First Taxi Submission- Yunnan Spring

[suzdoyle]

Nice tune! Very upllifting, fun, and creative. I like the mix of different instruments and styles . . . Bravo!Suz

[weslong]

Aug 21, 2008, 6:02pm, suzdoyle wrote:Nice tune! Very upllifting, fun, and creative. I like the mix of different instruments and styles . . . Bravo!SuzThank you, Suz! I'm really itching to go check out some more tunes (yours and a few others) on the forum and see what everyone else is up to. This place is just brimming with talent from what I've read and heard thus far. I'll be able to do that over the weekend ( and start working some more music!)I'll be heading back home to Shanghai at the end of the day! Can't wait!

[weslong]

Aug 21, 2008, 4:32pm, anne wrote:This is mighty quirky, and fun. I like that.Since everyone already praised it I will try and give some "reaching ever higher" advice. I listened to the song on a few different speakers, and am currently on the ol AKG phones. The mix on the phones sounds good, bit the drums sound synthy (?), and the rest is, I think, pretty good. I'm going back to play it on my big studio monitors - even better on the big monitors. The low end gets lost on my small 4" monitors, is VERY present in my phones (but not overbearing - just needs to be eq'd a bit) and good on the Yamaha monitors. What that means to you (or may mean, depending on your desire and knowledge) is that perhaps a little work on the drum tracks may be in order, maybe the underlying piano could be distinguished a little more (not louder; its just a little "band in the box" sounding - maybe its the samples?) and then just try your mix out in a few different places to test its "portability" from one type of system to another. Oh, and the lead instrument - nice choice! It bleeds into that underlying piano work a little (again, that can be cured with minor tweaks) but its really cool. On small speakers it sounded like you had someone singing parts along with it, on headphones it sounded more like you doubled a track - I'm sure there are no vocals, but I'm curious if you did double the track? Thats everything I could think of for now - all is said in a constructive way, please be assured. Definitely a song worth the effort of fine tuning !IMHO, thGreat stuff! Thanks for the feedback and I already knew these issues before you mentioned them- so we're both thinking the same thing.Unfortunately, the mixing engineer and artist (both me) could only do so much in the end and I finally turned it over Ty Degroff at The Final Sound for mastering after I had decided it about as good I get it. It's part of a released CD, so I don't know that I'll go back and change anything. Might be better to move forward with improving things with new songs.That's interesting that a couple of people mentioned something about hearing 'singing'. There's no vocals. It's all instruments and I don't remember doubling anything other than maybe piano. I ferget!

[suzdoyle]

<<<Thank you, Suz! I'm really itching to go check out some more tunes (yours and a few others) on the forum and see what everyone else is up to. This place is just brimming with talent from what I've read and heard thus far. I'll be able to do that over the weekend ( and start working some more music!)I'll be heading back home to Shanghai at the end of the day! Can't wait! >>>You're welcome, Wes. I've only been on the forums for a week or two, and have not yet posted any tunes for feedback. But you and the other courageous souls have inspired me to do so. So I'll post one tonight. Best wishes for Shanghai journeys (my dad lived in Shanghai while in the service years ago) . . . Suz

[balanced2112]

A wonderful feel you got going on here!...this could be used in several areas.Best wishes and good luck!Jim

[weslong]

Aug 22, 2008, 6:56am, balanced2112 wrote:A wonderful feel you got going on here!...this could be used in several areas.Best wishes and good luck!Jim Groovy, Jim! Thanks for taking time out to have a listen. Mucho appreciated! Now we just wait and see what the critique says....

[hummingbird]

Aug 19, 2008, 4:56am, weslong wrote:Here's my first submission to TAXI. Still waiting, of course, to see the critique. It's a World genre thingy with some Jazz snazz in it.This is one of the songs that "almost never happened" due to some scary studio problems. I had to re-do most of the thing from scratch.http://www.taximusic.com/download/15773 ... 3Enjoy!Hey, finally got to listen to this. It's a very interesting piece - a fusion of East & West, very cool. Well-produced. I think it's "Western" enough to have appeal, and the Asian influence gives it a unique flavour. If it doesn't work for those listings, don't worry about it, I'm sure you'll find a home. Keep working on stuff like this -- develop your niche. Enjoyed it very much. Only suggestion is to avoid fade outs for film/tv.cheersHummin'bird

[weslong]

Hi Vickie,Thanks for the input! Yeah, won't know the real deal till the screeners get done with the critique. That could be a couple of more weeks...sheesh!Yeah, I submitted a 'shorty' for TV/Games/Film and totally avoided the fade out thing. Kind of figured they wouldn't groove on that too much.

[dommydom]

Aug 21, 2008, 3:47pm, weslong wrote:Aug 20, 2008, 11:50pm, dommydom wrote:hi wes.. welcome from another newbie! sounds great! good workHi Dom,Thanks for checking it out! Glad you like it! Hey, if you see Chopper, tell him he owes me a beer! (eheh, just kidding. I don't think ANYONE would ever tell Chopper he owes them anything.)thats very true... he was actually taken into custody for questioning today! he was later released without charge. haha. good old uncle chop chop.