I just thought you might add some simple lead piano/synth solo at the end. Your piano sounds good.
Or introduce piano earlier and put some solo as a bridge to the final part. Hope that is useful.
I just thought you might add some simple lead piano/synth solo at the end. Your piano sounds good.
Or introduce piano earlier and put some solo as a bridge to the final part. Hope that is useful.
Very useful!
I'll consider what to do with this then. Wasn't sure about if there was any point in putting more time in this because it's a very...ehrm.. dull song to my ears.
hey:) I think you could also add some variations to the drums.
Maybe experiment also a bit with equalizing and balancing the parts of your composition in the mix and find some better sound:)
A.
Hi again!
Drums are doable - that was my idea too from the beginning but it didn't work out. But I'll try again.
About EQ'n and stuff - hello I'm an amatour! =D
this is very nice done - vocal has some oriental quality and flavour I think. At least this is how it sounds to me:)First part sounds just great - I feel chill and very relaxing vibes. Too bad it sounds unfinished - I'd like to hear even more power from 1:41. The pad you used also could sound wider (for me). But still really great work with this one!
:)
A.
Really nice work - I like what you did with all
the elements that build up the song. It really
sounds nice like this - the dynamic is good. Maybe some cinematic effects like about 0:55 not really fits electronic dance style. I like the sound image about 1:40 mark. I mean that it will be nice to stick with the one (electronic?) genre so to speak. But still I see that you have a lot of nice ideas in putting the material all together. I really like the piano and the drums. I have listened to this acapella and it's really good so do not complain about it, ok? :)
Anyway you have a full song that sounds really good.
Maybe you have just too many elements in it, I do not know:)
But I had great time listening to it - it has a lot of power!
Great work so far!
A.
Hi there!
I'm not complaining about the vox!! =D
Or well, just about the snare or what ever it is in it all the way through which makes it hard to mix with more chilled parts. But I guess it's my amatourish approach that does it. But I love the vox - it's more than great actually.
I'm pleased to hear you liked this anyway and good call on the cinematic bomb effect - I made it more incorporated now I think. There is something else there also which doesn't really fit in and I'm not sure what it is...
But to be continued...
Very interesting track and I love the way you have arranged the different vocal parts to compliment each other. Really neat. Great job. Love it all. Lovely piano part too. Excellent.
Hi Richie!
Really - you liked this? I liked it a lot when working with it in the daw, then I uploaded it here and realized it's a pile of crap. And then I worked with it some more and now I don't know anymore - have to take a break I guess. =D
Some parts are still not working at all, that I hear.
THANKS for listening and giving me some hope anyway!
Pretty nice job for a rough draft. Vocals blend in pretty great. Piano is a plus. Has a nice atmosphere and groove. Look forward to the finished version, nice work once again. peace
Hi GramoChopin!
Thanks for listening and leaving a comment - I'm working with this today so let's see what happens. It's sounding pretty terrible in every way at the moment but maybe I'll manage to sort it out somehow - I Think I'm in love with the vox.
Liking this one of yours, but needs a lot of tidying up,very nice vocal, never heard of the artist on the loop but might have to check her vocals out now after hearing her singing here, Like others have said seems to have a few flaws that seem blurred into the mix, personally I would add heavier beat to give deeper house feel to the track, This could be a very special track if flaws of the mix could be sorted, has so much potential to the track, really hope you re look at it, if you do please let me know would seriously love to hear it again when fixed up....Peace n Respect...Mosaic...PS I know you could sort this out going what I have heard of your other works here, been impressed with what I have heard previously....
Digging the way you sliced up those vocals. I'm only listening on my crappy lap top speakers but this mix sounds like it has a lot going on in it. There's some nice synths and atmospheres layered over the pumping bass sound, which is all complimented niceley with big reverbs and vocal slices.
I like the way the piano builds towards the later part of the track and that synth is cool as well. Sounds a little like a cop siren or sumting.
You've done a good job with this one.
