Spring Theme

[jonetsu]

Hello,

This is a simple, upbeat and straightforward track, largely based on synths, with a touch of acoustic guitar. No angst in this one, or maybe just a little touch of drama.

The synth solo was made using Repro-1 seconded by Monique. The piano parts were pianoteq flanked by an electric piano from Discovery Pro. The sequenced foundation was made using Bazille. The guitar part was played on a Shiraki guitar,
with some fair bit of treatment. As always, created in Bitwig, mixed and masterized in Mixbus32C. Enjoy. Comments of all kinds welcomed.

https://soundcloud.com/nominal6/spring-theme

Cheers.

[GMaq]

Hi,

Like the happy and hopeful vibe on this one! The organic sounding drums and the lope of the bass really flow nicely. The synths 'evolve' throughout very nicely and in a few places they give me a visual of sun breaking through the clouds... Love the repeating sequence underneath, it gives a nice momentum. Very nice acoustic guitar work as well!

[jonetsu]

Thanks ! A new version was uploaded that has some drum parts more centered and with the guitar parts a tad more present.
(Saturday 7th 11:00)

Cheers.

[bluebell]

Thanks ! A new version was uploaded that has some drum parts more centered and with the guitar parts a tad more present.
(Saturday 7th 11:00)

Cheers.

A soft, retro kick with more tone would be nice and make it even more cozy.

[jonetsu]

A soft, retro kick with more tone would be nice and make it even more cozy.

Good suggestion. Many bands go the mixing engineer with drum samples for instance. They tell the engineer this is now they want their drummer's snare to sound like. They have a drummer and a drum track, but they bring nevertheless some samples. And the mix engineer replaces the hits over the drum track. I never did that yet, but it's surely tempting.

[bluebell]

A soft, retro kick with more tone would be nice and make it even more cozy.

Good suggestion. Many bands go the mixing engineer with drum samples for instance. They tell the engineer this is now they want their drummer's snare to sound like. They have a drummer and a drum track, but they bring nevertheless some samples. And the mix engineer replaces the hits over the drum track. I never did that yet, but it's surely tempting.

The kick sound wasn't a sample? For me the kick sounds like a sound from a drum machine. So I thought it could be easily replaced without "destroying" the initial setup.

[jonetsu]

The kick sound wasn't a sample? For me the kick sounds like a sound from a drum machine. So I thought it could be easily replaced without "destroying" the initial setup.

The drums are loops played by a real drummer. I see that as having a real drummer. I would not "program" a human drummer. He would instead contribute with something hopefully relevant. That the kick may sound like a sample is something else belonging to the audio take, EQ, mixing (compression levels).