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Well to add to the spirit of the season, here is a tune from last night's concert from my daughter's high school choir.
http://s94545301.onlinehome.us/music/13_DeckTheHall.mp3 Happy Holidays Everyone ! Take Care, Gene |
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"I like the harmonic structure. Wow, does that guy have a set of lungs! "
I realize it's a sample, try putting in some breath breaks for some "fake realism". Nice version." Thanks for the comment. I will look into that. Aaron P.S. will quantization of the midi track assist in adding breaths or should I just add them in normally... thanks for all comments and assistance as I am a complete n00b at this |
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Aaron,
I would stay away from quantizing personally & just add them in manually as if someone was actually playing the part. Good luck. |
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Hey Roy.
Nice you like it. Guitars are made with Vox Tonelab SE and Gibson Les Paul Standard. |
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aaron,
That was cool...I enjoyed it. I like those subtle strings...you should put it on the Christmas cd (if you haven't). -Roy |
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hi eric maia.
thanks for checking it out. those songs are from the "all the same" disc (the disc has 10 songs, i wish i had more of them to post as mp3, but not yet) glad you liked it. i'm going to check out your strange industrial music link now. -jeff |
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Gene,
That was great, is it going on the Christmas CD? |
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could you talk in some detail about how you got these drum sounds? Did you program this stuff on a midi controller/keyboard? I'd love to be able to do this stuff. lots of great stuff chris/gene et. al., very good work as usual. bp |
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I am planning to have the choir in their acoustically better music room next Monday-Wednesday. I am probably going to use something from there, if not I have this concert full of Christmas music, and this song is a very strong candidate ! Thank you for listening, and your kind words ! Take Care, Gene |
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Thank you all for the response, I will try to get the flute part more "humanized" (with some breathing) and then will submit for the DUC Christmas CD.
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Sounds cool. Nice honest guitar tone-what amp/mics did you use on them? Did you use a stereo pair or mult. overdubs ...curious, please give details...thnx!
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dfranko, Very nice, man...good song, and I like the production style...love the vocals. Drums and guitars sound great. Great job. -Roy |
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Dfranko, I wanted to also state, last night I listened to your track as well(actually, it was like a group listen... ) Anyway,
Yes, I thought it was great too how it was (no offense), but rather simple sounding at the beginning, which worked great, and then kicked up the noise a bit for the chorus. It was pretty cool. Some things I did notice; and It could just be preference, or me losing my mind, but the drums during the chorus, are they real? In my head I hear slight fluctuations of the tempo, but, I could like I am saying, be going insane. Anyway, It was a really cool song, And I was impressed. Very cool voice too! =-Ben |
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Joz,
'whose army'...just great...arrangement, vocals, guitars, drums...all. What's exceptional too is the second half/ending buildup just gets better and better. Very nice, man. -Roy |
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The drums are done via a Kurzweil Midiboard (circa 1987) into a Roland XV-3080 with an expansion drum chip. All pieces of the kit are captured on a single MIDI track. The XV-3080 emits stereo audio which I route to a stereo Aux track (PT LE5.3.1) with a single EQ that pretty much just boosts the 3.5K and 10K areas to brighten the snare and cymbals. The key thing here is the breadth of expressivity that you get out of the chip. For example, within each "kit" there are 3 distinct hi-hat samples (played by different notes), closed tight, medium, and loose, each with its own 4-layer velocity map. The snare has 2 normal samples (center hit and rimshot) plus a flam and a buzz -- each again with a 4-layer vmap that changes timbre as you hit the key harder.
