Evisma
Better Than You Since 82
Middle America, United States
Joined : 1st Apr 2013 - 12 years ago
Last Online : 4th Apr 2025 - 10 months ago
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on The Wang Of Disdain by Evisma
I see you have updated your wang. I have not had mine updated for a few years. Last time, I had it fattened and considerably lengthened and now I have The Dick You Can Trust.
Anyway, some changes may be difficult to notice here but the mix sounds pretty damn good. I remember when you used to post some thick block of toothpaste waveforms.
1:08 you've probably redone that distortion. Sounds better now - no complaints.
1:35 squealy weirdness still sounds awesome. And so it should. Maybe it still will in a thousand years.
2:24 new part not so keen on that instrument/s. Two layered synths, I think. It's the high one thats the problem. Line is decent but synth tone is a bit jarring. Could also do with slightly looser timing eg make it swing a bit
3:03 same riff but on the trusty old bass. The Bass You Can Trust. Riff sounds better on bass cos you can groove better on that than on keys.
My idea for you is to take the very first 2 seconds and try looping them over a fat beat. I'd probably try something like a hip hop one (you won't) and maybe a triplet metal one. Hell, it's me so I'd no doubt try about 50 different drum styles (via MIDI files and different kits).
I think that's a very cool part, with some menace and psychedelic beauty. Could make more of it as a sparser break in 2nd half.
Overall: you have upgraded this from Not Bad to Pretty Fine. Its strength can be raised further if you collect additional power-ups on higher levels and overcome certain musical endbosses.
I bid you bye bye.
*The one ending in -a
That's sort of theoretically OK to say
And write
Provided you're not white.
"not so keen on that instrument/s. Two layered synths, I think. It's the high one thats the problem."
I intend to fix this, but been working on something else for a while and kind of back-burnered it. Odd word. I will fix it soon, after I finish the one I'm working on now.
"I bid you bye bye."
Possibly your best parting line yet. Reminds me of the movie Deuce Bigalow, where this big, macho man-whore excuses himself from a conversation by saying, "I must make pee pee." Not a great movie, if you've never seen it. The world would have went on without it.
Next track is pretty busy with the drums, and there are a lot of different parts, but still pretty far from anything jam-ish like what you do. Mine is all far less abstract. I guess that is the best way I've found to describe your music, abstract. Mine seems to be the building of something from a blueprint. Yours, the reconstruction of lightning in a bottle. Just my thoughts.
Hope all is well. I hope you are not still disenchanted with the cello. A bow soon? Any sign of the mic?
Good bile extra beck
(Goodbye, Alex Trebek)
Evan
on The Wang Of Disdain by Evisma
I thought you might get a kick out of "Consider yourself greeted". Has an appealing simplicity and a bit of attitude. I also run out of new greetings though I do have a few stored up (I also easily forget them). It's my difficult challenge to come up with a new one every time for you. "A hail of hermaphroditic helloes" I've already used but maybe I'll repeat it in a year or so when I've really run out and seemingly been through all the at least half sensible possibilities.
Your process with the weird little squealing sound reminds me of my various processing techiques. I'll chop up, reorder, layer and add effects to any of my playing in order to make more of it. Would be good to hear more of that sort of thing from you as it's a real track highlight here.
I can see why you're amused by me not liking your first ever bent note (note the note, the riff as a whole). I imagine my first recorded bent note was in my first recording (bass and guitar). I sometimes wonder how you don't bend the strings. If I'm letting a note hang, I'll probably just give it a little wiggle, for added emphasis. I'm thinking you must have to consciously stop yourself from doing this as it couldn't be more natural to me. Or we've got a very different mental approach to playing the strings. Yours may well be more precise and regimented, mine much more ramshackle and lazy. Laissez-faire, you might say. If you get a hanging bend just right with the groove, it can be way better than any new note you might play.
I too have tone issues with this track, that's why it's still a Not Bader.
I don't completely reject fade-out endings though I rarely hear a good one on here. Has to be done skilfully, not just giving the feeling that someone's turning the volume control down over 5-10 secs.
Good to hear you use 'cop out'. We also sometimes say 'cop off' (with), which means something along the lines of kiss/have sex with (degree is vague). So, perhaps your equivalent of 'make out', which we never, ever say. Doesn't exist in UK and I probably only know about it from US TV and movies.
