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On 2/7/2021 at 12:10 PM, Wookiee said:

Has that old school, possibly even southern/west coast rock feel, mix sounds OK here.

Yorkshire born and bread, west coast rock feel is good enough for me, cheers... maybe a bit of hip hop rock next haha

On 1/27/2021 at 2:26 PM, Starise said:

Many directions you could take here. I would say you could get way more interesting with the drums and a bass. Maybe start the 1st verse intro with no vox and a more legato guitar with a build up from the guitar. Like a slow ramp up. If it's a three verse tune, maybe take it up a notch the second verse, then add a chorus that's a departure in chord progression from the verses, then back to a last verse and then either end it or add the chorus or a variation of it to the end, Could fade out with the same guitar that the song came in on to solidify the song as a whole. 

As for the words. Mysterious woman-How? What did she do? Maybe add that idea into the rest of the tune. Sometimes giving the subject a name helps.  Something like "Oh Marie, how could you do that to me?" or " Marie she's out in the world turning silk for a rich man who wanders away from the sun" ......iow poetic  writing as opposed to real situational writing.  Just sayin'

On 1/27/2021 at 5:21 AM, Bajan Blue said:

Exactly my thoughts - sounds like you could turn this into a good track

Nigel

 

Takes a twist

Finished, that's the direction it went haha 

On 1/28/2021 at 4:14 PM, freddy j said:

Great start!  I look forward to hearing the finished product!

Finished, hope you like 

I am real happy with the idea and creativeness of this track wrote on acoustic. i have to be happy with the mix and mastering, best i've done and 5th song now using a DAW, cakewalk is awesome.  First time i've used the comping function to some effectiveness. Got carried away with the video intro haha

You can achieve great results with panning, i kept expecting a beat to come in lol

4 hours ago, Bajan Blue said:

nice playing and i liked the video

Nigel

 

I liking your track. mortal Tears... I see you like doing some video work to.  Hopefully i will finish my latest track today Mysterious vibe  and then can knock up a video. Probably will keep it simple or get carried away haha  

I'm polishing the mixing and mastering, near final stages.  Should have a video knocked up with it by next weekend, it takes a different twist

8 hours ago, David Sprouse said:

Straight ahead pop me fave Your voice sounds familiar! We're you big in the eighties?  You did a superb job on this. Garammyworthy

iv'e never been big haha still learning 

22 hours ago, Starise said:

Many directions you could take here. I would say you could get way more interesting with the drums and a bass. Maybe start the 1st verse intro with no vox and a more legato guitar with a build up from the guitar. Like a slow ramp up. If it's a three verse tune, maybe take it up a notch the second verse, then add a chorus that's a departure in chord progression from the verses, then back to a last verse and then either end it or add the chorus or a variation of it to the end, Could fade out with the same guitar that the song came in on to solidify the song as a whole. 

As for the words. Mysterious woman-How? What did she do? Maybe add that idea into the rest of the tune. Sometimes giving the subject a name helps.  Something like "Oh Marie, how could you do that to me?" or " Marie she's out in the world turning silk for a rich man who wanders away from the sun" ......iow poetic  writing as opposed to real situational writing.  Just sayin'

See where it takes me, its still a mystery haha

19 hours ago, mark skinner said:

The piano and acoustic sounds nice.. I thought the intro was too busy with the lead guitars. Sounded more like a break instead of easing you in to the smooth 1st verse.     mark

My intention to have a busy intro, the mix will sort it out how i want it, this was an idea to get down to do a full song, had to get it down whilst was in head. i will do some more tonight and see what happens. The whole idea was to practice comping as i normally just do a couple of takes and choose one, as i just like writing but ive never done comping as i tend not to get ***** with detail, i like to keep it real and raw, but using a daw is changing me lol

8 hours ago, Bajan Blue said:

Exactly my thoughts - sounds like you could turn this into a good track

Nigel

 

I will try to turn into a good track, the idea is there, see what happens, i just wanted to try some comping for the first time. My acoustic needs a service, its not had one for 10yrs and fingers getting old, there's some buzz ..

2 hours ago, SupaReels said:

Ditto Tom's input ... But I like how it makes me feel so good work .. getting into vids at the moment so I'll check out P/B/V

Thanks for the post

SR

I knock the videos up fast in Sony Vegas pro 17 more straight forward and less hassle than adobe premier and after effects. I use some of my own footage and any free royalty stuff...

Just got this idea down tonight - Should i go straight into song like i have or maybe do a build up?  or maybe start song on acoustic noting else then with a  bit of vocal!! 

Reminds me of early Floyd, something I would arrange to add some vocals even if it was soft speech with feeling as its got edgy mood to it…  There is a vocal lick there for sure.. I may decide to put a long middle 8 in my next song now listening to this haha

1 minute ago, DeeringAmps said:

I'm intrigued by this.
Not sure yet where you are at artistically (that is not meant as a negative), haven't heard enough yet.
I will say, this is more in my wheelhouse than Mission (not that it matters).
You credit Peanut Butter Visuals, so this is some "stock" footage from them?

Good guitar work to be sure.

Again very interesting visually and sonically.

