013b mixed muched better using eq and panning, added horns. Much clearer overall sound, removed a lot of muddiness. Very pleased with outcome. 

013b

Done on cubase,. No compression or limiters. Mostly just some eq tweaks and panning. read this artilce with Rashad Becker about mastering without compression from http://www.monolake.de/interviews/mastering.html. kinda inspiring. he has a lot of valid points. Iv'e been guilty about just putting on a mastering plugin like to maximize the volume and take away any sort of dynamic. 

Here's the first version of the song. I started to sound like crap whenever I wanted to add anything. I tried to mix up the melody with mixolydian and lydian scales. Something I've never done before. I've always wanted to learn modes but couldn't really grasp it. Joe Satriani wrote this article in Guitar World. I don't even like Joe Satriani music, I kinda despise guitar wankers. He compared the scales on the same root. He stressed hearing the differences and how the Lydian has a flatted 7th compared to major scale and the Lydian has a raised fourth. ! note changes the scale but keeps that major sound to it. What the hell am I saying, is that right? Did I mix those up.

Cubase again, yeah no crashes in over 2 weeks. This version is pretty stripped compared to 016b. I 'm gonna add more percussion to B.

Here’s the second version. A ton of changes. I was about to scrap this song. I then added a cimbalom, hammered dulcimer. It just needed more melody to break up the monotony.

The intro sounds a lot like the Björk song, on the pagan poetry single, Domestica or Batabib. One of those songs is really wet. I used the Sylenth synth with the ARP doves preset. I just love that synth.

I finally made cubase crash, but I don’t think it was cubase’s fault. It was more of a bug on my part. I tried to drag and drop a sliced event into kontakt. I could do that with groove agent but kontakt doesn’t have that ‘drag and drop’ functionality. I still used kontakt to slice up a drum loop and reamp to different keys. I read this article about how to sound like Squarepusher. Computer Music wrote it but I find it comical that Tom Jenkinson probably doesn’t even make beats like that. I think it was just to sell magazines as they put a picture of Tom on the cover, headlining “How to sound like Squarepusher”. No one can sound like him. Like trying to sound like Hendrix, Yeah Stevie Ray covered his songs but it doesn’t anything like Hendrix. It always sounds like somebody playing Hendrix. I’m starting to sound like a shitty pretentious artist again.

I doubled the acoustic guitar, added another drum track, using CM’s “Squarepusher method” lol. Added more sections to mid part. Sometimes I’ll be editing something in a loop and that loop will just sound decent. So I Split the event from Loop region and Insert silence and double the loop. Almost forgot, I finally used this Ibanez bass that my cousin traded me. I used to make fun of my cousin Mark because I was jealous of his bass and how he acquired it. His boss just gave it to him. I used to poke fun of him since he doesn’t know hjow to play bass yet. Anyways I will trade my 5 string bass and some cash for it. I really like the active electronics on it. That plexiglass 5 string bass I had just didn’t sound right. Thought it was broken when no sound heard but it just needed a new battery for the active pu.

Still sounds a little disorganized, Might need a new bassline or mixed better. 

016b

Yeah

SHat1

Yeah2

https://lepouplugins.blogspot.com/
hi z iput jaguar guitar, 0 gain, using lepou plugins, direct in, sounds amazing, last song had weak tone.

Fikx your Tone (clean your room)

Welcome Morning

FFS that bridge needs to be extended are recycled its the best part of the song


cleaned up some midi parts, added some effects, redid some sections.
Bassline redo. Maybe need to simplify.

still not liking the first violin motif. 
the second middle parts sounds great, its sounds maybe too much like a sigur ros part?

aka MIDIguitarAmFmajCInterval

Too dark sounding cant put on album
fudgeit putting back on album just need to adjust that first violin motif, and other shat of course

MIDI guitar unititled

Introducing the new Calvin Klein Cologne.
"SEVEN"
your favorite qb

well I overdubed the first part on accident, not sure if I want to cut that out completely. both 1 takes, im an improvisation player. My structered songs are so stiff.
Lot of good sounds on this. I hear another attempt at robot violin parts.

