RPM'09 Album - "Headmelt" by LX Nen

[Romain Gros]

Andrew,
this is  the order I got .. :)


1 All you bass
2 ... and back
3 B Castle
4 Bast
4 Hic
5 Icemelt
6 TMD
7 U happy
8 Glisten
9 P R T M

I shown your album to my girl  ...and ...  She really liked it too  :)

On Mar 3, 2009, at 7:19 PM, Andrew Robinson wrote:

> Thanks Romain, great to read such detailed feedback, I'm really glad
> you liked it, since I admire and try to learn from your work too!
>
> There is just 1 problem, probably my fault for not bundling the zip
> file right, or getting the tags wrong at the last minute... I think
> you have the tracks in a different order to me, since your comments
> seem to be in an unusual order?
>
> Here's my tracklist, with timings, do the timings match up at your  
> end?
>
> 1. Icemelt	 (5:39)	
> 2. T M D	(6:46)	
> 3. U Happy (6:16)
> 4. P R T M (7:03)
> 5. All Your Bass (4:16)
> 6. Glisten	(5:03)
> 7. Hic (4:47)
> 8. B Castle (5:27)
> 9. Bast (12:05)
> 10. ...and Back (2:15)
>
> I can answer your general questions though...
>
>> I would like to know if you used logic or ableton (maybe both)?
>
> I'm using Logic Express 7, I haven't bought Ableton yet, but I am
> considering getting it instead of Logic 8. However, I don't do much of
> the work in Logic, I don't do any midi sequencing at all on this
> album, Everything you hear comes from Reason, either heavily worked-on
> Rex loops or the Matrix sequencer.
>
> I work with an 8 or 16 bar loop in Reason and do all my sequencing and
> most of my sound-adjusting there, then I save each channel to an aiff
> audio file. Then I close Reason, and start using Logic to arrange
> those loops into a song. I don't use rewire, the temptation to tweak
> things forever is too great!
>
>> What do you use to make your beats?+  ( when you mix your  drum-kit
>> in general do you mix the different instruments apart  i mean
>> ( snare ,bas drum,cymbals etc apart ?) I hope this question make  
>> sense.
>
> All the beats are made with Reason 4, usually a combination of drum
> machines and several Rex loops. I try to get interesting drum sounds
> by mistreating Rex loops. I often audition them through heavy
> compression, the distortion box, or an octave away from their usual
> pitch, and I look for odd combinations such as making a 90bpm track
> with a slowed down drum and bass loop. I usually tweak the pitches of
> individual drums, and mute a lot of them, then layer other hits or
> loops to fill the gaps back in - quite often I have 1 rex loop
> providing the kick, another doing the snare, and a third providing
> percussive oddities, maybe with a drum machine or two doubling the
> kick or snare. I try to get things right using reason's mixer and
> effects boxes, so there's no work to do in Logic, just drop the loops
> in where I need them for the arrangement. Sometimes this works, and
> other times I decide to get creative with plug-ins in Logic.
>
> On Headmelt, in Logic the songs vary from having no plug-ins at all
> apart from a limiter on the whole mix and 1 eq on the kick to some
> that might have 30 or 40 plugins.
>
> I'll try to answer all your specific points when I've worked out which
> track they refer to! Generally, all they synths are reason's analogue
> monosynth mistreated in a variety of ways, but occaasionally they are
> samples played on reason's sampler. Anything that sounds vaguely like
> an electric guitar is actually the reason analogue through Logic's
> guitar amp simulator.
>
> - Andy_R
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