crucethus

thank you. I dont have autotune, this was a loop I got here. looperman-t-0150050-0180678-futureanalysis-farewell. I just edited and messed with my vox a bit. it is a really good loop.

Thanks Cru! this week end, i went to hear a friend reggae / dub band. So after the concert, i gave us all my dub tracks. They listened to them and they told how they were surprised by the mixing: Only the kick should be more present.

i think i'm going to ask help near a friend who's job is sound engineer :)

Thanks again!
Friendly
Bleep

Wow Steve...this is incredibly generous my friend ! As if
Peter, Bryan and David were there because of too much gin and tonic...haha...Joke aside my friend...I'm sure our friend Ed would be delighted to read this too, and personally I like the idea of music as blood presure leveling tool..:) Thank you so much for your kind words and the fav as well...means the world!:)

With much appreciation______Orlando

sounds like a great idea but I will leave genre 'covers' to guys that know what they are doing like you. as for me - i will just keep taking the drugs and hope for the best with these tracks! best regards. Dan

Thanks for commenting. Believe it or not, I hardly ever do records like this because I know there are other producers who live and breathe this genre of music. I actually tried the 4 to the floor beat but it didn't work the way I wanted so I stuck with a 2 step as you descibed it. Normally, I just make more Pop/R&B and Rap records when I feel froggy. I've even tried my hands in a couple of Rock records that I have on my page but Dance/EDM or Electro have not really been my expertise. I tried to do some things outside my comfort zone but sometimes it doesn't translate well. But thank you for the feedback, I'll take your words for consideration if i decide to tackle this genre again.

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.