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I make music and spend tons of money on nice stereo gear. My home theater rocks.
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ha ha ha sorry. But this is so freaking cool!!!
I love it!! Way way way better than the original! Long live rig!!!
This is beyond good. beyond pretty everything on this site. so rare a talent you have guy. I would be the first to buy the cd you produce.
Author's Response:
I LOVES YUO TOO :3
Wow, thanks for all the encouragement (and that donation too!). It's so cool that what started out as a hobby will become my bread and butter. :D
Also, my mom's already in first place. Would you be good with second?
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It's so damn good. Good night it's good.
People - take mixing lessons from this champ. He knows what's going down.
Vocals are beautiful - soundstage is wonderfully presented and clear. Everything sits so close to perfectly in this beau that it would be hard to talk anything down mix-wise. Absolutely brilliant piece stylistically as well. Everything here is ace. Hands down the best piece on newgrounds.
5/5 (as many as I can give ya)
Author's Response:
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I trust your opinion, and am honoured that you like this piece.
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The piece is strange. not for the normal reasons though. It's strange because it reminds me of a extraordinary song reduced to the midi arrangement and played back through a standard gm dls bank (well, maybe an above average one). There's somehow so much potential here. It's like a sleeper piece or something. Hard to describe.
I think if you were to extend on your mixing skills/ability and pick up some very nice payware instruments, you'd be heading somewhere pretty quick.
Listening to it more, it is growing really quickly on me. In fact, by 2:40 - it is really really good. Odd. Didn't expect to like it this much. It's already so "fresh"! LOL. Good job guy!
Author's Response:
I know exactly what you're saying. My composition and melodies have always been good, I've known this. but I've also known that my music lacks something.... like it sounds good but not "professional". When I listened to your music, it just fortified that idea in my mind. But I think now I can finally get that tonality that I've been lacking.
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Ha ha ha. This is funny. I really like the part at :43! You've got these strokes of genius going on at points...
Author's Response:
Haha... yea that's what I was thinking too. I was actually considering scrapping the whole joke idea and using that part at around :40 to make an actual song. But I was sort of hoping Tom would put this song on the front page or something since it had poop in the title.
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wonderful breadth to this piece. The "scenery" and placement of everything is spot on. very very good. The initial bouncy lead synth didn't sound like the "right" one necessarily, but later on in the song it fit better, so it must simply have been an issue of timing. Ahh, now however the lead that pops in a 1:52 is just about right, very fitting! I like that. 2:22 ---> Also really cool!!
Yes, another great part @ 2:40. Great experimentation here! This is wonderful!
There might have been the slightest bit too much "weight" to some of the reverbs. Some equalization on the reverb itself might have even'd this out. That's nitpicking though. The chords used were good - I think the initial portion of the song didn't do enough justice to it however. The vibraphone section was a standout.
This would likely be newage/experimental. The boundaries of genres (so to speak) nowadays is all but completely destroyed with the pure wealth of music available out there. It's more of a guideline.
The overall bounciness and freeflowing feeling was very well cemented in by a good song structure. It is in ways very evocative of my own work (interesting to hear such a spin). It's certainly good piece. I think the direction itself is the most positive.
Author's Response:
Ah, so "breadth" is the concept I've been missing out on? Keeping separate instruments confined to separate ranges of frequencies? Using the widest range of frequencies possible? That's what I was trying to do with this song. I also picked out the cleanest, purest sounding samples and leads, and added at least a little bit of reverb to everything (more if it sounded better).
The weird timing arises from the fact that I like to challenge myself. Not only did I put this song into 5/4 time signature, but I used a 4/4 beat and just modified it to fit 5/4. I like to do weird stuff like that.
Whether you realize it or not, you have just permanently changed the way I'm going to write music from now on. Thank you very much!
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The instruments are anything BUT noobly. They are in fact - incredible quality. Absolutely full and professional sounding. Have you ever listened to the top dj's and electronica artists in the world? Then you'd hear what quality really is - and this song is extremely reminiscent. True - there are some treble problems (way way too much of it to be precise) but nothing that a little more accurate mixing environment wouldn't remedy.
Needless to say, it's extraordinary (the song). It's not a mastering problem, it's a mixing problem. You can't "master" anything unless you have "mastering-grade" components, software, and electronics (think, thousands and thousands of dollars.... yes, that's what they cost). That's just the way it is. There's this huge mis-conception out there that you can slap a free eq on a master bus and call yourself a mastering engineer. Yeah, right - and I'm DJ Tiesto. Nope. Just doesn't work that way. Sorry.
Keep doing this and you'll get much much better. I'd say it would be worth your while to invest in higher quality monitoring equipment.
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"well, you certainly know what you're doing..."
Definitely far far above the norm for around here. Great work on this track. I'll pose the same question - which instruments did you use? I'm always interested to hear about how each composer creates a song (instruments/fx choices, mixing style, etc.)
It's got that extremely solid feel to it. I wish it did go a little more deep and full at points but it's satisfying nonetheless.
Author's Response:
Thanks! On Logic Express 8 I used a Trance and Techno Kit for the basic beat. I used an instrument called Glowstick which is that 1 note (2 notes later on) that is off beat and obnoxious. I used Shining Fuzz for the bass line in the first half of the song that switches between octaves. For the bass in the second half, I used Fat FM bass. For the soft bells that are an arpeggio , I used the instrument Modulated Bells. For the other bells, I used Dreamy Bells. That's pretty much it. I didn't use that many layers (10), but I did mix it (volumes of instruments) to my liking. I was just bored one night and decided to make this. I wanted to keep it simple and easy. I struggle sometimes with making my songs full and deep. I wasn't trying that hard with this song. I'm glad you think this is far far above the norm!!! :D
Anyway, Check out some of my other songs if you want :)
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I know I already reviewed the other one. But I'm here to reiterate how incredible it is. This is literally one of my favorite little pieces on here....it so effing classy.
Author's Response:
thanx for review and for 10
maby you'll like even better the version with solo ...
i made a contest about soloing on this (this is only the backing track)
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I don't think I'd ever be able to give any of your songs less than a 9 or 10. Simply couldn't do. You do especially well with all the ambiances and feeling of real space that you inject into pieces. Extraordinary sense of production you've got.
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"flawless. and perfect at the same time."
I mean - if you had mixed this in stereo on a very flattering setup that wasn't distorting all over the place with better fx...it would literally be drop-dead gorgeous...
This is literally better sung than Jacek Laszczkowski. I can't imagine you not winning. Again, an improvement on your vocal quality would seem almost unattainable. I'm sure you can measure it, but I myself could not.
Author's Response:
-^ ^- Aww, thank you very much for your kind words. But, good sir, as I've stated in a lot of my posts, times is hard. I simply can't afford the equipment that I need in order to make it sound professional. I'm running off a 15-year-old computer that has only 500 megabytes of memory on it, and a $15 microphone. I'm afraid to harshly say, at the time, this is all you get until I can afford better. Thanks for listening!
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