June Contest: Submissions

[Jerru]

Happy

Provocative photo. Is she happy or sad?

Top prize baby in an afternoon
You took all that you want and want more
When you hurt and you lie and your teary little eyes
Does it make it go away
Then you laugh and you sigh in an ornamental pie
Then you fall on your face and it hurts

Did it make you happy
Or did your world come tumbling down

Dark clouds baby on this afternoon
Did you smile when you thought you were done
When you crash and you burn in a sentimental turn
Does it make it all ok
I was dreaming....of you

Did it make you happy
Or did your world come tumbling down

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Gibson Explorer thru Pod Farm and Fusion Field
Ibanez Bass thru GK Amp Pro 2
EZ Drummer Vintage Kit
ADT, TRacks 670, Boot EQII and Nasty HF
Into Tracktion 2
No cpu left for more.

[nikp2000]

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That picture looks a lot like my parents and inlaws photos from the 50s.

http://nikp2000.com/1206-nikp2000-1956.mp3

guitars: sparkly silver gretsch
bass: cheap samick music man clone
organ: kontakt4
easydrummer

plugs: amplitube3, guitar rig 4, tracks3

recorded in live8
mastered in tracktion3

nick

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[Doc Jon]

Mary Lou

Host
Cubase 6.5
Instruments
Drums - Toontrack Superior Drummer 2
Bass, Strings, Amped acoustic guitar - Halion SE
12 String Guitar - Steinberg Virtual Guitarist 2
FX
Cubase EQ, compression, delay, amp simulator
Camelphat 3
Cakewalk VX64 Vocal Strip
TRackS3 Black 76, Vintage Compressor 76, Brickwall Limiter

Mary Lou

Mary Lou, I've got a thing for you
I'm kinda hoping that you like me too
One day I'm gonna make you mine
I'm just finding the right time

I'm sitting on the corner where you go by
You're looking at me and I'm catching your eye
I'm starting to speak but then my throat goes dry
And the words don't seem to come

I'm trying to tell you how much I love you
How making you happy is all I want to do
I want to spend all my life being with you
Just you and me Mary Lou

Days into weeks into months slip away
I swear that it's true you're getting prettier each day
And every time we meet I've got so much to say
I just can't find the way

I asked you if you'd like to go for a walk
We went for a stroll and we started to talk
I'm trying to tell you but I started to choke
On the words that just won't come

I'm trying to tell you how much I love you
How making you happy is all I want to do
I want to spend all my life being with you
Just you and me Mary Lou

We stopped and you posed for a photograph
You covered your face and then you started to laugh
You told me that you've loved me for a year and a half
And you've been trying to let me know

Mary Lou
I love you
I know you love me too
Me and my Mary Lou
(I'll never look back, she told me she loves me)

Jon

[beanpole]

1953

DAW
Reason3
Tracktion2

Real Instruments
Epiphone acoustic guitar
Shure SM57 mic

Plug-Ins
Kjaerhaus Classic Chorus & Reverb
sfz
The Cheeze Machine
Tracktion Compressor & 4-Band Equaliser

[nahkaorava]

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5484057/1206_N ... 20Gone.mp3

Took a different path than the others... Well, that's the way it goes.

Had fun playing that jazzy piano lead! As you could probably tell from that, I dont have a clue how to play jazz or keyboards! Gotta practice that in the future! Hope you like it!


Daw:Reaper

Effects:
Q796,
EpicVerb
DensityMk
ReaEQ

Real Instuments:
M-Audio Oxygen 49 keyboards

VST Instruments:
Sfz (Orange Tree :Jazz Funk drumkit)
Piano One
Sampletank Free

[GMoneh]

"The town where we lived... the time we spent together... after all these years, when I look at your photo, my heart fills with
Nostalgia"

Small Print:
Instruments:
Piano: NI New York Grand
Bass: OTS Cherry
Guitar: OTS EAG and AAS Strum Acoustic
Tenor Sax: WIVI (performed with EWI USB wind controller)
Percussion: Acoustic Samples Percusiv
Drums: Ocean Way SE

Effects:
Guitar Rig, FabFilter Pro-C, Pro-Q, Pro-L, Timeless 2, Breeze, Audio Damage Fluid and Vapor, PSP OldTimer, Ferric TDS

Recorded and mixed in Studio One v.2
Composed and performed by: GMoneh

[Patrick9]

Almost didn't do this - very tricky. Lots of gremlins also trying a different DAW and, seeing as how I'm in moaning mode, I had to lose a sax solo to make it fit!


Peekaboo


Peekaboo

I've been away too long
Everything I did went wrong
I couldn't write a single song
without you to sing it to

I thought my bridges had all been crossed
that everything that I loved was lost
But my stupid pride wasn't worth the cost
of losing you

Peekaboo - here's looking at you
The games we used to play still make me smile
Peekaboo - here's looking at you
and here's looking at the lovelight in your eyes.

I got your letter yesterday and
yes,I'm coming home to stay
The city's not much good anyway
Bet you never thought you'd hear me say it

It didn't take too long to pack
just my guitar and the clothes on my back
And a worn and faded photograph of you on the track
Playing...

Peekaboo - here's looking at you
The games we used to plat still make me smile
Peekaboo - here's looking at you
and here's looking at the lovelight in your eyes.

edited to include lyrics.