FR
Okay last comment, we seem to have a had miscommunication with gender. As did BEATZMODE and you lol And that makes this track and your other track's comment section rather funny. I knew you were a female after this track I believe..I called you a man on my elaboration of a "floating mix."
But your female and I'm aware of that now lol (Just clarifying) Oh wait you know how i knew you were a female? When you posted on my looptrack thread, Dubtek called you a "he" too. Excuse him, I actually know him personally and he's not the brightest one. ha And examples of female producers for your listening pleasure: JJweekz, Anomaly J, Eshar, Patricia Edwards and of course you know Cestevens.
There's not too many of you ladies on here though, not really talented ones at least. (Many there are some that I haven't discovered yet) I think you have alot of potential though, even though you already have pretty good tracks.
honoured to have one of my loops used in such a quality track, great arranging, digging those vocals, sweet work on those...got my headphones on here and they handling that rumbly bass nicely..takes nothing away from the rest of the goodness in here, good work!
SJ just about what U've called '' somewhat boring chill part'' in reply to Staticnomad , I should say I'm agree with U , and I think : 1_ U've composed this in one day ,and that's not enough time for a serious composition ,otherwise U've solved the matter of upbeat soOo easily if another time , another mood , another patiency of yours had paid attention to it . 2_ some times we can make listener to listen our traX again & again...again again & again , & that's when we don't let all things to be repeated..for example if a theme is nice for a listener & can entertaining him/her for 15 minutes , this will be our choice = 3 times a 5minutes duration track ...or 5 time a 3 minutes duration ..especially about loop used traX & cause we know relevancy of the duriation & inteligence quotient http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/video/a-musical-mind.html
also http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/genre/factual/scienceandnature
beyond all these words I congratulation to U for being a smart musician SJ.excuse me for 2 long comments & in the end again my best wishes .___B
as usual your traX sounds stylish , nice & chic &
U portary your musical expressions in an artistic way SJ .
super nice & a thoughtfull & considered mixture of the various elements .
SJ hope U know my faved marks is not because of the time U've started music and if those trax that I've faved in your traX belonged to Bear or Ed( as 2 throughbred musician) too I had marke them as fav & for example regarding this one your Aestetical composition is the reason & charlene is right about listening this is car while going to job like what I'll do about it & I'm gratefull of your download premission too . else & beside i suggest U to think about an online course of mix & mastering SJ ...your musical style sounds so differenT & better by a better mix & mastering and also especially an exclusive equalizing about the loops which U're using them , a scientific equlizing for a unique quality of those sounds , exclusively for SJ's traX..that's what I mean ( and what I needed if I hadn't left music for myown's trials too) ..
anyway thnx for sharing your tallents phenomenal SJ , take care ,best wishes.__B
Sounds interesting and I like what you have done. Great kick.
2 thing I noticed that can help you make it better. Learn about frequency sweeping, because there are some high frequencies that irritates the ear. This is how you find them and eliminate them.
Greetings. Not sure why you’re surprised I liked the track enough to write a comment. Quite a few other people also have!
“That's a surprise considering how picky you are”
Yes, picky is a good thing. I know you listen to some of my tracks, sometimes favouriting them but rarely commenting on them, so you know how complex and detailed they are. They don’t get that way without a lot of time-consuming work that takes a longtime. I sit there and really pick apart anything and everything that bothers me and try to correct it and have got pretty good now at removing most things that bother me.
Sometimes when I’m searching for inspiration for one section, but it’s not coming, I just go and adjust various levels, automate some effects units, smooth out any audio pops from the many guitar parts that I join together and so on.
If you’re exhausted by ‘afterwork” with tracks just leave them for a while (weeks/months) and work on somthing else more immediately enjoyable. When you come back, you should be able to quickly spot what needs to be done.
Audio pops in tracks like yours normally come from people arranging samples side by side but not crossfading the levels between them. In Cubase (the main DAW I use), you just select two audio parts and press one key to do the crossfade.
