Spivkurl

Yo Spiv !

Thanks for the coment ,
And i try to fix the problems with the frequencies ,
But can't do any beter now ....
I uploaded the remastered track and i hope it is better now..

I always learn at every track i make ..
and this is a point of attention ...

im glad you like the arrangement because that is the most important , lol ..

Greetz !!

U r right. I actually spoke with the photographer and she confirmed that it was a cloud. I thought one of the streaks was from a plane.. I actually have very little experience mixing these old synth pads so it has been interesting. The profile you set up over on my site looks cool. Thanks for taking care of it. Regards, Dan.

Hi Patrick
I have a soft spot for glitches and it was only natural to start incorporating such sounds on my very own productions.
Feeling that little by little i am doing my own thing and very satisfied with the results.
As for the free EP it has not yet be released but hopefully soon.

Thanks for the kind words

Nelson

Thanks alot, my friend...I can only appreciate again and again
when you have to say so many nice things about the song within the genre that you usually don't listen any more...

All the best______Orlando

Thank you so much for the feedback,always a pleasure to hear from you.I definitely understand what you saying,i kinda struggled with that synth in a way,i can easily remove it from there.Thanks again.

thank you again for an interesting reply and such a nice comment on this one. I appreciate that.
This song is a very original combination of sounds from different looperman members: I started with the synth pad by devodale which was played on wavestation synth. Then I kept adding more stuff (as always) that I downloaded earlier to came up with some corresponding sounds/textures. I tapped these drums from the keyboard (funk drum kit from ezdrummer plugin). The rhodes piano improv line is mine too.
I do not have any recipe for making a good song. Each one is different. Truly I did not expect it will sound like this at the end!
An important thing, I was listening a lot to the classical and jazz acoustic recordings of good quality earlier so that affects my current work. And basically this is my favourite 'area' which in my opinion brings great listening experiences. I can't say this on the loud electronic sequenced music but I might be wrong of course. Just a personal preference. I tried myself in producing a bit of electronic music on this site as well.
I think if I am just able to merge together the sounds that will share the same harmonics then it is always a great start.
I do not know what to say more about all this. I did not develop a theory, it is more an 'creative' practical approach of the moment.

I am happy you liked this track which is also a 'collective effort'. Thanks for your interest in my music. Best, Alex

Thanks Spiv. It's been a while and sorry for the late response. I've had puter probs. Got em fixed now and am back up and running.
I love stitching loops like this. It's kind of a theraputic hobby so to speak. I Just love doing this.

Again thanks for the kewl comment.

Mr. P

Thanks for the feedback! Gonna admit I'm a rookie so I was playing around with the controls trying to figure out how to get rid of it but got fed up of working on it, but I'll give it a go again!

Thanks Spiv, I have fun making this kind of music. Therapeutic in a way.

Thanks. To be honest I need better recording equipment. I have a little AKG condenser mic and I just put it in an acoustic-treated box with whatever i'm recording. The quality isn't great but I just EQ as much or as little as I feel is necessary. Also, everything I do IS intentional but that doesn't necessarily mean I made the right decision. I have two bass lines running so I duplicated one and panned the duplicates slightly left and right to widen it and keep it away from the other bass line (which made it feel further away). I personally don't mind it but if it sounds weird i'll see if I can work out something else.
Anyway thanks again for your comment and input on the forum and i'm glad you enjoyed the song! :)

Pat: I really appreciate your advice and explanation about use of mono in your response to my comment on the "Proximal Vicinity" track. I'm in the process of trying to figure out how to convert stereo tracks to mono. I'll check out the Logic Pro plugins, but I thought there might be channel strip setting that I could change. Some of my VSTs give me the option of loading a mono version of the instrument, so starting off on the right footing might be the better solution.

Your comments on the Don't Keep Your Love Away track were really interesting to me and I've just spent some time trying to figure out what was going on. I had an adaptive limiter set for a max output of 0db as the last plugin on my mastering output track, so I thought that would avoid clipping distortion unless I had clipping occurring in one of the instrument channels. My master output showed a max level of -2.7 db for the first part of the project so I thought I was OK. Then I inserted a metering plugin and changed its location in the sequence of plugins I was using in the mastering output track to see what each of the various compressors, EQs, etc. I had on the channel was doing to the output signal before hitting the adaptive limiter. I discovered that I had a compressor that was pushing the signal above 0db on the left channel. I also found that I had levels in a couple of the individual instrument tracks exceeding 0db, although it was my understanding that there actually is headroom on those tracks in Logic Pro and slight overages do not cause clipping.

The bass imbalance on the second track is a puzzle to me. I checked level meters for the bass tracks and left and right channels are completely aligned in their movements throughout the track. I need to listen to the track and not watch the meters I think to see if I can figure out what's going on. Anyway, thanks for the advice. It has prompted me to pay more attention to details on my mixes and not to just assume that a limiter at the end of the signal chain will right all wrongs! :)

hi, thank you so much for a nice comment! Currently I am working exclusively on vst instruments (mostly free plugins played from Casio CDP220r). I am using the other cheap keyboard to get rid of the artificial weighted keys sometimes and just to get the actual idea of how the plugin may react lol). In a sense it's only an 'artificial' music, so I entirely agree that it's 'filtered' and some frequencies are obviously missing!
I will return to the acoustic music soon anyway, but the artificial world is really fascinating so far.

Thanks again for some nice words and interesting thoughts,
the groove on the first track is from PJB. Alex

Thanks Spiv and sorry for not replying until now. It gets really crazy here at the shelter sometimes and I wear multiple hats here and sometimes don't know which one to wear. LOL

Thanks Spiv. I kinda miss devo..in a manly way. He is so good with his piano.
You got camera's in my room...LOL..I couldn't help but get and wiggle a bit to this as I worked on it. Very energetic and uplifting.
My mom heard it before anyone else and told me I needed to post this one. I asked why. She said it made her get up and boogie..LOL..I'm babbling..thanks Spiv..

Mr. P

thanks a lot for some nice words. I am happy that you simply enjoyed this track and just found it relaxing.

The choice of loops was exactly my taste indeed. I had to use ferryterry's sax solo jazz line and two other fine loops in the 'chillout' style. I needed to move from A minor to F minor so finally the composition has some nice freely played jazz intro and let's say 'main body'. There's really no way to combine those loops together - so I decided to build the entire arrangement according to the traditional harmony and I simply recorded the e piano throughout (there's actually 4 different e-piano parts here).
This piece sounds simple but there's so many layers here and I used even some separate sampled fragments from these loops here and there to create some consistent soundscape.
The ferryterry's jazz line made me think about the chord changes and I had to work in reverse to find some corresponding chords. So basically I started with harmonising the melodies from loops/samples.

Thanks again. Alex

:) Hey Spivkurl

When you post the loops and i took them, i told you that i would do an awesome track.
Ok, i realy just wrote that without any knowing what will happend but it looks like i done it realy so the way that you get what i sayed you would get.

Realy nice to hear that this track let you go to google and you invest some time for a translation. I hope google did a good job and you realy like the original lyrics and not only a google version :)

So i am happy that i done something in a way that you realy like

Always nice to read a gentle comment like this. Thanks for that and for the fav.

stay tuned
joe

Thanks!

About the 'staticness,' i see what you mean and I may go and work on that if its requested by popular demand.

thank you Pat!!!
hope to find some time soon to record something ... there are one or two ideas waiting ;-)
cu, rei