BradoSanz

Ah, yes. The drums will get upgraded soon. I appreciate your opinion and will probably go that route.

Thanks again.

Evan

hey brando, yeah would love to compose for games but just dont really know where to go or who to contact to make that happen. So ill just keep making music and hope they come to me haha
Btw just updated this with some minor improvements if you want to check it out :)

Cheers for the comment buddy

Thankyou Brado for the comment and the listen. I checked you out, and I will be Back. You have the gift of music strong. Keepa pickin and grinnin. PEACE. THE MACK MAN OUT.

Neither do I! Hehehe but I'm constantly told I make industrial, I refer to it as Abrasive.. Only so I can make the rules XD

Thank you, you'll be glad to hear there are more added now and, I hope, I've fixed the mix, it was quite lack lustre.

I really appreciate your generous comments :D

Greetings, Mr. Sanz.

We don't talk much. You seem like an alright fella. Just thought I'd throw that out there. Needs to be said sometimes. Positive music, helpful with forum topics, and great taste in headphones. All good stuff.

"was that the Paulstretch effect Nomadobro mentioned long ago?"

Yes, slowed 8x. Good old Nomad. Pretty neat program. It's at the end of Choon Bi, as well. There are several ways it processes, and they seem to be heavily layered like several delays are being used. I'm guessing that is to disguise the degradation and algorithms.

"Is that bass layered with anything? It sounds wide so I just thought I'd ask."

I get two separate performances with the bass that are close to identical, and pan them. If timing is off or I get frettbuzz, I cant use it. It wont sound like the single, wide entity that I want it to be. They have to be really together to work, and I despise quantizing. Takes actual rehearsal once I write a riff to get it smooth. I try not to record anything unless I'm comfortable playing it already.

"The only thing I'd say could use a bit more punch are the drums."

Drums are typically my downfall. Reading reviews, so many people bitch about EZ and Superior Drummer that I'm leery to get it. Also, I need to update my studio PC, DAW, and desk, so the software will have to wait till I'm happy with the other upgrades. I will, however, go into the DAW and add some compression to the drums, see how it sounds.

I appreciate the feedback. Quite constructive.

Take care.

Evan

FL Studio 12

Brado - I appreciate your appreciation a lot. I am hopelessly behind on the available sounds but have made a decent mix and basic musical values my priority even as I try to keep up. So I am very happy if you connected with this despite all. Thanks so much and by the by - there is an extended version out now! LOL. peace my friend.

It's weird, the bass really had nothing to do with the song, but ended up fitting nicely. The drums I didn't edit much just used the samples as they came.

Thanks muchly Brad. I was going to add a lot more but thought no ... keep it simple.

Mercury was just a weird-style experiment that I made, but yeah if I make it into a full thing I'll take your advice.

Thank ya.

Well, yes I agree that pretty much all songs are improved with vocals because of the added dimension and the meaning or message that is conveyed. I wish I was more brave or less particular about it and than I would maybe chance doing some. Haha, such is the plight with many of us here I think. I would welcome you, since you are a singer to add some if you like. Yes I also agree that SupaFreakShows bass really added some major kick to the track. I was really blown away by his gesture to do that, but it is a testament to the awesomeness of this community and its members. Looperman is damn kick ass, for lack of better words! Anyhow, thanks for your most excellent comments my friend, they mean a lot and I appreciate very much.

Yo, Bradobro.

I noticed that when you wrote this review you were writing loads of others around the same time. I never write any more than two, maximum three, a day. There just aren't enough Looperman tracks I either like or feel sufficiently moved to comment on.

Yes, it's a fairly powerful and distinctive intro.

"Is it electronic cello?"

Excuse me for potentially being pedantic but no, it's electric cello ie not an acoustic cello but still a real cello though it needs to go through an amp. So I put it through my guitar rig rather than using a mic, as you would with an acoustic cello.

I think electronic cello would be a synth/sample-based cello patch. I occasionally use some of those but they sound nothing like my played cello, which is new in my music in the last few months.

"0:19 is quite warm, silky"

Yes, that's where I layer probably about 4 bowed parts together to get that big, emotive rise that takes us neatly to the arrival of the bass and drums.

"single movements of the bow (for the most part) to create space."

Yes, that's because I'm still a total novice when it comes to bowing and don't really have sufficient control of it yet to groove doing alternate up and down bows. I wish I could.

"drum beat is solid and keeps everything together nicely"

I agree. Two loops that mesh together perfectly. Strong groove but doesn't get in the way of the more interesting stuff on top.

"2:48 was quite ear-perking for me."

Cool. I love to perk your ears.

"You have some really cool stuff going on in this segment"

I agree but I was strongly considering getting rid of it to cut down on the the running length. It was the last major section that I came up with.

"3:48 sounds like a jazzy bass is playing in the background"

That's the synth sub bass. It provides all basslines in the track apart from the first bassline around 0:20, which is cello going through my octave pedal so that it sounds like a proper bass.

"It's quite juicy, and I like juicy."

You've heard that exact same synth patch in many of my tracks. I know I shouldn't keep on using but it does such a good, solid unobtrusive job though I do sometimes also bring it to the fore and make it sound pretty badass.

"The beat gets a little repetitive for me as this segment goes on"

Sorry - I tried to vary that swing jazz groove in subtle ways but maybe I have failed. My drums tend to vary a lot so I'm trying to actually make them a bit simpler. You still hear much more drum variety in this track than in most people's music.

"7:30 - is that a guitar or cello?"

Definitely guitar. No way it could be cello. You can hear the sound of the guitar strings in there. I kept the guitar real minimal in this one though the playing in that section isn't great. Maybe I'll go back and try to improve it.

"a pleasant listen"

My pleasure to be able to offer you a little bit of pleasantry. It's why I do it...

Static Bromad.

Thanks I Appreciate That

Man that was my fav part too,it had very nice groovy vibe but sadly i dropped it and never surfaced again on the mix sorry about that...the drum beat is from the genre afrobeat. i've listened to your songs too especially the one you did with your brothers, very nice melody.
i like what you do with the guitar keep it up bro and thanks for listening!

Thanks for leaving a cmment Brado! I always use a lot of time to make the drums as they are the backbone in a (dance) track. I am glad I passed that test :). I use the best vsts available. For this track I used serum and spire. Serum is for a lot of people the nr1 at the moment but for a novice I find spire easier to work with. Can you give me an example of a part where you feel is too little? I can maybe change that. When you hear a track more often you are getting used to the flow of it and dont see the things that can be changed or enhanced.

Hey buddy, thanks for taking a listen and living through the long track! The main lead was started with a simple four note sequence, which was transformed with digital assistance into a more complex arpeggiation based around the intended mode, then this was manually manipulated to induce time shifting and a more complex note structure as the arrangement progressed. I'm glad that you can find some fun in there, which I'm thinking must be found in the fun I had creating it. The dark sense of loss and confusion is definitely paramount in almost every aspect of life at the moment. The robotic voice became sort of the response portion of a call and response, so the entire lyrical expression would be - "What is wrong with the world? It begins to crack." I'm happy that you find it detailed enough, I wish that you could have seen and witnessed the details which were fleeting and escaped me on that day. Thank you for your words!