Planetjazzbass

Awesome explanation man, sorry to use the review section for replying, in future I'll contact you privately if I have a query...I think the reason why I have (obviously misplaced) outboard bias is because..well damn there's no way around it, I'm a dinosaur from the 20th century! lol...great sounding mix again Mahloo and it only took you a couple of hours!

Mahloo13 replied 13th Oct 2016 - 10 years ago

I love outboard as well. But yeah the thing is without having a full setup of outboard gear your kinda opening a can of worms as you''ll want to run everything through the gear and that may result in sending each track individually to the eq in this example and then record it again in the daw so that you have the eq-ed version :)) been there done that and it's just time consuming. Not to mention capacitators going out more often than a teenager hits the pubs :))

Planetjazzbass 13th Oct 2016 03:58 - 10 years ago

on Mayday Parade - When You See My Friends Cover by Mahloo13

Hey Mahloo..sounds bloody good mate! though I personally find the vocal style and delivery very generic and not to my taste (this is in no way a reflection on you obviously) it is sitting superbly in the mix and the instrumentation is a balanced lesson in how an arrangement should sound at it's first inception and presentation to the people that played it with the view to discussion and final tweaking...Ok while I'm here I might as well slip in a question in regards to outboard equalisation, occasionally I feel the necessity to give keyboards and guitars a slight top end nudge within a mix and I'd prefer to do it with hardware, what would you recommend?..... please nothing astronomically priced! lol
I never get sick of listing to a pro at work!...cheers Dave

Mahloo13 replied 13th Oct 2016 - 10 years ago

Thank you for the review!

As for equalization...I wouldn't necesarily advise you to go outboard unless you are working with great converters as you'll be basically running audio through your converters twice, once when you record and the second time when you send the audio to the eq and back into the daw. It will also make it mandatory to calibrate your levels going out of the daw. Software eq is perfectly fine honestly (more and more engineers are moving towards mixing totally in the box nowadays). Gear presents the ability to move really fast as everything is patched in but also introduces some issues, if you combine out of the box mixing with in the box mixing then you'll also have to take into account the latency that each piece of gear introduces. In the studio we have everything conected through a patchbay and each hardware insert stays on the same insert always so it's pretty easy to set up the delay compensation for each hardware insert so basically we don't have to do it always. Software eq is just fine believe me. I personally use a SSL channel strip plugin for most of things in a mix as I know the hardware as well and it's really easy to get it to do what I want. So all in all I'd say...save your money for something else :))

Great question by the way! If you've got any questions or would like to further discuss this/similar matters feel free to contact me!

Planetjazzbass 9th Oct 2016 02:17 - 10 years ago

on MADCAT - Cry Out -Halloween Special- by RagingKitten

Thanks man, I much prefer to give a proper review on site.
Good intro, then it hits that glitchy groove, I can understand the thinking behind the theme, but found the overall direction of the track a little one dimensional not that it's bad or anything, but there is a fair degree of repetition going on without any melodic departures to give it a little more dynamic appeal...all in all if the track fits the brief it's done it's job...cheers PJB

Planetjazzbass 7th Oct 2016 23:38 - 10 years ago

on All Hallows Funk by crucethus

Oh $hit!..I thought while I was typing the review 'hmmm is cru a sepo or is he a lumberjack' damn!!! sort of put my tongue in the shredder there, don't feel bad though 93% of the world's population can't tell the difference anyhow (lol) ;)

crucethus replied 8th Oct 2016 - 10 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n7y_j_nbBg

Planetjazzbass 7th Oct 2016 23:32 - 10 years ago

on All Hallows Funk by crucethus

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Planetjazzbass 5th Oct 2016 08:32 - 10 years ago

on Kids On Soundcloud by DoctorPyro

Haha!...if there's one pet peeve I have it's friggin soundcloud and all the wannabees on it, check my track and I'll check yours, follow me and I'll follow you etc etc etc...but then I'm not telling you anything you don't know...10/10 no make that 20/10..verging on genius!!! cheers Dave :)

Planetjazzbass 2nd Oct 2016 01:18 - 10 years ago

on Borat by Bindanox

Hey mate,very cool track you've got here!!...one of my favourite instruments on show the Stomach Steinway! haha seriously though many people see and hear accordion music without fully appreciating the significance of the instrument it being one of the first ever made that had standardised pitch/tuning, it's no wonder it forms the basis of so many folk styles and beyond. Borat aka Sasha Cohen is one of my fav entertainers and his acerbic style often goes over the heads of the people he's parodying, it's always a feel good experience though and this track reflects that perfectly..if I could do a Russian dance I would do it to this!..cheers Dave

Bindanox replied 2nd Oct 2016 - 10 years ago

Hi Dave.
I always wanted to make at least one song featuring this amazing instrument so often overlooked.
For this particular track i wanted it to sound really silly but catchy.Again,seeing my son dancing to it was the seal of aproval i maybe need it.
The name Borat fits like a glove me thinks.
Thank you for taking time to listen to it and comment.

