A recent try at mixing and mastering a simple loop-able piece of music.

Instruments: Drums, Bass, Dual tracked guitars.

Note: The guitar strings were pretty old. So the guitar won't sound as good as it would with fresh strings. :)

Feb, 23, 2015 -- Audio Demo (01)

Demonstration of clean sound with some quick chordal play.

April 02 - Clean Guitar Demo 01

The first ambient piece of music I've ever made. Took 2 hours. Uses only 5 instruments total with tons of reverb.

Personally I don't feel the super saw at the end fits, but it is just something I played around with.

This is an experimental demo version.

Ambient ~~ Jan 18 2016 - 01

The music to a doom 1 map I made back in 2012. Every instrument is using the same subtractive synth (The excellent free Synth1 VSTi).

The music replaces the music to E2M1 in the original Doom.

Diometra Ultimate - Version 2

A recorded in one take original. Blemishes and all.

Might make a better/fuller recording of it one day.

Lock-On *Original*

Had some fun using Reaper for a few minutes the other day, this was the result.

A little fizzy, but I can always work on that :).

Simple VST Amp test

This uses a newer rig setup of mine. Unfortunately I get out of time in this piece, but it's a sound demo rather than something really serious I made :).

Since it wasn't really that serious I didn't use a metronome or click track. Next time I'll make sure to do such ;).

The guitar settings on this one was bridge pickup with tone on either 2 or max (I forget really)

The thing I loved the most was the full-bodiedness of the tone. It's true that in mastering/mixing you typically want to reduce certain frequencies in order to make the sound clearer, but  when you don't have either drums or bass in the mix like here that'd sound very hollow or empty.

So I dug how the tone filled the entire frequency spectrum like it did :).

It has a version with some leads to it, but those leads don't really seem to fit too well. I'll have to modify them later to make them fit better. And maybe add some synth pads for emotional effect. :)

Bring It Rhythm Dual Track

Simply the lead that originally led to making the rhythm for it. This was a sort of experiment.

It's also very messy. But as I said, was meant only as an experiment.

Settings on the guitar was the neck pickup with the tone rolled off entirely. This gave a sort of 'synth-y-ish' type of tone with much less aggressive of an attack and a smooth, singing quality to it that I liked :).

Where what I did was record what was on my mind and then continue the creative process from there. I've had this lead in my mind for some time but never had a rhythm. Stuck in a rut I simply recorded it and suddenly a rhythm came to mind.

Kinda funny really, because I felt lost for a long, long time before it just suddenly happened :).

Bring It Lead

This is a very messy mix I will admit and horribly out of time with itself. But since it was only meant as a sketch you get the idea. It was going to be re-recorded in the future to fix the issues anyway. :D

This time the rhythm is quad tracked. Four independently recorded tracks with two panned left, and two panned right. One of the greatest issues I had though was that the first two recordings of the rhythm had a delay /w chorus activated (The lead guitar has the effect) and messed around with my timing a bit.

But that just goes to show, that when you feel inspired, you just keep going forward and correct the issues at a later time :).

One of the greatest reasons for the 'out of time-ness'? The fact that there was no click track or drums used at all.

Let's also not forget that the lead came before the rhythm too. That's one of the reason the rhythm doesn't fully fit the lead. It was a sort of 'spur of the moment' type of thing. :)

Udsahn