Playing guitar and singing at the same time? That's hard. The tempo ebbs and flows a lot, but for all I know, that's how Bob Dylan does it too.
Whatever mic you used for this sounds good. Was it pointing more at the guitar or your mouth? Your voice has some nice reverb in this. Good stuff, man
Nah bob dylan is pretty steady tempo'd I'm just still a novice and F is hard :P Mic is next to the guitar hole since my voice overpowers the guitar otherwise.
I put it in FL and added reverb and compressor
Thanks for listening man. I'll get better. Might start a band ;)
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This is dope. I was really taken aback when the vocals came in because the beat was slow and had a sorta janky rhythm to it, while the rapping was super fast and frenetic. It's a cool contrast. I'm wondering what the track would sound like if the drums were busier and more frenetic like the vocals.
Dig the vinyl noise in the back. It was almost acting like a set of hats, in addition to the hats you had in the beat.
With the beat I was going more for the lofi stoner sound. Faster hats would be good for the rap I suppose but I think ultimately wouldn't be right for the feel. So yea I agree the contrast is a little jarring at first. Verse would be better on the original beatbit was written to.
It's got a Madlib vibe to it. It would be cool if there were sudden stops and starts throughout the beat, and maybe some corny vocal samples thrown in there that echo for eternity.
Dig the bassline. Dig the way the background sample is chopped up. I think the drums themselves are fine, but I'm a tad iffy about the hats that go on top of them at 0:16. Maybe they're a tad loud? Maybe you could sidechain them to the drumloop so they don't compete with the main drums as much? I'm just brainstorming here.
Finally a good review. All good points. Sudden stops might be a good idea as for the hats. i feel liek the high end is lacking so the hats fill that space but i could tweak them for sure. As for vocal samples they are always a good idea i just need to find some that are suitable. Thanks for the feedback.
It doesn't sound like rain to me. It sounds like you're walking around some ancient library filled with magic books or something
I like that bass pliddle jawn that comes in at 0:22
Feelin' the jingles. Some reverb on them would've been cool. The chops just suddenly start and stop, which is cool but not like organic. Like I'm teleporting around instead of just walking around
Dig the drums, got a nice ramshackle boombap feel to them
what do you mean by "flag it"?
I dig the goofy triplet rhythms in the plinky sounding instrument. They're definitely not eighth notes or whatever, they got a lot of swing to them
Those drum noises are cool too. I really dug the bottle falling off a desk at 0:46, and the sudden fall at 0:11 (na na na na na na)
That squirrelly Tyler synth in the intro -- beep bee beeeeep beeeep BWWWWWWWWeeep
A lot of songs lately I've been following the song title name scheme of "f@#$/ it" so this was just following that trend.
Yes those are some swingy synths
Thanks for your appreciation. I use some strangely real samples...
Yes that synth at the begin! I could have left that as a beat to be honest. Sounds rappable.
Thx phosphorus
That wah wah thing at 0:46 was cooooool.
That chromatic guitar riff is pretty unsettling. Dig the panning you do on it.
The piano at 1:34 was Shadowesque. Loved the tape stop on it before the drums came back in.
That clap by itself is a tad harsh on the ears, but when it's mixed in with the rest of the drums it sounds fine.
Hats had a cool rhythm to them.
Yo I made something using your Uno track. Kind of an ode to my city. I'll let you know if I post it or not
Thanks for reviewing
Drums and bass sound dope. At 3:27, when that voice (dead center, a tad nasal, almost sounds like a duck) sounds slid up, it sounded kinda off to me. Like it should've went up to a higher note or something. That was the only thing that sounded off to me. This track was way cool.
Thanks phospho. I think I know the one you're talking about. That little riff haha. Thanks for the kind words, my friend. :D
Dig the drums. Especially that crash when the drums come in. Did you layer some extra kicks to give some extra oomph, or was that how the sample sounded originally? It sounds great.
Horns were great. Just the right volume (for me, anyway).
Dug the chops.
The drum pattern is mostly rearranged, sticking more kicks inbetween but the oomph was just from messing with the eq on the sample. I like these drums a lot too, I've used this sample twice recently, the other was Mood though from a different part of the drums.
Thanks for the listen.
I listened to all 4 of these SOV tracks you put out today, and this one's probably my fav. The two things I really dig:
0:22 -- the high pitched clinky motif that sounds like it has some echo on there.
1:14 -- Those really regal sounding chord stabs. This music sounds more like a castle/kingdom than a sewer. Must be a very luxurious sewer!
The highly pitched motif was supposed to portray rats and mice in the sewers.
The chord stabs makes the track a bit more jazzy, ive always done manual echoes in my chiptune work however. In fact ive never used a single non manual effect. :)
Its been a long time ago since i made this now though, hopefully ill be able to do stuff like this again in the future, had a rough time inbetween.. and though my knowledge of music has even evolved as i play alot of guitar these days im not always confident enough i can reproduce this, then again i never thought i could produce this when i did either, always felt musical ideas just flew me by and i was intelligent enough to recognice and capture it. :) Thanks for your review. -cal.
I'm out of the loop on this meme. Who is Henrik?
Dig the bassline. Lots of cool drum sounds too.
Oh lol. It's not a meme. I'm just channeling a musical artist called Henrik the Artist... maybe too much. Thx for the comments, phospho!
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