Cheers alividlife...I was hoping you would catch this one....as you know I am trying to master my mastering lol...big words from you make me feel good.. honestly man.
Yeah that middle break down, stressed myself over that part, it felt empty, even though it was for just a short spell, felt something could be added there.....tried a few things and opted for a single sound effect just to break the routine, anything to forward wanted to stay throughout the rest of the track and I didn't want to take attention away from AJ's vibe.....and you are right man, so proud of this...gotta make sure I don't lose it....one to look back on. cheers bro.
You rock at drums.. I have a couple of your loops and they are soo freaking awesome.. I almost feel bad using them lolz
It's ... very happy, which is different for me as my personal taste goes.
I have absolutely no idea why, but I really saw this working well with Japanese Anime and/or video game.
Logic! I hear good things.... I am toying with the idea of moving to a mac platform.
You sound like you know what your doing.
Good stuff!
:)
PS, on a complete non-sequentier I was thinking of "Lamb-Chops" This is the song that never ends, it goes on and on my friends... etc.etc
Logic is more complex but I'm just going to have to get used to it and I can' take credit for these drums they were actually logic loops because making drum patterns is a lot harder for me in that program but hopefully I can upload my own loops soon
lol at the lamb-chops but thanks for checking out !
Definitely got my attention.. You really walked a fine line here for me man... This was almost on the verge of cheesy for me, but I am in a kinda funky bad mood...
OH
it just changed.
I am happy.
YES.
I really really liked the bridge?... Awesome.
I liked the pairing of the sitar and the guitar... but I also felt with the context it felt jarring and kinda .... like one of those crazy anime cartoons. lol...
Thanks for your review...Cheesy? in what way? ha ha ha, i don't like doing chessy, unless im in the kitchen with a fine knife. Hope you did like it.
It was kind of boring hearing ethnic music without some spice on here, so i thought i cook my own tune and make it come alive a bit..
The fear of being alone?
I have given it a lot of thought... Like personally I got issues with people (like anyone), But I particularly like to be alone.
I think it's a good place to be as well. But furthermore, the concept of ones reality can either be judged from a half-empty, or half-full perspective.
Dope track. Piano was pretty.
I think... I dunno.. would it be possible to hear this as a rhodes?
I am suchawhore for rhodes pianos.
Awesome stuff man!
Sounds like Reason?
I like it when I am wrong.
Beautiful!
I am faving this and downloading.
It's strange, I have been particularly liking extremes in my musical taste lately.. it's either insane death metal or drum and bass, OR, beautiful acoustic ambient pieces.
I loved the off note you threw in there, and the harmonics were beautiful
well done!
Thanks aqgain for yet another review. More often than not, my "off" notes are unintentional bujt I leave them in there. A bit like the imperfection bit thrown into chinese art, but I like what Cyrus said once about one of my off notes, she siad its a "blues" note so I'm sticking with that...Thanks again.
A quick production thought?
What do you use?
I particularly LIVE by noise gates, and I use them set at a low level setting so they cut out all breaths,...
Stereo imaging feels a little weird?
Is this in mono?
I think it could be a little more interesting with the keys being a bit more wide in the stereo spectrum, and maybe thinking of doing something where .. oh there you did it lol.. but giving some dynamic space...
Yeah, I really liked this man.
Faved, downloaded.
I wish we had more vocalists around these parts.
Awesome vocals!
Yeah.. I think I have experimented with a couple accapellas around these parts, and they are usually verses, and then you are kinda like.. damn .. what do i do now?!
You speak on your guitar.
I love it man.. I used to practice like 10 hours a day and I used to be able to just pick it up, and musical phrases would pour out of me.
Thank you.
Hey man,No need to apologize...we're all fam here!
I need to get over and see you too.
I'm glad you liked the song.You know how you can make it sound easy when it's really not...this was one of em'...lol.This was not the first take :)
Yeah, I totally got the "Requiem for a Dream" thing.
I am thinking about my own stuff more, but ... it's really hot on the mixing side... super compressed or things are .. yeah
Dude..
Compression.?
on the 300-700 range... it's not bad..
I mean
My MOUTH is OPEN.
You rocked this.
But looking at it.. like.. from an artistic point of view.. I would have maybe done things differently with the cutoff of some of your freq's...
Heheh.. You know that a dnb loop is basically a hip hop loop times 200 percent right?
lol
Awesome.
You sir are really cool.
