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Thanks man, It took some work to make some of the clean loops dirty to blend with the others. Then take everything to a clean sound in the Jazzy Bridge Section. I was feeling a bit Jack White and Eric Clapton on the main grooves. The Feedback guitar sort of Steve Stevens. The Jazzy Bridge reminded me of something Spyo Gyra would pull off. I tried to pump things up before going into the Jazzy Bridge section. A Rockin Pre-Bridge? Kick back into the Punkish Groove, back to the Blues Groove.. well you get the idea. I had to take it all down to electronic Synth work at the end. The fun part is matching up a bunch of loops to a steady groove in the same key.

One of these days I'm going to get around to rerecording this song from the ground up. I used a cheap ass $10 labtec PC mic to record the vocals. This is an early recording I made when I started working with DAW software. The only loops I used on this was for the drums. I did a hell of a lot of slice and dice on the drums loops to get the fills, Cymbol Crashes. The rest of the song is me playing the Tracks. The Bass, The guitar tracks and vocals are all me. What I enjoyed the most was that I was able to lay down a basic drum track then go back and redo it with fills, rolls and other things added. The Drum loop work on this track took a lot of time.

Thanks Man. I was going back listening to some of my mixes from last year. They are missing so much bottom end and in general the mixes are not as great as they could have been. I still remember downloading Music Maker with the intention of just recording song ideas. Sort have been pushing myself more and more with mixing and arrangement lately. Sort of fun playing around with electronic composition because it's so different from playing music out live in a band.

No objections here. :-) rock it out in your pedicab. Would be interesting to get feedback on making some tweaks here and there to this track.

Thanks man. The distorted sound on the bass synth was probally the hardest challenge of this track. I took an analog bass loop and layered it 4 tracks deep. The first track I boosted and compressed the Bass and pulled the high and mids out of it. The next two tracks were dirty distorted mid-range versions with Wah and phase shifting on it. Gives it a little growl in the mid tones panned to the left and right. The last track was a super distorted dirty track with delay in the high mid to high range. I had to do a lot of EQ tweaking to get all four tracks of the same loop to have seperate Frequency ranges of their own. Combined together the harmonic overtones jive well together. I don't know where I got the idea to do this. It was something I have thought on and off about for a little while now. It was a challenge to pull this off, a lot experimentation in the process. The Bass line is literally a wall of sound with a texture going on inside itself. Growling whispering sort of distortion layers with Wah Wah and phase shifting going on. Ranging between extremely distorted and slightly distorted layers. All I really did was using Wah Wah and phase shifting and EQ'ing for Bass Synthesis of a bass loop. I transformed an Analog bass loop into a 4 voice poly-synth using tracks with effects.