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hei Evan a special Hello to you and your wife .
hope you're not missunderestanding about my private notification anymore !
this is awesome .
your bass playing is amazingly wonderfuul.
i need to some trainings for playing like you !!
Elena

the midi drum you set up here catches my attention throughout the listen. The guitars are jamming well with interest, sounds like a song i heard some time ago in a place far far away.

The arrangement is solid sounding good. Not sure but it sounds like its missing something. What other instruments have you been messing with? Also I was thinking what if you add a passage of vocal samples to represent a meeting of the cryptic council? Kinda play with the title a bit more. Noticed it does help with the mental side of the scene.

I think the riffs here are badass, maybe one day I could make something good as I hear here. Thanks.

Yo. Being the nomad that I am, I can't help wandering about all over the place. Even when I can't be bothered, my legs sometimes just won't stop. And I doubt I've wandered onto anyone else's Looperman tracks more than yours. A fine subterranean sonic realm it is.

"not too shabby either, if I may pretend to have an ego. "

Damn right you can have an ego. I'm proud of lots of stuff I've made and you should be too (of yours, not mine - that wouldn't make much sense). Being proud of successes probably inspires more. I try to think of my tracks as if I were a fan of them and they had been made by someone else - which is my attempt at being objective and trying to hear what I've actually produced rather than get caught up in too many little details. And I do actually sit back and listen to my tracks. You know - for a bit of pleasure. Also, there are so many bits that I can't remember them all in my head so have to listen again to be reminded.
"This track involved a bit of luck, I believe."

Well mabe a bit though I fail to see where the luck is in your bass ability. Maybe you just continually fluke out with killer riffs. You're like the world's luckiest bass player or something. You're actually crap but pure freak chance puts your fingers in the right place all the time. You're going to be so busted when your luck runs out!

"fuck with the same synth parameter for two and a half hours just to accidently lose it by getting "click-happy".

Gotta be very careful there. I do very little hardware controller manipulation of parameters so tend not to change a setting without noticing (only to come back later to find the patch is now ruined and I can't fix it).

One way round this is to save in the same track folder a patch setting for each synth patch that's working really well. Then, if you fiddle about and screw it up, you can just reload that saved one and everything should be fine and sync up with any automation data you have going on. I also continually save new versions of the track I'm working on so can also open previous versions of the song to get settings that I've since screwed up.

P.S. Finally, I have cool band recommendation for you. The awfully named Maria Isn't A Virgin Anymore. Shocking name but don't be put off as they make awesome, alternative, intelligent stoner-related stuff with some Toolish/youish basslines. I think I just made up the word 'youish' but not sure what else I could have gone with. Sorry I haven't provided a link but will another time (if necessary). I bet you one cookie (not the silly internet browser trojan buggy thing version) that you love them.

This is really good!!! keep it up!

Although not really my style, Evan, I hear much talent in your piece. The mix is very clean and I hear all the instrument clearly. Very good drum track, too. You programed it very well.

Cheers,
Scott

You kept the intensity of this and the changes especially with the drums were great. Even without a breakdown this is a great mix now. great job Evan.
Steve

And I'm back! Enjoying listening to this one again.

First thought, aside from the killer riffs, is how good the drums sound. So good you're not dependent on loops anymore. You've now got the movement and emphasis and a cleaner sound than you had with the loops.

But don't forget about them entirely. I still use them but as a sort of flavour rather than something I depend on.

No sure what you've changed since last time but there is really so much killer playing in here. It's a bit like one of my tracks but rather than multiple riffs and sounds being spread out across loads of instruments, it's really all just on one. Which is damn hard to do.

It's probably a genuine bass masterpiece (not quite sure how to 'prove' that)and I don't hear it as lacking anything.

2:07-2:28 I do not remember and suspect it may be new. I like it.

Winding down ending after 3:11 is great and probably new too. You're dong something that sounds fresh and different right up to the end of this very varied track.

Yes, if this is 90BPM in the DAW, you're definitely doing double time so 180. This is one track that really races away. Oh, and the distortions sound fine.

Surely one of your finest and I'd love to be able to come up with something similar.

Hi,

Not bad at all, great bass! and I love the changes, sax isn't bad either. Would have liked it a little longer, but good work.

Best wishes,

Mark/Larry!

I agree

i dig it Evan .
i'm in love with your musics .
(ps:i see in your answers but wanna know do you
have any irish root?)
:)

sounds chewy! .....;-)

Yo. With your explanation, I now like the title. I have bad teeth too though don't know how many real ones are left. Would be funny if it was 19. Must remember to ask dentist next time I go.

$6,800 is a lot of money. A good few quality basses there, or maybe just a super special limited edition one.

You are duty-bound to check out the excellent band Morphine. In some countries, anyone making bass-drums-sax music is legally required to check out at least some of their material. In the strictest legal systems, it is a criminal offence not to pore over their entire back catalogue (only about 5/6 albums, slide bass player/singer/songwriter died of a heart attack on stage in 1998). In other places, you're only required to listen to, say, the albums Cure For Pain and Like Swimming a few times.
Not sure how onerous the US requirements are though note that you have now been warned.

As a bass player, you have to be interested in a guy who I think is the only 2-string slide bass player ever. If there's another, I'd like to hear him. Actually, I should really become that second slide bass player though probably need a custom bass for it. Saw a Youtube video of a guy who built his own 2-string bass designed expressly for slide and it sounded great. Just like Mark Sandman (of Morphine).