If I do make it to Florida for the mic pickup, I will be looking spic and span in a fine suit, bow tie and bowler hat. My paddling butler will indeed be quite unkempt. I will constantly have to spray him with various pleasant smelling things just to give my nose some peace. As I misplaced the mic when moving into the sheds in October, I haven't played or recorded any banj in ages. Same goes for my other better-sounding but harder to play resonator guitar. Would like to record them again.
P.S. Cello still going very badly. Still no bow, plucked recordings don't sound good. May have been wrong purchase though I hope not and will just have to stick at it.
This made me laugh actually really hard. That's as close as I can get to an "LOL", which I hate with a passion. Really, I hold issue with nearly all abbreviation used unless it's something like IBM, FBI, SETI, DIY, and GFY,.... though I've admittedly used the last one.
But LOL, IDK, HMU, LMK, and any little picture drawn using brackets, dashes and other keyboard tom-foolery is a sign of someone I really don't want to know.
" Cello still going very badly. Still no bow, plucked recordings don't sound good. May have been wrong purchase though I hope not and will just have to stick at it."
I have full faith in you. How does it sound through your octave pedal? Can your octave pedal go up an octave or two, or just down? Would like to hear you pluck it, heavily processed in quarter notes like the kick in the intro to Sabbath's "Iron Man", by itself for an intro to a track. A fast and strong modulation with a little pre distortion, and up a few octaves. But, I'm sure you have done much experimentation and know already what things will sound like ass.
Best of luck, and I feel that no instrument purchase is a bad one, unless it's the instrument itself that sounds bad/cheap.
Hope that mic turned up. I checked my gig-bag, wasn't in there either. Sorry. I'll ask Clint the Klepto, but he always says he don't know shit!
Evan
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
Nice to see a couple of other people have felt sufficiently moved to pass comment on your wang. The Prick Of Despair is a fun title and a suitable B-side for this track (if such things still existed).
Anyway: you have nicened this track up bro though it still doesn't make your badass folder.
Can't really notice the lead line being much different. Probably just thicker, as you say.
1:35 that is a fucking killer, weird little squealing sound. Brought in with a dramatic fill and then continued lots later. Cool effect. Getting a bit creaturey (?) there. Sort of thing I might do. But I haven't and you have.
2:24 not so keen on that lead line. But it's only short so not to worry (but brought back later). Maybe just too forced a melody or something. Not bad, just something slightly off about it.
I can't find that much else to say about the second half. It's decent, just doesn't really grab me. Lots of sounds I've heard from you before and just the one cool, new one.
3:50 sparser ending sounds good but fadeout is still a bit of a cop out. Hope you have that term in Yankland. Nothing to do with cops.
Later, wang hater...
P.S.
As to an unanswered question from elsewhere: no shit-shifting injuries yet but lots more shit to shift. Going OK and I'm taking it slow. As long as I've got somewhere half decent to sleep and my music gear all/mostly set up (where the hell has my microphone gone?) then I'm happy.
Your best opening ever. Run out of greetings sometimes, especially when doing 11 comment replies in a row.
"Can't really notice the lead line being much different. Probably just thicker, as you say."
Yeah, I played over it a few times with different distortion settings and blended them. Problem is, I have only solid-state amps, and no real way to get a good guitar lead tone that is distorted. Sounds like a weird, wonky synth coming from my pedal. That pedal is awesome, but it really has only one way to distort a signal. Fine for most bass stuff, but not guitar. I've been looking into preamps and tube amps.
"weird little squealing sound"
That is a single played note that slides down from 12 to 0. Chopped it and reversed it, ran it through amp sim software with a delay. I liked it. It's a single slide, but reversed delay is what makes it Neat-O!
"2:24 not so keen on that lead line."
This cracked me up. It's cool if you don't like it, but it's the VERY FIRST time I did a bend on a track. Last note of that line bends. The line may get replaced. Had a lot of tone issues with this track, and still do. Most of it is overdone.
Yes, we "Yanklanders" say "cop-out". I know you reject fade-outs as credible endings for tracks. I do like the removal of parts until it's down to something you never knew was there.
"where the hell has my microphone gone?"
