Tumbleweed

Thanks so much for the support Tumbleweed! Sorry about not getting back to you about that comment on my track I posted earlier. Ive been busy making a ton of new stuff! I will be sure to upload the finished product here later so you can enjoy it, good bass or no, lol:)

Thanks, Tumbleweed :) That means a lot to me.

ER

Don't worry about it, I've been called worse...hahaha
Thanks Man
The Guitar is a Gibson SG from the 70's, plays like butter
in my hand, wish I had this when I was running in a band...LOL

Yes he did the bed track so, I couldn't really do anything with
outside of what I did...
Imagination what's that I just play what I feel, once I hear the chords
I just play...As long as I stay in the box I'm cool, don't like bad
harmonics... :)...

Thanks again for stopping in Ed...And your comment...

Peace...TG.

Hey Ed..thanks buddy,like you I hardly ever listen to radio these days,well the commercial side of it anyway.....I guess relics like Zappo and myself (and you! lol)tend to live in the past experience wise and all I've got to say to that is thank God! (or whatever appropriate deity),there is obviously some great contemporary music being made in the world but it's hidden from the mainstream,we were so lucky to grow up listening to proper music! haha...thanks again mate ,be over to your page..like right now!..cheers Dave :)

From you Ed, this comment was a pleasure to read! I feel like I'm only scratching the surface at this point, especially considering the rising tide of obstacles that I have been contending with. I chose this life long ago though, so who am I to complain. Either way, it made me happy to hear from you on this song, so thank you!

Thanks...Ed...
As you can tell I like to push myself at times, doing things that
make me stop and think for a moment...
Just trying to play in a simple format, can change the way you
think about Music...
I don't try to be perfect anymore, just having fun with grooves
that feel good to me...And are road worthy... :-)

Thanks again my Man...

Peace...TG.

Hello Tumble, good to hear from you :) Im glad you really enjoyed this one. I also usually carry the bass with strings alone, but I may just add an actual bass really low underlaying, just to give it that very final 'full" feel. Im not sure honestly where they are centered at though. Thanks again for stoppin :)

Haha, I can relate to those kind of after parties Ed !
So glad to hear that this makes sense to some. As always, good to get your feedback and I'm very thankful for the kind words.

I would like to take credit for being a sax player,but the sax track was played on the keyboard. Thanks for your wah guitar Ed. PDmuzak

Hey, my friend....glad you're back after some time! I hope you
will be soon presenting some new material here on LM!
Thank you so much for another positive and supportive feedback
and I have to tell you that I can't really compose proper lullabies, so you guys will need some stronger stuff to put you in sleep...)

I hope all is well_____Orlando

Thanks ED...

Every now and then you've got to do, what your soul tells you to...
Other wise you miss the whole point, of being alive...
Sometimes you just have to slow down enough, so the wind can catch
up with you, if you don't you will never hear what it brings with it...
And it's always something New...

Once again thanks for taking the time, She rides well...

Peace...TG.

Welcome ,Ed....as first I wish you as least bad days as possible and second I have to say thank you again for your continuous support....I hope you won't be away for long...I miss so many people of the old guard here on LM (Vicky, Mark, Anubis etc.).

I hope all is well

Orlando

Thanks for your kind word. and thanks for taking the time to writing me that you prouve me im on the good road :)

Peace

Hi Ed

Always good to hear from you. I hope everything goes well in your life.

Yes, Lisa is a real find and a very talented singer (actress and screen writer too). We have plans to start writing some original material in the very near future.

The keys are simply a patch from Logic X and you're dead right. It's not often I produce a track with no guitars on it. There are two pianos (the electric rhodes sounds plus the acoustic grand piano) plus the hammond style organ so not a great deal of room for much else. I decided to leave it as it was and let it "breathe" a bit.

I will pass your kind comments on to Lisa too. She will be really pleased. Thanks again.

Best

Richie

Hello Ed,
Many thanks for your warm and motivating comment.
Usually it is an achievement to have a comment from a fellow producer but to have a brilliant comment especially from you it is an honour.
I am glad you enjoyed it.
As regard to the ending my wife had a same idea as yours I think I am convinced now to change it.
Thanks again
Jamid

Thank you so much my friend for another supportive comment!
You can imagine how hungry of making music I was after that long blackout and I think now I'm much closer to the former strenghts with this composition. I'm glad you have so much positive to say about it....I always trust your opinion!:)
Also big thanks for the 'fav'...truly appreciated!

