srbrown7

Thanks much for your kind review! I can't take much credit for this one, as ShortBus did all the composing and recording. He's done something special with this song! I really appreciate the positive feedback!

Thanks srbrown7.!

This is just a bit of summer fun.!

I cant do much at mo as time is limited,but i do still produce music in my head lol

cheers mate!

***chris***

nice comment, glad you like it

That's a great idea to use some of his sermons, I'm shooting a music video for this song next month and his vocals are actually going to be incorporated in that. As far as using my vocals? Feel free! I would love to work with you. Just let me know what I need to do :). I always listen to this track and feel its missing something as well but I can get carried away and spend way too much time/money on one song because I'm never satisfied. My friends told me to record a song.. edit it once then step back. I wish I didn't take their advice on this after seeing your comment.

Stephanavich! Sounds very cool!

Well, Steve is a good name, probably why there are so many of you.

=)

Hi Steve :) thank you for listening and reviewing my track . i really curious with 'live' mixdown you mentiont can you point out a good reference for it? it will surely enrich my knowledge \^o^/

Hi Steve!! (How many Steve's are there in here anyway? =D )
About the muffled vocal, yes, it was kind of tricky to bring it out from under the synth stabs so I'm going to look in to that some more.
I also use FL but that "fit to tempo" feature always backfires on me so I usually timestretch manually and repitch if nescessery.
Noted about the rapid kicks, I like them but I guess you have a point there. I could tone them down a bit and see what happens.

Thanks for listening and for the great feedback!
Take care/ SJ =)

Yeah, the idea was to make it like a mini DJ mix so it was just a case of fade one out and bring another in. I did use the poizone synth for the ARP in track 2 so well spotted. I'm new to VST's so i'm still learning what they can do (or struggling to learn i should say)
Thanks for dropping in and commenting on the track.
FR

Thanks srbrown! Glad you enjoyed it and couldn't agree with you more that it screams vocals, hopefully will have some soon! Take care :)

Ok - you're making slightly more sense now though I still don't get the bass talking to guitar thing.

Yes, I suppose that intro bass does have some vowel-like talking qualities to it. "Bow-a-wow" is what I hear now you mention it.

It's just a modified Reason patch I made in about 2001 (in making this track) and I still absolutely love it. Its the main feature of a mostly electronic track I made, called Into The Out There, that may well be your favourite track of mine:

http://www.looperman.com/tracks/detail/146600

"musical creatures"

I have no idea why but I seem to feature creature-like sounds in a lot of my tracks over the years. I don't mean samples of animals or anything else but just making synths and sometimes guitar appear to make creature-like sounds.

I really don't get how this happens! Sometimes maybe it's a bit cute and cheesy but something I seem to have some entirely unintentional talent for.

Thanks for confirming your possible madness. You're certainly not too mad to regularly produce quality music...

:)
thank you much much for the feedback.
tempo is 138bmp .
it could be nice to work with you .
Elena

Yo. You've confused me right from the start with

"That bass and guitar are talking to each other"

Or maybe you're confused. Without a time reference, I'm not sure which bit you're talking about and there's relatively little guitar in this, apart from the obvious big part on 4:00 though I'm guessing you're not talking about that section just yet.

1:27 there is some subtle autowah guitar which blends well with the bass. Maybe that's the bit you meant.

I think I always try to get instruments to appear to talk to each other and chatter back and forth.

Maybe this is partly because it's all me playing them so I just naturally connect with any part that I've already played - even when I can't remember how to play it (which is most of the time).

4:52 check how the psychedelic guitar merges with the lead synth. Hearing them as separate instruments is hard to do at times. They seem to come together to form one instrument though I have no idea if they're both playing the same thing. Must be quite similar, I guess.

"that distorted guitar just lifts the whole thing"

A couple of commenters had a problem with it and a couple loved it. I think it's unusual and definitely wouldn't get rid of it.

"a joy to listen to"

It may well be my finest ever track and I would expect most people into synths and far out, groove-based music to enjoy it.

Hi Mr B,

Thanks for the listen, and for the comments...spot on with riders!!

Best wishes,

Mark/Larry!

Many thanks Steve!

It's really a very special honour to receive such a positive feedback from a top class musician like you!

All the best___Orlando

Well, well - it seems you managed to survive my jazz odyssey.

That main bass was just some slide resonator I had left over from some other track so I tried detuning it an octave and loved the sound. A cool not-very-bassy bass.

I have no idea why there is panning on it! I haven't applied it whilst making this track but it also wouldn't have been recorded on the original signal so I don't really understand it. But it sounds good so I've left it.

"that piano chord a 1:00 is a real tease"

That's really well put and I know what you mean. Not a big piano fan but like to use it sometimes.

The edgy/rock guitar in that first section is all about playing along to the accented hi hat drum groove. Nice, accented 4/4 change from the gentle, swinging jazz to provide variety. Fun guitar to play.

I have no idea what genre you could give to all my stuff except 'far out'. Hopefully my different albums will sort of be seen as different genres (that's for other people to say).

Yes, could have used touches of brass but my VST brass stuff isn't great and I didn't really experiment much with it in this. Maybe not having any brass here is more interesting.

7:15 bigger, more obvious piano riff. Notice how that detuned slide bass is still going underneath (and even in the rocking section later on).

8:44 short acid synth break was one of the last bits of playing I put in. Had that instrument sitting unused on the timeline. Just twiddled a few keys and it was done.

Good to hear from you again.

Im real pleased you liked it..thank you very much!

yep makes sense to me thanks!

***bb***

hey Steve , U'll have separated instrumental & vocal line in your email if U check it tonight. would be great if U can have any better mix . yes..U know I have no Studio & no equipmenT ...& honesty no interest to mix & mastering too ..
for sure a better mix can show Brandy's great tallents better.
I really like what she had done with my duet guitar .
would be great if U join us for this .best wishes.__Behnam

Yeah, you're surely right 'bout the guitars ( thx for the piece of advice ) and the honky tonk keyboard, Sir (though I like them there) .
I'm grateful to you for your interesting and warm comment,
Merci beaucoup !
Cheers