I never would have guessed these are male vocals. Repitching has worked out well. Men can sing like women but I never seem to hear women really singing like men. Probably an anatomical reason for that.
Reverb isn’t awful. Just could be more powerful if it wasn’t all turned uop so high all that time. Use it at the top level to emphasise certain parts and tunr it down for other sections.
I also prefer the chillout sections in this track.
Picky is good!
I guess I'm just expecting to hear something else than you guys, the upbeat parts (which I myself by the way absolutely prefer over the somewhat boring chilled parts =D) sounded a lot more melodic and tonal in the DAW.
The bass and sub bass are eating up A LOT of space. But I guess it becomes a part of the sound for those who haven't heard this any other way.
I just presumed that you would pick up on that because the sound quality is really bad in those parts.
I wonder why the rendering process does that anyway? Altering the sounds this way. Maybe I'm having wrong presets or just doing something very wrong.
Also, I'm not able to listen to my songs on the computer after rendering because it shuts down the whole system in some way (oh don't ask, I have no idea what the problem is, probably just the computer slowly dying) so in order to hear the final product I need to upload the song here or on Soundcloud.
It's a surprise every time to hear what happend in the rendering process. =)
About the pops - no, it's definitely the sub bass hitting the floor right before the layerd kicks come in. I know where I placed them.
That crossfading feature messed up all my loops in a song ones, so I never used it since but I'll check in to that again. I shoud probably learn how to use it.
I guess you have an interest in the technical side which I really don't have that much.
I also prefer doing things and then leaving them and never come back. An old song is like...OLD to me, not interesting anymore.
That song I made three days ago, with Maaka singing, is feeling old an uninteresting already! And this only happens to my own songs, it's not a problem with music created by others.
I think I'm too concentrated when working with this and then my brain just shuts down after a while and wants to move on to other new melodies and rhythms...
Hey! This is amazing! I just want to get up and move ha, truly in awe here. The way you did the vocal is awesome as well. Can't wait to rock out to this in my car on my way to work tomorrow morning. :)
-Charlene
on UPDATE Thinking Of You Ft Felicia Santilla by SeriouslyJoking
Or introduce piano earlier and put some solo as a bridge to the final part. Hope that is useful.
A.
on UPDATE Thinking Of You Ft Felicia Santilla by SeriouslyJoking
on UPDATE Thinking Of You Ft Felicia Santilla by SeriouslyJoking
Or introduce piano earlier and put some solo as a bridge to the final part. Hope that is useful.
A.
I'll consider what to do with this then. Wasn't sure about if there was any point in putting more time in this because it's a very...ehrm.. dull song to my ears.
on UPDATE Thinking Of You Ft Felicia Santilla by SeriouslyJoking
Maybe experiment also a bit with equalizing and balancing the parts of your composition in the mix and find some better sound:)
A.
Drums are doable - that was my idea too from the beginning but it didn't work out. But I'll try again.
About EQ'n and stuff - hello I'm an amatour! =D
Thanks again!
on UPDATE Thinking Of You Ft Felicia Santilla by SeriouslyJoking
on UPDATE Thinking Of You Ft Felicia Santilla by SeriouslyJoking
:)
A.
Agree about widening the pad and more Power after the break - maybe a bass line and develope the piano some more...
Thanks for listening and for the great feedback!
/ SJ =)
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king.sefrse@gmail.com
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Take care / SJ =)
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Ronabo
=D
on Stand By Me Ft ThaSuspect1 by SeriouslyJoking
Really nice work - I like what you did with all
the elements that build up the song. It really
sounds nice like this - the dynamic is good. Maybe some cinematic effects like about 0:55 not really fits electronic dance style. I like the sound image about 1:40 mark. I mean that it will be nice to stick with the one (electronic?) genre so to speak. But still I see that you have a lot of nice ideas in putting the material all together. I really like the piano and the drums. I have listened to this acapella and it's really good so do not complain about it, ok? :)
Anyway you have a full song that sounds really good.