I really like all the input you put on the forums and what not.
But I don't like to take it easy on cats (not a literal terminology or profiling to your avatar, but something I call all musicians- and yes loopers are musicians) I am a little concerned with the levels. Awesome work with kudlips I think?
Anyway.. Yer bass sounds like it's clipping, but there's a ton of headroom, which is totally cool, I know this isn't post production, but I think maybe sometime in your future it maybe something worthwhile looking into?
I typically render a track with nothing clipping, sometimes tracks that are really extreme like Death Metal Drum and Bass and ambient textures I render almost -20!
And then I bring them in again and focus on compression and/or imaging and whatnot.
It gets into craziness of mastering, but I am that dude that is always messing with the car stereo lolz
You got vision man.
That counts for a lot.
I dig it.
Already showing diversity and talent.
Awesome!
:)
faved.
Downloaded.
Hey, thanks for the review, and glad you like my input on the forums! I can get a little long winded, but only cuz I wanna make sure I'm being clear and not steppin on too many toes!
kudlips? You lost me there... What's kudlips?
No worries about being harsh! I asked for reviews on my mastering and you gave me exactly what I asked for! You're totally right, it is clipping (you mean the bass drum right? not the bassLINE?), and I need to go back and revamp the drums all together to eliminate some of that.
I think I've got the "headroom" because I added compression to the drums... but that doesn't fix my clipping problem. Still gotta figure out how to fix that. I'm really pumped to start working with a real DAW that will have a better visual EQ so I can really refine my mastering techniques. This really was a huge help though! I'll be updating a remastered version ASAP!
On a quick note about glitch... I think a lot about glitch... and how it's by far my favorite type of ... thing in music...
I remember being a kid and being excited when my CD's skipped.. or when processors where soo small that they would glitch on the bottlenecking...
Then Aphex Twin and Squarepusher blew up big... Totally dug that stuff...
Personal note, but I have been trying to think of ways to syncopate glitch rhythms slightly off the tempo... which is a real defining moment when I hear glitch... Kinda like how delay is pulled around ... or like .. .hmnnnn.. when you have a guitar pedal and twist up the knobs so the delay causes all these nifty glitches...
Kinda would like to experiment there.
Anyway... By far my favorite experience in these last two tracks has been your sense of rhythm... I really like your detail to the percussion elements. It's no-nonsense but very enjoyable.
Again my freind many thanks for takeing the time to listen and leave such deeply insiteful reveiws!
I am honored to recieve such indepth thoughts.
Be Good me bruddah!
1-love!
Thank you,thank you man.You are the first who tell me some real advice.I`m new in making music although i play guitar from the early childhood.It`s so,so much to learn in music.As I go deeper I see how much I don`t know.It`s very much hard to make it all alone.Write the lyrics,than record all,and than production...
Enyway,I have some cheap microphone for karaoke,and even if I scream it`s not as loud as i think it should be.Do you think that some better microphone will do better job...From what I read from youf profile I see you have good knowledge about mixing and production..and
Thank you,thank you again...
Anyhow.. Umnn I am listening on some hella expensive headphones.. And I am already really lovin' them drumy bitrate drop.
AHHH... awesome drums.
Bass is that wobbly soundeffect thingy?
Yeah.. A bass would be cool.. I would maybe only focus it on like the chorus or something after the vox. ...
Amazing work on the glitch work.
Damn near IDM.
Yeah... Where's the bass?
The "whaaaaaaaaaaaoooo" is awesome, but it doesn't round out the bottom enough for me personally...
Another thought, and this is TOTALLY just my opinion, I actually like to hear stuff "messing up".. Like fingers rubbing across the strings... stuff being almost "not perfect"...
It makes things more human.
Your mix is really good.
Soo them 40 dollar headphones ain't bad.. or the thing inbetween 'em.
Umn... Good headphones and monitors are really necessary..
But I don't even have monitors at the moment XD
Longer and a bassline.
Love the glitchery and drums. Almost "amen" drum and bass style. Love that sh8t.. I eat it for breakfest lunch and dinner with sides of death metal.
haha man this is one of the best reviews ive seen! i dont know what IDM is, i am gonna have to check it out! and yeah need to add a bassline apparently haha, i got some ideas brewing. really appreciate the review.
Dang dude, You could probably take some of them takes and layer up?
That gets a really professional result in my experience.. especially with hip-hop.
