KVR Audio

Seus Hawkins · Post by **Seus Hawkins** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 8:24 pm

Hovmod>> Well. My track wasn't intended to be particularly scary or anything(and I don't think it is myself either), just a little fun I had I guess. Suicide booth has been stolen but not from a book by Kurt Vonnegut but something a little less serious - Futurama. :)

As far as musically I intended to have a build up and then a climax which didn't succeed(I tried increasing the volume but it didn't sound very natural. - Maybe I should put in some high pitch strings as well. After the supposed climax it's meant to cool to a bit when the horns arrive, but since there isn't any climax they don't really work that way.

If you can, please instruct me on making a climax. :)
So far I know it's volume related and instrument related(fx. more instrument/sounds) giving it more power generally.
Which other important elements are there? An increase in speed could also be a type of a climax I guess but it's more of the overwhelming power climax I seek - at the moment.

Regards

farlukar · Post by **farlukar** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 8:27 pm

kovacs wrote:Anyone...give me a good theme for a song...PLEASE...

Esperanto
The third word on page 8 of yesterdays' newspaper
"The trouble with music"
The length
Writer's block
The cosmetic industry
Quoting
The persistance of Sex & Drugs vs. The decline of Rock & Roll

scamme · Post by **scamme** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 8:39 pm

Good morning - check my tune!

Hovmod · Post by **Hovmod** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 8:43 pm

kovacs wrote: Anyone...give me a good theme for a song...PLEASE...

What would Leftfield sound like if there weren't synthesizers?

kovacs · Post by **kovacs** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 9:26 pm

farlukar wrote:
kovacs wrote:Anyone...give me a good theme for a song...PLEASE...

The persistance of Sex & Drugs vs. The decline of Rock & Roll

Man, I'd never have come up with that!

kovacs · Post by **kovacs** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 9:27 pm

Hovmod wrote:
kovacs wrote: Anyone...give me a good theme for a song...PLEASE...
What would Leftfield sound like if there weren't synthesizers?

Cool. Good one. I am actually contemplating a Commeche Mode tune...as in "the Depeche Mode wannabe song that will get me signed".

Hovmod · Post by **Hovmod** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 9:40 pm

kovacs wrote:
farlukar wrote:
kovacs wrote:Anyone...give me a good theme for a song...PLEASE...

The persistance of Sex & Drugs vs. The decline of Rock & Roll
Man, I'd never have come up with that!

Yeah. I thought that was pretty damn clever, too.
Sex, Drugs and *WHAT*!?

knockman · Post by **knockman** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 10:47 pm

Hovmod wrote:Knockman - The Contract
The words are excellent. Man, you can write. The song is dense and hard to like instantly, which is probably good. I've heard it a few times now, and it's really growing on me. Good stuff again. Won't get heavy rotation on my local hit station.

thanks hovmod, that's the kind of thing i'm going for, blithely uncommercial, but i wanted to approach this theme from a deliberately obtuse angle - if it doesn't grab you in the first 30 years..... i can only claim authorship for the first 6 lines, the final 2 of course being the death knell couplet to 'oranges and lemons' (public domain).
here's an interesting history: oranges and lemons

at your service

TristezaOrange · Post by **TristezaOrange** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 10:50 pm

Hovmod wrote: TristezaOrange - Coastal Town
The first organ theme sharpens the senses, but the follow up doesn't deliver. You take it down where I expect a bang. And then it turns into an experimental thing, which really sounds kind of cool, but which kind of crashes with my initial hopes, so I have to listen several times to enjoy it. Which probably isn't the best idea if you're making a demo tape. I like the use of horns over the organ, though. It's nice and bouncy and friendly. Cool, but not my number one this time.

Thanks Hovmod!

The second part of the track would probably sound better with the guitar part that I intended to record but my power cord [guitar->amp] stopped working and I posted the track without that part. I still know what you mean though. It does not become completely 'orgasmic' because the more bouncy melody that comes in at around 40secs [? cos I'm not listening to it right now ] is not sustained long enough to give real pleasure to the listener [record company executive

]. That'll teach him.

xander · Post by **xander** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 1:12 am

Hovmod wrote:Quick reviews, page one:

...xander - Slow Down Jackie
Big band? The drums (especially the ride) are a little too far forward and the vocals are swamped in reverb and pushed back. So it doesn't sound convincingly like a band.

15 piece road band ala early Quincy/Miles/Cobham. You need to speak to Billy about them damn up-front drums of his

No reverb on the vocals except chorus.

But there's a great effort behind this, and the words are cool - albeit a little cliché. And the attitude, with a whole story. I hope your dreams come true. Sounds like you *just* made the two minute mark, hey?

I sort of meant the lyrics to be cliché?

Don't know what you mean re "just made the two minute mark"... But I guess I could have faded that cymbal tail rather than chop it off, if that's what you mean. Damn cymbal tails

Cheers for the review & thanks for the nice words Hovmod me mate!

System ERA · Post by **System ERA** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 1:52 am

Yeah, my ending is bloody abrupt... But it just fat in so well that I couldn't come to grips with removing a whole verse just for a second or two of fadeout.. Ahhh.. The sacrifices you have to make for good content ah... Oh and Kiwis were not convicts like the Ausies... We came at our own free will

seldom · Post by **seldom** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 2:07 am

System ERA wrote:Yeah, my ending is bloody abrupt... But it just fat in so well that I couldn't come to grips with removing a whole verse just for a second or two of fadeout.. Ahhh.. The sacrifices you have to make for good content ah...

hey, marks off for not being composed specifically for the comp

but your track is niceness especially loud and proud through a big system. i shall endeavour to find out more about your music, this one's been getting decent airplay on the b eh?

System ERA · Post by **System ERA** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 2:41 am

Yeah Bro.. Hay your from New Zealand.... Where you from...

ITs good too see another person of the long white cloud amungst us.. Yeah, we been getting good time on BNET with an earlier version of this song, this one was remixed for the comp, more echos, panning shit like taht, if I am happy with it enuf might resubmit to BNET... I go to SAE and one of our tutors boyfriends is the programming manager of BNet, so its kinda good

System ERA · Post by **System ERA** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 4:37 am

Hay, I like, was just listening to your KVR Comp, man those drums are really really nice.. Clean sounding with a very realistic jazz element. What package is that, BFD or some thing???

AndreasE · Post by **AndreasE** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 8:13 am

Thanks much for your review, Hovmod.

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