mrwolf14

Hey, Domenico.

If you were repeating yourself saying "very bad track", then I would worry.

I wanted to get back to the bass guitar. Ever since I got the six-string, it's been my Sirenum Scopuli. I've been drawn to it every day, and the bass has been a bit neglected.

Glad to not have overdone it. I was right on the edge of that.

Thanks for the listen and the kind words.

Evan

Thank you so much, Domenico. Always a pleasure to receive your comments. So glad you can appreciate our little team as we all enjoy working with eachother.

Ciao,
M.

Hey Domenico,

Really glad you like it and took the time to comment. Being a drummer, I have always loved a bass and drum break-down in a good funk or rock song. Glad you do also.

Cheers,
Scott

Thanks so much! Yes Sansamp w pro-tools

Greetings.

Yes, something a bit different for me, as is always my aim Probably because of the use of all these drum loops and more of a focus on chillout dance music. But still some of my signature sounds in there eg the slide solo.

The filtered, arpeggiated (bowed) violins you can hear in quite a few of my tracks. Pretty much the same sound but always playing different melodies. Some of the very best are in here, especially in the last 90 seconds - my favourite section. That's just a return to violin parts heard earlier in the track but this time I do more with them.

"My favorite moment: ~3:00 ... this is very 80s"

Aha, I think you have chosen the funk section as your favourite. I'm not hearing it as being particularly 80s but I did enjoy playing that delicate clean funk stuff. Lots of chopping up and reordering of the bass and guitar parts but the end result is good, though not perfect.

"you know that the last "unwanted notes" fit nicely in the fade-out?"

I still haven't got round to removing those export error notes. Here's what they are:

Listen to 3:15 and you will hear some gentle high notes come in. That's an arpeggiated sequence heard a few times afterwards. It plays all the time, I just fade the volume up when I want it to be heard.

On export, the last second had the volume of that part mistakenly turned up so that's why it's heard. Yes, that sequence could easily fit in the outro but I'm not sure it's necessary. I have since thought of a way I could include those notes but I don't think I need to. That sequence is heard enough in other parts of the track so it's important not to overdo it.

Yes, the distinctive basslines probably do have the Nomad touch. That same bass synth patch can be heard in lots of my tracks but it doesn't seem to get boring. It's really just a very useful bass sound and it's the main bass in the jazz metal track I'm still working on (it used to be part of this track).

Bassline starting at 5:45 keeps reminding me of New Order's Blue Monday - probably one of the greatest club tracks ever made. And it's by a proper band so it's much more interesting than most dance tracks.

Glad you liked this one as I thought maybe it wouldn't be your sort of thing. I thought maybe there was too much synth and not enough guitar for you.

It may be a while till my next upload as I'm working on a few difficult tracks right now and am far off completing any of them.

See you around...

For some reason, I thought that I had replied to this comment already. I must have been just thinking about your words a lot since you posted this. I'm actually pretty pleased that you found it somewhat pop, as I don't think most people would agree. I think mostly I've just been getting a more trained ear, as well as trying new things each time I bring a song to completion. I really appreciate harsh sounds in a clear sounding final product. Thank you so much for the feedback!

Yeah, Bootsy is cool but expensive!

Domenico I could have not done it with out you. Your Bass playing is great!, and it fits so nicely with the tune.
I can not thank you enough for your assistance with this tune.
Your bass track made the song.

I actually agree with you, Mr. Wolf. It's just a hair too loud, but I don't have my old rig anymore so I can't change it haha. Appreciate the feedback.

Greetings!

"Not so fond of the synth sound starting at 1:49"

I believe that is the accordion and marimba combo. I've wanted to use accordion for a while. Sorry, but I've been diggin the marimbas lately.

I appreciate the feedback. Hope all is well with you.

