Evisma
Better Than You Since 82
Middle America, United States
Joined : 1st Apr 2013 - 13 years ago
Last Online : 4th Apr 2025 - 1 year ago
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on The Farcical Aquatic Ceremony by Evisma
on The Farcical Aquatic Ceremony by Evisma
on The Farcical Aquatic Ceremony by Evisma
say it's a cool track moves with a little Japan flow....Nice...
Well done...
Peace...TG.
on The Wang Of Disdain by Evisma
on The Wang Of Disdain by Evisma
on The Wang Of Disdain by Evisma
I had a chance to listen to the 2 min one a few days ago and found it really interesting. Not too much to say this time cause I can only use the internal laptop speakers now.
It's quite hot mixed when compared to that first sketch.
I really like your bass playing on this one!
Keep at it!
Alex
It is pretty loud and I need to bring it down, you are right. I need to fix the mixing on this one.
I appreciate you liking the bass playing. I care most about that, really.
Take care.
Evan
on The Wang Of Disdain by Evisma
on The Wang Of Disdain by Evisma
Evan
on The Wang Of Disdain by Evisma
on Scalpel Chowder by Evisma
Great job!
Thanks for the listen, and the feedback.
Evan
on The Wang Of Disdain by Evisma
Do you have disdain for your wang? Or does someone else? Or is it someone's else wang you have disdain for? Perhaps the school bully who used to slap you around the face with his as an oh-so-funny prank.
Maybe you have disdain for a Chinese dude you know called Wang. Quite a common Chinese name, meaning that there are millions of walking, talking wangs in this world.
Anyway, cool intro with some reverse elements and then a good groove at 0:10, in which your drums sound good. Cool bass tone too.
0:19 lead I find way too light and "airy". Just a bit weak, sound-wise. Guess that's guitar. Sounds a little like a synth or violin, like maybe it has a slow attack. A different lead sound would make it much better.
1:36 bongo-style drum fill is good and then more bongoey beats.
2:05 some of the key changes make me think of something like the Knightrider theme from the 80s. Bet you used to watch that show. The Hoff's second most famous role, after Baywatch. But he's a lot better known in Germany for his pop music. Explain that!
Definitely impressed with the drum programming here. Busy and inventive and some cool fills. No criticism there. Better guitar sounds would help a lot.
Overall: I'm putting this in my Evisma Not Bad, Could Be Better folder. Improvements could make it migrate into my Evisma Badass folder.
* I guess a hermaphroditic hello would be one combining male and female tones in one. So, a little like Tuvan throat singing, in which they somehow manage to layer two different tones at the same time. An incredible sound, in case you've never heard it. My favourite group who do that are called Huun Huur Tu and they're amazing singers.
The Wang Of Disdain is an odd name. Came to me while driving. I think something on the radio rhymed and I started playing with the rhythmic syllable scheme in my head.
I went in and did a bit of layering on the lead line. Not nearly as light as before. May be good, may be bad.
I also added a second half. Different feel that is kind of hard to describe,... but I dig it.
No, never got into any Hasselhoff. Most of my childhood was spent on a bmx style bike, just getting away from the house. Watched more movies than shows. Never seen Baywatch, though it was big here when I was around ten or so. Never really cared. Gravitated towards comedies and horrors.
I've seen Tuvan throat singing, but just one old guy who was producing some crazy harmonics with a prolonged grunt and some nasal whistling. Still neat.
Take care.
Evan
on Twisticles by Evisma
on Sun Petals by Evisma
Some cool harmonics in the middle part. I mean this constructively but I felt the middle part was a bit lengthy without anything happening really. The part that comes in at the end rocks like hell but the middle part didn't build any tension or opposing force that lead me to anticipate the ending. The snare lacked some punch over the course of that time and was hoping the drums would have built up a bit more or changed in some way. Maybe, to me, that part could have been shorter. Just my opinion, don't take it personally. I like the idea of the breakdown in general though.
The last part was very energetic and some very cool bass playing and I liked the ending. Almost like a Bo Diddly style chugging bass.
Take care Evan!
Wayne
Always feel welcome to give your opinion. I'll never take it personally. I want your honesty, and I'll give you mine. Kissing each others asses will never help our music.
"I felt the middle part was a bit lengthy without anything happening really.....the middle part didn't build any tension or opposing force that lead me to anticipate the ending"
I mostly agree, though I really liked how things went together with the layers. I'll need to add something else there and change the drums, like you said, and probably shorten in by eight measures.