But, in your track, you're doing something they didn't do, which is provide a heavier bass and drums backing to that sax. So you're already doing something different.

Anyway: I'll give a more detailed review later but for now will say there are some synth problems with this update. The sax in the intro doesn't groove and sounds a bit fake. It sounds better once bass and drums have come in.
Work on the lengths of those notes and make sure they groove and sound a bit more loose and natural. Try putting a good drum groove underneath and making them lock. Then you can mute the drums when you're done.

This now has a strange structure I'll say more about later as well as the additional synths, though I can already hear you're having some fun with the controllers, especially right at the end of the track.

Kick ass bass playing as usual!

Evan!

Did you get an email, I sent the DVS zip. to you?

Danke

Wayo!

Good recommendation from Danke regarding DVS Sax free VST software.

"Where, might I ask, can I acquire this DVS Sax free VST software? "

You Google it, as I did, and find the download. Yes, I hear some freeware can have bugs (but not viruses, as such) and cause problems for your DAW. But sometimes you've just gotta live life on the edge, like a daring all-action hero, and install that freeware VST. You only live once and all that.

Anyway, your latest meagre offering to the Looper gods:

Sax sounds pretty decent, actually. And what it's playing is good.

Bass is good the way it joins in gradually. The drums kick in well though the mix is a bit unclear and things are fighting. It's a big sound, especially for only three instruments.

If you don't know them already, please check out one of my absolute favourite bands ever - Morphine. Just baritone sax, 2-string slide bass guitar, drums and vocals and some of the most interesting and unique-sounding music ever made. Danke's a big fan of theirs. I'd love to do the slide bass thing, slide obsessive that I am.

Morphine "Buena"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNEYKrFJgRo

Moving into metal as a change is good before the sax returns.

You know I love mad, long music (and making it even more so) but this is OK at this length as it's so busy. Maybe another minute and it would be long enough. How a piece feels is, of course, not just about the length in minutes and seconds.

Is the title a reference to different food blenders or implements that will masticate your food so you don't have to bother chewing?

You lazy bastard...

Not bad at all man. I think the sax sounds pretty cool. Really makes the song. Imo i would loosin up on the compression. Let the guitar an sax soak thru. Maybe raise the eq around 1-8k hz to brighten it up. But thats just me. Ha. Other than that i like it. Sweet beat.

Wow..great sound! It reminds me quite alot on King Crimson...good enough reason to put it in "my favourites" drawer.:)

Cheers___Orlando

cOoL TrAcK Evan...

When I hear the sound of the sax I'm the fan of the song without listening it...:-)
Now, I made a try...super groovy...I like this song overall, this shows your musicality extremely well...
You asked if the sax good or bad...in my opinion: not bad but there are betters...I use DVS Sax free vst software...try it my friend...maybe...

Greet you, Danke

I Like it very much, nice work!

good vibrations

it's good to see U here Evan .
& let me one time write a short & just confess if when I was a child had seen the way U play Bass , right now I was a bass player beside el & ac & cl gtr . it's sick amaing .
best wishes for U & familY my friend .___Behnam

Word up, bass crusader. I had a 5 min look at the Akai MAX25. I have had something quite similar for about 5 years, though I don't use it much. It's the Novation Remote SL 37. Tiny little drum pads do technically work but are so small - you can only really play them with fingers. So, not much better than a keyboard, really.

I do the great bulk of my stuff (aside from actual instrument playing) just with the mouse. Have always wanted to get into controllers but never got on that well with them though controllering filtering etc with a rotary control (being a knob twidler) is good fun. But I still tend to just draw it in as I'm good at that. But different people get on with different things.

You'll probably tell me you have no keyboard at all. Yes, you should definitely get one and an all-round controller such as the one you mentioned (there are loads of similar ones, I can't keep track of them all, don't even try). You say you're no good on keyboard. Neither am I (especially two-handed) but I can sometimes knock out some pretty cool stuff, which I then loop up. I can even play some half-decent solos, from time to time. But I don't know how much synth-based stuff you want to do. I do a lot but quality drums are probably a more important thing for you to get.

You really misunderstand EZ and Superior Drummer (and similar products). You have to have the actual proprietary host program to play their content ie the drum sounds that they have recorded and named and assigned to each separate part of the kit and MIDI-mapped etc etc. You can't just buy the expansion packs. You're probably getting confused with something such as REX files, which is an audio file format which can be played in various programs. EZ Drummer kits will only play in...EZ Drummer.Go to the websites of companies such as Toontrack or BFD or look for a music tech article titled something like "Which drum software?" Or read reviews in Sound On Sound for, say, EZ, Superior and BFD. That will tell you a lot as they generally discuss what your other options are when reviewing each product.

I wasn't offering you actual drum audio content (ie the sounds), only MIDI files. MIDI files will play in anything with MIDI - even the Quicktime player plays MIDI files.

I may have occasionally lost a whole comment when posting. I also tend to copy it to the clipboard first, just in case. Sometimes I even compose it in a separate document file.

P.S. I have never seen an episode of Jeopardy! (not sure if it's even broadcast in UK) but I have seen it played briefly many times in American movies. Rewatched Groundhog Day (great existential, Zen comedy) this Xmas and Bill Murray's watching it in one scene, getting all the answers right because he's seen the same show so many times.

OK so where are we now with this one... liking the mix now, subtleness. I can hear (imagine) dissonant oboes in this track, wah pedal guitar attacks and so much more, I love the Key of FMinor. If I have some time I may play around with this to give you an idea of what I mean.
Steve