Wanna borrow mine? Hop in your kayak and head west. I'll be waiting near Florida, balancing on a lone bouey, trying like hell to keep the mic dry. You'll have to announce yourself upon arrival, as I have no idea what you look like and will not recognize you, and you will look very unkempt. Paddling the Atlantic would make for some pretty righteous pits. And you can just paddle that shit back to me when you're done with it, as well. Mail is so lazy.
Hope all is well.
Evan
on The Wang Of Disdain by Evisma
Evan
on The Wang Of Disdain by Evisma
On the music, the drums are cool and give you a sense of guarded anticipation. The melody is almost like an orchestral arrangement. I really enjoyed listening to this one. It feels there was a true purpose in your writing this. I could see this as background music to an action-packed movie based on the building of the rail-road out west by Chinese labourers.
ood Work
Cruniversely appealing
It'll be the kind of track you listen to for about 3 seconds, then tune out the rest when you realize there will be no substance at all for it's duration.
Glad you liked the track. Thanks for the listen and the kind words.
Take care.
Evan
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
For me,its the perfect sample,but no download,thats my only critique lol..peace
Not sure what "its the perfect sample" means. Are you calling the track a sample, like when a track gets called a "beat"? I'm not offended or anything, just not sure what you meant there.
The no download is because people here have found their music being claimed and sold by others, and if I can't seem to profit from the music I created, a thief sure as shit wont have me HANDING it to him. The track will always be here, so if anyone wants to listen to it, they can, any time.
Take care.
Evan
on Sun Petals by Evisma
Progrock by Evan on high level...the songs beginning to be good for vocs...more and more space you create them...donno if you ever want someone to take a try on to your numbers...at first listen it could be scary for an egocentric vocalist...:-)
Thankx for the upload Evan, it's a professional song!!!
Respect, Danke
I'm always up for hearing other's vocals on my stuff. I may not consider it the finished product, but I have no issue with someone finding inspiration from something I created.
Hope you are doing well, good sir. I had three weeks off from work because of winter weather, and started back this week. I am six-foot, 180 lbs of pulled muscle right now. Three weeks of inactivity and one week playing catch-up,... I'm wiped out, and everything hurts. Aah, spring.
Evan
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
https://www.looperman.com/tracks/detail/164997
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
on Hunting For Gatherers by Evisma
Mate first track reviewed since time off due to poor health, mate what a way to get back into listening to great tunes here on the loop...
Love the intro to this one, sets you up very nicely for the rest of the track, as piano is one of my fav elements to use in tracks, was a very pleasant surprise to see you using here, knew then was totally going to love track, which I do, easy listening type of rock which I enjoy...Could really see a Irish Celtic vocal over this, would be massive, piece has a Celtic sound to me...Excellent work on this one matey...FAV...Peace n Respect...Mos...
I hope you are doing ok. I'm not going to pry into the issues, I just know that health issues are scary as hell and they make you look at life very differently. I hope you are alright.
Thanks for the track appreciation! I enjoyed this one. This one sounds a bit Celtic, you say? I did one that apparently sounded Asian a few weeks ago, now I'm heading back to where I came from.
Take care, and welcome back.
Evan
on Hunting For Gatherers by Evisma
Thanks for the listen and the feedback!
Evan
on Hunting For Gatherers by Evisma
and no problemo,i REALLY was waiting for it the wholeday tho lol..."the power of music"
that story sucks bro, but i dont think you should completly put your guard up ,yes some people are crazy online but some are really proffessional..its hard to distinguish tho.i hope you wont go thru that again
forgive my spelling errors..i am super tired lol
PS..Will put up the track under the same nme when i am done.
do you do vocal mixing?
Damn. I wrote you lastnight, promised to set it up for you,.... then crashed. I feel like a dick now. Sorry.
"PS..Will put up the track under the same nme when i am done.
do you do vocal mixing?"
If you would, add "feat. Philemonster" or something like that to the title, and maybe a link to the original like a lot of folks here do.
I've never done vocal mixing besides my own, and there isn't much to say about that. A few attempts, and a realization that someone else should be doing it besides me.
I hope this goes well for you. Take care,.... and sorry again for inadvertently testing your patience. Impressive forbearance.
Evan