What do you sound like on Nu-ILX?

ha cool, the clips sounds really nice. making percussion sounds on synths is really satisfying

thanks Captain Ahab.

Should have some actual finished "proper" music up here quite soon, as opposed to these little sketches I've been posting up since time began.

dog latin, how long have you been making music?

more little riff sketches on acoustic

https://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/pentangle-jive

https://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/new-riff-dadgad-bouncy

Captain Ahab - I've been doing things here and there with breaks in between since I was about 17. I used to make a lot of tunes with DOS trackers under the name Autofire from about 1999-2004. Then I took a bit of a break from writing any music for a couple of years. Rediscovered the guitar and started playing around with Reason and stuff circa 2006. Recorded a sort of weird bedroom pop album during a bout of redundancy in 2007 under the name Mighty Sandy Heath Transmitters. I'm now in a band called Disco Zhivago, been jamming around together for about a year and a half or so but we've just played our first couple of gigs and are about to get a two-track single together.

I did a Magnetic Fields cover:

https://soundcloud.com/resistorsings/if-you-dont-cry

https://soundcloud.com/the-manitoba-no-reply

trying to get back in the lol post-rock/ambient/musique concrete game - again, one for the crowd that find things like 'chords' totally unnecessary

http://mikehanley.bandcamp.com/album/king-power

how have I not updated this?

http://carta.bandcamp.com/album/the-faults-follow-the-iowa-fight-song-single

album forthcoming on Saint Marie Records (Piano Magic, Keith Canisius, Bloody Knives).

and there are some demos for the next album on here:

https://soundcloud.com/cartamusic

i like that alot akm, remind me of a (dearly departed) local band i loved called vampire hands

ok so i need some advice about what to do with this:

https://soundcloud.com/scarequotes-1/ethel-merman

i accidentally came up with a loop i really like and did some stuff to it. then i added a subtle organ part. but i can't decide if it's done now or not. i feel like maybe it needs something else but nothing i try works. i tried recording guitar on it but it pushed it too far into a stereotypical psychedelic thing. but also i know i have a tendency to overstuff songs and record more tracks than i need to, so maybe it's ok as is and i just need to move on?

now i don't know about the organ or the effects on the loop either. maybe i should just start over from the loop.

This is a great 'middle of side 2' album track. There's no need to strip it back to the loop.
The drop outs at 1:39, 3:46 and 5:00 are a little distracting and upset the vibe a bit. Maybe add a distant reverb-y pad and some extra light percussion in the background from 3:00 onwards to give it a bit more direction. IOW I like the bit in the middle where all the instruments go off except for the organ, and then they fade back in, but a couple of other things need to fade back in with them.

thanks, good ideas

the revamped version: https://soundcloud.com/scarequotes-1/ethel-merman-ii

Sounds great.

that's really nice. i didn't hear your original track but i feel the pain of that position, having recently stumbled across a nice loop and spending ages adding things that really did little but diminish it, and now feeling the need to undo all of that work to have anything decent to work with again.

i recently rediscovered a bunch of my old recordings and to my surprise found some stuff that i'd like to get back to developing if i could only remember how i did it. this one from i think around 2006 i found quite nice, even if the recording itself is utterly wack: https://soundcloud.com/eeeeeein/dadf-aeacou

i'm guessing what i had in mind for it was "shoddy charalambides ripoff".

Posted this on the other thread, but thought I'd post here too. Any help is appreciated...
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Hey all - could I get a little bit of constructive feedback on this please? We've had an initial "how's this?" from the studio engineer on one of our tracks. Overall, I think it's okay but it's very difficult to distance myself and listen to it with uninvolved ears.

I'd really like to hear your thoughts, particularly on the mixing/production (we can't really go back into the studio to do any overdubs or retakes so we're working with the raw material we have, for better or worse). Are there any glaring errors on this track or things I should mention before I get back to him? One thing I noticed is that he's been a bit heavy handed witht he gating and compression, particularly some of the vocal parts where the sibilants and plosives are almost non-existent.

