kingmt77

Thank you very much Mark!

Thanks for the fav. The bots wrote most of it, I arranged their voices and set up the "Turing machines." I try to be without category intentionally. Lately I've been more interested in earlier jazz idioms. When you get a moment you should check this one out:
https://www.looperman.com/tracks/detail/243530
I used samples from the 30s and 60s, and wrapped them in MIDI.

What's up Mark,

Thank you for revisiting
this track and continuing
to give me the encouragement
to keep trying to convert/translate
my thoughts into sound/music.
I miss being on the LM grid.
I hope to be back soon.

hahaha I see I turned kingmt into making - what an idiot. My excuse is I've been exhausted after another covid episode... but sorry my friend!

Hello Mark, nice to hear from you. I've been really turned off by the vibe on LM lately... I don't deal well with Dimestop's overbearing personality... it just ruins my mood. Especially when I see him getting approval from people who I actually thought would be more peaceful. I'm just an old hippie, somehow, that's how it is and that's how it will stay.
But I'm very happy that you like Robbie and I's old track. I don't know how close you are to him or whether you know about his current situation. In any case, we can't continue to work together musically at the moment, which really bothers me. I'm working on my personal tracks, but I've become so particular about them that it takes me months before I'm satisfied... LOL
I hope you're doing well and I'll hear from you again soon.
Love AND Peace
Micky

Mark, thanks for the listen. I'm glad you enjoyed this one. It seemed to come together nicely. I am working on my mixes, trying to get some front to back imaging. Thanks again my friend. I hope all is well. UE

Hello Mark,
I didn't realize that you had already listened to this thing some time ago. So thank you for listening and the encouraging comment. It's always a great pleasure for me!
Cheers,
Micky

Mark first let me say thanks for the HOLLA today, that made my day player. Now for those ears of yours, by you picking out my snap crackle and pop it just confirms my comment on your last track I listen too. Your hearing is surgical. I have to admit only because you OUTED ME, that vinyl was mint to be as close to subliminal as possible, but since you got to tell on somebody, I'm good with-it LOL. I gave it the female vocal listen and I agree with you on that idea. That would take this track to another dimension of SMOOTH. Now in reference to what we disgust today, that comment about the female vocal in a split second caused my ears to consider what I would say is your creative contribution to this track, instead of subtracting some element from the track, and it makes since. A pleasure always MT. PEACE T576 OUT.

Glad you remember. Where's my Jackson Pollock painting?

Thank you so much!!
Great to hear your mom is ok, especially at that age. My mom is 81, so I feel you (brain is still fast, her legs not so much anymore ;)
Donald Fagen is a great name to be compared to. I'm happy :)

Hey Mark,

I would love to take the credit
for writing the Drums on this track
but, I just arranged and modified some
samples off Loopcloud. Thanks for the mention tho:-)
You've given me a lot to think about in respect to resolution on a track. I generally put a track together in 1 min sections and I hear each section on its own, not thinking about someone listening, and hearing it all at once. Thank you for that insight. That's a game changer.
On the Synths I'm experimenting on high and low voices playing at the same time so they don't get in each others way while saying something completely different. If that makes sense:-)

Thank you for your listen, encouragement and for your insight on this track.

PEACE. From the East... TTYL...

No, thank YOU :)

I usually don't concentrate very much on the mixing mastering as you know; I try to come to some balance where the vocals can be heard well and no individual instrument pops out unless they have the lead.

Then what I did was (all this in Ableton Live):
- the drums right now are midi (I used to have a practice room with actual real live drums but unfortunately I moved away so I don't have that right now). I use a drum buss for that; I played around a bit with teh settings to give it a bit of punch, but not too much, plus a bit of reverb on the kick and delay on the hats.
- a high pass filter on the bass and guitar (obviously more low on the bass)
- I also tried to shape the mids a bit to give space for the vocals, but as Manuela indicated, not enough
- then the keys again I think a low pass filter
- I added a "sustain" return for the keys
- for the vocals I went lazy and used Ozone Nectar
- finally for the master I used iZotope 10, both this and Nectar with the automatic functions. I find it's generally not worse than what I would do and I find mastering extremely tedious and frustrating :D
Yeah, I'll send you the stems, no worries! I'm in the middle of a house move, so hopefully somewhere next week, is that ok?

Thank you kingmt77, on this piece elpayo helped me a lot, thanks to him.

THX BUD HOW YOU DOIN,,,,,,