[LAU] Music made with Linux: "move along"

[Leigh Dyer]

Hi all,

I took all your advice on board, and when listening back over the track 
with your feedback in mind, I couldn't disagree with any of it :) I 
zeroed my levels in Ardour and recreated the mix from scratch, cleaning 
up the EQ on the vocals and bass and bringing the vocals and drums to 
the fore. Here's a direct link:

http://wootangent.net/~lsd/music/movealong-remix3.ogg

I'd love to know if you think it's an improvement, and if there's 
anything further I could do to improve things.

Thanks
Leigh

On 30/04/11 16:16, Leigh Dyer wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've just finished work on a new track -- it's available for download or
> streaming from my blog and from Bandcamp:
>
> http://wootangent.net/2011/04/new-track-move-along/
> http://pneuman.bandcamp.com/track/move-along
>
> If you've heard any of my previous electronic works, this will seem
> quite different -- it's just piano, bass, drums, and vocals. The
> instruments are all soft-synths:
>
> * Pianoteq for the piano sound (the K1 Grand)
> * Linuxsampler CVS for drums, using an SFZ mapping of the RockStock kit
> from Analogue Drums
> * Fluidsynth-DSSI for the bass, using an SF2 file I dug up online
>
> The parts were all sequenced in Qtractor, and then the audio was
> recorded in to Ardour 3, along with the vocals, for mixing. I didn't go
> crazy with plugins while mixing-- just compressors and filters/EQ (all
> Calf), IR with a Bricasti M7 impulse response for reverb, and Rakarrack
> with an Ampeg SVT-810 bass cabinet impulse response on the bass. It's
> meant to sound like a simple, natural performance on real instruments,
> and for the most part I think it achieves that well enough.
>
> I also used the zita-at1 autotuner to do some subtle pitch correction on
> the vocals. There were only a couple of notes that really needed
> correction, so I turned off automatic correction (by disabling all of
> the notes on the scale in the GUI) and then controlled it from a MIDI
> track in Ardour, drawing in MIDI notes to trigger the correction just
> where it was needed.
>
> Thanks
> Leigh
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