Hey Evan, you pulled out all the stops on this one man, I was kicking back digging the acoustic ambience and subliminally calculating how long it might have taken you to do all the drum programming (always the most time consuming part I find) when you high dived into some metallic crowd surfing extravaganza! whoa that was a slick change up and then it morphed slightly with some eastern resonances within those tight riffing grooves. That's a massive undertaking pulled off superbly, I have no doubt about the genre on display here and at some points the fusion verges on going nuclear...an excellent track that goes beyond the sum of it's influences and strikes new ground, definitely way cool. cheers Dave
It's always awesome, (and surprising) when you like a track of mine. I've never worked or jawed with other bass players, so it's nice when a bass purist gives a thumbs-up.
Not a lot of bass going on here. I've been putting it more in the background as I learn to work-in new elements. My track "Basso Continuo" is nothing but bass guitar. I'll unhide it incase you get a wild hair and give it a listen.
Programmed drums in this track till the heavy section. Those are loops from here. I'll have to do some digging and give credit. Learned a long time ago not to change the names on loops.
Thanks for stopping in, Dave, and I hope everything is going well for you on your side and hemisphere of our spinning, watery rock.
....and sorry for Trump. I voted the other way. I truly hope the shockwave of lunacy doesn't reach you. And if it doesn't, we may become neighbors. I'll buy myself a ticket quicker than it takes to grab a pu**y.
Hey Mike..digging this man, I quite like the slightly distorted vocals actually, they lend a television drama series backing track vibe, it's got that dark feel very film noir, your bridging the gap man between rock, rap and contemporary flair, it's also interesting to note that while some have found the filtered vocals not quite clear enough it's always a question of what particular sound fits any given groove and in this case it dovetails in nicely....great word a second flow as per usual big thumbs up mate...cheers Dave
I had full intentions of using the distortion on my vocals for this track when i started writing the music for it. the original vocals are much different, but this acapella just 'fit' with the track so well that i left it. I think the biggest issue with the filtered vocals is that i AM spitting a word a second and some people will have to go back a few times to hear what i'm saying. i see that as a good thing. these words should be heard a few times to let them all resonate. i was thinking of writing an entire EP using this 'band' that i created for this track. what do you think?
Banging tune mate! got that 8 bit style which really centres the grove with fast attack on the synths, interestingly the melody isn't too far removed from a Polka in places! (a polka on speed that is) ;)...cool track man guaranteed to move the room! cheers Dave
Wow man really tres cool!...speaking of nihilists I used to be one when it came to HipHop (though I was always a Beasties fan) I was one of those narrow minded suckers who thought it was all facile hyped up crap, however being part of Looperman I developed a liking for it over time (probably through osmosis! lol) and this stuff is great!!...I always appreciate music that is self defining and progressive, and people that express themselves freely, the lyrical style is cool with a great narrative to boot.....I'll definitely be checking out your other material this SickHop is way cool! cheers Dave
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!
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 :))
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
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!
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
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) ;)
Hey Steve...groovin goblins man, choice arrangement and an excellent mix, I really dig those horn stabs, trombone me thinks and trumpet mutes for sure, the more this track progresses the more expansive it becomes with a top line end piece to boot, great work mate!..while we're on the subject of Halloween I'm going to make a complaint..now I know Americans didn't invent it but you definitely made it your own, so how the flippin heck did it migrate down to Oz? because of Murica's infatuation with it that's how (seeing as everything that happens stateside gets adopted here sooner or later) so this time every year I get a knock on my door by pesky kids with bedsheets over their heads and I say something like "don't you kids realise this is Australia and your being manipulated by the great satan America!...and they reply " Is this a trick?" (true) lol cheers Dave
Really, complaint, because every Halloween I just park a white van out front with a Pedo in it and tell the children, you can have all the candy you want! You just have to get it away from the Pedo in the white van before he gets you.
