theHumps

Hi, Wayne.

Yes, it is an interesting title and I'm surprised I also haven't heard it before. It only took me 37 years to come up with it.

No, I can't imagine you do know much about drum 'n' bass. Or drum 'n' cell. Not your area of musical interest.

"pioneering your way to fame"

Haha - what fame? That's never gonna happen.

"You having a tough time, picking it up slowly or mastering it like a madman?"

You tell me! I'd say I'm doing OK but it is a hard instrument. I have no idea if I'll ever really be any good. Still, I'm good enough to regularly make quite a bit of music using it as the main instrument. I've uploaded about 15 cello-dominated tracks in the 13 months since I started playing.

"bowing and plucking must have a learning curve."

Pizzicato (plucking) was pretty straightforward right from the start but bowing is damn tricky. There's a lot you can do with it, which also means there's a lot that can go wrong.

"I liked the cello at around the 7:45 mark"

I have a few layers of funky cello craziness going on there. Good fun.

"Intro sounded like it may go towards a middle eastern direction"

Really? I never thought of that. Maybe it's the darker, stranger second chord.

Thanks for the feedback.

Hi Wayne,
Many thanks for a nice review. I think that using a minor key, to give a slightly negative emotion, and then spinning off to the relative major seems to give a pleasing mood shift every time you move form the minor to the major, or vice verce.

All the best

Bob

Thanks. I appreciate all the kind words. I have been working tirelessly to get my mixing skills improved. It has been worth it. Thanks for the listen and the great comment.

tv

Thanks man, I've been streamlining my method lately.

I know right! Hopefully I'll be able to refine it further.

Sorry for the late reply :)

Hello Wayne
mmmm...no I'm not a good singer .
I feel shy about it hehehe ..
:)
thank you much much for the support .
really means alot .

Elena

As first, sorry for a bit late reply Wayne. Yours and Danke's ears were both right...this is in fact a collab with Ed, but the piece was put here more for the test than anything else and it will be followed by another version of
basically same song....kindly invited to listen and compare when it's uploaded in next few days.
Yet. I'm really glad for such a positive feedback and I have to say many thanks for that and for the fav! Always a pleasure Wayne !:)

With much appreciation____Orlando

Hi Wayne
:)
thank you much much for checking my tune out and dropping these words in my box .
I really appreciate .

Thank you very much for your review and thanks for the download.

Master Wayne, hello.

Thanks, the drums have been a big distraction lately, but in a good way. Less music coming out, but I'm entertaining myself fiddling with new sounds. I'm working at making everything realistic. Gettin' there, gettin' there.

Thanks for the visit, now you be good....

Evan

Thank you for the kind words!

thank you. the star wars comment is huge. john williams music is so iconic, star wars, jaws, harry potter. also when I did the voice over "you cant stop this" and played it back it did sound like kyle lorin. (spelling?)

Very Kind words sir. Music is about the only reliever I've got. Sorry to hear about your bandmate man, It seems lot of bands unfortunately go through something like that. I see it much too often. But im still holding on and giving all I got cuz music is about all I really do have. Stay tuned Brother

Thanks Wayne! That's actually a great idea! Having a real choir on this track or any cinematic track in general would probably boost the track's emotional factor extremely. I'll definitely see if how I could go about doing that.

Thanks for stopping in!

Thanks man. Not sure I see the Jim Morrison vocal comparison. But I can see how the first half has that raw improvisational sound. Thank again for listening and for your kind words.

TA

Wayne: Very good advice. Nobody has ever given me advice on vocals before, but then I've never done vocals before! :) I think your suggestion is very sound. I need to get some lyrics worked out as the next step. And, I've discovered that when I try to hold a note I warble off pitch horribly. So, the solution to that is to cut things off before I start wandering up and down and all around the actual note. In the shower I sound great! Of course, everybody does. But I also think you are correct in suggesting that I need to find a range that I'm comfortable with. But, most of all, I need to find a real singer.

Hey Wayne! Thanks :) I spent a lot of time learning all of the differences between FL and Logic, I'm glad my first track back could be pleasing to so many people :)

Hey Wayne,

thanks for your comment, i'm glad to read your positive feeling!
I'm french and sometimes i don't catch the meaning of ideas. Here, i don't understand "plenty of space"... like silences?

Anyway, thank you again :)

friendly
Bleep

thank you TheHumps for your positive comment! i already started to modify some details in my track! of course you're right about the snare, i'm going to see how to perform it.

i appreciate this kind of criticism which permite me to upgrade my work :)
and Very good reference by quoting "the specials"

Friendly
Bleep

Hello Wayne!

The choice of compressors is irrelevant..as I've said many times the emulations just provide a certain vibe and allow me to get results faster as I already know what they deliver so it's easy to just reach for a certain vibe. You can pretty much get the same results with stock plugins, it's all a matter of getting to properly use attack, release and threshold controls on any given compressor.

For example to replicate this particular scenario you could ride the level of the vocals going into your stock compressor which would have a 3:1 or 2:1 ratio a slow attack and pretty fast release, while the second compressor would have a 4:1 ratio with a medium attack and a fast release and the third would be something like 2:1 for ratio and slow attack and medium release. Again you would have to listen in context and see how the compressors react from word to word and how they muffle or brighten the sound, it's all in the ears honestly.

I've always said it...it's not the gear that mixes the song...it's the engineer.

Thank you for the review!

Hey Wayne thanks buddy!...I've always liked reggae, calypso and the folk styles they originated from, not so keen on dubstep and all the contemporary derivatives though! haha..some hippy type chick plaited my hair once in the early seventies but she didn't last long and neither did the hair style! lol...don't know what to make of your new President, thought to be fair he hasn't actually done anything yet, whatever it is it's bound to effects us all one way or another...cheers mate much appreciated.
Dave :)

Greetings, Master Wayne.

I appreciate the kind words. As for tuning, I'm usually Drop C sharp. Everything down a half step, then my low E string down another whole step, so the E goes down 3 frets, everything else, 1. I have to use heavier Guage strings and aggressive truss bar adjustment.

Peas.

Evan