Evan

Thank you Domenico for a nice comment. Yes, for sure I will be releasing complete albums in a long perspective at some point in the future. I have many tracks ready to go but they are stylistically very different. If you want to have this song contact me via my lm profile. I can send you also my newest song, unlike this smooth jazzy one here it is a bit more aggresive and changing: https://soundcloud.com/promenade2239/wave-blues-feat-toneart-and-taratoxic

Thanks again! Alex

Thank you MrWolf for some nice words.
I will check out Jaffa' Elevator. Happy you liked the production and it is really nice to hear such a kind feedback.
I have a new song with ferryterry - with even more interesting guitar and piano playing: a minor blues jam track. I will post it later today.

Thanks again for listening and very nice review. It is appreciated. Best, Alex

I have used aspirin after making this. Lots.

Thanks,mrwolf14!

Yeah, this was an early work that I did several years ago so my writing skills weren't sharpened and this was our first-ever attempt at rapping of some sort haha. It was kind of our "test song" that my brother and I made :P

Hello.

1:52 may be quintessential me. That guitar riff was the foundation for the grooving here. Before I came up with it, I just had that chillout intro, which was a leftover from my drumless, romantic cinematic track Visible Aura.

That track had no drums so I decided the continuation of its leftover parts should get back to my usual drum-obsessive grooving mode.

" taking the liberty of "jumping" from beat to beat"

Yes, I like the movement of the guitar around the beat. It's mostly three finger-plucked chords (plus some other fills) but is all about how I move around the simple drum groove, with fat synth bass pumping away underneath.

No problem you didn't like the 8:30 trance lead. I had to include it as it really inspired me when working out where to take the second half of this. I loved the sound of the bass guitar with the lead trance and I realised I could make some sort of unusual version of delta blues trance, which I think I've done.

As it inspired me so much, I wasn't going to get rid of it. I've tried to control the filtering so that it doesn't sound too cheesy or "pop-ish". I think it's a surprise in the track and you know I like to do that.

Same goes for laser stuff around 10:00. I don't love that sound but think it takes the track somewhere interesting and new for me.

It's hard to keep coming up with new and interesting tracks (I'm trying to make a piece of music unlike any other almost every single time) so don't be surprised if I sometimes do slightly weird stuff. Or choose some sounds you don't like. That's got to happen sometime.

However, I try not to include something purely for intellectual reasons ie "Oh, it's not a very good sound but I was just trying to show I can also make a bit of trance". I try to only keep things I think sound good (I trust my musical opinion) or do something else with them if they just don't fit the track I've first tried them in. You could say that all sounds have their place, right?

" the killer guitar/bass riff that follows makes me forgive everything"

That's just one distorted bass guitar. Didn't need to double it up with a guitar part though the 1:52 clean guitar does return very near the end of the track.

I don't like that distorted bass riff as much as I first did. Not sure why.

Thanks for your continued support and praise. I try to keep the standard high though it's hard so best if I don't think about it too much as it can place too much pressure on me. Better to just free my mind and create with no expectations, for no purpose other than making something cool and unusual.

Yes, I've produced many albums in the past couple of years so much get round to turning them into real, publicly available albums. Lots of little things to go back and fix in various tracks plus the problem I always have of great mastering.

You'll get some Nomad albums some day, I promise. A heavy one, an electronic one, a blues one, a jazz/funk one and so on...

Mr. Domenico! How are you?

"The tempo changes are "spectacular": this is one of the most difficult things to "plan on a DAW" and in this case they sound so natural. Very Good."

Thank you. Like I mentioned to Mr. Nomad, I just let the part I had play out and when it went to silence, I played some palm-muted guitar hits and got the tempo(down 20bpm), cut and changed the Tempo Track, and was able to turn on the click and play from the verse into the chorus very naturally. Getting the tempo let me set the tempo track and then the click followed it. Kinda hard to explain the process because I wasn't really paying much attention at the time.

I will address the drums soon. Thank you again for your feedback and honesty. It is the most important aspect of this site for me. I appreciate you.

Take care

Evan

Regards. I sell on pond5.com these days if you have interest - Dan

Domenico...

To be truthful the mix is just a rough, at the time I was deep in other
projects...
And have sense remix it but thought, this was good enough for playing
on site...Why give the Master away...

Never the less I'm glad, you enjoyed the track...

Peace...TG.