BradoSanz

Hey Brado, thank you for taking a listen to this one! I'm getting the impression that it is far less acceptable to people than my usual track, and I take that as a good sign... a sign that I am breaking through barriers put up by things such as genre, "professionality," and machismo. The words meant a lot to me, and I wish I could have sang them better, but at the same time the words were especially relevant when the main takes were recorded, so it conveys the feelings well. The additional vocals were basically outtakes from attempts to do better, and yet they did add a lot. The vocals are actually not very raw overall, just audible. This is the first use of the new four channel gate/expander rack piece I picked up recently, and my first use of the Kustom dynamic microphone in quite some time. I suppose it could be considered a new or different genre, but it is securely influenced by early psychedelic rock such as Jefferson Airplane and The Doors, as well as some new wave stuff like New Order. In face the riff that shows up a couple times in the second half seems almost stolen from New Order, which was totally unintentional, and I didn't realize it until later. Totally appreciate you stopping by!

Thank you Brado for your time and comments. Not well today so not hanging around I'm afraid.

Hey Brado, thanks for listening and commenting.

Yes, the bass tone is killer :) I think the secret to this collaboration is that we 3 have been working on quite a few songs already, so we get better at it. In addition, all of us are active at wikiloops.com, so we collaborate with othe people on weekly basis, that does let us hone our production skills. Try it out, you might like it ;) .

For the sound effects, I mainily use freesound.org , but if I am after something I will look at other places too, like soundbible. There are lots...

Anyway, thanks for listening and appreciate the comments :)

Hmm. You've given us something to think about.
Thanks
Any ideas? :)

Haha really? Thanks! I'm always so worried they're sounding too fake. I just use the Garageband and Logic Pro 9 plugins and do a lot of layering and editing to get real-ish sounds.

Hey BradoSanz

Thank you for the review and your thoughts, will look into what you mention some time in the future, I think they sit okies for but could be better...many thanks again matey...Peace...Mosaic...

Thank you! I hope so too haha. It's all fake guitars at the moment.

Nuanced greetings.

Yes, this is the track I was referring to. Sometimes I listen to other people's tracks and they sound so much louder and clearer than mine and I feel just a little inadequate. I'm always not sure if my overall sound is loud, powerful and clear enough.

"plain ol' boss-ery"

No, not really a word. One I do like, though, is 'badassery'. The collective noun from 'badass'. Not a real word but makes great sense to me. I think there's quite a bit of it on display in this track.

"Reminds me a bit of Metallica at some parts"

Yes, maybe with the chugging riffage but you won't find Rhodes or synth arps in their music. I'd say they haven't done anything good in 20 years though their 80s and 90s stuff is still very good.

" the keys (?) that you played at 3:12"

Yes - Fender Rhodes, a very rarely used instrument in any heavy music. And with good reason, as it's much more of a jazz/funk/chillout type of sound. I add it for odd and unexpected flavour, something you know I love to do.

"that jazzy transition at 3:50"

Yes, those swing drums there are entirely just a transition. I really didn't want the track to start becoming jazz as I thought it would spoil the asskicking vibe but I did need a way to bridge between sections. That little drum groove seems to work nicely.

No, no timestretched guitars there, just a synth pad plus some cello underneath. No guitar anywhere in the track.

"Ever thought about making a tutorial video?"

I have not but it's an interesting suggestion as I may well have some unusual little techniques and/or music making philosophies. As I work alone and never see how others work, I wonder if I have developed some odd, little ways of doing things that might be of interest to others. I'm not really planning to do it but I'd probably call my tutorial video series something like Production Tipz n ##### with Tha Mothafuckin' Nomad.

Great to hear you'd be up for watching it. Maybe one day, if I can be bothered. I'm not the type of guy who's much into promoting himself.

A new cellout dance track coming next week.

Take care,

Nuanced Nomad

Hey Brado thanks for the compliments I really appreciate it. I am going to be teaching an audio engineering section in my communications class next school year so I thought I should probably buckle down and start learning some of the technical stuff so that my students can hopefully make some decent recordings. By the way I found this website that allows you to make video recordings with both system audio and microphone audio simultaneously for free. I tried it on my windows machine and worked great, here is the site:http://www.apowersoft.com/free-online-screen-recorder hopefully this will work because I am really looking forward to seeing your process. Anyway thanks again for checking out the track.

