Wow - listening to the various remasters has been very educational. This is an area where I am pretty lost - I'm basically a "twiddle the knobs till it doesn't sound too horrible" guy. I see I have much to learn - hell, I don't even know what a lot of the doodads y'all are talking about ARE. But I will learn... I will learn...
I love the piece, though, ESPECIALLY the vocals. I have always been a fan of non-melodic vocals. I have actually been experimenting trying to recreate your vocal sound for some time now - getting close by splitting the raw vocal track to 2 tracks, running one through a bandpass with a little distortion, and the other through a vocoder with pink noise, then mixing them back together before adding the delay.
Great piece, especially for only your second one!
Fragile Gods - "Vanishing Point" (remastered by Seismic & layzer)
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- KVRist
- 145 posts since 16 Jul, 2012 from Vail, AZ
http://www.reverbnation.com/davehamara
http://www.facebook.com/DaveHamaraMusic
soundcloud.com/ish-kabbible
http://www.facebook.com/DaveHamaraMusic
soundcloud.com/ish-kabbible
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 6466 posts since 18 Jul, 2008 from New York
Thanks for bumping this golden oldie. 
I would open up the track to tell you more about the vocal signal chain but it's on my old Windows XP machine which is not readily accessible. I am pretty sure a lot of the distortion and delay is coming from Audio Damage's Dr. Device. I definitely didn't use a vocoder on this.
I should do one of these types of songs again soon. I am currently working on a song which requires actual singing which is pretty challenging for me.
My patented tone deaf vocals cannot be recreated.ishkabbible wrote: I love the piece, though, ESPECIALLY the vocals. I have always been a fan of non-melodic vocals. I have actually been experimenting trying to recreate your vocal sound for some time now - getting close by splitting the raw vocal track to 2 tracks, running one through a bandpass with a little distortion, and the other through a vocoder with pink noise, then mixing them back together before adding the delay.
I would open up the track to tell you more about the vocal signal chain but it's on my old Windows XP machine which is not readily accessible. I am pretty sure a lot of the distortion and delay is coming from Audio Damage's Dr. Device. I definitely didn't use a vocoder on this.
I should do one of these types of songs again soon. I am currently working on a song which requires actual singing which is pretty challenging for me.
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- KVRist
- 145 posts since 16 Jul, 2012 from Vail, AZ
Funny story there - A FB friend was complaining because she was sitting and waiting for a late date, and your lyrics popped into my head. I figured she'd enjoy the song, so I went to your soundcloud to get the link, got distracted reading the comments, which directed me here.Frantz wrote:Thanks for bumping this golden oldie.
You may be right - I've been singing, occasionally in public, all my life - You are definitely starting with better raw materialMy patented tone deaf vocals cannot be recreated.
After reading this thread and listening again, I think what my ear is interpreting as vocalized white noise is really the high frequency "hash" from the distortion, which is very random and EQd up pretty high. I have some experimenting to do nowI definitely didn't use a vocoder on this.
Yes. The style suits youI should do one of these types of songs again soon.
Cool! Can't wait to hear it. I'm making good progress on Panda 3 - working on the last few percussion tracks (my first attempt at metal drumming), and cleaning up all of the little sticky notes. I hope to release it sometime this summer.I am currently working on a song which requires actual singing which is pretty challenging for me.
http://www.reverbnation.com/davehamara
http://www.facebook.com/DaveHamaraMusic
soundcloud.com/ish-kabbible
http://www.facebook.com/DaveHamaraMusic
soundcloud.com/ish-kabbible
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 6466 posts since 18 Jul, 2008 from New York
ishkabbible wrote: Funny story there - A FB friend was complaining because she was sitting and waiting for a late date, and your lyrics popped into my head.
I'm pleasantly surprised that you remembered this song after all this time.Audio Damage's Dr. Device has bitcrush and saturation in addition to filters and delays. I think the bitcrush effect is contributing to what you are hearing.ishkabbible wrote: After reading this thread and listening again, I think what my ear is interpreting as vocalized white noise is really the high frequency "hash" from the distortion, which is very random and EQd up pretty high.
Looking forward to it. Metal drumming sounds cool.ishkabbible wrote: I'm making good progress on Panda 3 - working on the last few percussion tracks (my first attempt at metal drumming), and cleaning up all of the little sticky notes. I hope to release it sometime this summer.
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- KVRist
- 39 posts since 13 Mar, 2014
cool tune! I prefer the Master by Layzer.
It sounds cleaner the lows and highs come through more dynamically to me.
Catchy song, cool lyrics. You should work on a video.
It sounds cleaner the lows and highs come through more dynamically to me.
Catchy song, cool lyrics. You should work on a video.
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 6466 posts since 18 Jul, 2008 from New York
Thanks for the listen and comments. Layzer's excellent mastering job does give it a brighter, more modern feel. Seismic's version preserves more of the original mix's sonic qualities. Both have their merits.gmaddox wrote:cool tune! I prefer the Master by Layzer.
It sounds cleaner the lows and highs come through more dynamically to me.
Catchy song, cool lyrics. You should work on a video.
At one point, I started working on a video for another song using abstract graphics but ran out of CPU power to do the kind of processing I wanted so I gave up. Now with my new PC, I could probably do it. Unfortunately, I don't have enough time for my job, being a one man band, and a video producer. Maybe one day.