On Tue, 17 May, 2005 at 10:25AM +1000, Shayne O'Connor spake thus: > james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > >There's a link to the music and a piece of drivel about how I work at > >http://blog.dis-dot-dat.net/ > > > >Comments are, of course, lusted after. > > > >Thanks for the load of your ears. > > > >James > > > > > hey james, > > finally got around to listening to some of your tracks, and i'm glad i > did ;) Ta! > creamcheese, especially, is really beautiful - the melodies you riff on > here map out some good places in my soul, places one doesn't get to > visit too often ... sorta reminds me of the same happy melancholia that > was in the piano piece gerard depardieu's character wrote in greencard > ... or some movie ... also, the pastoral side of warp records. i like > the mix on this, too ... > > bang is a nice change of pace. the first minute does sound quite muddy > though - the bass, i think. is that some sort of comb filter you've got > on the drums (?) from about the 1:00 mark? sounds really cool. from > this It's the tracker Q command, with a very fast retrigger. > point, too, the levels are a lot better - not as muddy as you fear on > your music page. still, i think the drums might have a bit too much > reverb on them the whole way through - is there reverb on the bass? > maybe that's what's muddy-sounding? it's mainly the first minute that > needs work on the bass. the fake guitar actually doesn't sound too bad. > everything is pretty nicely interwoven - you've got a clear talent for > composition :) Thankyou, and yes, you're probably right about the reverb on the bass. I wanted a big humming bass, but probably got carried away. > anyway, it was great hearing your stuff - keep at it! Thanks again. James > shayne > -- "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)
