Hi
Here's an original tune just finished with Ardour3b5, it is basically a song about the addictiveness of technology. I originally built it around the two electric piano chords and it's intended to be somewhat repetitive and add new layers as it goes along in keeping with it's theme. I also thought I'd try something different (for me anyway) and have the choruses use an instrumental refrain rather than a vocal one. The guitar fills use a Vox wah-wah and slide at the same time which was a bit of a handful especially since I'm pretty green at playing slide.
This song makes good use of the linuxDSP Dyn 500, SR-2B and PEQ-2B as well as the Calf Vintage Delay and Pulsator. I played, sang and programmed the instruments for this one on my own.
Song is here: http://www.bandshed.net/music/Mesmerized.mp3
Comments, Critiques and Questions welcomed.
Mesmerized
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Capoeira
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Re: Mesmerized
that is some very groovy pop song.
But since you asked: the only thing I didn't like is the bass. Is this a real bass guitar? I would lift that one octave up OR double another track, one octave up, over
But since you asked: the only thing I didn't like is the bass. Is this a real bass guitar? I would lift that one octave up OR double another track, one octave up, over
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Re: Mesmerized
Hi,
Thanks for taking time to listen, the bass is actually a keyboard patch with a fuzzbox plugin running on it, the bass was exported from my original arrangement from the late 90's done with Cubase VST 3.5 on Windows 98SE.
Thanks for taking time to listen, the bass is actually a keyboard patch with a fuzzbox plugin running on it, the bass was exported from my original arrangement from the late 90's done with Cubase VST 3.5 on Windows 98SE.
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Re: Mesmerized
I used to record on Win 95 with Logic - 8 megabytes of RAM and a Sounblaster Live sound card with MIDI daughter board. It used to work quite well (when Windoze wasn't crashing).
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Actually it didn't suck, I had a Turtle Beach Pinnacle ISA card that would do full wavetable sampling and also did 20bit audio DAC (unheard of in consumer sound cards in 1996 when it was new). I actually had a fully functional D.A.W. that was stable, reliable and intuitive to use. Then Windows XP came out and I lost my Sound card drivers and Cubase 3.5 all in one upgrade...Capoeira wrote:damn, recording on Win 98 must have sucked.
I'm glad I only began recording on Linux
It's taken me a long time to get back to a setup as reliable and easy to use and I even had to roll up my sleeves and create a distro first...
@nreese
Yep Win95 wasn't so bad either, the audio hardware and software got ahead of it's capabilities too fast, 8mb of RAM... that's amazing!