Maybe you have just too many elements in it, I do not know:)
But I had great time listening to it - it has a lot of power!
Great work so far!
A.
I'm not complaining about the vox!! =D
Or well, just about the snare or what ever it is in it all the way through which makes it hard to mix with more chilled parts. But I guess it's my amatourish approach that does it. But I love the vox - it's more than great actually.
I'm pleased to hear you liked this anyway and good call on the cinematic bomb effect - I made it more incorporated now I think. There is something else there also which doesn't really fit in and I'm not sure what it is...
But to be continued...
Thanks for listening!
Cheers/ SJ=)
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Ronabo
I also love the vox, it's Amazing.
Cheers/ SJ =)
on Stand By Me Ft ThaSuspect1 by SeriouslyJoking
Almost done with the mixng part now I guess. Good to hear from you!
Take care/ SJ =)
on Stand By Me Ft ThaSuspect1 by SeriouslyJoking
Thanks for listening and good to hear you liked it.
Cheers/ SJ =)
on Stand By Me Ft ThaSuspect1 by SeriouslyJoking
Richie
Really - you liked this? I liked it a lot when working with it in the daw, then I uploaded it here and realized it's a pile of crap. And then I worked with it some more and now I don't know anymore - have to take a break I guess. =D
Some parts are still not working at all, that I hear.
THANKS for listening and giving me some hope anyway!
Take care and cheers/ SJ =)
on Stand By Me Ft ThaSuspect1 by SeriouslyJoking
Gramo/Neo
Thanks for listening and leaving a comment - I'm working with this today so let's see what happens. It's sounding pretty terrible in every way at the moment but maybe I'll manage to sort it out somehow - I Think I'm in love with the vox.
PEACE dude! =)
on Loving You - Remix of Easy by Mat Zo n Robinson by SeriouslyJoking
Liking this one of yours, but needs a lot of tidying up,very nice vocal, never heard of the artist on the loop but might have to check her vocals out now after hearing her singing here, Like others have said seems to have a few flaws that seem blurred into the mix, personally I would add heavier beat to give deeper house feel to the track, This could be a very special track if flaws of the mix could be sorted, has so much potential to the track, really hope you re look at it, if you do please let me know would seriously love to hear it again when fixed up....Peace n Respect...Mosaic...PS I know you could sort this out going what I have heard of your other works here, been impressed with what I have heard previously....
on Welcome To The New Age by SeriouslyJoking
Steve
on High Ft Carrol by SeriouslyJoking
I like the way the piano builds towards the later part of the track and that synth is cool as well. Sounds a little like a cop siren or sumting.
You've done a good job with this one.
FR
on Do Better Ft Maaka N BEATZMODE by SeriouslyJoking
But your female and I'm aware of that now lol (Just clarifying) Oh wait you know how i knew you were a female? When you posted on my looptrack thread, Dubtek called you a "he" too. Excuse him, I actually know him personally and he's not the brightest one. ha And examples of female producers for your listening pleasure: JJweekz, Anomaly J, Eshar, Patricia Edwards and of course you know Cestevens.
There's not too many of you ladies on here though, not really talented ones at least. (Many there are some that I haven't discovered yet) I think you have alot of potential though, even though you already have pretty good tracks.
Gramo/Neo
on Welcome To The New Age by SeriouslyJoking
on Welcome To The New Age by SeriouslyJoking
also
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/genre/factual/scienceandnature
beyond all these words I congratulation to U for being a smart musician SJ.excuse me for 2 long comments & in the end again my best wishes .___B
on Welcome To The New Age by SeriouslyJoking
U portary your musical expressions in an artistic way SJ .
super nice & a thoughtfull & considered mixture of the various elements .
