Des Rez (ElectroProg - Seismic Agglomeration)

[seismic1]

Nice song with a good selection of synth sounds. Maybe you could have got a fuller sound if you panned out the tracks more but still, Rez 2 sounds good.

You're probably right about the panning. I didn't do much on this apart from the drums as many of the Rez presets were already panned and I was fairly happy with that.

Thanks for listening and commenting. Glad you liked it.

[D.H. Miltz]

Nicely put together. Enjoyed. Thank you.

[ThoughtExperiment]

Nice one Tim - great sounds and a very 'up' feel to it, you sure know how to get a lot from not a lot

[seismic1]

Nicely put together. Enjoyed. Thank you.

Thanks for listening and commenting DHM. Glad you liked it.

[astrochimp]

i really liked a lot of the synth sounds, but the song as a whole just didn't work for me. BUT: not really getting into the song allowed me to pay more attention to your mix and i was really stunned how excellent it is!

[fateamenabletochange]

That Rez sure is a capable wee synth, alot of things going on here, alot of arranging has gone on. One of the more 'lead' parts could come up in the mix a bit, might give it a bit more bite, maybe.

[seismic1]

Nice one Tim - great sounds and a very 'up' feel to it, you sure know how to get a lot from not a lot

We used to live in shoe-box in middle of road

I was determined to try a song without any traditional use of chords, and after I started playing around with the Rez presets, I knew this was the synth to use.

Glad you enjoyed it Mike. Thanks for listening.

[seismic1]

i really liked a lot of the synth sounds, but the song as a whole just didn't work for me. BUT: not really getting into the song allowed me to pay more attention to your mix and i was really stunned how excellent it is!

I didn't like Agadoo when it first came out, and 27 years later, I still don't

Never mind. It might grow on you. Glad you liked the mix. A couple of things I did differently to my normal MO here.

1) I have always been eq shy. I don't like the idea of chopping frequencies off the instrumental parts I have laboured over for so long. This time I was more brutal, and tightened the cuts more than in the past. Nothing drastic, just an incremental change in policy.

2) This was the second or third track I mixed at -6Db reference. I think it makes the job of mixing easier because you have the confidence that you won't wander into distortion territory and it gives you the ability to better control relative instrument levels. It also makes life easier for any mastering that will take place later.

3) I got a new desk for the computer after the old one collapsed a couple of weeks ago. It collapsed when I was deleting an email! One left click and I was like Wow The new desk has more space for me to arrange things in a better layout so I have the speakers about 10 inches further away now. So I can turn the volume up!

Last but not least, the synth I used on here was monophonic (no traditional chords here). This might be a major contributor to any clarity in the mix.

My next track is more downtempo (generally) than is usual for me. Should be up in about 10 days or so. See you later, and thanks for listening astrochimp.

[fateamenabletochange]

I was determined to try a song without any traditional use of chords....

It would blow your -6dB idea to start with...but...I find single note stuff easier to play with everything running really hot, so you have to play gently, and a full chord would clip, so you are kind of forced to stick with the approach. Need to layer more, and octave individual synths up and down to get a balance across the high low spectrum....just an idea.

[osiris]

I like this, and it shows how good a 'free' synth can sound. My only suggestions would be: some of the claps sound a little loud.
And the length. I think it could be shorter because your basically have the same motif running all the way through it. Don't give your listeners a chance to get bored.

[seismic1]

That Rez sure is a capable wee synth, alot of things going on here, alot of arranging has gone on. One of the more 'lead' parts could come up in the mix a bit, might give it a bit more bite, maybe.

Some nice sounds coming from that synth for sure. I'm not usually very comfortable putting "leads" on my tracks unless there is a lot of space for it.

I was determined to try a song without any traditional use of chords....

It would blow your -6dB idea to start with...but...I find single note stuff easier to play with everything running really hot, so you have to play gently, and a full chord would clip, so you are kind of forced to stick with the approach. Need to layer more, and octave individual synths up and down to get a balance across the high low spectrum....just an idea.

Yes. And some of those arps help to give more of an impression of "fullness"

Thanks for listening and commenting fatc. I hope it entertained you.

[fateamenabletochange]

yes, sure did.
I used Rez arps some years back on some tunes.

[seismic1]

I like this, and it shows how good a 'free' synth can sound. My only suggestions would be: some of the claps sound a little loud.
And the length. I think it could be shorter because your basically have the same motif running all the way through it. Don't give your listeners a chance to get bored.

I was wondering about the volume of the claps. At the beginning of the track they certainly stand out more than at the end when more instruments are playing. I guess there is a good case for volume automation.

I definitely have trouble keeping tracks short. My first virtual CD had an average track length of about 8:30, the second about 7:40. The third (from which this track is taken) was about 7:00. When it came to remixing these I managed to shave off about 30 seconds for the first and second, but I seem to find it difficult to get that average down to less than 7 minutes. My next track is a relatively slow piece and is currently at 09:56! I am determined to shorten it, but I'm not yet sure how I'm going to achieve that.


Thanks for listening and commenting. Glad you liked it.

[osiris]

I think you can manage this with velocity instead of volume. I've had it happen where there's 2 different sounds like a snare or a clap and one would be much louder. I just edit the velocity and they come into place.

[seismic1]

I think you can manage this with velocity instead of volume. I've had it happen where there's 2 different sounds like a snare or a clap and one would be much louder. I just edit the velocity and they come into place.

Yes, probably so, although I tend to use velocity for intra-bar variations and volume for variations at different points within a song. I probably have a perverse workflow