All the best_____Orlando

No problem.

Audio pops piss me off no end so I'm happy to point them out and have done so a good few times in Looperman reviews. They're really inexcusable (to me) in my music so I have to get rid of them as they're pure sonic errors.

I'm currently working on a dual female vocal track and have spent the last couple of mornings removing loads of audio pop edits. The embarrassing thing for me is that I made the track four years ago (just doing an update now) and I cannot work out why the hell I didn't remove all of them at the time. I can't believe I couldn't notice them and you know what I'm like for scrutinising details.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that sometimes people can miss these seemingly obvious errors in their own work so no one should fear pointing them out.

Interesting that Orlando pointed out those errors in your track (though without any time references) but he couldn't hear the audio pops that I pointed out in his most recent track. People have said to me before that it might be something to do with Looperman/web playback but I'm not so sure. I can only go on what I hear, especially when I play it back a few times and the pop is in exactly the same place as before.

Glad you got them fixed.

Greetings.

I never know quite what people will pick out from my tracks as interesting to them. Either favourite parts or areas for improvement. My stuff is so dense that there's so much that could be chosen though I don't mind hearing multiple times that a particular section was a highlight. Some bits just do stand out as being high points, as much as you try to raise the quality of everything else.

Yes, there are some decent grooves in the lead bass work though the anchoring stuff is all done by synth bass. Lead bass intentionally doesn't have any low end and is functioning much more as guitar in this. Unusual but it's the kind of thing Evisma does a lot, which is why this track is dedicated to him. Doesn't sound at all like his music but it's not supposed to - there's just the lead bass connection.

"have to admire your attention to detail"

That truly is how I make almost all my music as I don't plan this stuff out beforehand. I jam, see what I get and closely scrutinize and edit parts and then get inspired to add more and more.

Quite often, the attention to detail is me just fixing stuff that's not working properly. Then, in doing the fix, I come up with something creative and have to include that and that's one of a good few reasons for my tracks being so long. I just keep stretching out what I've already got. I love to try to get the most out of the parts I've recorded though often have to start a new track so that things don't end up being 20 mins or more.

"the outro leaves me with an oh yeah feeling"

That's a good way to sign off. I'm not entirely happy with the very final ending but it's a nice enough return to the start of it all so I guess it will do.

Thanks for the respect.

Hey man, thanks for the feedback :)

yeah the minimal approach seems to work well, its just a matter of making sure it doesnt sound too empty... but seems to work :P

"Its good listening over my way"

Awesome! im glad you enjoyed ed.
thanks for taking the time :)

Thank you so much Ed!

Megapaul is probably one of the greatest and most inspiring discoveries of mine on this site as he produced a great amount of funky guitar loops.
So just trying out myself on the loops I downloaded when joining the site few months ago.

Sadly collab is not working anytime... creative process can't be rationally controlled I guess... I might be totally wrong though - correct me if so!

Thank you again for very kind feedback and making this one a favourite of you! I really appreciate that and am so happy you liked this production! Alex

Thank you a lot Ed! Firstly I much appreciate your kind words on the production itself: Yes! There is some electic Rhodes in here (from Roland synth) that I used to support the harmonic progression and to fill up the space at some places throughout this track.
I must say that I started only with drums this time ... When I recorded the solo using some nice flute-like lead I realized that this drum loop I was using takes too much place in the mix so finally I decided to remove it completely. That allowed me to add some more of pads and atmospheres and build much subtle/ambient-like composition...
As for the electric Rhodes I do not have any original one of course but I am very familiar with the mechanics of the real acoustic piano and action of church organ (I practiced also harpsichord for some time). The Roland Juno Di has very light action which in my opinion gives the possibility to play easier but from the other hand that's still just an emulation of the classic electric piano (which is basically an electro - acoustic instrument)... Still it sounds quite cool and keeping that original classic sound in mind I can record easier and faster now, not need to struggle with midi latency signal delay and adjusting midi notes anymore!
Maybe I will get the real Rhodes some day as well as I will probably continue progressively my current making-music in the future!

Thank you again for the time and giving me some great feedback! I really appreciate that.

Best to you, Alex