Nelson

Planetjazzbass 1st Oct 2016 01:03 - 10 years ago

on EW Playaround by Mahloo13

Hey Mahloo, nice work man (listening on a pair of Grado RS2's and the mix sounds great!)...I've always been into Middle Eastern and World music and the plethora of instruments which that implies. I can listen to material like this all day especially those Duduk lines, it's nasally ethereal quality always blows my mind...you never cease to impress with your professional acumen, the Loop is lucky to have you around!...cheers Dave

Mahloo13 replied 1st Oct 2016 - 10 years ago

Believe it or not but I also love Middle Eastern and wolrd instruments. I've actually had the pleasure of working with talented people from all over the world and it never ceases to amaze me how a couple of notes played where they don't belong can define a sound and create a distinct and recognizable sonic image.

The duduk I absolutely love and having listened to the real thing it just blew my mind. It's one of those instruments that just needs a bit of reverb and delay and it sounds incredible. Works great on dark tunes.

There isn't really a mix here, it was just a reverb and everything went to tape through a neve console. It wasn't supposed to get printed but in the end i'm glad someone didn't pay attention to what they are printing.

Thank you for the review!

Planetjazzbass 1st Oct 2016 00:50 - 10 years ago

on Am I Crazy Muzic by BradoSanz by FullCapicityMuzic

Hey Pat...fantastic (with humongous emphasis on the fan aspect, always have been!) to hear your awesome voice again, such a great sounding track more amazing by virtue of the fact that the vocals were apparently recorded using some new age portable device, get you into a top flight recording studio and the sky would literally be the limit...also a big credit to Brado for his excellent acoustic track!...seeing, (well hearing I mean) you perform again has made my day, you have a real talent and it should be displayed at every opportunity for all to enjoy...awesome with a triple AAA credit rating....cheers Dave

FullCapicityMuzic replied 28th Feb 2019 - 7 years ago

Dave. Dave, oh Dave! I miss your long, thorough comments! :-) I'm sorry I'm just getting here, life and all that, yuh know. This is the stuff I need to hear during non musical times, and it sure is great to come back and read such goodness! I hope all is well. Thanks. :-)

Planetjazzbass 11th Aug 2016 05:54 - 10 years ago

on Losing you by Rhodesy

I'm reviewing this track as more of a reply to you forum post on losing musical inspiration...You've got more than a few boxes ticked musically, a lot more than the average Joe has, you can clearly project into an arrangement and get an emotive groove on, so what's the problem, not making it in the real world musically according to you, maybe that's the bane of 99% of people that ever picked up an instrument, I have no answers being in the same boat but it doesn't bother me at all, a lot of people crave celebrity but I'm guessing your too mature for that, if your anything like me you'll get plenty of inspiration from listening to the closest sympathetic instrument to your own in my case it's drums, if I hear a great pattern that's all I need.....I'll apologise in advance if this topic is inappropriate as a track review, I just don't like to see an obviously talented musician straying into the doldrums, which incidentally isn't reflected in this track, cool work!...cheers Dave

Rhodesy replied 11th Aug 2016 - 10 years ago

Hey Dave,many thanks for your comments you put across a strong case as always :)
I am sure i will get my mojo back at some point as i always have thank you.I was just putting some ideas into the mix on the said forum.I am currently doing some music study and desperately trying to improve my piano skills so music is still pumping through my veins!
Thanks mate Rhodesy

Planetjazzbass 31st Jul 2016 06:25 - 10 years ago

on Ald Timers Disease by silverman

I think the Weird genre here should be removed as it somewhat stigmatises content that otherwise could (or should) be interpreted as Cinematic...a small matter I know but I was getting a good visual dialogue whilst listening to the track, the bells are well synced to the beat and I don't know whether it's my long association with aluminium foil (yeah ok,my top left hand breast pocket usually contained a foil during the 70's,but that pales next to the amount of sandwiches I've wrapped up with it over the decades) or it's your track description but those synths sound aluminiumy! haha...esoteric and witty bordering on the paranoiac in places but undoubtedly entertaining!....cheers Dave

