RexRed Posted December 28, 2023 Share Posted December 28, 2023 (edited) New song Cakewalk peeps! Hope your Christmas and holidays (if you celebrate) were merry and your New Year is awesome! Comments and critiques welcome. Lots of love! Rex Edited December 28, 2023 by RexRed 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack c. Posted December 29, 2023 Share Posted December 29, 2023 another wonderful job.merry christmas.jack c 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RexRed Posted December 29, 2023 Author Share Posted December 29, 2023 (edited) 5 hours ago, jack c. said: another wonderful job.merry christmas.jack c Thank you Jack for the Merry Christmas and lovely compliment on my song! Best to you in the New Year! ??? This song was very difficult to make. At one point I had nearly 50 tracks all going at the same time and I had to figure out which tracks play at what time. It was a soup of sound with everything from the refrigerator in it. I had to slim it down and my ears got tired and I almost gave up. The Oohs and Ahhs helped me to nail down the song. I tried about 100 different pads in the song and hundreds of different congas and bongo samples till I found the right one. I tried several basses and then settled on a bass that I use in most of my songs. The vocals were sung "very" close to the mic with no windscreen so it would be "intimate". There are percussion sounds for bass and snare that took many tries to find the right samples. The wind sound is an arctic wind (the best wind sound I think). Even though the wind is from a cold place it sounds dry and warm. The cello solo is a Stradivari cello. I hope this synopsis of the song is helpful. ? Edited December 29, 2023 by RexRed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treesha Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 Very nice. You do have the vocals intimate and sounding good. I think I spend a good amount of time doing as you describe, with many tracks that need to be slimmed down and my ears get tired too, and searching thru pad sounds etc. In the end, what you wound up putting together sounds good together, the mix is good and its clean, good work. Its a sweet song that someone you love would enjoy receiving. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Vere Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 Love that harmony at 1:45. Excellent sound scape. And yes that wind works. Great vocals as always. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dean Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 Beautiful song! It's good to here a song that is happy as a lot of melodies have sad lyrics. Great work on combining all the tracks! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Joad Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 Nice tune, sweet mellow vocal. I really like it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
equality Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 Nice melodies and good craftsmanship. The production is very good especially on the vocals. I like the somewhat dreamish sound scape which the slow tempo emphasizes. Perhaps the congas go in the opposite direction and cause some tension, intended? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyB01 Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 Killer vocal, as for everything else - it just works. Well worth all the effort. Andy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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