KVR Audio

toine6 · Post by **toine6** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 7:31 am

Nice Song. And am saying that after having just got home 30 minutes ago from the Skinny Puppy concert.

You™ · Post by **You™** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 3:51 pm

Thanks for the feedback, you all... When I have a chance I will remix this with all your comments in mind.

@ toine6: I'm surprised you can hear anything after a Skinny Puppy concert! I really must have over-compressed this!

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astanine · Post by **astanine** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 4:27 pm

nothing constructive to say, just i like it

You™ · Post by **You™** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 4:30 pm

astanine wrote:nothing constructive to say, just i like it

That's good enough for me!

Lunch Money · Post by **Lunch Money** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 4:37 pm

I'm not entirely convinced that the vocals are too 'quiet', but more that they're sharing too many frequencies with other instruments. They need their own space, with a different EQ curve and perhaps a reverb or delay that allows high pass.

Great tune, though! I DO like the acoustic-ish drum sound, and I think the blending of the two was successfully done.

Cheers!
Greg

toine6 · Post by **toine6** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 6:45 pm

@ toine6: I'm surprised you can hear anything after a Skinny Puppy concert! I really must have over-compressed this!

Ear plugs baby.

Otherwise I'd be saying, you need to turn down all them ringinginging frequencies in your tune.

mystahr · Post by **mystahr** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 7:13 pm

For some reason it took a few days of listening to reply. Either a nasty noise in my system or not having the right ears prevented me before.

Anyhow; I quite enjoyed this track George for one.

What I think the stronghold of this track is the playfull percussive sounds. Yet I also feel that it is snowed under by the heavy instrumented track. Especially round 3 mins I feel there is just too much going on making the listen just too dense.

A suggestion would be to just cut some of the tracks and see how that works.

What I do need to say is that I love the vocals; especially the chorus seems to be stuck in my head now.

You™ · Post by **You™** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 3:27 pm

Thanks for those ideas and comments Lunch Money, toine6 and Mystahr...

I'm finally back from NYC (man, there's a lot of crowds there) and will give it another go when I have time. I usually EQ out the bottom end of my voice but this time I didn't for some reason - I'll check that and I have some ideas about thinning the mix too. I just listenend to Plunge's incredible track and am feeling unworthy...

Raphaelle · Post by **Raphaelle** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 1:59 am

I like this track pretty well. I actually -like- the heavy layered instrumentation on it. I think you've got the head-bob factor going on there too!

I like the vocals(although it's barely worth repeating, after everybody else saying it).

I think the percussion was blended excellently, and I liked the sorta bassy sound from them.

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 2:38 am

slick work as always

You™ · Post by **You™** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 8:13 pm

I tweaked the mix a bit. I hope this improves it:

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Lyrics and more

[ Lex ] · Post by **[ Lex ]** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 8:44 pm

I liked this alot, give me some flashbacks towards the first half of the 90´. Something about those drums... hmmm.. sounds just a backside of an depeche mode LP... policy of truth i think...

I have some troubles with the cheesy magic box sounds... but I love the sublime reverse effects.

As an ambient musician I think this would be really rad, if it was remixed in half the tempo, in dub style

Lyrics, well.. hmmm, im more into "speak&spell" but it sounds nice and rimes, so its good

/ Lex

hao nao · Post by **hao nao** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 8:49 pm

sounds good to me! didn't hear the first version

cool cover art, as one might expect

kind of reminds me of U™ versus U2

nice vocal sound as well as balance of words to music

liked it so much that I played it a second time immediately and added it to my "KvR music" folder

You™ · Post by **You™** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 8:58 pm

Thanks Lex but I gotta ask, what is a "cheesy magic box sound?"

I love the name, but I don't know exactly what sound it is. As for DM, I like that song a lot but I'm afraid I never consdered anything like that when I set about on this. If anything, it was a reactionary arrangement to a guitar, percussion and keyboard jam session over a bunch of loops - none of which survive intact in this version. Come to think of it - that's pretty much how all my songs are made.

Thanks too havran. I like the U™2 bit. Don't let the lawyers see that though!

Sepheritoh · Post by **Sepheritoh** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 9:13 pm

Great song!!

I listened to both mixes

but they sound the same, so I don't know what they are complaining about. It is a great song.

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