Spring Break
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 950 posts since 30 Nov, 2004
what do you guys think?
https://soundcloud.com/jessegorter/jess ... ring-break
and what name should i give it?
https://soundcloud.com/jessegorter/jess ... ring-break
and what name should i give it?
Last edited by Jesse Gorter on Wed Apr 26, 2017 2:56 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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- KVRian
- 645 posts since 4 Nov, 2013 from Vancouver, Canada
Nice relaxing tune, Jesse. It has a pleasant groove and some nice melodic lines. And I think Spring Break actually works quite well as a title. I'm not 100% sure how I feel about the lyrics being indistinct in the manner they are here, though. I kind of like it, but part of my brain really wants to know what the words are.
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 950 posts since 30 Nov, 2004
Thanks!Allomerus wrote:Lovely melodies Jesse. Spring Break is good.
Well done!
doing vocals is fun!
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- KVRian
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- 950 posts since 30 Nov, 2004
you cannot hear them?davidstiles wrote:Nice relaxing tune, Jesse. It has a pleasant groove and some nice melodic lines. And I think Spring Break actually works quite well as a title. I'm not 100% sure how I feel about the lyrics being indistinct in the manner they are here, though. I kind of like it, but part of my brain really wants to know what the words are.
they are kinda cheesy.
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- KVRian
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- 950 posts since 30 Nov, 2004
- Boss Lovin' DR
- 12493 posts since 15 Mar, 2002 from the grimness of yorkshire
Are you mental?Jesse Gorter wrote:
doing vocals is fun!
Turn them up again! As a very, very rough rule of thumb my experience has been that the vocal track in your mixer generally will be about the same peak level as a combined mix of everything else. I know someone will come in now and say, 'oooh you can't mix like that..'. I'm not suggesting for a moment you should, but it will give you a rough idea to get started.
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 950 posts since 30 Nov, 2004
Even if the vocal line is more like a sample? It's so vocoded, didn't think it had to be super louddonkey tugger wrote:Are you mental?Jesse Gorter wrote:
doing vocals is fun!
Turn them up again! As a very, very rough rule of thumb my experience has been that the vocal track in your mixer generally will be about the same peak level as a combined mix of everything else. I know someone will come in now and say, 'oooh you can't mix like that..'. I'm not suggesting for a moment you should, but it will give you a rough idea to get started.
- KVRAF
- 7691 posts since 11 Jun, 2006
good song, good groove. try less verb on the piano and vocals. louder vocals and more mids and highs to them. all else sounds great
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- KVRAF
- 1609 posts since 28 Oct, 2005 from Finland
nice tune and ambience. vocals are too quiet, otherwise good mix
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- KVRian
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- 950 posts since 30 Nov, 2004
Thanks!layzer wrote:good song, good groove. try less verb on the piano and vocals. louder vocals and more mids and highs to them. all else sounds great
less reverb? haha, It's something i have to do a lot xD
- KVRAF
- 11474 posts since 13 Mar, 2009 from UK
This is a very pleasant song, Jesse. You have put together some strong melodies on here, and the overall sound is quite powerful. I agree that the vocals ought to be a little higher in volume, and cutting back on the reverb might help their clarity a little. Changing "become" to "be" and losing the "so" might help the simplify the sound of the vocal by reducing the number of syllables if you decide to retain the reverb, but I'm no lyricist and neither is my wife.
Good work
Good work
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- KVRian
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- 950 posts since 30 Nov, 2004
thanks!seismic1 wrote:This is a very pleasant song, Jesse. You have put together some strong melodies on here, and the overall sound is quite powerful. I agree that the vocals ought to be a little higher in volume, and cutting back on the reverb might help their clarity a little. Changing "become" to "be" and losing the "so" might help the simplify the sound of the vocal by reducing the number of syllables if you decide to retain the reverb, but I'm no lyricist and neither is my wife.
Good work
do you think this is something they could play in a club? Or too soft?
- KVRAF
- 11474 posts since 13 Mar, 2009 from UK
That's hard to say. I've been barred from most of the clubs in my areaJesse Gorter wrote: do you think this is something they could play in a club? Or too soft?
The percussion has quite a "hard", almost dubstep-friendly quality. you might want to add some wubz or something similar into the less dense sections to maintain the energy level of the rest of the piece.
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- KVRian
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- 950 posts since 30 Nov, 2004
what did you do? !seismic1 wrote:That's hard to say. I've been barred from most of the clubs in my areaJesse Gorter wrote: do you think this is something they could play in a club? Or too soft?
The percussion has quite a "hard", almost dubstep-friendly quality. you might want to add some wubz or something similar into the less dense sections to maintain the energy level of the rest of the piece.