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I was trying to guess what the movie would be about if this is for the outro rolling credits. Its mostly a positive mood piece and I did enjoy it. My internet is bad at the moment so I couldn’t see all the vsts clearly enough to see what they were but maybe another time. I do appreciate seeing what sounds people use, and these all sound very good quality. Good luck with the project!

Sounds great. I'm with you that when I first started liking instrumental music, it could be spacy, but now I like a beat. I think I heard some aliens in there. Love when the bass comes in. When the lead guitar came in I had to turn down my volume it was a bit loud in the mix. Nice pitch shifting stuff. Good changes in intensity for the different parts, good variety and interesting elements. Its a journey.

Sounds great, the mix is great, enjoyed it even if some serious content. Groovy. very well done. In the video a few times your mouth movements don't match the song but its probably ok and maybe intended? At the end, the phrases you posted, I'm not familiar with that situation at all, but wonder if the first sentence should read 'never" where you have "ever" but again I'm not familiar with that situation. Good to see you back at it!

16 hours ago, Ross Smithe said:

Hi Treesha, very cool and creative composition, well conceived and performed! Nice production work overall, great sound selection, good balance and use of panning effects. Happy vibe, cool chord changes, and like the synth leads and flourishes thru out. Great work!

Hi Ross, thank you very much for listening and your comment. I appreciate that you pointed out the things you like about my song and my efforts! Glad you noticed the panning, i had fun with that. I did take a lot of time picking out the sounds! If you think its great I gratefully appreciate you letting me know. Positive feedback is so encouraging. 

19 hours ago, Larry T. said:

Excellent from both creative  and engineering perspectives. I think this is the best mix you've done so far. All instruments sound clear and really well balanced (maybe bring the bass up a dB or so). Sophisticated changes, relentless pacing, quick rhythmic shifts, stabbing melodies are all excellent elements to create the mood shifts and tension you mentioned. This must have been a huge job to mix but the results sound great. Reminds me of some of the Bowie/Eno tracks from Low and "Heroes" but with a harder edge🎶🎶🎶🎶

Hi Larry, 

thank you for listening and your very positive feedback! I think I am learning to make choices as I go along that will contribute to a better mix in the end. I appreciate your descriptions of what I did and your impressions because they inform me about myself which is enlightening! Bowie/Eno part of my past, saw both in Phillie, funny how the past emerges in the present. Working on one with lyrics now, hope I can do as well! Thank you very much

I would use melodyne to try to align the tracks, you don’t mention how long the piece is but it could get quite tedious if its long. 

Greetings from Arizona where this fits right in! very nice well done

I like it! As for the mix, I get that you were struggling with the vocals to sit better. The times when the guitar was brought down, the vocals were more present. Guitar being my favorite instrument, love when its strong like this but maybe turn it down some? Other things I might try, panning the guitar away from the center to both sides and keep vocals in center, less fx on vocals or another vocal track with less vocals behind it, eq out some of the overlapping frequencies between guitar and vocals.  Good work and good luck with any corrections !

12 hours ago, Jack Willliam said:

Your creative process and the way you experimented with chord progressions and various virtual instruments sound fascinating. It's clear that you put a lot of effort into your music, especially considering the challenging conditions in Arizona during the summer. It's always exciting to hear about the tools and techniques artists use to craft their songs. Keep up the great work, and I hope your musical journey continues to be fulfilling and inspiring! 🎵🎶👏

Hi Jack,

Thank you for listening  and your comment. I'm glad to know you enjoy hearing about tools and techniques, I do too when others post details about making their songs. I never thought about the concept of the effort I put into making music, interesting reflection there for me, yes there is effort. My thinking about it is it's fun, learn something new, experiment and express something about life or my life but it is very central to me as a person so I always go to it.  And it is fulfilling and inspiring for sure. I appreciate your kind words and good wishes, thank you !

16 hours ago, OutrageProductions said:

Verry kool @treesha!

Has a post punk Dupeche Mode / Kraftwerk vibe to it.