Planetjazzbass 3rd Jul 2016 07:22 - 10 years ago

on jazz of ethereal forest plus bonus track by promenade2239

Hey Alex..interesting track you've got happening here..all musician's are in part dictated by some metronomic gland hidden somewhere in the cerebellum, sometimes it develops into a tumour and completely takes over the personality hence percussionist/drummers are born! haha..at stages the timing in the first track was a little risque and mechanically awkward however it carried on conceptually very well..I love the second track! in fact as a creative piece it ranks superbly in my book, to me it's an intro to a much larger composition, so I'm going to make a comparison which I've never made before..as an intro it's as good as anything Weather Report has made (I'm using my imagination to fill in the next passage obviously) nonetheless it's a brilliant audio sensation in itself!...all the best Dave :)

promenade2239 replied 12th Feb 2017 - 9 years ago

Hi Dave! Thank you so much for such positive words! This first track was my emotional outburst towards all annoying metronomical correctness of currently appearing looperman's music actually. I played snare drum on keyboard but intentionally didn't quantize it - it is just a presentation of possibilities of different synthesized based sounds when putting them in real time maybe 'in between' all already existing complex latin drum patterns loop hard harmonics even. I don't think I deserve for being compared to such great musicians you mentioned. I will try my best!

Best to you, Alex

Planetjazzbass 3rd Jul 2016 03:36 - 10 years ago

on Glass by HustleUnion

Hey Hustle..like the track title this groove is SMOOTH! I really like to hear HipHop tracks without the vocals occasionally so I can feel where the producer is going musically, deep, dark and somewhat evocative of city streets at night...cool stuff man! cheers Dave :)

HustleUnion replied 21st Aug 2016 - 10 years ago

I might have to change the genre I think, a few people now have said it doesn't fit the "hip hop" genre as well as it might fit others. track titles are always a hard one. I tend to just sit there for about 5 minutes with my eyes closed and put a word to how I'm feeling/seeing when the song is playing.

Planetjazzbass 2nd Jul 2016 00:38 - 10 years ago

on Billion Feat T-Law - Anytime by BillionaireExclusive

Hey Greg, great track man!..I really like the vocals they sit perfectly within the framework of the arrangement are well modulated and clear, anytime a song presents well vocally it gets a big tick from me, if I was to change anything and it's very very minor, it would be to set some automated panning on the high hat when it comes in, at the moment it sits in the top left hand quadrant of the mix and draws a listeners attention, moving it around from right to left will help negate any silly little superfluous critiques from pedantic reviewers like myself! ;)...great vocals, great track man..cheers Dave :)

BillionaireExclusive replied 2nd Jul 2016 - 10 years ago

Thank You So Much I AppreciatThat. Btw My Name Is T'Darius Not Greg Lol

- Billion

Planetjazzbass 20th Jun 2016 11:23 - 10 years ago

on The Warm Glow Of Yesterday by StaticNomad

Hey there mate, I remember seeing in a post that you had acquired an NS Cello and immediately felt heavy gear lust, I've always wanted a cello (only ever played one very briefly)...some very cool sounds I'm hearing while typing this and making the transition from plucking picking or strumming to bowing must be an awesome experience and a very difficult one I imagine, at the 7:30 mark everything coalesces and full liftoff tonality occurs, there's always a sweet spot that blossoms in a good track and this is it for me, I can feel the measured restraint you described towards the end, it would have been very tempting to blitz this section with an electrical axefest and many would have done so, I think the track is well balanced without it (though this is a little presumptive on my part seeing as I'm only theorising here) It's awesome that your exploring a new instrument and from what I hear your quick on the uptake, there's no doubt that when you start incorporating acoustically biased instruments into your music there's no going back. The cello has been long touted as similar in range to the human voice and hence possesses the greatest empathy of any instrument, do you find any truth in this? and if so would you steer your playing of the instrument into a lead melodic role or more as an accompanying layered string section? ....I know there is tone heaven in that instrument and I'll bet it's going to become a large part of your sound, Just replaying the track now....excellent intro! with this frequency it's very reminiscent of something I can't quite put my finger on!...see your already hypnotising people! haha..you'll have to elaborate more on what your doing with this instrument in the future, signal path and so forth, I can read that stuff for ages and not get bored!....tres cool work! cheers Dave

StaticNomad replied 21st Jun 2016 - 10 years ago

Yo.

