crucethus

Thanks Steve! I always like hearing comments like this, it makes me want to continue doing what I do.

Thanks for always stopping in mate,
much appreciated!

Thanks a lot Cru, glad to get your take on it. I'm not familiar with the songs you mention so I will have to check them out. This is just basically a result of playing around with some Hall reverb and Delay to push the limits of decay time from the effects.

Steve: No, that actually didn't occur to me. I did try EQing that track, but I do have some other filter plugins that I could experiment with. Good idea. I am assuming that you are suggesting automating the cutoff point on the filter to progressively cut back on the high frequency content as the phrase plays? I've never actually automated anything in my tracks other than volume and pan. This is a good opportunity to learn something new. I think it's pretty simple to do. Just need to read up on how to do it in Logic.

If I'm successful, I'll post a new version and, as suggested by Mosaic, I'll remaster the track to give a bit more oomph.

Eric

:D thanks crucethus !

Thanks a lot Steve.
Nice to see that you give this one a try after one year :)
Good to known that you like it and also that you get the irony of this little one.

stay tuned
joe

i am glad that you noticed that hint at 4:02, Cru. you know very well as an excellent composer that it can be an effective technique - to bring back just a taste of something that came before. thanks buddy

Regreetings, Davy Crucket.

Empathic Blowhard? What's that supposed to mean and how did you come up with it?

"VD is the Clap picked up from multiple percussive elements"

That's a very oblique and cryptic percussion reference. How could I have guessed that?

No fuckin' way - you're now sending me Celine Dion links! When you said Celine, I thought: "No, surely The Cru Dawg ain't sending me Celine Dion videos. Must be some other Celine".

I watched a bit of them and, amazingly enough, didn't like them. Why didn't you just tell me about Lindsey Sterling separately? Yes, she sounds good though I'm sure there are loads of great violinists about. Not something I know much about. I don't know much about the cello world either.

"To me the cello is the most expressive instrument"

I don't really know what is, apart from the human voice (though mine expresses an inability to hit notes or have any decent tone).

If we ever meet, I will Crubake you for at least 45 minutes in a preheated oven. I shouldn't think it'll do any good, though. You'll still probably taste disCrusting.

Static Ovenmad

Hey my friend

Glad you enjoyed the piece, not all can kill you here in the great southern land only about 99.9% do lol...Happy Halloween to you...Peace n Respect mate...mosaic...

Hiya, The things I create, well... I rarely have any idea what genre it is, So I use the words that come up first in my brain :)

Thanks for the nice comment and glad you enjoyed the song

Cheers!

~Eighteen

Will check out the sony acid mate thanks for the comment.

Steve

Thanks again for the input!

Thank you for the comment! I took your advice with the handclaps and lowered them in the mix. They are a little less prevelant in the mix. You can still hear them but not as much as before. Thank you again for the generous feedback.

There Cru was just a-walking down the street, singing Cru-Ah-Diddy-Diddy-Crum-Diddy-Doo (over the latest hit song by Mr S. Nomad).

The opening synths do indeed have purpose and it's a simple but effective bassline. No cello until 0:28 and it's certainly not vocoded so perhaps you're mistaking synths for cello before then.

"beat at :46 has a groove with the strings sounds like Amish disco"

I like the idea of Amish disco. Probably no synths in Amishland. I presume they also have no computers so probably don't have fat beats like these. But acoustic cello would be allowed. Do they drink cider? Possibly.

"keeps building in intensity."

Yes - often a key feature of my music. 1:54 it gets somewhat Eastern and heavily psychedelic. And sort of trancey.

"Less psychedelics and more sub bass as we break it down with that groovy beat."

Yes, at 2:54 there's a move away from the intense, heavy psychedelic stuff to something more chilled and spacious, with the groovy bass coming to fore. Got to provide some variety and give the listener a break from intense stuff.

Lots of layered high string stabs as that section progresses. Might even be 7 or 8 cello parts as things get more intense around 3:56.

"percussion style on this song has a few layers"

Yes - loads of drum loop layering that's related to what you do though. Not sure if you've influenced me (a bit?) as I layered drum loops long before I'd heard of Cru.

"second half is like a cranky creepy cousin just waking up from a 2 day nyquil"

Good to have a breakdown and get rid of the drums and then build everything up in a different and intense way again. 2nd half is very different from first but uses many of the previous sounds and instruments so there is hopefully good continuity.

"7:15 on with those string phrases reminds me of Morocco"

Didn't think of that at all when making it but I think I can now see a link. No idea why as I'm not playing anything Moroccan. Just very simple bowed cello notes. And then a cool funky high cello lead arrives at 7:38 and gets seriously embellished, with more and more layers being added.

"thought the build up was going to lead in a wicked guitar solo"

That would totally have fit but I'm playing very little guitar these days and seriously focusing on celling it up and using it as much as possible so never considered adding guitar.

"it went into synth farts instead"

Good synth farts, I hope.

Last couple of minutes is probably too long and needs to be edited down but I thought it might be your favourite cos it's banging dance music, with fun squelchy synths. Aburpt ending should be better but I tried lots of things and could do no better.

Yes, it's a dangerous, mystical journey but where is the venereal disease? Did you pick up some genital warts when you travelled through Morocco?

Static Squelchmad.

thank you, I thought so too. didnt realize till after I did it. I'm going to see if I can expand on it.

Yaas!! I can see it already. A drama about alienation set in Nova Scotia in the fall starring a lonely Goth guy. lol. Thanks for listening crucethus!

thanks for your feedback