Thank you for the truly helpful and insightful comments you’ve emailed/posted about the rough mixes of my latest song. I have tried to take them all into consideration in making these:
- big MP3 [5 MB]
- smaller MP3 [3 MB]
- Windows Media [2.5 MB]
- Ogg [4 MB]
Cliff’s sharp ears in particular generated a lot of work for me, but I’m glad because I learned plenty about Sonar 4, a deeply wonderful suite of music software, as a result.
I could definitely get into this online music thing that you youngsters so enjoy. Thanks again.
Oh, much better, kudos. Sorry about the extra work 🙂 The synth bass is still a little overpowering, but the dynamic range is much better, the percussion is much tighter, and overall it’s more ‘musical’. Very polished.
Maybe the synth bass belongs to one side instead of in the center channel like that, but that’s just personal taste I think. Blame my spoiled ears — I listen to my music on Etymotic ER-4s and an Airhead headphone amp.
Oh, a nitpick: The parts of the song with the synth bass have a completely different feel compared to the parts without it. Is that intentional?
Up to a point, yes. I try to avoid choruses and verses that sound too similar. Originally, I intended the verse to be blues (it pretty much begins “Woke up this morning”) and the chorus to be Motown, with a contemporary R’n’B groove throughout. The rhythm track changes pretty sharply between the two, but their top lines smear together.
Curiously, the verse melody never hits a black note even though the song’s in D minor. It’s only in the chorus that the key is spelled out by the tune. Also, generally, the chords are implied rather than played.
I think, once a proper band gets to record it, it’ll hang together much more naturally as a finished whole than this (nice) sketch of what was in my head at the piano.
This is actually turning me on. 😀
Um. Uh-oh. *sweats*
I’ve told you two about this before. Keep your hands to yourselves.
Excellent, but I’m with jenner on the issue of toning down the synth bass.
I wish I could sing like that though, you lucky bastard.