The ending is where my hang-up has been with this track. Several times I've thought to just cut it off and end it with the slow middle part. But the way the bass comes in and the way it sounded reversed with it made me want to keep it in. I probably need to rerecord the guitars there because the tone is a bit odd to my ears. A bit "wongkey".
Thanks for the listen and the feedback. it is appreciated.
Evan
on Sun Petals by Evisma
First surprise is some early reggae-like little gentle staccato guit strums that appear at various later points.
Then a slightly different drum groove for you ( a good one) and then more familiar crash and low end bass thump at 0:23. Little dancing guitars on top. You play guitar in a slightly odd very lead gentle clean melodic way, which is quite a surprise. Didn't think you'd play it like that so much when you said you'd got your PRS so could get it in tracks regularly. And still no string bends. You may have the blues but you don't play them.
0:48 familiar type of bass riff but it's good so nice criticism there. Would like to have it in my music. Not to worry, I have many other types of basslines. I'd happily do your bass playing if I had your setup and could physically manage it but I don't and probably can't so too bad.
Toms there also good, providing contrast for when main hat-led beat kicks back in. You're varying the drums nicely in this. Much improvement from being the slave to loops I think you used to be. You've also got some effective delay on the snare in your very chilled next section 1:40. Delay is easily my favourite ever effect. Probably then distortion. Retriggering or tape stop/slowdown are also pretty badass.
I wasn't going to after the first listen but I think I'm going to go ahead and award you the coveted Nice Track Bro trophy. Cherish it dearly and polish it regularly. It is quite large and heavy but perhaps you could wear it triumphantly around your neck as jewellery as you go about your business in town. People are sure to show you more respect and awe.
Must go due to tiredness but I will return for more detail. Hope your trophy arrives via FedEx by then.
I bid you adieu.
Spring is indeed back, but not technically. I have a neighbor who's entire front lawn is packed of purple crocuses below the sod, so right before the grass comes out of dormancy, the grass lawn is completely hidden by a layer of bright purple densely packed flowers. Happens every year, and it's one of the things I always look forward to.
"You play guitar in a slightly odd very lead gentle clean melodic way, which is quite a surprise. Didn't think you'd play it like that so much when you said you'd got your PRS so could get it in tracks regularly."
I have to wonder how you though I would play it. I think, now that you described it like you did, that I play the guitar the same way I approach the bass. Really, I'd like to do heavier stuff than what I've been doing, but I'm just learning how to get sounds I like with the guitar. The guitar tone at the end of this track bugs me a bit. I'd like to be doing heavier stuff, but I've never written for guitar lines before, and never really played them.
"Retriggering or tape stop/slowdown are also pretty badass."
No clue how to do any of that. I have a multi-beat groove delay that is quite cool.
The trophy will go on the wall, next to the faded, holy, sleeveless, ragged Aenima tee shirt that saw the best times of my mid-to-late teens and early twenties. It's the black one with the "contortionist" image from the cd on the back. It hangs triumphantly on the music room wall, looking down on me, mocking my thinning hair and thickening torso.
Still taking bids on that audi?
Evan
on Twisticles by Evisma
on Sun Petals by Evisma
Evan
on Sun Petals by Evisma
on Sun Petals by Evisma
on Sun Petals by Evisma
"I think that this would sound better with more dynamic contrast between the beginning, the break, the slowdown, and the end. It would really increase the intensity and take this song from good to great."
Can't do much about it now, but that is something that I will keep in mind in future tracks, and something that I often overlook. Thank you, truly, for the feedback. Honesty is all I want.
Thanks again.
Evan
on Hunting For Gatherers by Evisma
Take care of yourself and those who care for you.
Evan
on Hunting For Gatherers by Evisma
on Hunting For Gatherers by Evisma
So i finally did vocals to this beat, i had SOOO much fun both during the recording and mixing process.
have a listen and see what evolution your creation has gotten to..or DE evolution lol either way
PEACE
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Take care.
Evan
on Hunting For Gatherers by Evisma
on Hunting For Gatherers by Evisma
on Hunting For Gatherers by Evisma
Got a decent tone on the bass in this one, but I plucked the guitar a bit too hard in spots and would like to redo that at some time. Bass is always two separate go-throughs that I pan hard left and right. Modulation without using modulation. Good stuff.
Thanks for the listen and the feedback.
Evan