same continent :D )

Cheers, TG

Thanks for listening, appreciated.

I decided some time ago to make hiphop based music with real instruments, at least where it comes to bass and drums and guitars. You know, people used to say that hiphop and rap is not music, I disagree. But music for me also means instruments. So we have done a few of those already, and it seems people like it. So we will continue! Thanks for listening!

Hey Wayne,

thanks for listening and commenting, appreciate it. Yes, I roughed and distorted the vocal track a little, it was on purpose. Good spot, that. We like this song a lot, it is simple in a way but came out nice in the end :)

Thanks Ed :) Yes it is amazing considering I have never met or played with these guys in the same room...but we got a good system going for our recording process, and we are learning all the time. And to tell you the truth, I am basically flying in the dark with the mixing process, I pull on some levers and push some buttons, ask the guys what they think, do some adjustments and that's it. TG :)

Thanks, glad you like it. I really hope you'll pick up a guitar - trust me playing any instrument is something that you will NEVER regret doing. Regarding that amazing bass, I will tell bhunt1, but him getting so much praise is getting out of hand ;) TG

Danke Danke, thanks for listening.

Regarding the text, I haven't got the lyrics as Grotesk did not publish them on his Acapella. I understood most of it, but even I am not 100% sure.

We will do more of that, always working on more stuff. But we might fire the bass player, he is getting all the praise and my ego can't take it :D . Just joking, I will tell him, he deserves it. Look forward listening to your next song !

Thanks man, appreciate it!

Thanks Dan, so nice to hear that. Much appreciated :)

Thanks for your comment Topvega, much appreciated (even if you did not fav it in the end ;) ). Just joking, as long as a few people listen to it I am cool with it. Thanks for your comments about the "like this" on 2:22 - to be honest we took the vocal track from Grotesk: http://www.looperman.com/acapellas/detail/1039/like-this-by-grotesk-96bpm-hip-hop-acapella

and did not cut or change it, I only did some work on the sound of it. I rarely touch the vocal tracks out of respect to the original creator, but maybe I should. Your observation is not the first time, it was mentioned on our other tracks as well. Food for thought, really appreciate it!!
It is the 4th or 5th song I am doing with the same bass and drum players, so we are getting to know each other better, and it does sound tighter now. Cheers, TG

Thanks man! Brain and Ray and me are doing more. We are doing most of the stuff in the private band function at wikiloops dot com. Check it out if you like. We already did some other songs, check out my tracks on looperman and you can find a few we did with Hemanifezt. Thanks for listening!

Thanks Format, appreciate it! Thanks for listening!

Thank you :)

Thanks man, appreciate your comments. As you said, there is something about real instruments that I like too. And I am crap at programming synth or drums :D :D :D

Thanks Max, appreciate your comments! I agree, it is time for real instrument hiphop to be more common ;).

Thanks for listening and commenting :). You are not going to believe it, but on this track I basically did not do anything special- I basically ensured the bass is nice and loud in the mix. Other than some time corrections to ensure that the first bass note of every bar is bang on the click, I used a Maximiser plugin on the cubase 8 I am using, and I set the "Output" on 6 (maximum), the "Optimise" dial on 100, and clicked the option "soft clip". To explain, all I wanted is for the bass to be loud, I suppose I could have used a limiter/compressor combination, but I just tried this and it worked.

If you listen to the other two track I did with Bhunt here on Looperman, for the "Trailblazer" song I used a compressor/limiter to again increase the volume and make sure every note is heard, and used a preset on the equaliser called "Rock Bass". I did not tweak that, it worked straight out of the box. For the "Now I got it" I used a "Bassamp Vintage" amp simulater insert, and a "slow moderate" phaser - the equalizer was set again to the "Rock Bass" preset.

But the bottom line is: The single track s that I get from Bhunt are simply superb, other than increase the volume by compressing/limiting a little bit they don't need much. You are most welcome to contact bhunt1, see his link a few comments down, maybe he can tell you what effects he is using on his guitar before I get my hands on it :D . Cheers, TG

Thanks! Yes we are working on new stuff, but we is slow... I do like listening to tracks, so I figure I leave a small comment on tracks that I like while I listen to them... and here on Looperman there are a lot of very interesting tracks - you don't hear that stuff on Radio, that's for sure ;)

Thanks Wayne, appreciate your comments :)