It takes fer freaking ever, but you layer one up on the left and then one on the right, and keep the main take center and strong.
Then it's just a lot of cut and past to fix everything and you get this really huge sparkly vocal production.
I heard a few overdubs here and there, but I just "felt" like it would be a good move with his vox.
I love your chill compensation sampling shidangle.
I was a little "ehh?" on the compression?... I mean... it's not a criticism man, I am just one of the kinda dudes that like to use EQ and Compression only to the point of "I can hear it" and then I roll it back a few notches so it's almost peripheral.
But I mean.. You got this analog vinyl action... very warm.
As far as the groove you nailed it.
I love it.
My only ehh is the compression? I like more dynamics......
But meh
You are underground for some ungodly reason man... I don't get it lol.
I really enjoyed it man. Love your style with percussion... You musta been a drummer in a previous life.. Me and yeshintea where talking about how you had such an impeccable way with syncopation.
Dopeness.
Me no drinky but me thinky.
No live guitar. Used Absynth and Albino 3 for all the sounds except the drums.
I didnt compress the track at all. I only added a limiter and 7 band eq to the main track. I do enjoy that warm sound though. Didnt get too much into the mix because I was drinking. Can always go back to it later though.
"You are underground for some ungodly reason man... I don't get it lol."
LOl,...gotta start somewhere I guess.
Who knows mabey I will be the first Hip Hop based producer to get the Artist Spotlight thing.
I do enjoy playing drums live. I rarely get to anymore but its always fun to wear myself out on a set for a little while. Alot of my drum influences are rock rooted. Danny Carey for instance. One of my all time fav drummers.. Love the drummer from Saosin as well.
Glad you enjoyed it man! Thanks for listening!!!
on Vividly Living by Thethanx
on Darling Where Did You Go (Anomoly Jonez) by Salook
Wow.
I would buy this.
These are those tracks, that you will look back on for the rest of your life, and then say to yourself
I MADE THIS!
Totally boring nit-picking thoughts...
Some pads lol... I hear it in the middle.
But then again. Space.
Dynamics.
This is Epic.
Yeah that middle break down, stressed myself over that part, it felt empty, even though it was for just a short spell, felt something could be added there.....tried a few things and opted for a single sound effect just to break the routine, anything to forward wanted to stay throughout the rest of the track and I didn't want to take attention away from AJ's vibe.....and you are right man, so proud of this...gotta make sure I don't lose it....one to look back on. cheers bro.
on Never-ending Track by KillaKeishh
It's ... very happy, which is different for me as my personal taste goes.
I have absolutely no idea why, but I really saw this working well with Japanese Anime and/or video game.
Logic! I hear good things.... I am toying with the idea of moving to a mac platform.
You sound like you know what your doing.
Good stuff!
:)
PS, on a complete non-sequentier I was thinking of "Lamb-Chops" This is the song that never ends, it goes on and on my friends... etc.etc
Logic is more complex but I'm just going to have to get used to it and I can' take credit for these drums they were actually logic loops because making drum patterns is a lot harder for me in that program but hopefully I can upload my own loops soon
lol at the lamb-chops but thanks for checking out !
on Reversing round a corner by bobbybooth
on Rock Asia by bmw2000uk
OH
it just changed.
I am happy.
YES.
I really really liked the bridge?... Awesome.
I liked the pairing of the sitar and the guitar... but I also felt with the context it felt jarring and kinda .... like one of those crazy anime cartoons. lol...
BruceLeeistheshit.
It was kind of boring hearing ethnic music without some spice on here, so i thought i cook my own tune and make it come alive a bit..
Peace...
on Youza Reptile by TheHx
I dig the lyrical content. Curious.. you aren't one of those cats that lives by David Icke?
Faved man.
This is exceptional work.
on DONT WANNA BE ALONE by TRAVEE
I have given it a lot of thought... Like personally I got issues with people (like anyone), But I particularly like to be alone.
I think it's a good place to be as well. But furthermore, the concept of ones reality can either be judged from a half-empty, or half-full perspective.
Dope track. Piano was pretty.
I think... I dunno.. would it be possible to hear this as a rhodes?
I am suchawhore for rhodes pianos.
Awesome stuff man!
Sounds like Reason?
I like it when I am wrong.
on Busy Mans Folk Guitar by DanielGtrman
I am faving this and downloading.
It's strange, I have been particularly liking extremes in my musical taste lately.. it's either insane death metal or drum and bass, OR, beautiful acoustic ambient pieces.
