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Hi, brave knights of Open Soft!

Let me present new instrumental track "Autumn in the Emerald City".
Not to say that the revelation descended on me, but I tried

Playback/Download: https://soundcloud.com/psyocean/autumn- ... erald-city

Guitars was recorded alive, drums sounded with Hydrogen. Sequenser - Rosegarden, DAW - Ardour 5.

Also video with this music. Summer in Moscow, ortodox places +++
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIdgj5c8AkA

Man, what a great lead guitar sound!

I also like the coming & going of percussion.

The video format is nice, it adds some cultural exchange quality to the music the way you're doing it. And the quality improves - I am curious, am I right that you are using some old school photography tricks there like a polarization filter for contrast-rich skies?

Good playing. Nice track

Forestandgarden, Folderol, many thanks, dears!
Video was montage on Open Shot Video Editor old version 1.4, new version working with big freezes. Video without postprocessing. Photo is my hobby, sometimes i use polarisation filter, but rurely. Last times i shuting in RAW, processing in Raw-therapy, Darktable, Gimp, etc. Portfolio you may see at sapmle here: http://www.photo-therapy.photosight.ru
Cheers!

Hi,

Beautifully melodic and lyrical guitar work! Enjoyed the video too

GMaq, thank a lot! Be happy!

Good stuff! Love the guitar tone, and your playing is very expressive.

Many thanks! Good luck!

I almost missed this one. Nice work, my favorite thing you have shared yet. The drums are very thoughtfully composed.

Just a thought, it might be nice to start with a more intimate guitar sound (like a classical/nylon string guitar) and save the big tone for later in the piece to help it build.

I am curious about the sound quality on Youtube vs. Soundcloud. The Youtube version (with the nice photos) sounds much better in quality. It's clearer and more full sounding. Did you process the audio differently, or is this a difference between the platforms?

SoundCloud crushes everything down to 128k mp3 for streaming
Fortunately they don't do that to the source, so always make your tracks downloadable guys!

Ufug, thanks for comment!

Unfortunate, repair-service kill my audiointerface , so the sound acoustic guitar was recorded not hot on photo-microfone and museum ancient audiocard

Folderol, thanks for info!

Eureka! Best format for future - midi! No compressed, no noise, no something lost, see notes and edit, bone forever!

You can listen this composition in midi:
http://www.midi.ru/song/159707/osen_v_i ... gorode.mid

If seriously, in wave and flac formats you can put on jamendo.com, I was pumped to albums as they become available.
https://www.jamendo.com/artist/370954/psyocean/albums

Cheers!

When I first listen to your song in Soundcloud, I kind of thought the kick drum squashes all the instruments just a bit as it sounds like a brickwall compressor is in effect and the instruments do sound too loud. An electric guitar does seem a bit too loud IMO.

And I would also save the lead electric guitar for the last as well. Shouldn't it suppose to be soft from the beginning and epic at the end?

Overall, a good start, but your song seems to be lacking in the arranging and mixing department.

GraysonPeddie, thank you for your comment, I will take the ideas adopted