Spivkurl

thanks Pat. yea - we are very much in progress here. but stay tuned. I don't think I have scratched the surface with that scratch plug-in! the secret seems to be a greater variety of mouse motions. anyway - more to come on this one. having fun. happy holidays!

Thank you so much, Spivkurl. So glad you enjoyed it and took the time to comment.

With all our backgrounds, we have a nice blending of styles, but we are all jazz fans

Ciao,
M.

yea, your right of course. I never could quite get a handle on proper EQing for hardstyle kicks, leads and vocals. really an unacceptable final product tbh.

Yeah I used to wonder why so many of my friends all wanted to listen to old school stuff when there was so much better new stuff about but after a while (and being dragged out to a few nights) it kind of grew on me so I thought i'd try and recapture that early ninetys sound. I think personally that there was a lot of great stuff out there at that time such as leftfield, aphex twin, orbital, the prodigy, the chemical brothers and so on. The 90's was a really good time in my life so it's nice to revisit those old sounds as it brings back fond memories for me.
Anyway, cheers for dropping by as always man. Your thoughts are appreciated.
FR

The whole point of this track is to show new producers what a "rough draft" of a song sounds like. When I first started out I was really discouraged when I compared the quality of my music to say the EDM you would find on the radio. This was solely just to show people in that position that even experienced people's songs sound terrible until they go in and fine tune everything during mixing and then send it off to get mastered. Hope you enjoy the mixed and mastered version coming out soon with a download on my sound cloud!

Thanks! Currently I was working on the melody and just getting things to work. I'm working on the equalizer and masters now to try to get things more in-sync. Joyce also recommended to me some effects which I will be adding. Thanks for the help!

Thanks for you comments - I originally had it as Pop and that didn't seem right- oh well - hard to classify. Fusion would be Indian and Choral vocals although that is a stretch. Thanks for listening.
-clindsay

Hi Spiv, nice to know you liked it in spite of non-favourite
instrumentation...yeah, me and Ed were quite mixy this time before we decided to put this out...thanks alot for your kind and positive feedback!:)

With appreciation_____Orlando

Hey Pat..first off I really do owe you an apology,I've been very slack lately and haven't been listening to much music,which more importantly means your great music!..I shall be rectifying this situation post haste!(well in the next couple of days) :).........I did share a few of your insights concerning this piece,I think it's because both Detlef and I were coming off a little hiatus from music,so it ended up a wham bam thank you mam affair,lol... a smorgasbord comes to mind or an all you can eat steak plaza! haha..thanks for your concise valued opinion mate! cheers Dave :)

Thanks for the kind words! I did play the guitars. I think the vocals probably need to be a bit louder, I didn't alter them at all from the original track. I'll work on an alternate mix.

I just re-uploaded it a while ago after adjusting volume - it's louder now.
Thanks a lot for nice words - I started with recording some strange sounds using microphone on my laptop on this ambient track - the last one is based on the sample that was processed usind sound stretch software. On both 'fusion' tracks I made the keyboards myself - first one incorporates also some loops from this site.

Glad you liked this compilation. Thanks again! Alex

Hey Spiv!
Thanx for the fav! and 4 your time! if the track is interesting then my mission is done here! ;)

Truly sorry for that, my friend. I couldn't find any other appropriate genre listing. I'm glad you were pleased to hear this, but I'll look for another genre listing. Perhaps chill-out. Nevertheless, I appreciate the comment, and sorry for the disappointment. Take care.

~Ookami

Thank you very much Spivkurl! You are right, i have to put more time in the mix and make it feel more dynamic but its not so easy for me hehe i have a lot to learn about mixing and mastering but im already trying . Thanks for the advice and for the fave!

Word up, Spiv.

I recommended it to you cos I suspected you’d like it. It’s also a particular favourite of a friend who listens to a lot of extreme metal but he liked the end heavier section much more than you did. He thought that was one of my finest ever live band-sounding sections. I think I have many others just as good but I can’t say if he’s heard all of them (probably not).

I’ve listened back hard and still think you can hear each instrument pretty well in those heavy bits. It is supposed to loud and a bit dirty. I will check back but maybe the problem is the string pad in there that is very bassy (but also doing a good supporting role).

“Some interesting drum styles in this one”

I was slightly surprised at how good the heavy rock kits I used a lot of the time didn’t sound that heavy as the first half is pretty chilled out but driven by those kits. There’s a certain amount of extra drums and percussion eg a timbale sound as well as the pitch swept hi hat part you get right as the drums first enter.

“I expected more potent or prominent 303 lines in this”

Sorry I couldn’t manage that. What’s there is all I decided to go with, especially as I had a load of other synth, guitar and bass parts to work with. Hard to say if it needs more 303. If you’re well into acid, no doubt that’s just what it needs. Metallers will probably want more heavy stuff introduced earlier.

“I was enjoying the guitar and bass grooves very much”

Most of those parts were played a long time ago, quite a few back in 2002. I only resurrected the project this year.

“I think your songs tend to expose a listeners deepest preferences when it comes to music”

Yes – there’s so much going on in my tracks that people will pick out what appeals most to them, which is something I get slightly familiar with after a while. I’m always happy to hear what really stood out to people. It’s sort of my job to make everything and nothing stand out ie all parts to be equally as good as each other, hard as that is to achieve.

Glad you enjoy reading the comments. I write far more than most people but it is my music so not surprising I have more to say about it than most people.

Thanks again.

A big fat funk epic called Bright Side of The Sun is coming soon.

hey,
yeah the bass line was lost when processing and mixing and so on... anyway you can hear it better: https://soundcloud.com/promenade2239/surreal-ambiences-tt-edit but not sure if it is good enough on your listening system - this is earlier version of the track...

I suggest you to listen closely to some jazz or classical tracks like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H51xGk0lMwk
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZQejr9lPn0
and see if it will somehow fit your system. If not there's no need to continue.

I can hear the music anyway... even though I do not have any sophisticated listening system at the moment.

Here's my today's drum and bass:
http://www.looperman.com/tracks/detail/161597

Again my main focus is on the music.
Probably my monitors aren't big or good enough to generate the actual low frequencies but still my listening experience is amazing. AMAZING.
Again hard to explain cause Im not an en native speaker.

sometimes I don't see the actual difference between techno and jazz when starting a new tune and setting a bpm randomly on my daw.
here's some another interesting remix of mine:
http://www.looperman.com/tracks/detail/161561

I hope you will appreciate at least the production and vision.

Thanks again for your thoughts. Alex

Hi Spivkurl,

Firstly, can I apologise for my late response to your message. It appears that I have not read this email at all. Can I just say I am a fan of your work and have used many of your samples in my work, so it is great to have someone like yourself actually listen and give feedback on my work.

Secondly, many thanks for the sound advise. As with many others who have commented, you rightly put it, I need to master the sounding. I have got a friend who usually has a good idea with sound properties on software and tends to make modifications where he can, whereas,I just do it for the fun and relaxation and throw things in and hope for the best.

I will take on board your suggestions and hope they have improved for the next project.

Thanks once again.

Zee

Thanks Spiv, No samples, just sequences and synths. I am happy you have liked this and grateful you acknowledge it. Avant Garde is in both of our souls sometimes and we both need to get it out from time to time.
Always appreciate your words.
Steve

Hey spiv,

You know what, I've actually been thinking the same thing about those synths (especially the pad) so I'm really glad you mentioned it!

The guitar you hear is from a Kontakt instrument called Evolution Electric Guitar Strawberry,... some great sounds in there.

Thanks for stopping by :)

WKS