Hi OutrageProductions,

Thanks for listening and your feedback. Thats quite a mashup! Its always interesting to get feedback and always unexpected. I do like all those so they are in my head and taste somewhere! Thanks again

11 hours ago, Nick Blanc said:

Thanks! Glad you liked it. And yes, I may have gone a bit overboard with the gear, but damn is it fun 😅😎

Overboard with gear? Some would say heresy! 

11 hours ago, Tim Smith said:

Nice elements here all to the pretty steady beats!

Thanks for sharing. Nice!

Thank you for listening and your nice comment! 

Hi Jack, your music is always so original. I always have to put on headphones to make sure I get the lyrics, got most of them in this song. NY born and bred here, I know what you mean about NJ. Cape May is probably still nice? PA was becoming terrible too so I moved out west. One of my songs I sing about this sweet world becoming like a garbage dump, so yep.

As someone who only ever made one patch its interesting to me that you make all your own and you have a lot of equipment to choose from ! I enjoyed the song and the drum was groovy. I kept watching all the lights, it would be fun to see it in the almost dark.

Had to check this out, my uncle used to play the original version on the accordion ha. Really enjoyed where you took this. As for the mix, to me the vocals got a bit lower when the full music came in. And overall the sounds are dark tones total opposite of the old version, which is interesting and expressive. Nice job.

Enjoyed the basicness and quirkiness of your vocals and the unexpected things here and there. I like the raw sparseness. I’ve never tried to make an anime animated video but think you did very well for a first attempt.

I wanted to try an idea to make a song that the chord progression got shorter and shorter over the course of the song and see how that could play with moods and tension, and this is what I made. Took way too long in the hottest summer ever in Arizona with ac noisily blasting day and night and other unpleasantness going on. It started with a riff from AAS Fear and has sounds from Vital, FM8  and quite a few Kontakt instruments – ethereal earth, marble, ambient axe witchpig, atom hub cryptar, deep conjuring II, klang cloudharm, and for October some fun Xperiments theramin.  I used MT Power Drums I believe in the end cause I switched a few times, and SI bass. Had fun with sound particles panning and searching through some of my obscure free kontakt instruments, thanks deals forum! Thanks for listening feedback comments always welcome

Ps I also noticed that certain features/modules would be ok but others cause an immediate problem. Low balance control in my ozone the worst. I did some of the computer tweaking in various optimizing posts on the forum and that helped what i have work a little better too. 

I have had to stop upgrading any of my izotope plugins because my computer is getting too old (?) to handle them so I get glitches and dropouts. I have read on here Izotope products can be heavy to use. I have closed the gui if I am having an issue and sometimes that helps.

I keep a list of plugins in an office document with its name and brand because sometimes i want to use one but cant recall the brand to find it in my vst list.  So then i use find and search the name in the document and then can find the brand in my vst list in cakewalk that i have listed by manufacturers.  Then i keep a second document organized by  topics like reverb and list my reverbs with a phrase describing it like - plate. I use certain brands enough i dont need these but for other seldom used ones it is handy. Also fun to be reminded of one I don’t think of. And a quick look keeps me from getting something I already have. 

Ive had it happen that a midi note wont sound in a particular Kontakt instrument because the instrument does not play in that midi octave, like the midi note is too high or too low for that instrument. 

On youtube, if you turn on the subtitles they are in Spanish of course, but then click on the gear you can select to translate them from Spanish to english or other language. Some of the translations and the cow are amusing but then I am easily amused.

Not sure I feel like learning this but I would consider using it on myself to see what thats like. My voice is very different with getting older and pollen allergies and I often struggle with it. I have recordings of my younger years I could use. Kinda curious about singing with myself. 

Sorry you have been struggling with stuff. I have life interruptions too. One thing I like to do to get something going again is play. Just forget producing something and just play around with an instrument or vst or fx on something. Arps are playful. So my suggestion is to play! Hope you feel better soon. 

1 minute ago, Glenn Stanton said:

remember to do a MIDI export as well to capture tempo (if any) changes etc

Thanks Glenn, no tempo changes in this one but I am glad to be learning about how to do this if needed sometime