At first the mechanics are pretty straightforward: I play the basic beat on the keyboard directly against the LE metronome. Next, I add fills and, if appropriate, identify blocks of measures that really should have a consistent pattern and copy-and-paste the best measure across the block. Fills are usually added by first slowing the tempo down. Next, I quantize the whole shebang to crispen it up. Now it gets interesting: I change tempos up and down at select transitions to reflect the non-metronomic behavior of human drummers. When the tempo is at 130, for example, and you've got a wicked snare thing going for 2 beats followed by 16th note rolls down the toms for the next 2 beats, I drop the tempo to 127, then 124, then bring it back to 130. On the next chorus, I'll up it to 132 to add "excitement" without making it sound like the tempo actually picked up. Lastly, I'll pay close attention to hi-hat timbre as the stick moves away from the "cymbal." In general, you'll open up the hi-hat a bit on that last hit as you start to swing your body away to address the rest of the kit, so I reflect that by selectively changing the hi-hat notes. It creates a great sense of realism in the output. I actually do play real drums so I'd be remiss if I didn't acknowledge that knowing how to play real drums helps immensely, especially in knowing when to lay back. |
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Great vocals. Haunting chorus, and I love the gentle warbling effect. Excellent balance of the acoustic and clean electric guitars throughout most of the tune, then the crunch comes on, and builds in layers -- but the parts are still discernable. Only change I make is a little more verb or slapback in the snare to align it better with the vocals.
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Great track, well played and recorded. There's a weird phasing thing happening with the vocal that sounds kinda cool. Is that an effect? |
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I had a feeling that this would be the deciding factor. Nice work, drum programming is something I want to get a lot better at. Nice work, thanks! bp |
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Buzz,
Finally got to hear all 4 of yours at once...some very cool things musically. Really enjoyed it. Post more when you can... -Roy |
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That was basically a ruff mix. I just uploaded the finished one
http://www.overnightlows.com/music/whosearmy.mp3 Vocals sound much better. guit4brains. I used a JCM800's clean channel, with a distortion pedal (the guv'nor by marshall) I used to hate that pedal, but it seems to work perfectly with the JCM800's claen channel very well. Used a 57 - Brent Averill - rosetta - 002. Alot of the tone also comes from the celestion vintage 30's speakers. And heres a fun one, anyone remembers Elastica? http://www.overnightlows.com/music/connection.mp3 and what the heck, heres anotherone http://www.overnightlows.com/music/leech.mp3 Joz |
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hers 2 more.
http://www.overnightlows.com/music/thesearch.mp3 http://www.overnightlows.com/music/s...kingsohard.mp3 I'll post what we think is our best song tomorrow, its being mixed right now. Joz |
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Hey Joz! I remember that Elastica song....cool cover. I like all Overnight Lows stuff....to bad I can see you guys and gal live. Are you planning to release a CD???
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Well in between everything else that goes on in life I have finally started to finish up some tunes...
Here are a couple of recent mixes: Kind of an upbeat blues influenced rock tune: The Real Me Slower (but not ballad speed) tune: When You Cry I play guitar and sing on these tunes... I had a couple of friends play bass and drums for me. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Happy listening... Stuart |
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Ahhh...Brent Averill....been awhile since I recorded my 77 jmp thru a worthy pre...nice...thnx for the info. ...cool songs....=0)
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Shendrie,
Nice songs...really like your voice too. Good job on the slide on 'The Real Me'. Good mixes overall IMO. Glad to get to hear your stuff. -Roy |
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Thanks for the feedback Roy. It is my first attempt at singing as the front guy so I tend to be very self conscious about my vocals but your comments give my fragile ego a little boost.
Thanks for listening. Stuart |
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Roy, I heard, by chance on the prosound forum, "deep"...excellent job...what a great slide solo.
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Guit4Brains,
Thanks very much...it can be a tough crowd on the Marsh... ...many of the engineers there have my respect, and it's good to have their objective ears hear my stuff. I'm working with Charles Dye there on the CapeII project, and his final mix of our song should be done anytime. Should be interesting. thanks again, Roy |
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Anybody creating anything Christmasy?
I been trying to come up with something but it's hard to come up with anything that actually sounds different. I keep humming.. Grandma got run over by a... well you know. There must be some kind of formual to make a Christmas song. Is there a Christmas mode like mixadeerian or something that will give the right sound? |
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Hey Swap...what're you...I mean, what's legoboy getting this year? |
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