I have a 5-string NS cello. I may have made a mistake getting one with an extra string. I have less of a gap between the strings, which makes hitting the right string with the bow harder.

"making the transition from plucking picking or strumming to bowing must be an awesome experience and a very difficult one I imagine"

My pizzicato is fine - though I am playing, for the first time, a fretless instrument. But I see the cello as being mostly about bowing. And bowing is really tricky and fraught with danger. The danger is in hitting either scrapey or whingey tones or weird undesirable tones. If you can control all this, you can get some great and surprising tones. I'm working on an Easten cello dance track and doing lotsof high, spiccato bowing that sounds like a shakuhachi or flute.

I'm also doing bowed harmonics beyond the fingerboard, producing some really odd, alien tones.

"7:30 mark everything coalesces and full liftoff tonality occurs"

Yes, this is mostly a chillout track but I can rarely help making things go more exciting and funky/rocking/both. So, 7:30 is the breakout funk groove for a final flourish, with lots of high bowing.

"tempting to blitz this section with an electrical axefest"

I agree. I've been playing cello for 3 months now, to the exclusion of my other instruments. So, I've been trying to get it do what I might normally do on guitar (and bass too) and not allowing myself to simply add guitar. Trying to make it all work on cello alone is how I'm exploring the instrument. So, I made a badass, heavy track featuring no guitar but loads of distorted cello riffage:

Nuance Is Futile

http://www.looperman.com/tracks/detail/176620

"your quick on the uptake"

My cello teacher seems to think so. She's a touring professional but says she can't really teach me anything about riffs and that she actually learns from me.

I have no idea if the cello has the greatest empathy of any instrument or what the connection between it and the voice is. I'm still trying to work out what the connection is between bowed cello and wind instruments (ie shakuhachi, flute and even bassoon).

" steer your playing of the instrument into a lead melodic role or more as an accompanying layered string section?"

I want to do it all. As with my other instruments, I'll keep exploring different playing techniques and FX as I try to squeeze as many cool sounds as I can out of it. Whilst trying to avoid scrapey, whingey tones.

Yes, I love the intro of this track. Hypnotic harmonics that I enjoyed listening to over and over again.

OK, I'll tell you more about signal path another time. It's quite similar to my guitar setup as I go through the same Boss multi-effects unit.

Thanks for the extensive thoughts.

More cello tracks coming soon. In the meantime, my latest track contains loads of cello:

Everything Where it Should Be

http://www.looperman.com/tracks/detail/177063

Planetjazzbass 12th Jun 2016 04:53 - 10 years ago

on Cocaine by silverman

How could I go past this track, I mean who has knocked back a toot right?...ahh that's my past speaking I'd be appalled to think I'd even consider imbibing these days! lol...Man you've got some serious soundscape happening here and I know you put some in depth thought into your music, it's like setting off on a nature walk (not the flora and fauna kind) all the creeping promise of bliss whilst deftly hiding the comedown hebejeebees(no idea how to spell that) are present, the pleasant distortion of reality and the promise of shagging that suddenly more attractive babe you've been eyeing off....as they say you get more bang for your buck, compelling, driven and unashamedly wanton at times...Jeez typical, lets have some more please! cheers Dave :)

Planetjazzbass 12th Jun 2016 00:55 - 10 years ago

on Kingsford Edge Will Do by vigwig

Hey there Vigmyster long time no see man.....you've been digging up the crazy side of the street for ages man, but this one is totally plumb loco commercially orientated if ever I've heard it! lol...Man you got that jungle groove going deep, deep down into the subconscious it's hypnotic, it's a subliminal attempt to take over our brains...it's cool!..but I guess you programmed that in there on purpose, I have no resistance but to give it an 11 out of 10...... finally all you need is to tag the metadata to buy VigWig, buy VigWig..definitely method in the madness..cool stuff man! cheers Dave :)

vigwig replied 12th Jun 2016 - 10 years ago

Hi, Dave, as always it's good to hear from you, Your reviews are collectibles. MStokes would roll over after reading this one. Insightful, to the point and constructive. Thank you for the kind review, the listen and the welcome. Cheers, Vic

Planetjazzbass 12th Jun 2016 00:28 - 10 years ago

on Still Alive by MGproduct

Hey man, great tune!....you definitely hit the happy side of the street with this one, the gated vocals are fantastic! I was really digging the synth playing but then the track ended! haha..very reminiscent of some classy Japanese pop music I've heard but with more complexity and feeling...cool stuff man!
cheers Dave :)

MGproduct replied 12th Jun 2016 - 10 years ago

Thanks dave ... I don't know what is the Japanese pop music !!! What is it?

