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(4:21) Been working on this for the last month with the last of my time off. Enrolled now in a serious and expensive trucking school where I'm gonna learn how to drive the big rigs. I think this probably the last spam I can produce for a little while. I'm also working on the Elden Ring DLC (and loving it). I think the drum work and sound design here is on point. Melodies, while basic, harmonize into something worthwhile. It's about the best I can do right now. If you have 4:21 I'd appreciate a listen but if not I still love you boo |
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yeah i like it. makes me think about how i've been sitting on a track of my own that i've been too lazy to finish & upload and that i should feel bad because i've probably had even more free time than you to put something together and i've failed to do so. i even bought new gear so i should feel super inspired. congrats on working towards a cdl; i've liked driving in the past, but was never sure if i could commit to a career of it and honestly i'm kind of a pussy when it comes to backing up trailers, so the idea of doing it with something 26' or longer always felt like a barrier even though that's what school is for. |
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hey thanks for the listen and for the encouragement on the CDL! I don't know shit about driving a big rig. I've even driven a manual in my life, nor have I driven in show (California privilege). The admissions officer really set my mind at ease on all this, it's normal, they will train. If fucking braindead idiots can learn this stuff, so can I, and so can you. I encourage you to just open up the track and work on the things you've already identified need work. Export what you have to your phone, go outside with headphones and have a drink and listen to it 5 or 10 times. What else needs work? That's my process. For 15 years I settled for things too easily. "Sounds good enough." Last 5-8 years I go the extra mile on every detail, made a real difference in my music. |
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I've *never even driven a manual. *missed an entire word. |
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Last Spam in a while my butt, You do This And do this often (remix) |
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i like the melodies especially in this one, you take care with softness, velocity, something i can't quite put my finger on. nice |
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thanks belb yeah the softness you're describing is probably just a good amount of dynamic adjusting of reverb and volume to little swells at opportune moments. despite thad's migivings (love u thad), I really have so much going on that I dunno when I'll be able to put this time into another track, so I'll share my most secret tech. It's probably something everyone knows how to do already, but I dunno, I just figured it out myself over like 23 years dicking around in daws: write a basic melody and make it sound as good as you can, but it's still just a little loop. add a note or two here and there, for variation. Now duplicate the entire track, your midi sequence in tact, and audition a new sound-- or design one from scratch. make it your own, either way. Now both are playing together. Add a few notes to the new track that arent on the first. Kill the volume on the new track, 0db. And then just hit record and play with flirting with the volume on the second track, let it just cut in a little here and there. What a difference that makes to ANY sound. Anyway thats it, that's my secret tech which everyone probably already knows about it. Thanks for listening and I'll let you all know how the truckin' goes. |
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More good spam or walk away quietly |
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this is actually what i do too. everything starts with "the idea"...a motif on a synth, running bland presets through pedals, plonking one key that just sounds good, liking some vocal sample, sometimes not even musical in nature; deciding beforehand to build a track linearly bar by bar, plugging x into y and then z, buying gear and focusing on learning a specific function, loading sounds/triggering pads in a certain formation/pattern on my mpc, take a sample and time stretch it and time stretch it and time stretch it and time stretch it, oh i've never worked on risers/builds so let's structure a song around that and not focus on verse/chorus, oh my mixing sucks so let's focus on that instead of composition/arrangement, oh i've never chopped an amen break so let's try that, etc. sometimes "the idea" is musical, sometimes it's conceptual. once i've got "the idea", it's time to expand upon it with arrangement & composition, which is actually very easy because i play & sequence everything in on specific pieces of gear for each part, then i start copying sequences while changing a few things out, and then i go into each sequence and start replacing certain sounds/samples/patches. for me, it's very "modular" in that i arrange & compose mostly over 16 bars on few pieces of gear with one sequence, then pull out & replace what i want. i'll start changing things around every 2-4 bars. 16 bars play out, but first 8 bars are one patch, second 8 bars are another. program 4 bars of drums and deciding to drop the last bar to insert a sampled drum fill. 16 bars of bass are sampled then chopped up with other bass fills/one shots. 2 bars of call, 2 bars of response. everything is cohesive to "the idea" i've basically found that arrangement & composition is easy and if you listen to most music these days, it's actually extraordinarily simple, but with a lot of "aphex" influence i.e. everything changes/goes crazy every 2-4 bars. it's pretty interesting to see just how much idm has influenced mod |
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