KVR Audio

lingyai · Post by **lingyai** » Wed Jan 27, 2016 9:56 pm

Hi all.

This is coming along. How could it be improved?

https://soundcloud.com/worksinprogress- ... jazz-draft

All civil comments welcome. I'm especially interested to know what you listened to this on.

The underlying WAV file is downloadable from Soundcloud; not only will it sound better but you'll avoid the jarring effect of Soundcloud playing a completely random track from someone else right after my track ends.

lingyai · Post by **lingyai** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 9:38 am

Anyone?

enroe · Post by **enroe** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 11:04 am

Hello lingyai,

I listened to your song "poolside jazz" on my PC-Speakers (so there's
only a poor bass).

For me it is a nice jazz-background-music - for a bar (or a pool
of course). Good: It has a driving rhythm striving forward. That's
really fun to listen.

The brass-parts sound a little static. Are these samples? But the
style is good. The following e-piano seems a little too loud.

All in all: Well done, good work!

Andy.

layzer · Post by **layzer** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 12:34 pm

i'm listening with the legendary Koss Portapros that have a huge cult following since the 80's

its a groovy little number, quite swingin... the big production issue i hear is that it all sounds very mono.
not sure if thats the effect you were shooting for. as Bruce Dickenson said in the production of Don't fear the reaper,
explore the space with that cowbell. i gotta have more cowbell!!!!

lingyai · Post by **lingyai** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 7:28 pm

enroe wrote:Hello lingyai,

I listened to your song "poolside jazz" on my PC-Speakers (so there's
only a poor bass).

For me it is a nice jazz-background-music - for a bar (or a pool
of course). Good: It has a driving rhythm striving forward. That's
really fun to listen.

The brass-parts sound a little static. Are these samples? But the
style is good. The following e-piano seems a little too loud.

All in all: Well done, good work!

Andy.

Thanks for listening and posting! The brass is sampled, yes (either loops or rompler). By static do you mean the underlying performance, or rather something that could be dealt with with mix-wise? I'm not clear, because to me that part sounds kind of all over the place in fact...

lingyai · Post by **lingyai** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 7:32 pm

layzer wrote:i'm listening with the legendary Koss Portapros that have a huge cult following since the 80's
its a groovy little number, quite swingin... the big production issue i hear is that it all sounds very mono.
not sure if thats the effect you were shooting for. as Bruce Dickens said in the production of Don't fear the reaper,
explore the space with that cowbell. i gotta have more cowbell!!!!

Funny, I just stumbled across a Saturday Night Live clip with Chris Walken playing a producer to Blue Oyster Cult, "more cowbell" was the recurring punchline ... so I'm not baffled by your comment!

Actually other folks have mentioned something similar -- either make it fully mono, or make it proper stereo. Guess I'll have to get off the fence on that.

Thanks for listening and posting.

seismic1 · Post by **seismic1** » Sat Jan 30, 2016 7:38 pm

Overall mix sound balance ain't too bad. I'm listening via a Line6 UX2 and a pair of Rokit 5s and my DT 990 Pros. Some of the snare hits, and the kick sound like they are distorting/clipping a little. There seems to be a rhythmic clicking through various parts of the track which is in time with the music. I can't figure out whether it's a percussive element or a sample edit.

Apart from a slight level mismatch between the right and left channels, this sounds mono here too. You could maybe add a touch more reverb to the brass to liven up the sound a little, and pan them apart a little, Maybe pan the different guitar parts away from each other too.

Nice tune/composition.

Good work

enroe · Post by **enroe** » Sun Jan 31, 2016 11:10 am

lingyai wrote: Thanks for listening and posting! The brass is sampled, yes (either loops or rompler). By static do you mean the underlying performance, or rather something that could be dealt with with mix-wise? I'm not clear, because to me that part sounds kind of all over the place in fact...

You can hear that the brass is sampled. Because it sounds very "straight",
no slight pitch, very even swells etc.

As an artist you must decide wether you want it that straight or you
want it like a live-player. In the last case you have to tweak the brass
(more pitch, more modulation, more volume-automation etc.) until
it sounds right.

But remember: If you want it straight let it as it is. To be "straight" can
be an artistic element (think of Michael Nymann!).

Greetings!

Poolside Jazz