I'm in with a big 👍's!

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thinking I might be fan, will listen again; that's for sure...

I do really like to get creative and mix it up to intrigue the listener if possible.  I don't really have a solid style, when some asks i just say i vibe haha

Peanut Butter Visuals, was the dancers footage,  i just cut it up, added effects to the clips to give listeners some visual instead of my ugly mug. I just bang videos together so people can watch something when listing to the track. Gives me experience with music video editing was the idea in the long run. 

I don't play enough guitar these days, maybe pick it up once a week for 15mins, i more of a musician that works of feel than knowing scales or anything, totally self taught and never do covers. 

I think there my 4 songs i did on Cakewalk on here.

Thanks, i will try harder on next song 

This was my third song on DAW catching the Cakewalk vibe. I wrote this on acoustic in 10mins and added a few ideas with the objective to complement it.  I'm still not really sure on my style, i like to be in the genre of vibe haha i would say a bit of R'n'B funky blues rock soundtrack edge in places, i think it worked. 

Ready to start my 5th song this weekend, i may take my time on this one. 

5 hours ago, Lynn Wilson said:

I love this track!  It sounds very polished and unique.  I'll be back for more.

Thanx, i am getting there, love creating something different and hearing comments like that give me drive to do more 😉

Was my 3rd song on cakewalk -  i am slightly improving - wrote  this after coming out of court haha Hopefully start my next song at the weekend! Mysterious Vibe i will call it - i am going to practice vocal comping... any tips are always appreciated ....... enjoy the video, like to give people something to look at when listening 

I can't fault it, gives me the vibe to go write something, one of those songs that inspires you! When i get more to grips with cakewalk id love to be half as good, awesome work....

Cheers guys, i mix my music up, i'm just getting my head round CakewalkBandLab 

I have bits of experience with music, just never used a DAW only a old 8 track since 2014 to learn on, then i got the bug and cakewalk got me vibing !

Last couple of tracks,  I've started using more of the cakewalk EQ on each track and on some tracks i am using more compression, with the limiter No6. i put the odd bit of reverb on with some tracks, ive not felt the need to use much saturate if any but ive got a couple of more plugins since this song. 

I've now got better of understanding the levels, headroom and still experimenting is the reality.  I started using TDR Nova EQ to find tune any track for certain wanted or unwanted frequency.  I've got a nice little fundamental bass plugin for bass and sub to play with for the thud! I use the odd bit of style dial FX now to get the sound i want. To sets of headphones for testing with my monitor speakers to.

I was doing Mastering using Cakewalk on the master channel and not exporting the bounce to do mastering in a separate master project!  Having loads of tracks open was to busy and less user friendly, so i recently change the way i do things, its been a massive learning curve with everything,  just getting the interface stable and ive never used midi programming drums etc so mastering learning as go along! 

I now change since this second song. Iv'e setup a mastering template, so i now export the bonce mix i am happy with, then open in my mastering  template so i can see the dynamic range, also its better than  having loads of tracks open, did a quick screen grab to show difference of bounce mix and master dynamics.  My template i've built up now with diffrent style settings etc again using  cakewalk  EQ , comp, sat and the limiter No6, ive used the LoudMax 64bit too. So i am still learning mastering but its got loads better but much room for improvement but i prefer being creative with my music and the tech stuff bogs me down!

First time DAW user, second song on Cakewalk -  Vibe Pt1 Mission - I have been bitten with the cakewalk vibe well and truly, i even bought addictive drums 2 , can't wait to start my next song. I've fished 5 now  in less than 6 months learning the software which is totally awesome. I'm developing a style for sound tracks i think. Mixing and mastering improving so thanks for help guys. happy new year!

On 9/13/2020 at 2:23 AM, Jim Fogle said:

Nice production.   I would be interested in knowing the total number of tracks on this song, how many are instrumental and how many are vocal.  As others indicated, I don't think this is your first audio production.  Stellar arangement.

Wisdom was my first song on DAW and the only time i have used a DAW, however i moved from a 25yr old Boss 8track so i have some base knowledge with terminology for a foundation etc  This was 12 tracks, but most of those tracks are broken into sections. Used two tracks to write the drums, and two vocal as i didn't know about vocal comping which i will try on my next song 😉  Yes the acoustic was my fault and a poor job, my faith built in pickup as a great sound but was a terrible take and level with old strings now replaced. I guess i could use comping on the guitar two haha.  I used a combination of subtle strings that take up the tracks and couple of fx tracks i use to add bit here and there for ambiance or to make something stand out. My mixing as improved and this was a very poor show at mastering which as also improved.  I am one of those creative artists that as loads of ideas, play all instruments and do everything myself, so i don't spend enough time to perfect a song, i get frustrated quickly and want to move onto another song asap so rush, so i need to learn some lessons with my post productions and make it easier on myself doing better takes. That's why the comping sounds good which is my next mission to learn, thanx 

Sorry guys, my notification email was on spam mode so i got no notifications. So big thanks for the beautiful comments.  I've done 4 more since to get get use to Calkwalk as ive never used daw and ive been bitten with the calkwalk vibe, loving this software so awesome!