SJ hope U know my faved marks is not because of the time U've started music and if those trax that I've faved in your traX belonged to Bear or Ed( as 2 throughbred musician) too I had marke them as fav & for example regarding this one your Aestetical composition is the reason & charlene is right about listening this is car while going to job like what I'll do about it & I'm gratefull of your download premission too . else & beside i suggest U to think about an online course of mix & mastering SJ ...your musical style sounds so differenT & better by a better mix & mastering and also especially an exclusive equalizing about the loops which U're using them , a scientific equlizing for a unique quality of those sounds , exclusively for SJ's traX..that's what I mean ( and what I needed if I hadn't left music for myown's trials too) ..
anyway thnx for sharing your tallents phenomenal SJ , take care ,best wishes.__B
on Welcome To The New Age by SeriouslyJoking
2 thing I noticed that can help you make it better. Learn about frequency sweeping, because there are some high frequencies that irritates the ear. This is how you find them and eliminate them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjT41H6gsW8
And you have to cut the lower part of the frequency of the bass so it does not make this weird sound.
on Welcome To The New Age by SeriouslyJoking
“That's a surprise considering how picky you are”
Yes, picky is a good thing. I know you listen to some of my tracks, sometimes favouriting them but rarely commenting on them, so you know how complex and detailed they are. They don’t get that way without a lot of time-consuming work that takes a longtime. I sit there and really pick apart anything and everything that bothers me and try to correct it and have got pretty good now at removing most things that bother me.
Sometimes when I’m searching for inspiration for one section, but it’s not coming, I just go and adjust various levels, automate some effects units, smooth out any audio pops from the many guitar parts that I join together and so on.
If you’re exhausted by ‘afterwork” with tracks just leave them for a while (weeks/months) and work on somthing else more immediately enjoyable. When you come back, you should be able to quickly spot what needs to be done.
Audio pops in tracks like yours normally come from people arranging samples side by side but not crossfading the levels between them. In Cubase (the main DAW I use), you just select two audio parts and press one key to do the crossfade.
I never would have guessed these are male vocals. Repitching has worked out well. Men can sing like women but I never seem to hear women really singing like men. Probably an anatomical reason for that.
Reverb isn’t awful. Just could be more powerful if it wasn’t all turned uop so high all that time. Use it at the top level to emphasise certain parts and tunr it down for other sections.
I also prefer the chillout sections in this track.
Good luck.
I guess I'm just expecting to hear something else than you guys, the upbeat parts (which I myself by the way absolutely prefer over the somewhat boring chilled parts =D) sounded a lot more melodic and tonal in the DAW.
The bass and sub bass are eating up A LOT of space. But I guess it becomes a part of the sound for those who haven't heard this any other way.
I just presumed that you would pick up on that because the sound quality is really bad in those parts.
I wonder why the rendering process does that anyway? Altering the sounds this way. Maybe I'm having wrong presets or just doing something very wrong.
Also, I'm not able to listen to my songs on the computer after rendering because it shuts down the whole system in some way (oh don't ask, I have no idea what the problem is, probably just the computer slowly dying) so in order to hear the final product I need to upload the song here or on Soundcloud.
It's a surprise every time to hear what happend in the rendering process. =)
About the pops - no, it's definitely the sub bass hitting the floor right before the layerd kicks come in. I know where I placed them.
That crossfading feature messed up all my loops in a song ones, so I never used it since but I'll check in to that again. I shoud probably learn how to use it.
I guess you have an interest in the technical side which I really don't have that much.
I also prefer doing things and then leaving them and never come back. An old song is like...OLD to me, not interesting anymore.
That song I made three days ago, with Maaka singing, is feeling old an uninteresting already! And this only happens to my own songs, it's not a problem with music created by others.
I think I'm too concentrated when working with this and then my brain just shuts down after a while and wants to move on to other new melodies and rhythms...
And I do hear all the flaws, very much so even.
Well, thanks for wishing good luck, I'll need it.
on Welcome To The New Age by SeriouslyJoking
-Charlene
Drive carefully though (well I'm sure you do, just mum talking here...).