Kyle

Thanks man. I'm told I drink too much lol. The vocals are Mhyst. I can't sing lolol. Thanks for the compliments man. http://www.looperman.com/acapellas/detail/6156/let-me-fly-acapella-trance-vocal-by-mhyst-140bpm-trance-acapella

Thanks bro! That's always something I love hearing! Its just a great thing to know, you're improving as time goes on. Even though I can't take all of the credit. Its YOU guys who are helping me move forward. Without your helpful comments and sincere gestures to always listen and helpfully criticize my music, I would have probably given up.

So, thank you, all of you!

Thank you BradoSanz, A lot of work goes into making tracks and I'm glad my hard work paid off. I'm glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for the kind words!!

Thanks for the feedback.

Yo, BradoBro.

Sorry to hear of your cello problems. I had problems too, which is why I put off starting to really play it for about a year. Definitely not the same sort of problems as you're having but I seem to remember you saying that you weren't happy having bought something that was just too cheap.

Yes, the slides in this are nice and probably pop up all over the place, though I'm employing a bunch of other techniques as well. First time that I've actually bowed the top two strings. I find it kind of awkward to reach them (mine is 5 string though I think I'd prefer only 4) so only make simple chord shapes (5ths) and limit my movement so that I don't screw up too much.

"Minimalist drum kit that I really like"

Yes, it's mostly a hip hop drum kit, with rock kits taking over towards the end. It's quite busy at times but, yes, I've tried to make the drums a bit more background to allow all the cello activity to shine.

Glad to hear you found this cello track relaxing. I think so too.

Next cello track will probably be the opposite - cellometallo.

Good luck with your damaged cello.

Static CellMad

Yeah, I think so too. My problem with mainstream hiphop is the drums and bass, being so punchy, so full all the time. Stoner, like older hip-hop, is more soft, more details, more dynamics, it's not as in your face but I prefer it a lot, more natural, breaths and flows more.

I'm glad you like it man :)

I have thought about it but never get to it ha, thank you though, and sure.

Thank you very much! I did indeed have a blast creating this. There was a loop in Music Studio where a voice snippet saying what sounded like "does your momma eat Yoplait. I heard a track by Mista Perez Yo Momma So Damn Pretty and it inspired me to go back a remake the track to what you heard. vic

Hey Brado, yeah I'm still using the same interface, just tried to change the style up a bit. Its nice to know this gives off a pleasant atmosphere, as that's what I like my music to give to people when they listen to it.

Thanks for always checking in, always appreciated. Take care :)

thank you for listening and nice comments Brado. It is much appreciated. Yes, beside 2 tracks/instances taken from others that I mentioned in the description I played everything directly on the keyboard on the first track. Guitar is also a Casio sound but with lots of virtual effects on it (reverb and time delay candy and such). The 2nd track was made entirely on Casio as well - it's just an earlier take of the same musical 'project'. I am really looking forward to experiment more with sounds and definitely to get more seriously into hardware in the future. Currently I have some other, classical keyboard music projects running quite surprisingly (in my 'real life') so it seems I will probably invest more into hardware synths later this year hopefully. So far I can't say I am anywhere even close to the point of using creatively the possibilities of the hardware I collected. At least this is how I actually think about my current musical condition - there is so much to explore in terms of going 'inward'.

I am really glad you enjoyed this little piece (or pieces) and some percussive work I did on the keyboard. I didn't quantize timing nor velocities of my playing this time.

Thanks for your very nice review.
Alex

gracias for your kind words :) I will take note and try to pump up those volumes. Advice like this helps the reals in the world try to get the music out there :)

thank you very much .
it's on 120bmp .
sorry for late responce .
thanks again .
:)

Hey Brando,

"drums were a hair too loud"
hmm they sounded ok on my end, ill drop them a little though.

"You're becoming more and more unique with every new track"
really? awesome!. its not intentional haha

thanks for the listen and comment bro :)

Yeah, it´s an older song from when I didn´t have a condenser mic, my mic sucked haha.

You've got very good ears!!!! Can't get away with much around here these days.
Thanks for your time Brado and your comment and I will keep in mind that there are eagle eyes like you out there or should that be owl ears? I shall watch for that a little more in future and thanx again my friend.