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Mutlu
by Gary E. Andrews - 04/15/24 07:08 PM
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Hey Folks, Michael Z. gave me some incredibly invaluable feedback for improving the sound of this song. You can check out my reply further down in the thread. Take another listen and let me know what you think. Also, I am offering this song as a FREE mp3 download. Thank you everyone. Your feed back means so much! Can’t Stop This - Root Chakra/Survival http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=13134760
Last edited by Latteta Theresa; 07/18/15 02:32 PM.
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that song doesn`t lose much in 11 mins, constant rock" way cool.
thanks for sharing. Lane
Last edited by lane1777; 06/05/15 01:30 PM.
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Thanks for sharing lane. Greatly appreciate the feed back. What instrument/s do you play or area of expertise in the music industry including listener?
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I play a little guitar, mostly listen..I have that song of yours in my ear now, when I was a kid I used to listen to Herbie Mann" know that guy? I worn an album out of his call "push" He did a song called Summertime" this took me right back to those days.
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Herbie Mann... oh yea, he's the man. I love his 'Watermelon Man', I can imagine wearing the album out... lol. Thanks lane for the compliment. Got anything here I can listen to?
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a friend finished a song for me here, called Positive side of blue. the lyrics are thin but I didn`t want to go far from what the person told me. my friend Mike did a great job on the track.
really you`d be listening to him, but that's ok with me.
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lane, where can I find it? There's no link.
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its on this board, about 3-4 songs down. should be a link" on the write. soundclick. I`ll go check. if not this is the link' http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=13139224
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glad you liked it, don`t pay this comment much time, I just wanted to bump this song...lol..and hope nobody lands on me for it..lol
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this has a really infectious groove Latteta!I dig the flute!I listen to a lot of Native American music and really like their flute playing.This song may even get my butt on the dance floor.Mike
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Hey Mike,
Thanks for stopping by and giving feedback. I hope this song gets both you and your butt dancin'.
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Hello Latteta, A very busy song but in a good way. Very creative, thank you for sharing your cool talents. You're a breath of fresh air. Who's playing all this music ? Calvin http://www.soundclick.com/bands/0/calvinstewart
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I love the cool scat and all the lovely bits mixed in throughout the piece.
Sort of Bobbi Humphrey meets Herbie Hancock
Yes it’s long but it moves along at a great pace and it rocks from beginning to end.
Very Cool
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Hi Latteta, You're on to something here..over the years I've enjoyed all kinds of electronica and jazz, including free jazz which gets my neighbors banging on the walls. The flute playing is great and so is the scat singing--the singing reminding me so much of Jeanne Lee who I saw perform a few times while I lived in NYC--mostly with a jazz flautist named Gunther Hampel. I think there are a lot of great ideas floating around in this. The main one being the fusion of these styles. Then the actual motifs you touch upon in this outting--my favorite being when the piano comes in around the seven minute mark. The only real nit here is you mixed everything waay too hot, and so there's lots of clipping and distortion. When mixing becomes "now this needs to be louder" which creates a domino effect of all the other things needing to be louder too..well..a too loud mix, like this can happen.. So my main suggestion to improving this is remix this making sure your loudest composited (everything playing together) moments are barely hitting 0db before even adding a compressor or limiter on your master. This will give an added bonus of giving the mix a bit of air as well. More of a three dimension feel. You should probably start with the drums, since they seem to want to be loudest. They are also what is mostly responsible for the clipping as well. Other than that, consider "shorter versions" of this piece that retain the coolest parts and move quicker between them..just perhaps as a contrast to the more spread out version you have here. The fusion of these musical styles excites my imagination. With a better mix, you really have something here.  Mike
Last edited by Michael Zaneski; 06/08/15 06:59 AM.
Fate doesn't hang on a wrong or right choice
Fortune depends on the tone of your voice
-The Divine Comedy (Neil Hannon)
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from the album "Casanova" (1996)
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I don't wish to see Mike's butt on the dance floor or mine, dad dancing should be avoided along with the flu.
Good music, I love jazz and all the offshoots from it too.
Best of luck with your good work
Travis
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde
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Hey Calvin,
thanks for stopping by and giving me feedback. I appreciate the complement. I'm using Presonus Studio One 2.0. In this song there are 40 + tracks. I recorded flute and vocals live and use the sounds and instruments provided in the program. All of the other instruments are recorded via keyboard (the controller).
I started this last April, stepped away and came back time after time. Each time I learned something new to help me in the process. There's so much to this method of recording... it can be overwhelming.
1982-1984, I played with a Cuban Son Band and when we performed,there was no song under 15 minutes. We took a lot of solos, but the main focus was on the audience. They came to dance. so, that's what I was trying for, giving folks more than the traditional 3-4 minute song. I wanted the music to take you somewhere groovy. I want the listeners to have a musical experience.
Thanks again for the feed back, greatly appreciated.
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Trance, Tribal, Dance...Oh Yeah! Almost danced out of my chair! Great groove throughout. This would not work as a 3 minute song. Well done. Ricki
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Ricki, thanks so much for your feedback. it really means a lot to me.
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Michael, Thank you sooooo much for taking the time to listen and respond. Thank you for the compliments and your invaluable feedback. I have taken your advice and boy, oh boy... man oh man, what a task. Starting with the percussion, eliminating the compression, then continuing the process with every group and single tracks. Great news... Wow what a sound! Everything sound so much better, crisp. I couldn't believe it. Thanks so much man!! Here's the new and improved song: 'Can't Stop This' http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=13134760 it's currently being offered as a free mp3 download. Hi Latteta, You're on to something here..over the years I've enjoyed all kinds of electronica and jazz, including free jazz which gets my neighbors banging on the walls. The flute playing is great and so is the scat singing--the singing reminding me so much of Jeanne Lee who I saw perform a few times while I lived in NYC--mostly with a jazz flautist named Gunther Hampel. I think there are a lot of great ideas floating around in this. The main one being the fusion of these styles. Then the actual motifs you touch upon in this outting--my favorite being when the piano comes in around the seven minute mark. The only real nit here is you mixed everything waay too hot, and so there's lots of clipping and distortion. When mixing becomes "now this needs to be louder" which creates a domino effect of all the other things needing to be louder too..well..a too loud mix, like this can happen.. So my main suggestion to improving this is remix this making sure your loudest composited (everything playing together) moments are barely hitting 0db before even adding a compressor or limiter on your master. This will give an added bonus of giving the mix a bit of air as well. More of a three dimension feel. You should probably start with the drums, since they seem to want to be loudest. They are also what is mostly responsible for the clipping as well. Other than that, consider "shorter versions" of this piece that retain the coolest parts and move quicker between them..just perhaps as a contrast to the more spread out version you have here. The fusion of these musical styles excites my imagination. With a better mix, you really have something here. Mike
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