I'm only gonna keep this track online for a short while, but if someone could give it a listen and let me know their thoughts, i'd be very much obliged:
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https://soundcloud.com/doglatin/honolulu-demo-050313

Hey dog latin, I don't think there's anything "wrong" with it from a technical perspective, but it all depends on what you're going for. A different approach could make it sound different. But nothing sounded really weird to me.

Thanks Steve. Don't think we've got time to make it 'sound different' (can't afford the studio time for one), although I'm not sure if that means you're not keen on the song or the production as a whole ;-) do appreciate you checking it out though man.

made a real fast & loose beat out of the noisy intro to michael & janet 'scream': https://soundcloud.com/chantssound/mich-el-j-ckson-scream-chants

New track. Not unlike old tracks.

https://soundcloud.com/newyorkendless/scale-those-heights

some noodly sideproject thing done with analog sequencers n stuff

https://soundcloud.com/constantlightduo/moon/s-iAFmO

What did you sound like in 1999 playing bass in a math-y band that listened to a lot of Heavy Vegetable and Thingy. (going back through old DAT tapes)

https://soundcloud.com/nowherians/sets/ge

Would like some feedback on a new sideproj. for me also.

SK1/vox/bass/tapes all running into and out of a lappy running Audiomulch with MIDI samples. Trying to keep it all 'in the box' so still ironing out kinks in levels/signal flow.

https://soundcloud.com/dog-act

soundin good to me

Trippy stuff

that's great S-

wizards - would love for it to have a visual element, everything is balanced nicely, well good

acidly morning - sounds a bit like mr basinski, didn't like hearing the clean kick sound at the end

my pal meatybites - lovely sounds a gain, love all the bendy stuff

electric sound:

is that your matrix 1000 on there? cool jam, nice textures

WOW electricsound this is beautiful

newyorkendless is so good

new thing i wrote in open C tuning

https://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/untitled-in-open-c

aw cheers guys, no the synth in that track is a realistic mg-1, the noises are largely made with some odd oscillator box i don't know the name of

Triwave Picogenerator?

haha no this one had only three knobs on it. i will have to ask the other dude

thanks ums

new songs formed into a sort-of album... http://hotmim.bandcamp.com/album/heroes-of-the-mexican-independence-movement

https://soundcloud.com/scarequotes-1/revolving-restaurant-motion

^love this, definitely my favorite of the tracks you've been doing lately.

hey thanks.

you like the smooth stuff.

Stuff from the last three years or so - eight songs and three instrumental pieces:

https://soundcloud.com/timellison2

i had a grand idea of combining a few different clips of orchestras tuning up into one long composition. i got really into the first clip i found and made this instead:

https://soundcloud.com/weinventyou/brand-fan

a very quick footwork track i made today https://soundcloud.com/doglatin/2-choices

cool soundz Z_S

xxp That's impressive. What processing/editing did you do to the sample?

that is a good idea for a track, Z_S

thanks!

the editing was really simple. i just isolated a 2-3 second long segment of a youtube recording of an orchestra tuning and put a copy on two different tracks. on one of the tracks i time stretched the clip a little bit (making it 4 seconds or so - i ignored the metronome and bpm for this song). then i looped both tracks, with reverb and a little delay. since one of the tracks was a little longer than the other, they fall in and out of phase. then i made copies of those two tracks, and added a little bit of pitchshifting (maybe a fifth up, only 25% wet). so for the first section, it starts with the two tracks phasing against each other, and then gradually over the course of a minute or two the pitchshifted tracks enter the fray in the center channel while the two original tracks divide to the left and right channels, respectively, as they fade out.

then i repeated that whole process two more times, using two other 2-3 second clips from the original recording. so that's an A, B and C section. then i just went with a good old ABCB structure, about 2 minutes for each.

i'm bummed because as usual i put the whole thing together with headphones, and it sounded nice, and the panning for the various tracks during entries and exits helped to define the "movements" more clearly. but on laptop speakers and ipod headphones, all of that is lost, and the shifting bass tones in the B section are pretty much inaudible. so it'll sound like a muddy mess pretty much 90% of the time that anyone ever listens to it. luckily that'll only be 15 or so plays!

listening to your music on a shitty car stereo (like mine) or phone/laptop speakers can be a crushing experience.