I've composed with a vocalist in mind, so it may feel incomplete as an instrumental.
http://www.box.net/shared/static/1gbke5msej.mp3
A Cloud Too Low
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- KVRAF
- 4171 posts since 10 Oct, 2002 from Nashville, TN USA
This was written last night in the afterglow of being in awe of that cool Townes Van Zandt song ("Nothin'") on the Robert Plant & Alison Krauss record.
I've composed with a vocalist in mind, so it may feel incomplete as an instrumental.
http://www.box.net/shared/static/1gbke5msej.mp3
I've composed with a vocalist in mind, so it may feel incomplete as an instrumental.
http://www.box.net/shared/static/1gbke5msej.mp3
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- 12367 posts since 30 Apr, 2002 from i might peeramid
some very tasty tones
you come and go, you come and go. amitabha neither a follower nor a leader be tagore "where roads are made i lose my way" where there is certainty, consideration is absent.
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- KVRAF
- 7879 posts since 16 Apr, 2003 from -on the outside looking in
I really like it Shane.
couple of thoughts -> take with a salt lick
i don't know if it's the 'verb or the drums but they sound a bit -er- artificial? as if the tension is whether or not to make a Steely Dan or a Zepplin album. Polish or grit?
whatever-gilding the lilly - i can't wait to hear it with vocals!
If you made it onto a reality show, I would vote for you
couple of thoughts -> take with a salt lick
i don't know if it's the 'verb or the drums but they sound a bit -er- artificial? as if the tension is whether or not to make a Steely Dan or a Zepplin album. Polish or grit?
whatever-gilding the lilly
- i can't wait to hear it with vocals! If you made it onto a reality show, I would vote for you
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- KVRAF
- 5713 posts since 5 Aug, 2006 from UK - The Mudway Towns
Very interesting piece of work. I hope you do more of this.
It wasn't me! (well, actually, it probably was) - apparently no longer an 'elderly', now a 'senior'! Is that promotion?
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 4171 posts since 10 Oct, 2002 from Nashville, TN USA
Thanks for the listens and comments, gents!
I'm gonna sit on it a few days before monkeying around with it any more. I think vocals will change the character of it a lot, too. Hard to predict.
I'm gonna sit on it a few days before monkeying around with it any more. I think vocals will change the character of it a lot, too. Hard to predict.
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- KVRAF
- 3002 posts since 24 Nov, 2003 from Heidelberg&Hamburg
I didn't listen to this Plant/Krauss song, but like yours. From about 0'53 or so on it sounds really very nice, , sets me on some road or train (okay - trains and me 
, I seem to hear trains on every 12th KVR-café song ). So for my private taste the seconds at about 1'33 or so with the bell-like or glockenspiel-sound (listen with crap-laptop-sound at the moment) doesn't fit too well. The background and the thrilling melody would sound very nice in a dark movie, where it is undecided if some abrupt horror or simply a nightly street would follow. Thanks for sharing!
, I seem to hear trains on every 12th KVR-café song ). So for my private taste the seconds at about 1'33 or so with the bell-like or glockenspiel-sound (listen with crap-laptop-sound at the moment) doesn't fit too well. The background and the thrilling melody would sound very nice in a dark movie, where it is undecided if some abrupt horror or simply a nightly street would follow. Thanks for sharing!-
- KVRAF
- 10286 posts since 17 Sep, 2004 from Austin, TX
Wow, Shane actually dropping a new jizzoint? Must be xmas early this year
Can't wait to get er home for a listen.
Can't wait to get er home for a listen.
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- KVRAF
- 8099 posts since 12 Dec, 2003 from Canada
Great one Shane, I like the tune a lot, some really interesting guitar sounds, I agree with Klemperer that the glock kinda comes from out of nowhere, just a nit - enjoyed the track a bunch!
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 4171 posts since 10 Oct, 2002 from Nashville, TN USA
I'll try some new sounds on the bridge. My logic was that it needed to feel like a new room, like a real change since so much of the track is built on a small array of similar sounds. Maybe my instincts were wrong on that one. I just need to hear it in a week or so when I can have some perspective. As you guys know, after you spend a whole evening on something, you have no perspective at all. hehe.
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- KVRAF
- 26033 posts since 20 Oct, 2007 from gonesville
Just a quick first impression, as you mentioned Rbt Plant, etc. Sonically this is cold and metallic and plastic. Those are not necessarily things to avoid, nor is the hard high-end edge to the thing in general. Only, given that point of reference:
I'D think of some way to warm up the whole sound, unless this is strictly a demo of a song with the end idea in mind of getting a band in a good room and completely redoing it from the ground up. I do understand from demos.
Nota Bene: I bailed, & not because I hated the idea instantly. Life's short that way.
Good Luck.
I'D think of some way to warm up the whole sound, unless this is strictly a demo of a song with the end idea in mind of getting a band in a good room and completely redoing it from the ground up. I do understand from demos.
Nota Bene: I bailed, & not because I hated the idea instantly. Life's short that way.
Good Luck.
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 4171 posts since 10 Oct, 2002 from Nashville, TN USA
jancivil wrote:Just a quick first impression, as you mentioned Rbt Plant, etc. Sonically this is cold and metallic and plastic. Those are not necessarily things to avoid, nor is the hard high-end edge to the thing in general. Only, given that point of reference:
I'D think of some way to warm up the whole sound, unless this is strictly a demo of a song with the end idea in mind of getting a band in a good room and completely redoing it from the ground up. I do understand from demos.
Good Luck.
Yeah, that's good advice. I really do need to work on guitar tones and warmifying things.
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- KVRAF
- 26033 posts since 20 Oct, 2007 from gonesville
It's very hard to do with a DAW-type setup. For some it helps to understand how a 'warmer' tone looks or analyzes. I'm primarily an electric 'lead' guitarist, and I won't even touch it in my setup as is, I have to take it into a good room and mic it, one day I might have the chops to get want I need in like Guitar Rig for a solo, but right now my bar is higher than my chops on that issue. Cubase has what to me is an amazing little thing called Magneto, which does emulate tape saturation remarkably well IMO, it can give that overheated tubes thing that I miss in almost all modern production.
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- 12367 posts since 30 Apr, 2002 from i might peeramid
since these things are beyond my ken, it would be rude? of me to state i found the tones 'classic;'
except that the drums are samples.. (shane and percussion samples.. :p )
don't think i've heard anyone do dist. guitar + perc synthesis w/o being aggro except bludead? :p
will keep working on those phys. models for you..
except that the drums are samples.. (shane and percussion samples.. :p )
don't think i've heard anyone do dist. guitar + perc synthesis w/o being aggro except bludead? :p
will keep working on those phys. models for you..
you come and go, you come and go. amitabha neither a follower nor a leader be tagore "where roads are made i lose my way" where there is certainty, consideration is absent.
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- KVRAF
- 4798 posts since 14 Jun, 2004 from USA