theHumps

Thanks for the kind words.

Gotta do something different every now and then. I did not sit down and intend to do a track like this. I got the first bassline down and then everything else just happened. Seemed like it was supposed to go as it did. But like I said, sounds like something that gets played at a school dance.

The ax will be wailed upon soon! Next one will be heavy.

Thanks Wayne.

Evan

Thanks for that TH

:-)

Thank you!

Actually i'll be a teenager this year (so scared hahaha) on December 30th....

not looking forward to it :)

Thanks for the props .....much appreciated...haven't composed anything new in a few years but trying to get back...been away too long...thanks for stopping by...

Hello Wayne,

Thx. a lot and my best wishes for 2015 !

Ian

Hi Wayne, thanks for listening and really pleased that it was a good Christmas morning listen for you, and you liked it, that means a lot to me. Hope you are having a good Christmas.
Take care,
Mark

Yeah, this is unique :)

Nice to hear that i could make youre x-mas morning.

Have a nice x-mas Wayne
Thanks for the comment

stay tuned
joe

Glad I could get your Christmas off to a pumping start. Hope you had a good one.
I was going to leave it as one track but then I figured I still had five minutes left to fill so I thought I might as well carry on.
Cheers for stopping by and comenting as always.
FR

Hey Wayne, great to hear from you on this track! Like I mentioned to StaticNomad, The Clash is definitely one of my biggest dub related influences, and I like what they did with other styles too. the album "Sandanista" especially. I'm really digging the new guitar, and it has encouraged me to play more, so that can't be bad... I even fixed the set up on my Jackson finally! Going to re work the pickups on the box guitar as soon as I get the parts from Thailand (been waiting for almost a month already!). They were only temporarily affixed for ease of adjustment. I suppose I'm starting to be proud, but mostly just thankful to have so many awesome instruments around the studio now. Also I am thankful for your listen and comment!

Greetings!

"Are you plugging directly in and using amp software or are you mic'ing an amp?"

I'm going direct into a multi-effects pedal for some treatment, then to the AudioBox. I have "Ampire", but it's pretty gnarly on CPU. If I have four Midi drum tracks and have more than one instance of Ampire going, it starts peaking my CPU bar and playback is crackly and computer gets generally stressed.

"A new PRS, you lucky bastard!! I've only played one at the store and really liked it."

I played one here at good old Guitar Center and thought it seemed very smooth. Strat frets are too high and Ibanez sound like ass when you're trying to get a sweet, soaring tone. I had it shipped from Indiana to Missouri and it was still in tune. The only real bitch of the ordeal, was when it arrived, it was really cold outside, and there was a big sticker on it saying I need to wait 6 to 8 hours for the guitar to adjust to the temperature of the room to protect the finish.... So there I was,... waiting,... staring,... lusting. Longest 5 and a half hours ever. Didn't wait the six.

"Explain to me...your guitar playing experience. As a bass player, I didn't play the electric guitar until I started home recording a few years ago, a late bloomer in that regard."

Sounds like me. I got an Epiphone P-bass Fender rip-off at about 16. Played it for years and learned Tool's music. That was when I fell in love with the bass guitar. Justin Chancellor made it seem so much like a lead instrument, I didn't see why not. I had nobody to play music with, so the bass never too that secondary role that it usually takes. It was always the star.

When I started recording, I realized the Epiphone was not going to give me the clean sound I want. I bought an Ibanez SR600 and that it what you hear on everything of mine.

As far as the guitar, I've had an acoustic Squier for a while that I've learned some Floyd and Zeppelin on, but I've never learned any chords. I know three, and one's a bar! I'm learning "Amie" from Pure Prairie League, and was thrilled that it contained the three chords I know!!!!! What luck!

"Thought the mix was a bit over compressed."

After I read that, I went into the project and looked at the master, and I usually have a Multiband Dynamic Compressor on it with the mix at around 30 percent. That bitch was cranked to 100!!! Thank you for pointing that out. I have that effect templated to load in a certain way, so I must have brought it in with a drop-down or something. Anyway, yes. You were right. I'll do a new mixdown and upload soon.

Thanks again!

