Track critique invitation - Voynich - Alocrom

[Chris Strellis]

Hi Marc,

 

The JX-8p voices patch is a bitch to get right even with the emulator.
I've actually got the real patch on my JX-10 and the VCA clipping is
hard to control. If I master any tighter I get a lot of crunch in that
sound where I don't want it.

 

This is the track I modelled mine on:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ0qVAFDa_A

 

And they could get it quite right either!

 

Thanks for your pointers

 

Cheers


Chris

 

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[mailto:music-bar-bounces at lists.music-bar.org] On Behalf Of Marc
Nostromo [M-.-n]
Sent: 20 September 2011 12:55
To: Music-bar
Subject: Re: Track critique invitation - Voynich - Alocrom

 

My feeling is that there's subbass 'beating' in the intro and they are a
bit disturbing at least in my headphones.

 

If it was me, I'd compress/eq the hell out of it to get it more in your
face and bring out all the instruments. I tend to over do it but this
sounds very 'tape demo', unless that was the intention of course :)

 

There is that one key (the voic-ey one) that is definetly more in front
than all the rest (including arps & percs) and I don't think it's right.

 

Hope that's helpful.

2011/9/20 Gert van Santen <g.vansanten at chello.nl>

Op 20-9-2011 13:31, Chris Strellis schreef:

	 

	Gents,
	
	I've been invited (well I forced myself upon them to be honest!)
to
	submit another track for the follow up compilation album of
this:
	
	http://www.groove.nl/cd/3/33644.html
	
	This time the 20 or so artists create one track that adheres to
one of
	four decades from the 70s to now of classic electronic music.
The decade
	I've chosen is 80s - no surprises there!
	
	Here's an early mix:
	
	http://www.voynich.co.uk/mp3/Voynich_Alocrom_V0.9_mastered.mp3
	
	http://goo.gl/Zs0w7 Short link.

 

Hi CHrist,

I only had a quick listen, because I'm working on my own stuff atm.

My thoughts:

1. I like the themes and sounds and the overall idea.
2. I don't like the intro. It makes the track feel boring and slow.
3. Perhaps you might think about losing some of those loooong notes, and
trade them in for short release stuff.
4. The overall sound is good, although some sounds could use a bit of
(extra) EQ to give them more space in the mix and/or prevent too much
pressure from them.

Cool that you're on the album again :-)


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