Pushing Angel 303 (Ft Anam Cara)

bluszcz · February 25, 2011, 10:28am

Hey, first track with recorded vocals… so feedback will be very very appreciated

used stuff:

recorded and mixed in Renoise 2.6.1 along with mass of native filters and tools (great duplex),
audacity, jamin (post mastering),
TAL-NoiseMaker,
Tal Dub 3
LADSPA am pitchshifer
CreakBoxVST,
Loomer SequentVST,
Mr Alias 2 VST

hardware:::

novation launchpad,
Korg nanoKontrol
Alesis MultiMix4
Krk 5

samples of water:::

zulugula · February 25, 2011, 11:10am

Pushing pushing… Nice tempo, nice beat i like it

bluszcz · February 25, 2011, 1:24pm

Thanks!

thewitchkings · February 25, 2011, 7:26pm

It’s nice. Vox are good enough you can let them alone more. You should kill the swapping between stereoized vox effects and mono and just leave them (the vox samples) in their mono spot the entire time. What you did with the stereo image is nicely implemented, but unnecessary. There is already another stereo sound that needs it and the vox do not. If you really want to do the stereo thing i think you should go ahead and make the stereo effect more bombastic and obviously ‘supa-efx, this is the hook, mutherfxer’ or something. I don’t know that you should do that, but you could do it and make it work.

I like the composition of the ‘pushing… pushing…’ rhythm in the vox too, but for some reason i wish it flowed together and didn’t sound like someone hitting a button on a sampler. Your manipulation is implicit here anyway and I think an emulation of real world sound would be appreciated to smooth over technique in this example (because the voice is attractive, because… it would just feel right… because, that’s just my opinion, because… dunno) A release tail on the sample, some (mono) delay, or a longer reverb, maybe? on this particular word would be satisfying to my ear.

From a producer standpoint, i wish you could somehow push the cutting billy holiday quality in her voice. I mean hopefully not but possibly even to the degree of providing an over-compressed, strongly e.q.ed, slightly distorted phonograph-like image of her tone. If not, you can turn her up about one tick.

I hope this doesn’t sound like a lot of complaining. If i didn’t like it, would i even have an opinion? I enjoyed it as is and never hit the stop button.

bluszcz · February 26, 2011, 12:58am

Hey, thanks for long reply!

I have a question about stereoized vox effect?

Are you referring to the separation of channel (i created 2 send channel track to mix voice channels separately and clean it up), or to the reverb with changing attack at the 4th beat?

Because sound is 100% time stereo, but some time is put global panning on mix mixing vocal track…

Once again, thanks!

The Witch Kings:

It’s nice. Vox are good enough you can let them alone more. You should kill the swapping between stereoized vox effects and mono and just leave them (the vox samples) in their mono spot the entire time. What you did with the stereo image is nicely implemented, but unnecessary. There is already another stereo sound that needs it and the vox do not. If you really want to do the stereo thing i think you should go ahead and make the stereo effect more bombastic and obviously ‘supa-efx, this is the hook, mutherfxer’ or something. I don’t know that you should do that, but you could do it and make it work.

I like the composition of the ‘pushing… pushing…’ rhythm in the vox too, but for some reason i wish it flowed together and didn’t sound like someone hitting a button on a sampler. Your manipulation is implicit here anyway and I think an emulation of real world sound would be appreciated to smooth over technique in this example (because the voice is attractive, because… it would just feel right… because, that’s just my opinion, because… dunno) A release tail on the sample, some (mono) delay, or a longer reverb, maybe? on this particular word would be satisfying to my ear.

From a producer standpoint, i wish you could somehow push the cutting billy holiday quality in her voice. I mean hopefully not but possibly even to the degree of providing an over-compressed, strongly e.q.ed, slightly distorted phonograph-like image of her tone. If not, you can turn her up about one tick.

I hope this doesn’t sound like a lot of complaining. If i didn’t like it, would i even have an opinion? I enjoyed it as is and never hit the stop button.