03-31-2015, 10:40 AM
(03-31-2015, 05:07 AM)seven Wrote: Listening to Unbroken Steps once again, it's great too, it also got this tribal feel to it. I love it around 12:00 when you get a coat put over you, but the percussions keeps glittering.
Yeah, thanks. I really like that song. That's my favorite song so far and I'm really proud of it. The weird thing is that while I'm making it, I don't seem to hear all those nuances that I hear later. When I took a second listen I was really surprised at the quality (I give it all to Reaktor). My two favorite parts are the transition at around 6:45, and the sort of Buddhist monk, chant sounds on top of the drums at around 9:36-ish. And there are a lot of little parts that I like (like the intro, etcetera). That one so far is really my favorite.
(03-31-2015, 05:07 AM)seven Wrote: How are you triggering the drums in "Do you dare?"? Like how is it arranged? I really dig the experimental feel to it.
It was a long time ago, but I'm pretty sure that the drums are Mulab's version of a TR-909. I can't remember if I reworked them. I might've. And I just put it all together with the "space bass" in Audacity (the space bass was from Mulab, not Audacity). You're probably one of the few persons that like it! Haha. It gets some of the fewest listens. I personally do like it. I think that a lot of people don't go down that far for whatever reason. The spacey "bass" was really loud, I thought it was going to overpower the drums. But it came out real nicely. I kept on adjusting the volume at different times, so that it didn't sound monotone. The space bass is something that I pretty much completely reworked, and saved as a different instrument. To me, the whole song sounds like a really old-school version of drum and bass. It sounds like if Drum and bass was made in the 80s! Haha. By like a really far underground group. I think that the key with using software like Mulab is to be really meticulous, even when you're mixing it in Audacity. Because it kept on not sounding right to me. But then, when I put it all together, I just let it go and it sounded just right.
But, to be honest, the minimal sound is really because of the limitations of using a demo version of Mulab. If I wanted to put all of these layers on it, it probably would've taken me at least a month for just one track. That's what somebody didn't understand that I sort of became friends with on Soundcloud. He was kind of chewing me out for not putting the drums together with the bass on We regret. But it's really hard when you're using a free version of a software. On the one hand, I appreciate how hard he pushed me to make my music better, because right after that is when I did Do you dare?
I was going to say something else, but I completely forgot. I write too much...
