Hybrid Orch/Elec hat in the ring

[mazz]

Here's my shot at the Hybrid Orch/Electronic listing "So It Begins":http://www.taximusic.com/song.php?song_ ... ueFeedback welcome. Mazz

[teleblaster]

Really nice piece Mazz... Seems like a lead pipe cinch on a forward to me. My only nit: (and I preface it with the fact that there's quite a bit of background noise in my environment right now). Seems like the bass might need a little tweakin'. It sits nicely in the track, but you might want it to come forward just a tad, maybe just a little crisper attack or an eq tweak. Again, this is a killer track. I'll probably hear this in a movie theatre some day.

[kouly]

Hey MazzGreat work, I cant hear anything that sounds out of place and it just rocks. I really like the work on the drums because they sound "live". Can I ask? Which program you used for the drums? The rest of the track? Thanks for sharing and I hope you get that forward.

[mazz]

Hi Kouly,Thanks for listening.The drums are Superior Drummer 2.0 with the stock Avatar kit. I played with the ambient and overhead mic settings a bit. My "secret sauce" is the Fairchild compressor from the UAD-1 card. It just makes drums slam!! The patterns were from the Drumkit from Hell expansion and also for the 7/4 section from Groove Monkee Progressive Rock patterns.The synth bass is Arturia PPG 2 through the MOTU Pre-Amp plug in with some distortion on it.Clicky percussion is Stylus RMX with the NoizBox expander.Big hits are a combination of Stormdrum 2 and some huge hits from Stylus RMX Cinematic from the Sound MenuBrass are EWQLSO Platinum mid mic and the lead trumpet is Samplemodeling The Trumpet. Lots of keyswitching on the EW brass to change articulations. The swelling brass sound was created by using a canned short crescendo articulation on the horns and a sFz marcato articulation on the trumpets (attack and instant fade out). So the horns swell in and the trumpets attack at the top of the horn crescendo and then fade out. It's a pretty cool effect, if I may say so myself!Strings are a combination of EWQLSO Platinum mid mic and Kirk Hunter Diamond orchestra (2 tracks per part, 8 MIDI tracks total, each one played separately), with copious amounts of editing on velocities and CC11 and keyswitching of articulations after the fact.Final mix processing was via Precision Maximizer from the UAD-1 card.Fun stuff!!Mazz

[crs7string]

Mazz,It's always interesting when you breakdown your work and share the inner workings of a track.You have a great set of tools and know how to use them to create great tracks.Good luck with this track.Chuck

[vicky]

super cool.....I really like what you did with this...I might be with teleblaster about the bass needing tweaking.....I'm not hearing it without my subs on, but on the other hand it's so good, I don't think it matters that much....good luck with a placement (even though luck has little to do with it when you nail a listing like this)..vtbp

[daniel481]

Sounds great Mazz! I really like all of the movement and how high energy the track is. The stuff I'm hearing from you lately is really outstanding.Dan

[marcblack30]

Mazz, this sounds amazing! Thanks for sharing your method of creation, always interesting to read.Forward for sure!marc

[stevebarden]

Mazz, I like this piece a lot. Great sounds (as usual!). I decided not to submit the piece I originally thought would be good. I read the listing as "mid to up tempos" (it's a medium tempo piece) but it's not "high energy". I'm still confused how mid tempo can be high energy, but that's where I still have trouble figuring out what the listings are really asking for.The journey continues....Steve

[mazz]

Steve,At the last minute I decided to submit another piece as well that I would classify as mid tempo:http://www.taximusic.com/song.php?song_ ... ream=trueI think the piece is still high energy and intense even though the tempo is nowhere near the tempo of the other one.But I'm probably too close to it to tell for sure. What do you think?Mazz