I loved the off note you threw in there, and the harmonics were beautiful
well done!
on TWO MINS FROM HELL by VERBALSKILLZ
Faved.
A quick production thought?
What do you use?
I particularly LIVE by noise gates, and I use them set at a low level setting so they cut out all breaths,...
Wow.
You are a poet.
on Reversing round a corner by bobbybooth
Stereo imaging feels a little weird?
Is this in mono?
I think it could be a little more interesting with the keys being a bit more wide in the stereo spectrum, and maybe thinking of doing something where .. oh there you did it lol.. but giving some dynamic space...
Yeah, I really liked this man.
Faved, downloaded.
I wish we had more vocalists around these parts.
Crescendo was very pleasant.
on Napoleon Complex - ft Napoleon Complex by bobbybooth
Yeah.. I think I have experimented with a couple accapellas around these parts, and they are usually verses, and then you are kinda like.. damn .. what do i do now?!
FACE MELTER GUITAR SOLO!!!!
lol
on Form Of Art Prod By MplustT by Luckyfeatherstudios
on Through These Fields by AllenV
I love it man.. I used to practice like 10 hours a day and I used to be able to just pick it up, and musical phrases would pour out of me.
Thank you.
This is inspiring.
Beautiful.
Tender.
More MMOOORE moooaar!!!!!!!
lol
Amazing.
Thanks again for the review.
AV
on The Road Home (update) by AllenV
It's been crazy and busy and hectic lately for me.
This is wonderful.
Minor 2nds are where ALL of the emotion is for me personally, especially as a guitarist.
Awesome finger picking and great subtle use of overdubs.
Almost made it mandolin and 12 stringy!
Beautiful.
I need to get over and see you too.
I'm glad you liked the song.You know how you can make it sound easy when it's really not...this was one of em'...lol.This was not the first take :)
Thanks for stoppin' by!
Allen
on The Sky Is Crying by BrokenScythe
on Thethanx vs Brother Ali by DjMii
Faved this.
That's my harp loop!
:)
This is awesome.. Gaven chills to my skin.
on Lift (updated) by Thethanx
on Requiem of a Mad Drummer by Ablaze7
I am thinking about my own stuff more, but ... it's really hot on the mixing side... super compressed or things are .. yeah
Dude..
Compression.?
on the 300-700 range... it's not bad..
I mean
My MOUTH is OPEN.
You rocked this.
But looking at it.. like.. from an artistic point of view.. I would have maybe done things differently with the cutoff of some of your freq's...
Wow.
Mouth is still dropped.
Drum solo indeeeeed.
\m/
on Proxima- Libertad v1 by Thethanx
lol
Awesome.
You sir are really cool.
I really like all the input you put on the forums and what not.
But I don't like to take it easy on cats (not a literal terminology or profiling to your avatar, but something I call all musicians- and yes loopers are musicians) I am a little concerned with the levels. Awesome work with kudlips I think?
Anyway.. Yer bass sounds like it's clipping, but there's a ton of headroom, which is totally cool, I know this isn't post production, but I think maybe sometime in your future it maybe something worthwhile looking into?
I typically render a track with nothing clipping, sometimes tracks that are really extreme like Death Metal Drum and Bass and ambient textures I render almost -20!
And then I bring them in again and focus on compression and/or imaging and whatnot.
It gets into craziness of mastering, but I am that dude that is always messing with the car stereo lolz
You got vision man.
That counts for a lot.
I dig it.
Already showing diversity and talent.
Awesome!
:)
faved.
Downloaded.
kudlips? You lost me there... What's kudlips?
No worries about being harsh! I asked for reviews on my mastering and you gave me exactly what I asked for! You're totally right, it is clipping (you mean the bass drum right? not the bassLINE?), and I need to go back and revamp the drums all together to eliminate some of that.
I think I've got the "headroom" because I added compression to the drums... but that doesn't fix my clipping problem. Still gotta figure out how to fix that. I'm really pumped to start working with a real DAW that will have a better visual EQ so I can really refine my mastering techniques. This really was a huge help though! I'll be updating a remastered version ASAP!
on delusional by arkeyetexture
Downloaded and Faved.
On a quick note about glitch... I think a lot about glitch... and how it's by far my favorite type of ... thing in music...
I remember being a kid and being excited when my CD's skipped.. or when processors where soo small that they would glitch on the bottlenecking...
