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smillsoid Group: Members Posts: 548 Joined: Dec. 2008 Posted: Mar. 09 2010, 16:24 Very good stuff indeed, Mike.  Is this in a 'finished' state, or are you planning more work on it?  I think you could try some original mixing ideas. -------------- http://www.reverbnation.com/simonjmills Back to top

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smillsoid Group: Members Posts: 548 Joined: Dec. 2008 Posted: Mar. 10 2010, 12:30 I would say the basic sound balance is perfect (levels, eq etc.) - I just think you could experiment (sparingly) with reverb/delay etc., in order to introduce some dynamics and texture into the music. -------------- http://www.reverbnation.com/simonjmills Back to top

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smillsoid Group: Members Posts: 548 Joined: Dec. 2008 Posted: Mar. 11 2010, 12:47 What about doing it at the mastering stage?  I put my finished tracks through a software package called "WavePad Sound Editor" - where I can alter the sound to my heart's content.  It's very easy to use, too. -------------- http://www.reverbnation.com/simonjmills Back to top

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smillsoid Group: Members Posts: 548 Joined: Dec. 2008 Posted: Mar. 11 2010, 20:44 Here's the link to WavePad.  They give you a free trial, then the option of buying it. http://wavepad.en.softonic.com/ -------------- http://www.reverbnation.com/simonjmills Back to top

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Yann Kovic Group: Members Posts: 41 Joined: Dec. 2009 Posted: April 17 2010, 12:59 Very good work, Mike. Completely in the spirit of M.O work, indeed. It remembers me the musical structure of Amarok. But I think that you could improve it, by working with betters sounds. There are very good violins and brass sections VST instruments, if I well remember, DSK vst plugins, completely free. Somes of yours instruments sound very "MIDI". And your work is so good, that it's very domageable to not improve it... And it could be well if you could give us some access in downloading them, in the entire structure, because it seems to be a straight opus, no? One more time, congratulation! Very good job! PS: sorry for my poor english! Yann. -------------- I like beer, I like cheese, I like the smell of a westerly breeze... http://www.yannkovic.be/ Back to top

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Yann Kovic Group: Members Posts: 41 Joined: Dec. 2009 Posted: April 23 2010, 03:05 Okay, I thought you worked on PC or Mac Platform, sorry. Brass section sound not very natural. I'll listen to your work once again later to confirm my opinion. You can easily put all your work on a WEB site, they are a lot of little WEB design programs, very easy to use. For instance, my WEB site costs 25€ by year(!, and 25€ more for the domain name www.yannkovic.be. It's not very expansive, no? For this price, Ive got 1024MB traffic, and 200MB for the site itself. My next projects are to record some classical pieces, and real instruments recording of my track Irish March, avalaible in "MIDI to wave" form on the download section (modern version of very old classical guitar tracks, in the spirit of Mike classical arrangment) See you later, Ciao! Yann. -------------- I like beer, I like cheese, I like the smell of a westerly breeze... http://www.yannkovic.be/ Back to top

Yann Kovic Group: Members Posts: 41 Joined: Dec. 2009 Posted: April 23 2010, 15:09 Hello Mike, I've listen to your opus once again, and here is my opinion. First movement: Guitar is too agressive. Nice structure with a lot of variation of tonalities. But... Second movement: Brass section sounds very poor. Third movement: Too long, no enough tonality variations. And... Forth movement: if the rythm is very nice, where is the melody? General: You've always very good rythmic structures, but A little bit too short each time, and never developped. It's like if you had something to say, but you never finished your setences... If rythms are good, they seem to be too mutch in major tonality. Listen Mike playing: some tracks are very positives, and some are very dark. Your melodies are very poor... when they are! Guitars seem always to play something going up and down. It's like if you play notes because "you must place some notes here". You have to work a lot on your melodic structures, and exploit them! Last remarks: My post could seem to be very hard with you, but I reapeat: your work is very good, I've retrieve the spirit of Mike here, and I just saw that to help you to improve this job. I'm not able to build structures like yours, because I've too different musical influences to achieve that. That why I reapeat: congratulations! I know you can improve it! Good work! -------------- I like beer, I like cheese, I like the smell of a westerly breeze... http://www.yannkovic.be/ Back to top

^NabLa^ Group: Members Posts: 187 Joined: Oct. 2001 Posted: April 24 2010, 07:02 It's difficult to judge as myspace compression is so crap; a quick listen reveals loads of confusion however in the mids due to a few instruments competing for the same frequency range in places. For example, in The First, the section at around 1.25 with some heavy distorted guitars in the background, those guitars eat up valuable space for the actual lead guitar an the bass. Try notching out the dominant frequencies of those two instruments out of the background padding guitars. Lovely music by all accounts, do you have a link with better quality versions of the files? -------------- ^NabLa^ Back to top

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Yann Kovic Group: Members Posts: 41 Joined: Dec. 2009 Posted: April 25 2010, 11:56 Ok Mike! I understand your musical vision now better. It's allways important to understand the following: "you're playing something including all the influences you're listening to, plus a little bit from you added inside". In fact, we have to work on similar styles, the ones we used to listen, and never forget we are not the Artists how inspired us. Now, I just can say, ok, it's good, if that's what you love to play, IT'S YOUR STYLE and never let someone convinct you to change. Just improve, following your inspiration... Good work! -------------- I like beer, I like cheese, I like the smell of a westerly breeze... http://www.yannkovic.be/ Back to top

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