Definitely needs cleaning before putting on album
akaMidiGuitarCmajortoAharmonic

SEVEN C K

Here's my demo, really proud of it for once. 

Looking to add some strings, and some rap gods. Either way the dream is still alive, especially since Iv'e add Jonathan Rios to the mix. He is a profound poet that who has been quite the motivator that I needed. About to hang this project up. I'm glad he texted me. Producing this demo made realize how much I love producing and writing. 

Some of these loops don't transition well, so its medley of different parts with different tempo. Might be at least 2-3 songs I can filter from here.

I tend to gravitate to Cmajor, Aminor and A harmonic minor.  Need to practice and expand my scales.

New toys, Baritone guitar, tuned an octave lower, giving more space for violins or whatnot, it also allows me to play bass and guitar parts. Pitchfork and Sdrum pedals have also let me improvise as if I'm playing in a band.

Project update.
Looking to create an album of about 9 track or 45 minutes.
Originally wanted 3 people in the band and compose music together.  I am more of a reactionary or improvisational player. I find it really hard write music by myself.

I am open to anyone creative that is productive. My availability is pretty open now. May take a music class in January on Tuesday nights. Who the fuck takes a songwriting class? might find dedicated people there.

The recording process is simplified. 
I use the looper pedal as a sketchbook to quickily jot down ideas when inpiration hits. I think it takes less than 30 seconds to boot up all my equipment. I can loop rhythm parts and keep adding layers to it. I then can dump those loops into Ableton live to tweak it. I actually surprised at how easy you can polish turds.

Also if anybody knows any artists that want to create album and song covers. That would be sick.

Animalarium Demo

Octopus

Kathy baby shower

finally back up recording and writing some stuff, Still really haven't any confidence in anything

017c

017c2

testing melodyne, originally recorded on guitar, midi generated from melodyne. input too low but detected decently, really sloppy. Must edit original melodyne analysis better. midi into ableton piano reverb.

melo

Well This experiment worked well. Found a new recording method. I can record song parts loops by using Digitech Jamman Stereo pedal., A pedal I got to loop parts to learn to play drums with since I can't play two instruments at once. Finding anyone to play music I'm interested is hard not to mention the scheduling differences that always get in the way. I record parts into the pedal using guitars and a Roland JV1080 module keyboard. My bass amp is still blown so the bass parts are synthetic Ableton bass instruments. Which didn't sound too bad. The experminet was too see if I can actually use any of those parts for actual recordings. My first problem was tempo issues. the jamman pedal does not have any way to input the bpm.





Alongsidewalls

Single loop using the roland JV1010 and jamman stereo looper. Don't remember what settings I was using or the key or the sound patch. God my laziness is gonna bite me in the balls one day. Sounds like something in tron to me. Gasp O no.
Recorded in Ableton original bpm 98.52 upped to 105 bpm. Ableton drum kit Kit-LowLoudSquashed-Stick.


Avowing Crowns

Roland JV1010 sounds. 110 bpm but various original BPMs. Original loops recorded in Jamman pedal. Loops used: Instructively Believing1 and 2(103.09bpm). Robing Elephants 1 and 2(103.47bpm), Near the Complex and Founding Makers(91.12bpm). Ableton drum kit used  "Kit-OldSchool-Stick" izotop Ozone Plugin. Ableton Church reverb use in effects. Key of A harmonic minor (mostly)

Instructively Believing

Learning how to get a good setup for microphone. On melo test I realized that recording through the acoustic guitar's preamp sounded horrible. Recording this way doesn't pick up any of the nuances of the guitar vibrations. I only had a Shure BG5.1 condenser mic to use but sounded a hundred times better. 


Acoustic Test 1

Experiment with assign sample to midi parts as a drum instrument and limiters.

rolie

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