On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Jeremy Jongepier <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear all, > > After convincing my other bandmembers to move to Linux because of all the > time we lost figuring out how all that proprietary stuff works we did get a > lot more productive. > > So here it is, the very first demo-track from our rehearsal room, completely > recorded and mixed with Linux. > > http://linux.autostatic.com/temp/sodap-pentup(mixdown20100919).ogg > > This is also the first band track that I tried to mix and master a bit. I > fear I'm still a better musician than a studio engineer, but I've learned so > much already the last two years, thanks to this list, LinuxMusicians.com and > the guys at #opensourcemusicians (especially [lsd]/wootangent.net). What > didn't help either is that I had to mix this track partly on my headphones > (I do have a pair of decent DT770's) because of our little man sleeping > downstairs: http://lou.dekenwaarestraat.nl/ > What did help is that I have close to zero experience with > recording/mixing/creating music on other OS's. When I read how other people > are struggling with switching from one OS to Linux I realize how lucky I am > that I've chosen Linux from the start to make/record music with my computer. > > And we're still experimenting with the band when it comes to mic placement, > which mic to use for what, amp settings, soundcard settings etc. Also, most > tracks for this song were played in one take, simply because we don't have a > lot of time (a few hours a week) and since it's demo stuff we had to let go > of our perfectionism, we'll save that for the definite recordings. > > Software I used: > - Qtractor (I'm a huge Qtractor afficionado) > - Yoshimi with the Pulse Pad 3 instrument patch for the synth riff in this > song > - Guitarix distortion plugin for the synth > - JAMin > - SC4 and Calf compressor plugins > - C* EQ plugin > - Freeverb plugin (I still have to emerge myself in that convolution stuff) > - Rezound (could someone please save that program from oblivion? It's just > so much better than Audacity) > - Jack1 with FFADO for our FireWire card > - Ubuntu 9.10/10.04 (I still use 9.10 for various reasons) > > I enjoyed a lot playing around with this song, especially now that I finally > have a room for myself at my home for my music stuff where I have some mics > set up, a decent PC, some MIDI controllers and percussion stuff. I did the > backing vocals, the MIDI stuff and the tambourine at home. I love > tambourines but I hate playing them, it's a friggin difficult instrument, no > kidding. I also tried adding some acoustic guitar but that didn't work out. > Originally, this song is an acoustic song that I must've written more than > 10 years ago: http://www.autostatic.com/beltree/beltree-pentup.mp3 > > So shoot. Really, I'd appreciate any feedback so I can improve my recording > and mixing skills (and eventually my mastering skills). We're a DIY band so > if we could also do this very last thing ourselves we'd be thrilled. > > Best, > > Jeremy > http://sodap.nl Jeremy, Sorry for the late reply. I enjoyed this quite a bit and should have written back sooner. For my tastes I thought most everything was quite good in the mix. If you wanted to look at anything I'd probably choose to focus on the bass but I have no specific idea what to do with it. To me it seemed to be a bit the tonality in the mix could be better and _maybe_ the playing could be different. I'm not picking on the player or the mix - only saying that I think maybe the bass could be played a bit less like the other instruments and then stand out a bit more. Anyway, overall it's quite a good piece of work. I hope you guys will post more over time. Cheers, Mark _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
