Hey guys,

Thanks as ever 4 the input on the last track.

Here's a newie I finished today:

http://www.soundclick.com...pmusic.htm

Cheers!




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are you all avoiding me or something?



I've checked out YOUR songs.





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you ARE avoiding me.

Patience, young Skywalker. Geez, you're worse than Artist08. People might be busy at work, ya know? Or with kids! Or Hurricanes! Or all three!

Are you avoiding these people?

http://www.prince.org/msg/15/112976

http://www.prince.org/msg/15/113161

http://www.prince.org/msg/15/111275

http://www.prince.org/msg/15/112814

http://www.prince.org/msg/15/112245

http://www.prince.org/msg/15/105137

http://www.prince.org/msg/15/112190

http://www.prince.org/msg/15/112351

http://www.prince.org/msg/15/108480

http://www.prince.org/msg/15/112451

http://www.prince.org/msg/15/112579

http://www.prince.org/msg/15/111385

http://www.prince.org/msg/15/112487

http://www.prince.org/msg/15/110804

Notice the post times and how long it takes sometimes for us to get around to listen to everyone else's work.

These are all on this first page, by the way.
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VinaBlue said:

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I listened and I dig it... I also dug your previous cut the 10 minute jam with the blistering solos... After 4 months of unemployment (I'm employed again ), I don't get a whole lotta org time anymore...

damn dude! You're kind of needy...

I get ignored in this group all the time... Yes! straight up dissed, like I don't exist. I take it like a man, damn clicky fuckers.

Fuck you all! Did you hear that?
I didn't think so.



Man, what a crack up.

Anyway on to your work.

This is the one I listened to last night. I'll listen again. First, I think you should cut the vocals at the beginning it doesn't encourage the beginning of the song. You have some different changes going on here, which is good. The playing and arrangement is very tight, but it seems like everything is in the same frequency range. Very digital sounding. You need to anchor the low end with something because it sounds like either 500hz and below is on vacation or the whole track is overcompressed. I'd have to break out my spectrum analyzer. Your vocals have a Roy Orbison feel to them on this track, but i think that has something to do with the changes. Actually this would have been a totally different track with a more groovy bass line, groove works with any type of song. No Matta what!!!

What kind of god awful tom samples are you using? eeek. They have to go.

I realize this is probably an experimental track for you, so experiemnt on. I'll have to listen to your other tracks. I don't mean to be tuff on you but you seem like a well rounded writer, so I must let loose.

ToyStein said:

Yeah, I guess...but the org is one of about three places I get any feedback from right now!



hmmm, my girlfriend thought the vocal intro was good, so I left it in...it's staying there now cause it's all mixed down for good now (i use a wave editor to record, not multitrack or anything, so it's all pasting things on top of each other).



I just EQ the mix in fruityloops till my ears say it sounds best. I wish I had better software and/or equipment, so that would probably explain why it sounds as it does. I did compress the whole mix once in the wave editor then Eq'd it so I don't know whether that's good or not. beleive it or not i've actually done an audio engineering course but I still don't know exactly how to get a great mix. I just rely on my ears and the minimal tools i have available.



i would have loved to put a more groovy bassline in but alas, i lack a bass. i just played this keyboard bass on my $20 casio keyboard!



the toms that come with fruityloops....oh wait you mean those cheesy 80s sounding ones at the end of the bridge? from my casio keyboard!!!! they're intentionally cheesy! i guess i'm too post-modern for you to understand!



thanks for the praise on the writing....i get most of my good praise on my songwriting and guitar/sax playing which i guess is good, but i wish i got more praise for the production, etc....i guess i need to upgrade my skills and equipment before that happens! thanks for being kinda harsh...i need the constructive criticism!



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VinaBlue said:

no i'm not...i even responded to one of them....problem is i'm temporarily on dial-up right now so it makes it hard to listen to a lot of downloaded tracks...in any case, i too am busy making music a lot of the time....but i will endeavour to comment on more peoples' work!

mrdespues said:

All I'm saying is, all those people might have similar reasons for not responding to your thread right away. They aren't avoiding you and you aren't avoiding them. I know how you feel, I think we all want 10 people to post right away telling us how much they love our tunes. But you gotta wait at least a day or two sometimes, especially on the weekend, this place is dead sometimes.

VinaBlue said:

hey no worries, i understand what you're saying...

3:05 in the morning, and i can't download u'r song.....i guess i should b sleeping but my wife wouldn't let me in that thong... eeeee

i'll check it out 2morrow...

illmicfan said:

unfortunately that link has been taken down cause i'm not supposed to have two tripod websites.

stream it at soundclick:

http://www.soundclick.com...pmusic.htm


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