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- How would you categorise your musical output?
- Hip Pop/ Pop Rock / Back Road Bass/ Dirt Road Disco/ Record Industry Rehab
- What are your favourite pieces of studio hardware?
- Imac G5 computer, GT67 microphone, Alesis QS 8.2(88 Keys), Mackie Mixer(DFX 6), i'm still exploring
- Which Digital Audio Workstation application do you use?
- Reason 4.0, Logic Studio 8, Pro Tools LE 7.3
- What's your favourite digital instrument?
- i don't have one yet
- Who are your musical/production influences or heroes?
- Ray Charles (the first to stack vocals), Thelonius Monk, Curtis Mayfield, Parliament Funkadelics, Roger Troutman(r.i.p.), The Beatles, Hendrix, All Soul Music (50's,60's,70's), Prince, Dr. Dre, Timbaland, Mike Snoddy, DJ Rek, Tyjilla, Warren G, DJ Quik, Johnny Taylor, Mel Waiters,(most blues), Sting, U2, Carlos Santana Money Mike, J Keys, Phonix, 1500 or nothing, Ryan Leslie and many many more.
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Brother Barack now that class!!
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Just wanted to say hi and to see whats new?
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I know embedded technologies had come a long way, but didn't think the iPhone was THAT powerful. ;)
Cheers
Jez
How are U, Have a great Week
Just Uploaded new Psy-Version of
"Desert Breeze"
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Really really nice tempo scape.I bet you love it.You're like afresh water stream
SHINE ON ......Mahlon
I quite like "I Killed Ganster Rap"... got some good stuff going on there. I'd suggest throwing in a side-chained compressor on the vocals driven off those heavily distorted guitar chords and the SFX track(s). The vocal drops right back in the mix at times and it would be good to hear it pulled back to the front using the compression technique I suggested. A bit of compression on the side-chain input tracks (possibly post-sidechain, and certainly with minimal gain compensation) might also help pull those noisy tracks to the back of the mix a bit. Accent is good, but you don't want to drown out your vox with it.
Another piece of feedback (and I'm being constructive here) is that all three of the tracks posted to date seem to be fairly repetitive. If you can find a way to add some more dynamics into the respective mixes (other than varying the hat/snare velocities in your mix - novel but a little overdone) and occasionally dropping in an extra snare hit I can tell you that *I'D* be more likely to listen to the track.
Coming more from a rootsy rock'n'roll background where live instrumentation forms the bulk of recordings I've been involved in, I know it's easy for me to say this... the sample-driven loops that are so endemic to hip-hop and glitch provide some challenges in terms of keeping the listeners attention. In more conventional songwriting spaces we'd throw in a bridge with a completely different harmonic line, or drop a couple of instruments out of the mix to generate a different kind of dynamic effect. With loops, it's harder to do this kind of thing... still - therein lies the difference between a great loop programmer and an indifferent one. :)
The "Jets and Ready Engines" track on my site is based on loop construction kits and a set of samples from a local sample-heavy recording artist who won an ARIA award (Aussie equivalent to a Grammy) for his 2006 album. If you listen to it carefully you'll note that while I've used the same loops multiple times, I haven't always used them in the same _way_... or I've layered them against different backing loops... or variations on the theme. There's also a journey of sorts that I try to take the listener on. In the case of that track it's a decidedly literal-minded journey (Ravel's "Bolero" is a lot more subtle) but there's a definite dynamic trend from the first meeting to the ultimate conclusion.
Don't be discouraged by this - as I said - I'm offering this as constructive criticism... I look forward to hearing the end result once you've added a few more layers!
Cheers
Jez
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"MindQuake"
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