Then Aphex Twin and Squarepusher blew up big... Totally dug that stuff...
Personal note, but I have been trying to think of ways to syncopate glitch rhythms slightly off the tempo... which is a real defining moment when I hear glitch... Kinda like how delay is pulled around ... or like .. .hmnnnn.. when you have a guitar pedal and twist up the knobs so the delay causes all these nifty glitches...
Kinda would like to experiment there.
Anyway... By far my favorite experience in these last two tracks has been your sense of rhythm... I really like your detail to the percussion elements. It's no-nonsense but very enjoyable.
I am honored to recieve such indepth thoughts.
Be Good me bruddah!
1-love!
on LOST by MADVICKO
Faved.
This is epic
Production pointers are just here and there...
But DAMN man.
Faved because of just of 2:00-2:30....
Hey man, .. You need to look at the EQ of yer transitions!
I do not mean your EQ. But how you mix... It's NOT BAD
Enyway,I have some cheap microphone for karaoke,and even if I scream it`s not as loud as i think it should be.Do you think that some better microphone will do better job...From what I read from youf profile I see you have good knowledge about mixing and production..and
Thank you,thank you again...
on Intergalactic Brain Travel by BluntsAndBeats
Anyhow.. Umnn I am listening on some hella expensive headphones.. And I am already really lovin' them drumy bitrate drop.
AHHH... awesome drums.
Bass is that wobbly soundeffect thingy?
Yeah.. A bass would be cool.. I would maybe only focus it on like the chorus or something after the vox. ...
Amazing work on the glitch work.
Damn near IDM.
Yeah... Where's the bass?
The "whaaaaaaaaaaaoooo" is awesome, but it doesn't round out the bottom enough for me personally...
Another thought, and this is TOTALLY just my opinion, I actually like to hear stuff "messing up".. Like fingers rubbing across the strings... stuff being almost "not perfect"...
It makes things more human.
Your mix is really good.
Soo them 40 dollar headphones ain't bad.. or the thing inbetween 'em.
Umn... Good headphones and monitors are really necessary..
But I don't even have monitors at the moment XD
Longer and a bassline.
Love the glitchery and drums. Almost "amen" drum and bass style. Love that sh8t.. I eat it for breakfest lunch and dinner with sides of death metal.
on 25mg - Fossil by SGN
You are awesome.
I would join your non-existent band.... As an intern, and you can yell at me, and I will go get you coffee...
Also, thank you as always.
on Introducing Me by KapKurt
I really like it! Kinda happy-industrial!?
Dang dude, You could probably take some of them takes and layer up?
That gets a really professional result in my experience.. especially with hip-hop.
It takes fer freaking ever, but you layer one up on the left and then one on the right, and keep the main take center and strong.
Then it's just a lot of cut and past to fix everything and you get this really huge sparkly vocal production.
I heard a few overdubs here and there, but I just "felt" like it would be a good move with his vox.
Awesome stuff man!
on 2010 CIR Instrumental 109 by CONEYISLANDRECORDS
Nice!
I love your chill compensation sampling shidangle.
I was a little "ehh?" on the compression?... I mean... it's not a criticism man, I am just one of the kinda dudes that like to use EQ and Compression only to the point of "I can hear it" and then I roll it back a few notches so it's almost peripheral.
But I mean.. You got this analog vinyl action... very warm.
As far as the groove you nailed it.
I love it.
My only ehh is the compression? I like more dynamics......
But meh
You are underground for some ungodly reason man... I don't get it lol.
I really enjoyed it man. Love your style with percussion... You musta been a drummer in a previous life.. Me and yeshintea where talking about how you had such an impeccable way with syncopation.
Dopeness.
Me no drinky but me thinky.
I didnt compress the track at all. I only added a limiter and 7 band eq to the main track. I do enjoy that warm sound though. Didnt get too much into the mix because I was drinking. Can always go back to it later though.
"You are underground for some ungodly reason man... I don't get it lol."
LOl,...gotta start somewhere I guess.
Who knows mabey I will be the first Hip Hop based producer to get the Artist Spotlight thing.
I do enjoy playing drums live. I rarely get to anymore but its always fun to wear myself out on a set for a little while. Alot of my drum influences are rock rooted. Danny Carey for instance. One of my all time fav drummers.. Love the drummer from Saosin as well.
Glad you enjoyed it man! Thanks for listening!!!