3 Mar
2005
3 Mar
'05
6:33 p.m.
Hi Robert,
Thanks for the comments.
Oh well, it never hurts to ask ;)
Comments,
criticism, suggestions, chocolate; all are welcome.
Sorry, no chocolate ;) About the tunes, In my youth I could have totally
listened to this,
reminds me
of Tony McAlpine which I listened to quite a bit a long time ago.
Since then I fear I have grown away from this genre.
When I first started playing guitar was when the whole Shrapnel Records
thing started happening, with MacAlpine, Malmsteen, Becker, Friedman
etc. They were (and still are I guess...) a big influence on me. I gave
up playing for about 10 years (hand problems) and recently picked the
guitar up again, and dug out all my old CD's (and some LPs!). I've
started to get more into the "progressive rock" (Dream Theater, Arena,
Pain of Salvation, ...) genre now but it hasn't really filtered into my
playing yet.
The solo guitars sound quite nice especially when the
two guitars play
"against" each other, they should be upfront in the mix and they are,
there's
a little much guitar-noise at times perhaps, not much more to say,
possibly
they are bit over the top with effects, but I guess that comes with
the
territory.
I'm starting to realise that the amount of distortion is *way* over the
top. Sounded good through the speaker when I was playing it, but
listening to it now, well, I wish I could go back and turn the "drive"
knob way down.
The backing arrangements seem quite nicely laid out, I
think they
sound a
bit
synthetic though. I think they would improve alot just by changing the
sounds/soundfonts, whatever you are using, to something of higher
quality.
Thanks for the suggestion. I've just collected a bunch of soundfonts, so
I should be able to do something about this. I hope to start using
hydrogen for drum tracks soon, so I should get some better drum sounds
out of that (I haven't really found any good drum soundfonts yet.)
That's about all I can think of at the moment :)
Keep it up!
/Robert
Thanks for the encouragement.
Cheers,
Stuart
3 Mar
3 Mar
7:13 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] [music] First 3 tracks from me (gulp)
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 09:33:16 +1100, Stuart Allie
<Stuart.Allie(a)hydro.com.au> wrote:
Hi Robert,
Thanks for the comments.
Oh well, it never hurts to ask ;)
totaly in agree, maybe by adding the same guitar with different
distro. or like i like especialy a acustic guitar, giving a brightness
that is missed in the distortion.. it's not my kind of sound but i
liked the more composed theme, keep on!
Comments,
criticism, suggestions, chocolate; all are welcome.
Sorry, no chocolate ;) About the tunes, In my youth I could have totally
listened to this,
reminds me
of Tony McAlpine which I listened to quite a bit a long time ago.
Since then I fear I have grown away from this genre.
When I first started playing guitar was when the whole Shrapnel Records
thing started happening, with MacAlpine, Malmsteen, Becker, Friedman
etc. They were (and still are I guess...) a big influence on me. I gave
up playing for about 10 years (hand problems) and recently picked the
guitar up again, and dug out all my old CD's (and some LPs!). I've
started to get more into the "progressive rock" (Dream Theater, Arena,
Pain of Salvation, ...) genre now but it hasn't really filtered into my
playing yet.
The solo guitars sound quite nice especially when
the two guitars play
"against" each other, they should be upfront in the mix and they are,
there's
a little much guitar-noise at times perhaps, not much more to say,
possibly
they are bit over the top with effects, but I guess that comes with
the
territory.
I'm starting to realise that the amount of distortion is *way* over the
top. Sounded good through the speaker when I was playing it, but
listening to it now, well, I wish I could go back and turn the "drive"
knob way down.
The backing
arrangements seem quite nicely laid out, I think they
sound a
bit
synthetic though. I think they would improve alot just by changing the
sounds/soundfonts, whatever you are using, to something of higher
quality.
Thanks for the suggestion. I've just collected a bunch of soundfonts, so
I should be able to do something about this. I hope to start using
hydrogen for drum tracks soon, so I should get some better drum sounds
out of that (I haven't really found any good drum soundfonts yet.)
That's about all I can think of at the moment :)
Keep it up!
/Robert
Thanks for the encouragement.
Cheers,
Stuart
4 Mar
4 Mar
3:59 a.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] [music] First 3 tracks from me (gulp)
Hi,
<...>
Yes, I'm on a constant crusade to find new and improved drums.
There are lots of free ones to chose from but not many that are really good.
Also, drums can sound radically different, they do not always fit what you
want.
Apart from synthetic drums (pretty much anything goes there) the free ones
I've used most are Nskit and (it's predecessor?) Douglas Natural studio kit.
But they don't fit every kind of music.
There are lots of others, for example Melotti drums and all it's predecessors,
Drum set real acoustic etc...
The biggest problem with most kits are the cymbals and hats. They are just not
very expressive which makes it dull and unrealistic.
I think I've mixed drums at times, used the hats and cymbals from Douglas
Natural studio kit and the rest from some other kit.
Lately I've been using some non-free kits, mainly Drumkit from Hell. But it
does cost money so it isn't an option for everybody.
Some other non-free kits I've been thinking of trying are the ones from sonic
implants, they seem quite good and are unexpensive.
Regards,
Robert
--
http://spamatica.se/music/
bit
synthetic though. I think they would improve alot just by changing the
sounds/soundfonts, whatever you are using, to something of higher
quality.
Thanks for the suggestion. I've just collected a bunch of soundfonts, so
I should be able to do something about this. I hope to start using
hydrogen for drum tracks soon, so I should get some better drum sounds
out of that (I haven't really found any good drum soundfonts yet.)
7206
days inactive
7207
days old
linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org
2 comments
3 participants
participants (3)
-
Jorge Salgueiro -
Robert Jonsson -
Stuart Allie