I no longer live in the sepo-murican society you are so dis-avowed too. I have been a Canadian citizen now for a few years. lived here with my wife for 7 years and thought the ehh? would have given that away. But you really can´t hear my NY accent any more as I have learned to hide it with my generic Canadian accent. Unlike the Aussie accent which sounds sometimes like it´s been F***ed by a east Londoner only to be raped by a Geordie on Parkinson's disease medicine. (A touch too much???) It (Halloween) came to the Great Southern Land, because it´s fun for one day a year to dress up as something different and weird. The more conservative the land the more fun you will have on Halloween (unless you are an evangelical, or Jehovah´s witness). Alas in this politically correct world we live in, that kind of fun WILL NOT BE TOLERATED! so sorry for exporting our fun.....
hey some things you will never hear about Australia (tongue in cheek)
Is that a Vintage Wallaroo trail wine, I only drink that with my fois gras, and Shawarma.
Would you like some more Vegemite Monsieur?
Live Free...or die from everything that will kill you in Australia!!
Yes officer, that sheep was coming on to me!!
What is the difference between an Australian wedding and an Australian funeral?
One less drunk at the funeral
I could go on.... but I am a Canadian now and I must adhere to politeness at all cost of seeming not polite to the international community.
if you feel your culture has been slighted at all I am obligated to say I am Sorry.
Justin Trudeau is also obligated to apologize to you..
That´s are way
Also Justin Beiber might Felate you...Also our way..(not sure why yet, but I am assimilating)
Long Live dark Humour and Men who can take it ;-)
Cru
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 :)
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
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.
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
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.
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
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. :-)
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
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
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
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 :)
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!
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 :)
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.
Hey there mate, interesting track!...finding a suitable genre category is a complicated process these days, it was way easier 30 years ago! lol anyway I digress, sounds very reminiscent of plenty of jams I was involved with back in the day and possesses that free flowing element you just don't hear in most modern music, it's great to see some actual 'played' music where the variance degree is dialled right up and the predictability level is dialled right down, enjoyed it from start to finish with some cool changes happening....nice one man! cheers Dave
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 :)
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
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:
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:
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 :)
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 :)
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
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 :)
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 :)
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!
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 :)
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It's always awesome, (and surprising) when you like a track of mine. I've never worked or jawed with other bass players, so it's nice when a bass purist gives a thumbs-up.
Not a lot of bass going on here. I've been putting it more in the background as I learn to work-in new elements. My track "Basso Continuo" is nothing but bass guitar. I'll unhide it incase you get a wild hair and give it a listen.
Programmed drums in this track till the heavy section. Those are loops from here. I'll have to do some digging and give credit. Learned a long time ago not to change the names on loops.
Thanks for stopping in, Dave, and I hope everything is going well for you on your side and hemisphere of our spinning, watery rock.
....and sorry for Trump. I voted the other way. I truly hope the shockwave of lunacy doesn't reach you. And if it doesn't, we may become neighbors. I'll buy myself a ticket quicker than it takes to grab a pu**y.
Evan
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I never get sick of listing to a pro at work!...cheers Dave
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!
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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
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I no longer live in the sepo-murican society you are so dis-avowed too. I have been a Canadian citizen now for a few years. lived here with my wife for 7 years and thought the ehh? would have given that away. But you really can´t hear my NY accent any more as I have learned to hide it with my generic Canadian accent. Unlike the Aussie accent which sounds sometimes like it´s been F***ed by a east Londoner only to be raped by a Geordie on Parkinson's disease medicine. (A touch too much???) It (Halloween) came to the Great Southern Land, because it´s fun for one day a year to dress up as something different and weird. The more conservative the land the more fun you will have on Halloween (unless you are an evangelical, or Jehovah´s witness). Alas in this politically correct world we live in, that kind of fun WILL NOT BE TOLERATED! so sorry for exporting our fun.....
hey some things you will never hear about Australia (tongue in cheek)
Is that a Vintage Wallaroo trail wine, I only drink that with my fois gras, and Shawarma.
Would you like some more Vegemite Monsieur?
Live Free...or die from everything that will kill you in Australia!!
Yes officer, that sheep was coming on to me!!
What is the difference between an Australian wedding and an Australian funeral?
One less drunk at the funeral
I could go on.... but I am a Canadian now and I must adhere to politeness at all cost of seeming not polite to the international community.
if you feel your culture has been slighted at all I am obligated to say I am Sorry.
Justin Trudeau is also obligated to apologize to you..
That´s are way
Also Justin Beiber might Felate you...Also our way..(not sure why yet, but I am assimilating)
Long Live dark Humour and Men who can take it ;-)
Cru
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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
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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!
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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
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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
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