Frankly, who cares? (rock/disco, all FOSS, Ardour 6)

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Frankly, who cares? (rock/disco, all FOSS, Ardour 6)

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So I ended up to make this very short song. Synths are all made with Surge or with JjazzLab soundfonts. Electric guitars and vocals are real.
I used Ardour 6.5 on Linux.
For the lyrics video I used Blender.

"Frankly, who cares?" on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/stefano-droghett ... -who-cares

"Frankly, who cares?" video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWxpsISKQkM

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Great song and great video!

in mix, nobody can hear your screen

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Post by jeanette_c »

It's a great, catchy song. Well sung and well effected. It has a good, clean and driving flow.
Especially in the drums it might shine even better with better samples/sounds. Besides that it's a clean, straight mix. Even the drums work with the genre. With everything else, I'd simply prefer better quality.
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Very good song, and neat way you did the vid :D
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Thank you so much, I'm so happy you appreciated my song.
jeanette_c wrote: Wed Mar 24, 2021 10:07 pm Especially in the drums it might shine even better with better samples/sounds.
Totally agree.
The point is: the drum pattern has been initially generated by an open source drum machine / arranger (JJazzLab) and then heavily edited: that drum machine sounds ok with its own soundfonts, so to use better samples I'd have had to remix all the single drum sounds. I did not, because I'm lazy :-) I preferred trying to improve drum sounds with compressors and equalizers, I thought it would be faster. For my next song, I'll try to work more about drum samples, promise! :-)

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This is an interesting piece. The dark and rather cynical lyrics juxtapose ironically with the bouncy and relatively upbeat music. It's a great trick in pop music, put to good use by The Smiths, especially, but also others. Your track reminds me of Stephen Merritt's music, particlarly this brilliant song: https://youtu.be/S1KTuYXc2Gw
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Superb song and video. It's so nice to watch.
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milo wrote: Fri Apr 02, 2021 6:48 pm This is an interesting piece. The dark and rather cynical lyrics juxtapose ironically with the bouncy and relatively upbeat music. It's a great trick in pop music, put to good use by The Smiths, especially, but also others. Your track reminds me of Stephen Merritt's music, particlarly this brilliant song: https://youtu.be/S1KTuYXc2Gw
The brits do this a lot! The Smiths and The Cure being the champions of that :lol: and most notably, Pink Floyd and Dire Straits.

@Senbee your songwriting skills and musicianship are astounding, as usual! :D
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Basslint wrote: Sat Apr 03, 2021 10:52 am The brits do this a lot! The Smiths and The Cure being the champions of that :lol: and most notably, Pink Floyd and Dire Straits.
I don't do it on purpose but actually, being Pink Floyd and Dire Straits (and brits in general) my favourite kind of music since a was a child, I realized it's a natural tendency I have :-)
@Senbee your songwriting skills and musicianship are astounding, as usual! :D
I thank you so much and you make my ego fly high :-)

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All my songs: www.soundcloud.com/stefano-droghetti/se ... -droghetti
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My homepage (in Italian): www.stefanodroghetti.it

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