space rock/ambient music fans?

[mazz]

Quote:Hey Mazz!(or do you prefer John?)thanks for your post...i would have to say i dig dark water moon dream very much.the voices give it a haunted futuristic feeling to it.nice stuff! hope to keep reading and hearing from you in the future!Thanks for listening, either John or Mazz is OK. I like your stuff a lot, the 8 track cassette was a cool format and you got the most out of it. I still have my 2 rack space Ibanez delay although I don't use it much. It does have a great Lo-Fi sound that nothing else really has. I may have to dig it out again, it's a classic by now!The voice on that track is some woman speaking Chinese. I put it through one of the Pluggo plug-ins, I can't remember which one right now but it might have been Shuffler. I love Pluggo, it's got the vibe of all that old gear that we loved and hooked up "wrong".Keep up the good work!!Mazz

[dryan]

Hey, Geoff. I like your tracks. Fear Will Only Drown Us sounds like it would qualify for Arena Rock with a couple of very minor changes. There was a listing last year for that 'Angels and Airwaves' sound. Keep an eye out. Don't give up on it. You have a good future.-daniel

[silvercord]

I like your stuff a lot, the 8 track cassette was a cool format and you got the most out of it. I still have my 2 rack space Ibanez delay although I don't use it much. It does have a great Lo-Fi sound that nothing else really has. I may have to dig it out again, it's a classic by now!The voice on that track is some woman speaking Chinese. I put it through one of the Pluggo plug-ins, I can't remember which one right now but it might have been Shuffler. I love Pluggo, it's got the vibe of all that old gear that we loved and hooked up "wrong".Keep up the good work!!Thanks Mazz! Its cool you used Chinese for that tune. I have done the same before..something about the sound of Chinese isso..useable...Also Korean. I wonder if there are any korean taxi membersmaybe i would be made fun of if they heard some of my songs in which i sang in Korea.(korean pronunciation can be a bit...difficult)ah! so you had the old ibenez anloge unit as well~...i lovedchanging the settings AS i was recording a track to give ita unique feedback soundwhat did you use the unit on for mainly?

[silvercord]

[quote author=vicky board=collaboration thread=1201738569 post=1202325242]Geoff...cool that that was all guitar....fooled me ears.....As for angelic voices...you have one....I'm finding the production standards around here easier to accomplish than I had thought...you're using a tascam synccassete 8 track recorder...I bought one from a band named Primus (they recorded 'Suck on this' with it) many years ago...an older version....and then I recorded an album that way with my old rock band....Hey Vicky~ wow thats so cool you bought a sync cassete off of Primus? thats like a piece of musical equipment history~heh..have you ever noticed...being at a concert and seeing the loudspeakers...they they have ancient band names spray painted on them?these pieces of equipment just go through time and so many bands...know what i mean? seeing "air supply" spraypainted on the speakers at a death metal concert.. hehso back to primus..since you are a bass player is les one of your big influences?im curious...as i have always been a guitar player..and as of last year a really cool rock back in Korea recrutied meon the bass(i had to lie and said i played;)so i have never really grown up listening and following the big bass players... i just kind have listened to songs and said "wow the bass is awesome on that song..i wonder who he/or she is"(ahh with the exception of Tony Levin that man has played with everyone lol:)peace~

[silvercord]

Quote:Hey, Geoff. I like your tracks. Fear Will Only Drown Us sounds like it would qualify for Arena Rock with a couple of very minor changes. There was a listing last year for that 'Angels and Airwaves' sound. Keep an eye out. Don't give up on it. You have a good future.-danielthanks Daniel! im really suprised to see such supportive cats here on Taxi Community...i have never heard of angels and airwaves..but im checking up on it now~so now that we are on topic..what sounds are you into making?..always curious!peace

[mazz]

Quote:ah! so you had the old ibenez anloge unit as well~...i lovedchanging the settings AS i was recording a track to give ita unique feedback soundwhat did you use the unit on for mainly?I bought it from the band I played with a long time ago. It was used as an echo on the vocals, before cheap digital reverbs came in.I still have it. It still works great for echo on vocals and other lead instruments, and because the echos are bandwidth limited and a bit distorted, it really adds a nice atmosphere. I should pull it out of the basement and plug it in!Actually one of my secret weapons for space music used to be a Roland Dimension D which my recording partner years ago had. I wish I had it now but I do have the plug in version on the UAD-1 card. It's fantastic. One of the ways to use it is put it on a return and send everything to it and then sneak it in up underneath in the mix. Another is to put it on the reverb return after the reverb. An amazingly subtle but powerful box that adds a kind of swimming vibe to everything without calling attention to itself. It just had 5 or 6 buttons on it, one of which was a power button. You could push more than one button in at a time and the plug in lets you do that too! Simple but very effective.Mazz

[vicky]

Quote:One of the ways to use it is put it on a return and send everything to it and then sneak it in up underneath in the mix. Another is to put it on the reverb return after the reverbmazz ...boy do I wish I knew what you are talking about....especailly since you call it a "secret weapon"Is this a way of sneaking in another reverb track underneath...to create the fluidity on the 'ambient' sound....a trick so to speak...?Vicky

[paults]

Vicky,Sending all the tracks to a reverb, and then sneaking it up until it can barely be heard is a great way to give a multi-track mix some of the sense it was all recorded at the same time, or in the same room. That's one of the "tricks" that is especially useful when combining real instruments, Virtual instruments, loops, synths, etc.Using one reverb for its early reflections or room sound, and then using a second reverb on the first reverb's wet signal can give you a more complex and real sound than either reverb would by itself.These techniques aren't limited to any particular style - they work as well for Country and Metal as they do for Ambient.

[vicky]

paults.....Quote:Sending all the tracks to a reverb, and then sneaking it up until it can barely be heard is a great way to give a multi-track mix some of the sense it was all recorded at the same time, or in the same room. That's one of the "tricks" that is especially useful when combining real instruments, Virtual instruments, loops, synths, etc....I'm combining all types of instruments and loops...you mean ..take the mixdown and create another track with reverb, and then mix that down?...when I line up these tracks should it be an identical track and then put reverb on the one track? and then maybe use a limiter or compression usually dictated by genre? that's a weird correlation, but that's the first thing I notice sometimes...I've been the multiband compression surgeon to get my tracks to sound "in the same room"..with the reverb.... I need to figure some things out, because I'm creating little time issues messing with the loops...I lock them but I'm still hearing time inconsistencies. ...while I'm on that...are loops meant to be perfect? I try and try to make them so, and even my program tells me they are, but over time one loop inevitable starts leaning on another and suddenly the beat feels like it's getting placed differently...I'm alway re-setting things....on a microscopic level...which becomes its' own problem....geoff....I'll pm you ...sorry your thread went off point....I wonder where that fits in with forum etiquette? keep on with the music everyone Vicky

[silvercord]

Vicky...no worry about being off topic..this is goodgood tip paults...i wonder how i can do your little trick in adobe audition: )as for allot of my ambient mixes..ill give yall one of my (maybenot so secret secret)when mastering i LOVE to use Izotope ozone 3...i use the mastering reverb in it to get that "sheen" for the overall mixi wish i could give you an a/b for a track but...for one of my tunes,i had reverb on each track..some being really wide and long decayand some just had delay with a room reverb..and then i used ozone mastering reverb to polish it up...here's the link...http://www.taximusic.com/song.php?song_ ... =truepeace~