AtticElla

Ella I'm so glad I got you thinking, this is beautiful, you have a great vocal, it really has a sade no ordinary love feel to this, your arrangement is fantastic I mention short lyrics well placed add character you don't need to go full vocal, something is better than nothing, creative originality, I would most certainly sit and listen to this playing in the background and a glass of wine with friends. I knew there was something about you, I've got a good ear and just knew there was more to come, you've done great in your short time, keep impressing lovely lady

Hey there - lofi jazz feel to this one to my ears the first half is very nice and your little vox / phrase is really great - And Im not sure what it is but I feel the track really picks up another notch from about 148 on and hits it's straps in the last half. It's always nice to see the folk on LM experimenting and creating all sorts of varieties of coolness. Damn fine track!

AtticElla, on a roll huh? I've said it before and now again, your compositions are on point. This is nice, very nice. It reminds me of Swing Out Sister! Also, I like the musical direction you're going and flowing!
M.T.

As i told you to attack Lm and so you didd lol.
everything you used is in his place and the the little part on 1:55 is cool.
Great work madam!!

That Intro is killer. The vibe is amazing. I just enjoyed listening to this as a well-composed song. The analogue elements worked well.
¨'m having a sort of musical identity crisis at the moment and I don't know which direction to turn so I'm trying a number of things to see what works. Like throwing paint randomly at a canvas."
My advice to you this (not that you want it or need it), is to avoid trying to genre bounce, to appeal to the audience. but make music that you like to listen to. If it's good, an audience will come along for the ride. But at the end of the day, can you play your tune to and for yourself and enjoy it? I like doing different genres mainly because I become bored. And musically I like to listen to a lot of different things. This was a good tune.

love the aesthetic vibe!

Beautiful warm track and mellow vibes, so easy on the ears. I could hear a vocal on this but it stands right up just as it is too. Really nice work.

Hey Ella,

the 'swing' kinda threw me off at first, as the snare/clap sounded off-beat to me in the first few seconds lol.
Nonetheless, very well done. Your choice of Instrumentation/Arrangement creates a mellow Soundscape that has an analog-type warmth to it :)

It reminded me of 'hello meteor - obsidian game'. You should check it out, i'm pretty sure that you will like the track & the artist behind it.

xoxo

Hello, my friend.
Again all I can say about this track is Brilliant.
Well done
Maj

Beautifully done. Super tasteful. It's amazing that there is a demand for the simulated version of a dead medium or mediums with new material.

Nice warm timbre choices also. I like all the keyboard interplay, nice breakdown also.

Great work, keep it up.

Attic this is a lovely lo-fi piece, beautiful sound, you've not been with us long, yet slotted in to the community seamlessly, like your tracks. I think you bring a female edge to the music if you get were I'm coming from. It's the calming relaxation of your style I like. Again I would like you to bring vox to your work, I don't know if you sing, but if you do, don't be afraid Ella, you can certainly mix so I don't think vox will be difficult for you even if it's somebody else's

Que gran melodía lofi, amigo AtticElla, es esplendido. Has hecho un gran trabajo. Me encanta como suena. Que tengas una buena tarde compañero. Paz y salud.

AtticElla, WOW, what a great listen. The movement, those keys tho! Again you’ve done well!
M.T.

"I started making electronic music in 1999 with a program named Dance ej."

YESSSSSS I remember using that very same thing before I switched over to DAWs like Reason. I got my offical musical start in 2000-2001 with working under a label/making money at my hobby...

but my god Ella: As soon as you said Dance EJ, those nostalgic feelings came rushing up. I was 18 in 2000 lol.

Anyways, onto the song. I've become more and more partial to Lo-Fi when I've been studying/relaxing...sleeping lol. This is sort of a blend between Synthwave and lo-fi I guess?

The beat is insane, just the quality and melody/piano work in general is perfect lo-fi for me. I could listen to this on repeat for hours, and not even know hours passed lol

It was an instant fav for me. I think you should continue on with new Lo-Fi to add to your repertoire with your House music.

-Clay

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.