May Contest: Submissions "Chill Out"

[skipscada]

https://soundcloud.com/user-2508491/the-straight-line

DAW: Tracktion Waveform 9
OUTBOARD: ZOOM R16 recorder; BeyerDynamic 201 TG mic; SE Electronics Voodoo VR1 Passive Ribbon Microphone; Audient ID22 Audio Interface; Cakewalk/Roland A-300 keyboard
PHYSICAL INSTRUMENTS: Epiphone Sheraton II electric guitar; Epiphone Hummingbird Pro acoustic guitar; El Cheapo bass guitar
VSTi: EZDrummer 2 drums; Toontrack EZKeys Piep Organ String pad
VST effects: EZMix2 vocal, bass and guitar patches; 2CAudio Breeze reverb; Trackion Daw Essentials compressor; NI Phasis phaser

For once I had the full track thought out and more or less rehearsed before recording. Life got in the way, so I hardly had any time at all to record and mix, but with composition out of the way I was able to put together something pretty fast. Soundwise it's very underwhelming compared to what I heard in my head, but that's nothing new. I had in mind a long, chilled-out coda, but I ran out of time.

[FlyingNoodle]

Hey everyone, here's my entry for this month.

FlyingNoodle - Take Me Back
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1xwDml ... vb7Oquf7XQ

Software:
Steinberg - Cubase 9.5, Groove Agent 4
u-he - Repro 5
XLN Audio - Addictive Keys; Electric Grand
Arturia - V Collection 6; Jup 8 V, Matrix 12 - SEM-Filter, M12-Filter
Applied Acoustic Systems - Lounge Lizard EP-4
AIR - Vacuum Pro
D16 Group - Toraverb 2
Polyverse - Wider
FabFilter - Mastering Bundle

Credits:
Vocal acapella from https://freevocals.com

[Harry_HH]

This comes a bit late, got impulse for the genre from this contest, and wanted to try something, but didn´t have time for doing anything, until now. Chill out...

https://soundcloud.com/harry_mccloud/kvr-chill-out-2


I´ll give the details if there are interest.

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Thank you or the comment, FlyingNoodle, you are correct. I have not had time to work with the mix, here is an other try. Not still the full potential out of it, I think. But I have to move one.

[FlyingNoodle]

I like where you're going with this. Feedback: I feel you could dial in more of a swing to focus the "attitude" of the piece to compliment the loose playing style (which you've got nailed). At the moment it feels too rigid for the looseness. The lead synth sound is too piercing in the mix.