iDude

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.

I applied some EQing on a couple of the tracks. Something worth mentioning is that I treated the EQing more like a filter. Meaning I used EQ to remove undesired freq from the track. I recently learned this is a better way to EQ tracks. Basically if you use EQing to boost frequency, you end up breaking the natural harmonic balance of the instrumentation. Basically, you end up loosing a lot by using EQ to boost freq. So, with that said.. crank up the volume and cut back on the undesired freq of the individual tracks. Simply look at EQing like a filter instead of a Freq booster. Do modest or slight boosting when you do need to do it, but for fine tweaking of the EQ. This is a trick I picked up online from reading things. Seems to work so far. Did this with my City Line track as well. Actually makes EQing the individual tracks to one another a lot easier to pull off. Basically, I'm staying away from using EQing on the Master itself. Instead opting to burn unmaster tracks now. I'm just making things Master ready. I did a little research into what Mastering is actually all about. Made me stop and rethink things a little more. Some great tutorials about the whole Mastering Processs on YouTube.

This falls under Creative Commons non-commercial liscense agreement. So as long as I'm not charging anything for it.. It's good! It's a ccmixture.org thing.