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Ambient-drone, would appreciate feedback

  • 01-07-2011 1:06am
    #1
    Ataxia
    Registered Users Posts: 159 ✭✭


    (Pun intended btw.)

    http://soundcloud.com/aidanrowe/gilded-lily

    I can never quite tell whether stuff I produce is boring or not, because I'm too intimately involved in the process. I'd appreciate comments, thoughts, advice etc.


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  • #2
    J_E
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭J_E


    I liked it. What program do you use? Nice use of FM synths in the middle, subtle and not too harsh.


  • #3
    Ataxia
    Registered Users Posts: 159 ✭✭Ataxia


    Cydoniac wrote: »
    I liked it. What program do you use? Nice use of FM synths in the middle, subtle and not too harsh.

    Thanks, I use REAPER. I find workflow much slower on other DAWs I tried. (Although it comes with fewer instruments, so you have to build up your own set of VSTis from around the place.)


  • #4
    J_E
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭J_E


    Cool. I currently use Ableton but I might get a trial of Reaper and give it a go. Keep it up. You layered stuff pretty nicely.


  • #5
    slowburner
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,221 Mod ✭✭✭✭slowburner


    I may as well be looking at Chinese watching you two talk:D
    I would love to hear the underlying bass go an octave or two lower - maybe a touch more sinister - with the bass acting as a kind of foreboding. I think that the central riff is beautifully understated and complicatedly simple but it just needs a deeper contrast. Percussion - is that not suitable for this genre? I Loved the finish.


  • #6
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Its not a drone really but its pleasant enough in a minimal "twinkly" fashion.

    This is more of what I think of a drone track.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSRJWz9rzFA


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  • #7
    slowburner
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,221 Mod ✭✭✭✭slowburner


    I like it.
    Google "Tuvan throat singing" for your edification and tell me what you think.
    Hang on, will post a link.


  • #8
    slowburner
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,221 Mod ✭✭✭✭slowburner


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY1pcEtHI_w


  • #9
    Ataxia
    Registered Users Posts: 159 ✭✭Ataxia


    slowburner wrote: »
    I would love to hear the underlying bass go an octave or two lower - maybe a touch more sinister - with the bass acting as a kind of foreboding.

    Yeah, I was considering doing that, but I wanted the track to kind of flirt with both positivity and negativity, and too much bass might have pushed it too far in one direction.


  • #10
    slowburner
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,221 Mod ✭✭✭✭slowburner


    Ataxia wrote: »
    Yeah, I was considering doing that, but I wanted the track to kind of flirt with both positivity and negativity, and too much bass might have pushed it too far in one direction.
    Then you succeeded :)


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