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i know many on xlt (me included) have been working on music since before we became members here, but never had the chance, time or talent to become officially released. since that is more than a decade ago for us old-schoolers, i'm curious to hear what you would consider to be your best track ever. so please - post your personal single favorite/best track, since you began making music all those years ago. |
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I wrote this track in 2007 it's good from the middle to the end, so if you get bored fast forward it |
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Clips from my unfinished album from 2010: Clips from my unfinished album from 2009: The 2010 one is my most meaningfully-cosmic-- the 2009 one was like 2 hours long, and full of some popish styles with tangent lazer to late 90's electronic vibez- all killer no filler, etc. |
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Nice chill-trip vibes into glitch-hoppish, mang. Was this recorded to tape? Done on hardware? |
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well, you have to make up your mind and post a full track ;) |
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I like the vibe. DL'ing. If there's more than 10 xlt-users in here that wants to share tracks, i could make it into a compilation. |
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correction; i like it a lot. could you put it up in flac/wav/aiff? |
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I have good mastering-gear if someone wants me to master one of the tracks |
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post yours, junktion! my favourite, dunno if good, or my best, but at least the one i get closer to what i pretended... great tune, larn! and also your sound, jnsato, even itd be better to post a finished track, more than just clips... |
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*closest |
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nice track - i like the way it has an uneven feel to the beat. Very good verbs. |
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tx! what is uneven? |
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Here's wan of the first couple of tunes I churned out when I got into Reason 2 or 3 years ago: One of the more complete ones from that period, but the finish on it is rough as a dog's dick |
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Uneven is staggered or unsteady, like not-even or not-level |
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Also, wery nice track dude. Super atmosphere |
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I like it. Very glitchy on the pads. Subtle progression and nice harmonies (or disharmonies?). Do you have a wav/flac/aiff laying around? I would like to make a XLT compilation with these tracks if possible, and then put them on Bandcamp for people to download in high quality. |
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I made some corkers in my late teens, mainly Plaid-like stuff but I had a go at dub, ambient, gabber and jungle too. I never had any proper software so most of it was just constructed from samples and assembled in Audacity lol It's all as WAVs on an old laptop that is currently 1000km away, so you'll just have to believe me for now |
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Cheers, yeah it's available for download in wav off Soundcloud there brah |
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great! cheers |
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having a laptop 1000km away requires long arms |
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we should cross post this in the fb group, maybe aengus could pin it... |
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melack- nice atmo, mang~ Thx to anyone who listened to my clips and shiz. But okay!!! "Just one completed track", it is..... Hard to choose a "best", but.... I chose Electric Body (from 2011) for this thread, because it's an example of a lot of the musical goals that I only dreamed of being able to execute when I first started making music, as well as higher goals that I wanted to accomplish later on: efficiency of melody/harmony, flow, thematic, guiding the story with intention, catchy/memorable, everything forward (i.e. not hiding behind dsp and other pseudo-complex "cool" bullshit), +whatevz. And a general comment about failed career, haha: After 15+ years of making music- despite no major releases- I'm REALLY HAPPY AND PLEASED that I can fiiiiinally express what I want to express with music. And to me, despite no career with moneyz from it, I can flow pretty fluidly and efficiently in my own sonic realm. I never "got signed" as of yet, but all my other electronic music goals, I've accomplished. I'm high-fiving my high school self so hard right now. Feels good, man. Godspeed, all. |
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please, never mention that horrible site again. |
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hard to pick just one, i made many great tracks :) |
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thanks for nice comments, mates :) i will properly check all these tunes when properly compiled on a bandcamp with a beautiful sleeve and stuff ;) |
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properly properly |
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finish that shit jnasato |
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I have several of mine tracks I dig, this i probably the one I like best this one is also good, in a totally unrealted genre larn's track is killer both tracks from larn and melack are killer, go for the comp, if you need wavs I can host mine somewhere |
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Too much limiting khrimson, it's not nice to listen to. |
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VERY funky acid. Good stuff. Wav? |
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Well, depends if that is the sound he wants to have right? I could surely remaster it in to some smoothness if i had the pre-master, but if thats the sound he wants... |
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What do you use for mastering? khrimsons sound is uncomfortable in the same way a pure sine wave is. Do you know the tricks to take away limiting and and compression? |
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speaking of sines, how do you get rid of that annoying effect? |
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Slight modulation. A S&H LFO on the amplitude or pitch works the best. You only need a bit but it really does feel better. |
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untitled #082 is good. i would vote for that one |
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i'll try that, thanks! |
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I think soundcloud put a layer of normalization/compression over uploaded tracks, anyways here is the wav if you want to play with it: |
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thx junktion! i can send you a wav if you want to master it. |
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Say Hello is really great too I think... If anyone wants to send me anything, just mail me at steven@stvn.net |
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i use equalization together with compression to make the peaks less limiting - multiband can also work, but i try not to use that too much. i use kramer tape plugin for some peak compression because it saturates more than limits. |
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sweet - yeah the wav doesnt seem as limited as the soundcloud. wonder if it's because of the bit-reduction in the streaming quality of soundcloud |
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It sounds like you need to get into mid/side processing on different bands before you start eq'ing and the rest of it. |
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i have the Bob Katz book... if there's something i can't get to sound right i turn to that. I usually make it sound right (to my ears and system anyways). My test rundown is like this; I have a set of Tannoy Reveal Passive with a Cambridge Audio amp, a set of Yamaha HS50M and what i use the most - the Beyerdynamic DT990PRO. Then afterwards I usually check on my livingroom setup which is a NAD/MiniPod-conbination, and in-ear Beyerdynamics for my mp3-player. Works for me and my clients. |
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...but i haven't been much into the math of M/S mastering i must say. It's still a mysterious thing for my. I have to make the SOS test-setup one day to really hear the effect. |
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I'm not criticizing, I just wondered. Whatever works, works. I think you might get a bit from mid - side processing though. I don't know how to write it without sounding condescending but look up some stuff about it. |
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yeah - I''m actually checking up some videos on it now. Thanks. |
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btw Jiv what do you mean S&H LFO? some random modulation or a more specific use of the S&H? |
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Yes, a really fast Sample and hold LFO on things make a big difference to your ears. If you can use that on the pitch and volume slightly with whatever you are using it's a massive improvement. It just adds a random thing to everything that makes it more real. I can't explain it properly as it's really boring but give it a try. |
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limiter or not, i really dig that track khrimson. the new synth from 1:13 lush! good tones |
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Limiter or not? Would you limit it to that extent? |
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