Evan

long live phi zappa crappa. honestly he is a compositional hero of mine. why don't you download this puppy and graffiti it up a little?!

Hey Wayne, good to have your listen and feedback! Nice to hear that you liked looking at the guitar as well! I did a little fine tuning on the guitar this morning... some tightening and reorienting of the treble pickup mostly. So I guess what you're saying is that it not very pop? I don't think what I think of as pop is what others do, so it makes sense. The "claws in me" words kept going through my head lately, so just had to develop the idea. It felt appropriate for so many different circumstances. "I knew exactly what happened when I read the reply on that other track." - I guess I'm having trouble remembering what reply you speak of. Thank you very much for stopping by!

Bang a gong, indeed, lol! (Always loved that song, btw.)

Thanks allot, Wayne. Glad you like it and took the time to comment. We really appreciate it.

Ciao,
M.

Thanks a lot Wayne. I thought this title would fit nicely a song like this...
I appreciate your nice words and am happy that you liked the song. Thanks again! Alex

Thank you! The guitar part isn't mine. Sergey Hartwick played it - and sent it back together with the voice. So - I can do nothing.)

Hey Wayne,

Thanks allot for chiming in and hitting me up with your kind words.

The guitar is my friend, Midiman James. The harp is actually from a Mellotron VST I have which James found for me after I told him it was one of my favorite instrument.

Cheers,
Scott

Yo.

So hard to say how long it takes to put this complex, lengthy stuff together. Many different sessions of varying lengths. I’ve made this one over the last 2-3 weeks whilst working on others as well as having a week’s break when it was pissing me off. So, pretty quickly made for me.

Yes, I can get tired of listening to long pieces over and over again. However, it’s also a damn good test of whether parts/sections are good enough. With this one, I found myself enjoying listening to it over and over again – a good sign. I’m always amazed at how many small things I can keep improving when listening again and again (and to different parts) and taking some action over anything and everything that pisses me off in any way. So, endless little volume corrections and small touches of automation, guitar edits etc

One difficulty in making such long stuff is that I’m generally working on fairly short looped sections at a time so it can be hard to see how the whole thing is coming together. I always start every new session by listening to the whole thing from the start, just to familiarise myself with every sound and element present.

I like the phrase “the laser show” and agree it’s a bit odd. Probably doesn’t quite fit in this track, which is much more on the beautiful side. I do have an idea to fix that – vocode that laser sound with a more beautiful synth sound and see if they merge in a way that softens the laser. Or maybe I won’t bother. Laser craziness ain’t exactly my signature sound but it is kind of fun.

“I liked how the guitars took over and ended it all”

That’s mostly distorted bass that you’re hearing, not guitar, though there is also a return to the very first, funky clean guitar part heard in the track. Strange having clean guitar over distorted bass. And now it’s uptempo, racing stuff rather than the original mid tempo funky.
This track has actually been No1 on the intergalactic Thousand Year Track charts for the last 3,000 years.

“the 1,000 year version is beyond my listening capacity”
Not if you make it into my heaven. Lots of time there for you to bask in this musical millennium journey. Whilst munching on some mangoes.

“congrats on finally finishing up that one!”

Yeah, it took quite a bit of computer processing power and I had to incorporate about a thousand genres to keep things interesting. Some have never been heard on this planet. So, that’s something to look forward to if you make it into my heaven. That and all the mangoes.

Thanks again.

Yeah it was loops. I tend to upload songs, get feedback, and then re-upload them to make them as best as I can. Thanks for the feed back!

Hey Wayne,

Many thanks, my friend. You know, I was a disco hater too, when it first emerged. I thought it would hurt us playing musicians, but I joined a 9 piece disco/funk band and I loved it. I remember having to tie my bell bottom cause it kept getting caught in the beater of my kick drum pedal! I still don't have allot of disco in my collection, but smile when I hear it on the oldies stations.

Thanks allot for your kind words.

Cheers,
Scott

Hello Wayne!

I am happy you enjoyed the track! It is always good to have a fresh pair of ears, so thanks for yours!

Love and Light,

Mykael

Always good to hear from you Wayne...your comments like this one are always highly appreciated. I'm really glad you liked this one so much and thanks for the fav!:)

With appreciation____Orlando