central park

soooooooooooooooooooooooo, here's the deal:

this is the intro to a little project i'm working on that's some kraut-rock-inspired mumbojumbo centered around an interesting adventure i had in central park. i have a nasty problem where i'll be jamming for like 2 hours, coming up with a full song's worth of melodies and beats but then, when it's time to organize all my ideas into a song, i stagnate and stick with some loops. this is, more or less, the result of one of those sessions. it's not edited or mastered (sneaks, i'm sure this fact will stab you in your ears ), but, hopefully, this will get fixed when i decide to pull the tracks together! regarding its repetitiveness, i kind of like it because its a nice way of setting the tone. the other tracks will go somewhere, i swear!

so, if you've read all that rationalization and can still stand to listen, here's the glorious little track: link to soundcloud

lots of reverb here. probably too much. i like it.

i really like how lost it feels until the beat drops in.

comments, etc. are always appreciated.

shameful bump for a bad song

  On 4/27/2010 at 7:17 AM, bigs said:

it's not edited or mastered (sneaks, i'm sure this fact will stab you in your ears )

erm.... wat?

At any rate. There are some good ideas here, but imma be helpful. The drums.... Weak. I dunno if it's your samples or the mix, but they are so "un-punchy", that if you dropped them from a building, they would give a quiet "squish" when they hit teh ground. A bit un-satisfying. Also, the arrangement is a little boring. That one lead is too loud, although that may be on purpose... Reverb is nice. I like big verbs. If the drums sounded better, the whole thing would be better though, right off the bat.

  On 4/28/2010 at 9:23 PM, sneaksta303 said:

  On 4/27/2010 at 7:17 AM, bigs said:

it's not edited or mastered (sneaks, i'm sure this fact will stab you in your ears )

 

erm.... wat?

 

At any rate. There are some good ideas here, but imma be helpful. The drums.... Weak. I dunno if it's your samples or the mix, but they are so "un-punchy", that if you dropped them from a building, they would give a quiet "squish" when they hit teh ground. A bit un-satisfying. Also, the arrangement is a little boring. That one lead is too loud, although that may be on purpose... Reverb is nice. I like big verbs. If the drums sounded better, the whole thing would be better though, right off the bat.

haha i was just referring to the fact that you tend to be rather offended by my lack of mastering (as you should be)

thanks for the tips, i'll definitely run through these ideas!

not even mastering but general mixing. A good mix requires little mastering. what Daw do you use? Live?

atmosphere is nice but ya beef up those drums and watch the volume on that lead at around 1:20 in fact maybe consider changing the feel of that lead altogether. for me it really ruins the bizarre groove that was going on before

thanks! busting out the keyboard...