KVR Audio

mevla · Post by **mevla** » Wed May 23, 2018 11:53 pm

This time around, in sharp contrast with the previous "Summer Theme", is a rather spacey piece, with long pad flights, some thump-thump kick drum in the distance, some high hat also in the distance, some voices, a synth that does some kind of a solo of some sort, a beat that comes and goes, all in all some kind of fog that covers through which some things are heard.

https://soundcloud.com/nominal6/fog

As usual, comments of any kind welcomed.

Cheers.

wagtunes · Post by **wagtunes** » Thu May 24, 2018 12:03 am

Spacey is right. Very cool. Loved it. Great mix. May I ask what synths you used for this track?

mevla · Post by **mevla** » Thu May 24, 2018 12:20 am

wagtunes wrote:Spacey is right. Very cool. Loved it. Great mix. May I ask what synths you used for this track?

Thanks !

The synths are as follows. The presets were somewhat modified to suit the piece. In order of appearance:

Role: Synth - Preset

Pad: Synplant - SC Planetarium
Pad 'lead': Morphine - ATM Dark II
Soundscape: Direct Wave - WeatherM Drunk
Soundscape: Direct Wave - WeatherM Lucky Dream
Sequence: Synthmaster 2.9 - Sweet Chords
Lead: Harmless - CHE's Sunday Play 04

Plus audio drones, voices, kick, hh, beat loop, etc...

Created in Bitwig, mixed and mastered in Harrison Mixbus32C using Voxengo Curve EQ, u-he Satin tape emulator and Voxengo Elephant, all on the master bus. Tried to stick to K14. Export analysis at -1 dB normalization:

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      Integrated Loudness : -13.5 LUFS
           Loudness Range :  5.5 LU
                     Peak :  1.0 dBFS
                 Top Peak :  1.0 dBTP  <-yellow
       Normalization Gain :  1.85 dB

All done on Linux.

Cheers.

Loudness Penalty analysis (1) :

loudnessPenaltyScore.jpg

(1) http://productionadvice.co.uk/loudness-penalty/

Frantz · Post by **Frantz** » Thu May 24, 2018 2:36 am

Weird fast droney stuff in the foreground and it sounds like dance music playing in the distance. Quite unusual and somehow you made it all work. Good job.

fastlanephil · Post by **fastlanephil** » Thu May 24, 2018 3:19 am

It sounds like some crazy party going on in that fog. A little experimental but quite listenable.

Maybe a little subliminal pollination from The Future Sound Of London.

Nice mix!

mevla · Post by **mevla** » Thu May 24, 2018 8:12 pm

Thanks for the comments !

Cheers.

Allomerus · Post by **Allomerus** » Sun May 27, 2018 5:42 am

Enjoyed the music and the premise.
Phil's comment sums it up nicely...
Well done!

layzer · Post by **layzer** » Sun May 27, 2018 9:56 am

sounds like some really whacked out middle eastern stuffs. But one of the better productions as far as mix and composition and sound design i've heard here in a while. really enjoyed

sxop · Post by **sxop** » Sun May 27, 2018 4:56 pm

Apart from the great mixing quality I'm even more impressed by the fact that you created the track under Linux

Bet it was done by some perl script running in a tc shell

mevla · Post by **mevla** » Mon May 28, 2018 11:33 pm

shodri wrote:Apart from the great mixing quality I'm even more impressed by the fact that you created the track under Linux Bet it was done by some perl script running in a tc shell

He he ... Not even. That was all bash scripting written in emacs !

Thanks for the comments, much appreciated !

Cheers.

Fog - Spacey, pads, some kick and hats in the distance