Posts by Per

1-2ft is where I am normally. I've tried to go back to 4ft or so on today's and really pushed to sing much louder to try and build more tonal interest with vocal fry, still had to be quite hard on cutting the bass and pushing treble and mid. I also continued to try and play with the sound-city plugin.

Great job Franjoe30 !

Heh, I didn’t think this was that heavy!

Thanks Mats_Nermark . It’s not bad at all, it’s great fun and I’m sure I’ll keep exploring, it’s just not sounds I’m after thus far. Same with Ocean Way. They’re very realistic “room” sounds, if you want parts of your track to sound like they’ve been recorded in an impromptu live jam session then they’re great, they bring that life. I just tend to prefer more crisp produced and less muddy sounds, I’m not really into the whole folk sound thing.

Thanks, good advice. I’ll try further back than I am normally (between 1-2ft) and hope the untreated space doesn’t get too noticeable.

Alright, got myself a new rig, a shiny new MacBook Pro :D. Fingers crossed it's a good one.

Tonight though I was mostly exploring the new bad sound city plugin, seeing how extreme the sounds can be, and on drums especially they can be pretty extreme! Not sure it's sounds I would use much of but it's fin to try stuff out and go outside of my comfort zone

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Thanks Monkey_Man , unfortunately almost all my vocals are about the same volume wise. My voice never builds body as I go louder, in effect I have the dubious ability to include more or less room by moving closer and further from the mic with no real change in tone or recorded level unless I'm so close there's proximity effect. In that track I used a little vocal fry and it paid off, but most of the time it sounds pretty nasty so I don't. There's simply nothing more to coax out of my voice.

Thanks BayouTexan !

Tonight’s had to be done in GarageBand on my iPad with cans so excuse the mix and tracking

Definitely more present and Fleetwood Mac-y. The question is are you happy with the placement? Only you know your goal with the track.

If you need it to remain loud but feel further back you can scoop the snare lower frequencies slightly and add a little rolled off verb to re-fill it out.

Well done, but once again for me the track with the vocals has it.

Sounds great! Lovely track and great singing.

Thanks BayouTexan !

Sounds very pleasant, good sound. Well done and congrats on getting back up on that horse!

You could bring the drums further forward if you lower the hi-hat or roll off the top and overheads a little and sculpted the kick a little more or switched it for something with a tinge more resonance.

That's ok, I didn't take it as anything other than face value. I also would have liked to hear a good blues or soul voice in there but I'm a British guy with a soft and annoying voice, as much as everyone who ever sang wishes they as cool as David Ruffin that ain't gonna happen so I have to take it in the directions that are achievable for me and my limitations and try to eek out something interesting with what's available to me. As that's also the only way to break ground and make new sounds I don't mind.

Nice shredding moments in there, good job. I still say use the USB audio out from your Kemper to get better quality sound.

Nice deep chorus effect!

You're welcome deadman42 !

Thanks Sollazzon and BayouTexan . I’m afraid my voice is what it is, I don’t like it any more than you do but the tracks would often be much more dull without some sort of vocal.

I make a track a day, it’s easy to do because it’s routine and I don’t put any pressure on myself, these don’t have to be complete songs, they don’t have to be songs, they don’t have to be good, they don’t even have to be music. If you stop caring about quality and start understanding “it doesn’t matter” you can move forward and make decisions much faster. There is always tomorrow, and you can always make any chord sequence, riff or idea sound decent provided you just start, but if you don’t start it’s only gonna sound like silence.