SonarXl LE, \Sylenth, Sampletank, SerenityFree, Addictive drums,GAC1, Baxxpander, Endorphin, Cinematic reverb, Event horizon, Tube amp, Altiverb, Wavelab,

[Laguna Rising]

Southern Glow



HW: Vantage bass, Charvel guitar, Mega-Amp, Line6 PodX3, Rocktron Chameleon, Shure SM58, Behringer preamp, Alesis compressor, Alesis Microverb,

SW: StringZ, StringTheory, Crystal, MinimogueVA, Dreamer, USM, Glaceverb, TAL-Reverb, keFIR, LFX-1310, Kjaerhus Classic bundle, AradazMaximizer, CamelSpace, Crayon Filter, Nuclear Cranium

[papatomany]

I Might

My first entry in 3 years or so. (I've started a half dozen in that time, but never made it to postable quality.)

This started as a simple piano improvisation, but the left hand was a mess, so I had to play left and right hands separately.
The idea is that the left hand is the camera/photographer coaxing the subject/girl out of hiding. The right hand is her being both shy and a bit playful. Only piano so as to capture the shades of grey. (It's still a bit of a mess, but it'll have to do.)

Sampletekk's White Grand in Kontakt 3
RoomVerb

Sonar X1 Essential.

[Barnadine]

Cover Your Eyes

we met by the water tower
talked for an hour or two
wind in the cornfield
and eyes of cornflower blue
your hair across your face
look, i said
and smiled
and you covered your eyes

we stood by the water tower
shielding our eyes from the view
i reached for the camera
and that was the moment i knew
and old and maybe soon
you and i began
when you covered your eyes

but oh the youth of today
(darling, we're finally old enough
to say things like 'the youth of today'
let's crack the champagne)

anyway, the youth of today
they're giving it all away
born in a fishbowl
with nowhere to hide but inside
the same old candle burns
when the camera turns
just cover your eyes

Used: guitar, sampletank piano, crazy diamonds by rumpelraush taips.

(Haven't had much opportunity to make music lately, but Ma Miltz's photo made this one easy.)

[robogone]

I kind of thought that I saw a breakdown after papering over the cracks, and thought of all those quick fix drug commercials:

Product Recall

All done with:
Ableton Live
Reaktor
Absynth
My voice

[me109]

Click HERE to open the gate!
You can open your eyes now cause I
Bought you a house with a white picket fence
Just like the one you've always dreamed about.
And I can see
That you're really surprised and just a
Little concerned for the dollars and sense of it.
After all, we're through with the rent of that
Tiny apartment we've struggled to live in
Here we are with our own cul de sac
On the outskirts of town with a view of the water tower.
Why would there be any reason to roam?
No, it isn't quite perfect, but I think it'll do just fine.
Well, come on in, my dear, welcome home.

And there's room for expansion with a
Dog and a cat and a boy and a girl.
Playing catch in the yard and riding bicycles.
It's not so bad, just $50 a month,
And I'm expecting a raise and maybe you could sell Tupperware.
With all that loot we could even eat supper where the
Rich folks meet, up on Madison Street. But we may
Have to keep the old Ford
For just a couple more years till we can trade for another one -
Something with fins and covered with chrome.
But what's really important is that we'll always be together,
Well, come on in, my dear,
Open the gate and you're here
Come on in, my dear, welcome home.

Credits: Sonar X1 Producer, SampleTank, Miroslav Philharmonik, Dimension Pro, Kontakt Player 3.1, IIEQ Pro (best $20 I ever spent). Font: Jeri Ingalls.

Descending chromatic scale before 2nd verse borrowed from the album "Jump" by Van Dyke Parks.

[mellotronaut]

ma'senormousbirthdaycake

http://soundcloud.com/mellotronaut/1206-mellotronaut

http://soundcloud.com/mellotronaut/1206 ... ronaut.mp3

melodics:

3 different mellotrons played in Ableton Live 8 with Kontakt 4 and Simpler

rhythmics:

Detunized Rolfing 1 prepared piano

Omnisphere with MFM2

noises:

from Ian Boddy's soundset Radiophonica

from Vinyl Noises
http://bedroomproducersblog.com/2012/04 ... by-mad-ep/



have fun!

[RuediRena]

Yippie, we made it in time!
See, if you think it fits the photo.

http://soundcloud.com/ruedirena/1206-ru ... ou-love-me

http://soundcloud.com/ruedirena/1206-ru ... e/download

DAW:
Reaper

Plugins:
Minimogue Luxus, Arturia Minimoog V, Phenome with Rock11e Soundfonts for drums

FX:
Kjaerhus Classic Delay, Classic Chorus and Classic Reverb, Melda Autopan

Samples are taken from
Da Da Sha La Bee Da by greyheartgray
Shorty I Caught You by Songboy3
Schizophrenia by Snowflake
Star Wars Droid Blues by Admiral Bob
all licensed under CreativeCommons by-nc.

Enjoy!

[D.H. Miltz]

The Girl Who Disappeared
2:59 / 4MB mp3 or 3.8MB ogg

mp3 . . . . . . ogg


Her father took the picture.
Her hands covered her face.
Three days later
she was gone without a trace.
That summer for a month or two
her name was all you'd hear.
Then she just became
the girl who disappeared.

Where do they go?

In a motel bathroom
she spits out a stranger's taste.
She can't shake the feeling
something's been misplaced.
She looks in the mirror:
her whole face is smeared.
She wonders what happened to
the girl who disappeared.

Where do they go?


Used: MU.LAB, Audacity, EasyQ, dlM sixtyfive, Eos, GHi, GBand, Classic Compressor, Classic Delay, CMFuzz, Camel Crusher, CamelSpace, Ohmygod, GS-201, AUM Reverb, Duet, SpectrumWorx, ReverberateLE, Spitfish, Necklace, Stripbus, Roundtone, Sampletron, Session Drummer 2, acoustic guitar, saz, slide, pepper shaker, slowed down recording of rain, ZoomH2, SM57, MXL V63M, Oxygen 49, toilet paper tube.