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Recently started a band with two other people, doing no particular style of music. This isn't electronic as such, although we do use an electronic drumkit and keyboard :D So, tell me what you think, enjoy. The MP3s are very small. 'Hold Your Breath' here is the most complete song, but xltronic people might prefer the other two. We have a few more songs I haven't recorded yet, including a cover of Squarepusher - Iambic 5 Poetry, which is great with live bass. |
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ill check the two first, but i wont check reggae one sorry.. cant stand it, it's the radios fault i guess.. i mean my mothers radio.. i would like to hear a cover of Iambic 5 poetry! one of my all time fav tracks |
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eeergh, Hold your breath wasnt my my cup of tea at all =/ i cant stand that type of music, i cant even tell you if it's bad or good or anything like that. but i can tell you that i really enjoyed the piano track, i like it, it's siply a nice piano track with some nice background moaning like singing. The drums are totally ok, they dont need to be any different exept for some more cymbals maybe.. lift the rides out in stereo a bit more or something. I guess i could complain some on the mixing =) but i wont now, i suggest you upload higher or high! quality mp3 next time you spam your tracks somewhere. good day |
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Haha no problem :) Didn't think that one would go down well at all. Glad you liked the piano one, I wrote that one. Yeah I'm the drummer, the bassist/vocalist was playing drums in that song, and he doesn't usually. Yeah it could do with some more cymbals, tweaking of ride. Mixing! It's so difficult! And don't get me started on compression, that's impossible to get right! I should look for tutorials or something.. Thanks for the criticism. |
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no problem, at least the piano track should be really easy to mix.. but it all depends on the source recording (or what it's called) pretty much, a clean recording helps the mix and the possibilitys for mixing the track gets better and everything gets easy when the recordings are good from the begining. compression isnt impossible at all, it's just a matter of hearing, i can agree thou that it can be hard to "know" what amount of compression you need, it's easyer to "hear" what amount of compression you need, if you understand what im saying. Keep im mind that compression wont save the sound in anyway (many people seem to think that these days) compression is just great when you wanna clear the odness of a sound, it presses the sound together so that the frequences get's "smaller" and more tighten up.. o crap i cant explain this heh.. anyway be carefull when using compressor so that you dont kill the sounds range, it gets really boring to listen to heavy compressed music imo. good luck |
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Right now we're using a 6 channel mixer, recording onto a G4 powerbook. The quality is very high, but it has lost it completely in those MP3s. Yeah I try not to use too much compression, have had some awful recordings with too much. It's hard to describe the effect with compression...it sounds, thick, flat, sort of. |
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On "Hold Your Breath," the electronic drums sound really cheesy and they totally ruin the song for me. Plus the drummer seems a little off at times (the fills around ~1:40). I think if you started using a real drum set and put a bit more energy into the performance it could have something... The piano track is similar for me, has potential but needs work. Thanks for sharing |
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You don't like the actual sound of them? Well, fair enough I suppose, I guess if you're used to this kind of music with acoustic drumkits then it wouldn't sound so good. But I love my midi kit, I'll never go back to acoustic. Although I think I'll tweak that setup a bit, give it more of an acoustic sound to work better with the other instruments. Drums at 1:40 are on thirds but on-time, which I suppose is off-time to what you'd expect, fourths or something. But, yeah, I'll admit I'm not a perfect drummer, at times I do get a little bit off. Practise makes perfect :) thanks for listening |
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i didnt listen. |
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Well at least you're being honest. |
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