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Hey I really, really dig this. Post more!

I thought it was pretty kick ass sounding myself Freebase. God job keep'em coming!!

You better keep up with this and post more.

I want to hear some other stuff as well. I enjoyed that.

I like it, particularly the guy speaking in certain parts of it, it really sets the scene of the track. My one gripe however is that there was a clicking sound for the first part of it that really distracted me from the rest of the synths. I feel like it wasn't really a necessary sound to be in the track.

Hey thanks guys! :)

DUDE. YOUR SH*TS ARE AWESOME.

now say some stuff. nice stuff... and some other stuff about all the stuff you use to make this stuff.

the sound quality is quite pristine and i am jealous of your mixing/mastering skills.

Haha thanks man.
I pretty much produce strictly in Cakewalk Sonar 8.5PE. I mix & master there as well. I used Sylenth1 (vsti synth plugin) for the bassline and recorded some automation on the pitch wheel. The drums are a bunch of samples and loops all mashed and re-worked, with some sequenced additions from SessionDrummer 3 (which comes native in Sonar). The synth line is part reworked sample / part Z3ta+ vsti synth (native in Sonar). Plus there are FX samples here and there. Oh, and the organ synth, I did in RaptureLE (native in Sonar).
I didn't really spend much time mixing... just the basic stuff you do during the course of production.
Afterwards, I bounced down and ran the track through Isotope Ozone 4, which is a complete mastering plugin and just did some obligatory limiting, mastering reverb, EQ, etc.

One thing I didn't do that I normally do is run the whole track through a compressor, which would have tamed some of those drum peaks and brought the lower stuff up, but in the end, I decided I liked the dynamics and just went with that.

For shits and giggles, here's a screen of the project:
(click to view larger)
http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/6...ojectqg.th.png

I was feeling what I heard, I'm waiting for some more!

really diggin man

Goddamn you Freebase!!! I quit.....HOLY **** DUDE!!!! What? I had no idea you could play like that man that was ****in amazing!!!...Ive seen you post in the music gear thread but had no clue you were capable of playing like that. Im jeolous!! Post more!!! Great job man!!

Nice looking guitar too

that's pretty good, I enjoyed listening to that and I completely understand the whole having a string broken and not touching it for awhile.

I picked up mines the other day even though it's missing one of the strings.

I started to just strum it a bit and a song slowly started to form as far as lyrics. My chorus is pretty fleshed out now. I just need to work on the verses.

Aww bruh I blush!
To be honest, I need to get back on it. Although I'm completely locked into the way I strum. You notice I only use three fingers on particular strings, and it's EXTREMELY hard for me to get away from that. Still, to this day, I do the same kind of strumming/picking, and it aggravates me to no end that I can't move beyond it. Grrr!!!!



Thanks man! I'd definitely enjoy hearing some of your work!

I saw you were planning a trip around the world tonight in another thread. Ive been recording **** all night since I got some new headphones and threw together a lil trippy blues jam for ya. Maybe you'll enjoy it...if not im sure you'll have fun reguardless.

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Very nice, man!. Sorry for jumping the gun, as I'm not quite "on the road" so to speak, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. Man, if my dad ever got wind of your stuff, he'd force you to jam with him over the internet or something. Your stuff very much reminds me of the kind of stuff he and his buds used to play when I was growing up, banging on pots and pans along with them. :)

I bet he could show me a thing or two about how to play some of them swampy blues like Benoit or someone. From what you said it doesent to much different from the get togethers we had when I was little.

Relatives use to pull a 16 ft. trailer out behind my grandma's every couple years when I was little and everybody who played would use it as a stage. Nobody around for miles anyway exept the cows, and mosquitos so they would cut loose till the wee hours of the morning. They always played a lot of country, but I always took more of a liking to playing blues style stuff. Hendrix was of course..,from outer space to most of them, but that never swayed from obesessing over his music.
I'll add that other than me that nobody play's really anymore,(gospel ..puke) but like I said now a days nobody plays and the ones just a few years younger in their mid 20's are a hopeless generation of PS3 and Wii minded relatives. Not that theres anything wrong with that if thats what your into but times have definately changed from when I was a kid.

