Did I inspire Jean Michel Jarre? :O

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Re: Did I inspire Jean Michel Jarre? :O

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Gps wrote: Tue May 23, 2023 6:33 pm

Is this link better ?

https://soundcloud.com/user586365033/duality

Or does it give the same shit ?

Oh, it was a more of a general comment about Soundcloud. I do suspect Carolyn though. There are no drops in your track.

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LOL, I was already wondering about that "person".

So we both don't trust it. :)

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I submitted my track to Best Of LMMS.

For other interested, submission started today (1st of June)

They also wanted me to upload a wav of flac file, so I used google drive.

Now I wait.

Listening to the wav file, I got reminded, why I am not a big soundcloud fan.
The .wav at my pc from LMMS sounds better then the soundcloud version.

A background synth is basically too loud on sound cloud.
But I have given up on trying to fix that. Must be their compression. :(

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Gps wrote: Thu Jun 01, 2023 10:59 pm

I submitted my track to Best Of LMMS.

For other interested, submission started today (1st of June)

They also wanted me to upload a wav of flac file, so I used google drive.

Now I wait.

Listening to the wav file, I got reminded, why I am not a big soundcloud fan.
The .wav at my pc from LMMS sounds better then the soundcloud version.

A background synth is basically too loud on sound cloud.
But I have given up on trying to fix that. Must be their compression. :(

Why not create a bandcamp account then? It doesn't have the social-media structure of soundcloud, but you can make a quiet little corner for your music there, and your music can be downloaded in arbitrary quality (wav, flac, mp3). And streaming from bandcamp doesn't sound bad at all i.m.o.

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Thank you, and its probably time for a bandcamp account anyway.

Until now I was not happy enough myself to try bandcamp.
This is the first time were I am like, this does not sound that bad.
Talking purely about mixing.

With my previous tracks I was never really happy, but had no clue on how to do better.

Only recently I started to do frequency cutting and it does help a lot I now have studio monitors and a gaming headset.
Its the swtching between the two type of speakers that helps a lot.

Also me still watching a lot of you tube vids.

Like yesterday were somebody with albeton was taking about dotted basslines.
At first I was like wtf ? But then realized something I know from sheet music.
A dot behind a note makes it longer, and that was what he mend with dotted base lines.

I learn a lot from you tube vids, and it does not bother me they usual don't use lmms but albeton or cubase.
If you understand what they are doing you 99% of the time can do it in lmms too, even though some stuff is a bit more work.
No fancy dials for humanization and swing, but that does not mean we cant do it in LMMS and I am pretty sure, it can be done in about any daw.

Like how I like to call it, make music on your pc that does not sound like its made on a pc.
Every note perfectly timed and all notes as loud as the others.
One trick I learned a while ago. Make the 1 in 1,2,3,4 a bit louder. It seems real drummer do this even if they don't know they do.

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Gps wrote: Sat Jun 03, 2023 4:40 pm

One trick I learned a while ago. Make the 1 in 1,2,3,4 a bit louder. It seems real drummer do this even if they don't know they do.

That's just standard music playing, unless it's syncopated, then the louder one is the 2. Your metronome probably does this to.

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