MFB Ambient

here is some badly recorded ambient using just the MFB SynthLite II recorded through a Zoom RFX-1100 FX rack... sorry about the shit quality, partly to do with the MFB but mainly my fault...

https://soundcloud.com/b-c-m/untitled

very sinister and eerie sounding. really cool. do you plan on doing anything more with this or is this it?

this is it for this one i'm afraid, but it's inspired me to do more similar stuff, i was going to put this on the MFB album, but i'm not happy with the quality, so am now working on a v2 (not the german rocket).

The tones are really spooky, & I think track-wise it's got enough going on. But it feels like it's missing a certain sense of immersion. You know, the one really great ambient tracks have, where it feels like you're sinking down into the sound & having it surround you on all sides?

Good news is I don't think this has anything to do with the composition or the sounds you're using, more just the recording/EQing/mastering/etc (and I'm not well versed on the finer points of those subjects)

  On 1/12/2013 at 6:08 PM, BCM said:

this is it for this one i'm afraid, but it's inspired me to do more similar stuff, i was going to put this on the MFB album, but i'm not happy with the quality, so am now working on a v2 (not the german rocket).

you mean the quality of just this track? cause i think it sounds great. the "lower quality" adds a lot to the overall feel. like Crypt says, if you added a little extra to it, maybe some background sounds or something this would be an amazing ambient piece.

hmmmm...yeah i know what you mean, i kind of like the lower quality feel too, but it distorts in the upper register in places which i don't like, it's just because i fucked up the original recordings from the MFB a bit...might go have a look again now though

*ponders*

I really enjoyed this! Sounds almost like a degraded pipe organ recording, you could easily just put some delay, a little vinyl crackle on top and pass this off as a Caretaker track

It'd be really nice just to have something to fill it in with, not necessarily much but just a bit of extra sound to bring it all together. Otherwise really nice work!

The low sound quality adds to the mood of the track, I think.

Try to keep the fuzziness, while improving the depth of the track like Cryptowen said up there. The melody itself is alright, but the lack of space really kills it for me.

yeah man, totally agree. definitely needs more space... does that sound sarcastic? not being sarcastic

i love such atmospheres, reminded me on darkambient stuff à la NWW, quite bizzare and trippy

Nice ambient work, isolationist and a little bit crazy.

I don't think that low quality somehow worsen the track, quite the contrary. Aphex's SAWII has the low quality as well.

Great warm piece, the only thing i disliked is the harmonics introduced in the last 20 seconds, ruined the warm feel a little :)