I'm interested in this. I know absolutely nothing about you musically, and the one time I asked, you mentioned that you were taking a break from all listening for creative purposes.

^ I must have been drunk.
Sadly, I'm not drunk enough to come up with an excuse that savvy at the moment, so I'll just write about something I was recently reminded about.

Today, I posted a vague (and presumptuous) recommendation in the Electronica forum, which prompted me to do a quick search with the intention
of checking up on the artist. The Flashbulb. Admittedly, I haven't been keeping up with him like I should. I have a bad habit of putting so much
focus into an artist, but in such short periods of time, then abandoning them for ages. It does leave me open for surprises though, many of which are pleasant.

Apparently, he has a new album out, and on top of that,
these videos are the first time I've seen his live stuff. He
has really grown as a musician, and I was overjoyed with
the ensemble he's now using, and the degree to which they
lend to his compositions in a live function. I can safely say
that he is one of the few artists I would genuinely love to
see live, in relation to this genre of music.

Take a listen (Absolutely beautiful):


Another (Love his midi from guitar):


I'll post some of my older favorites of his in a few.

Here's some of my older personal favorites from The Flashbulb.
Honestly, he's been pretty much a staple in my IDM diet. More
so than Aphex back in the late '90s when I got into him as a
drug-addled kid all about the weirdness. Now days, I get more
out of something with emotion... But I still love the rage. It just
has to be the right kind.

Anyway, here are some personal favorites from The Flashbulb:

From: M8 (2000)


From: Kirlian Selections (2005)


From: Flexing Habitual (2006)

Some of the Soundtrack album they did I found interesting but ultimately I remember thinking it was uneven, with so many tracks not surprising perhaps.

Cool, I just downloaded Kirlian Selections yesterday. I listened to about half of it and it was very good.

I was taking a piss earlier, and happened to glance at the mirror above my sink. I noticed my clock. One of those "traditional" types with the arms that move.
The clock that stares at you and ensures that you don't forget it's counting down, as though its inventor hoped to be as depressing as possible.
Some ridiculous, pseudo-artistic, malformed haiku bloomed in my mind. Something about a clock on the wall, reflected in a mirror, time reverses now.
Mid stream, and halfway to a drunken realization that even the laws of every-day reality seem to be serving like 21st century porridge to desperate, hungry hobos.
Like some plastic game sold at a 20th century Walmart, with eager fill-ins for the animals, looking to make a quick buck or two and bed down for the evening in a
cardboard mansion warmed only by the very thing that probably put them there to wait out their lives in something distractingly numb.

I'm not bitter about the clock, I tell myself. I just like the one in the mirror better. It is defiant. Somewhat of an outcast.
It's made of a fraction of the matter, but matters more. It knows the inevitable conclusion of its journey is ultimately the same, but still retains the ability to be
wished for most often. It has the ability to erase the past.
But in that past, there is no future.

And, because of that, the one in the mirror could never really hold a candle to the one on the wall.


That was a fairly productive piss.

As some of you will notice, I've combined my production thread with my journal. Just seems easier that way. Besides... I need shit to put in this journal.

I can't see you needed much more added to that. It sounds really great the way that it is but that's just from a listener's perspective. I'm not sure what you are shooting for , from the creator side of things.

I'll be honest, I hit replay on that bad boy after it was done.

Thanks!
Yea, it's more of a courtesy that I'm waiting for his input. Originally I created the main idea and all the sounds, and when I got bored with it, I shot him the samples and let him mess around with the structure, added some stuff, and shot it back. I did some refinements, added stuff and did some basic mixing. I know his style and preferences, so I'm pretty sure he'll be cool with the way it turned out.

I'm probably going to start working with him more and form a duo to release stuff under. I'm always a lot more motivated when I have someone to work with.

i would love a dl link to that badboy in all honesty