Planetjazzbass 10th Jun 2016 03:59 - 10 years ago

on Easy For Me by Spivkurl

Electro Ska..cool! Man, in a way this track reminds me of a confluence of planets, initially it's quite busy and there's a faux randomness to the electronic grooves and rhythm, it's not chaos at all but there's possibly an imminent sensory overload on the horizon and then it really focuses with the lyrics almost to a microscopic level , it's like all the planets line up suddenly, you couldn't get the same impact without the preceding passages..powerful stuff!..I sometimes wonder if you wear a lab coat when your creating music (for all the right reasons of course) I myself have a stethoscope that I occasionally use for tracking down buzzes on my stringed instruments (true! lol)...cool work mate! cheers Dave :)

Spivkurl replied 24th Jun 2016 - 10 years ago

Hey friend, thank you for the words! There have been many odd planetary alignments recently, and celestial events in general... such as the full moon coinciding with the summer solstice this year... very potent. I'm happy that you referred to "faux" randomness, as the rhythms were very specified in most cases... but do sound a bit frantic. I really wanted people to hear the words this time, for them to draw people in. It's sad really, I always regret not stealing a lab coat from my optical tech job that fired me so many years ago... I could really use that now. I've started using an oscilloscope sometimes in the studio, since I have two... and I've finally grabbed a multimeter for both studios. Stethoscope could be quite useful! Thank you for the very cool review!

Planetjazzbass 11th May 2016 02:50 - 10 years ago

on On Edge by silverman

Damn those arping synths make your feet tap! Crazy cool vibe man your getting right into the sine wave set your controls for the heart of the Sun territory...It no wonder that when people start twiddling with synths that they get addicted, the music is literally squeezing out of my monitors, nice mix to! The differently keyed synths didn't bother me at all, it's almost like driving over a freeway and seeing cars streaming in a different direction, peripheral awareness nothing wrong with that...cool stuff mate! cheers Dave :)

Planetjazzbass 11th May 2016 01:05 - 10 years ago

on Just Thinking by Filaofsoul

Hey Fila, great chill groove man, some really tasty synth solos in there bubbling away and all underpinned by that super smooth grooving bass line! nice one!...really enjoyed it man and great to see you back on the loop!! cheers Dave :)

Filaofsoul replied 13th May 2016 - 10 years ago

Hey Dave nope like Planetjazzbass better. Thanks for stopping by and taking a listen. Yea it has been while but trying to get back in the fold. Glad you enjoyed this number. I swear every time I play this song I just start Thinking LOL. Got a couple in the can so stay tuned. it was good to see you still around! Filãofsoul

Planetjazzbass 11th May 2016 00:50 - 10 years ago

on Fly High by itsXseven

Great track man...when I listen to music I like to see into it and feel the artist's level of commitment whether he (or she) is trying and not just faking it, you get a big thumbs up in this department the vocals are excellent and you've obviously put in some hard yards on the production side as well. You've definitely got the goods, go for it!

Planetjazzbass 10th Mar 2016 04:52 - 10 years ago

on Dec Freestyle Rap by nepaul

Listened to this and thought, hell the dude's swearing a lot these days!lol..as per your usual swagger and cool delivery just like stepping off the curb,excellent tone all the way through..liked it! cheers from the fusion side of the street. ;)

nepaul replied 11th Mar 2016 - 10 years ago

All the mindless swearing are my go too fillers when i freestlye. Similar to an um er ah speech filler. I'd rather not have them in there, but its hard to stop! lol. Just need to keep practicing. Which is exactly what this track was. Practice. Thanks for the comment Dave!

Planetjazzbass 5th Mar 2016 01:18 - 10 years ago

on Trouble in Paradise Feat Billy Dragon by mrwolf14

Hey MrWolf, nice work man! very cool spoken word piece, I like the live almost cavern feel you've created here it's almost minimalist in nature but has an ambience that floats those lyrics perfectly creating an excellent ambience....great composition with a strong message! cheers Dave

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