What do you sound like on Nu-ILX?

Single from my upcoming EP:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06DqK7LXGDI

Made a beat out of Hissing of Summer Lawns. Kind of a rough version - needs editing.

http://soundcloud.com/hurting2/jonibeat-v2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ8hXMVVXV0

nice

I like that Jay Vee

thx!

A little "making-of" footage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5blwigi2qrQ

Hiya ILX, long time no speak. I've recently come out from the depths of wherever it is that I hide and brought out some new music stuff.

http://lynskey.bandcamp.com/album/idea-prime

If you're a last.fm person it's on there as well

http://www.last.fm/music/Lynskey/Idea+Prime

http://soundcloud.com/sund4r-subramanian/sets

Just started looking at this thread. Enjoyed Jay Vee's track.

Ha, replace the "4" with an "a" for the URL.

("Tension and Extension" is probably the most 'difficult' track btw.)

what I sound like: some asshole w/ a guitar — http://bloodcoverletters.tumblr.com/post/7970619406/magical-mystery-tour-throwin-it-back-to-the

Another string quartet clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAIg75ikJgE

Tension and Extension is my favorite. Sounds great.

St3ve Go1db3rg Those string quartets are great, I hate taking the 'musical director' role. I'm always so afraid of sounding like a wanker (past experience being on the receiving end with a shitty borrowed baritone saxophone I guess) but you got it down

Thanks owen! This project has taken about five months so far and I just wrapped up recording this week. Now I'm trying to meet my fundraising goal so I can pay for post-production and release the album.

Thanks, Owen. I appreciate it.

Looking forward to checking out the string quartet clips...

I shall contribute when I get home.

made a bunch of noise onstage with my friend this tuesday:

http://fuguguffu.bandcamp.com/album/live-wrek-7-26-11

I made a 73 minute mix of techno/house/dubstep/etc. tracks from the last two years or so that I made on FL Studio 4 on my 11 year old computer.

Would very much love feedback.

See more (including the soundcloud/download link) right here: DJs post your mixes for download

nice, everything sounds really well-produced. especially liked the tracks with a lot of vocal samples.

should have posted this on here to begin with but i put up the last album from the band i was in around 00 on bandcamp for free

still pretty proud of this, def late 90s indie etc but i think it's a good recording, esp the first and last songs

http://unbelievablejollymachine.bandcamp.com/

http://www.mediafire.com/?vyap9toapyyzidn

^my new EP iirc

http://bloodletters.tumblr.com/post/8842519115/new-song-demo-whatever-suicide-pact-morbid

starting to write songs again after a long hiatus—nothin' too fancy yet, but this was a fun way to kill an hour

http://bloodletters.tumblr.com/post/9122477720/release-the-party

the fruits of my labores

my second attempt at recording myself this is a little more ominous i guess

http://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/silver-panic

http://soundcloud.com/matthewmathieu/im-fine-thanks

some digital satie steez biting

finally re-revised the tepid drum track. sounds a shitload better now:

http://soundcloud.com/clonefeed/margarine

Supposed to be writing a review, but of course procrastination took over. Forgive the rubbish singing and the mistakes - just a bit of fun. Two rough beginnings of songs, plus a vocal version of the fingerstyle track I posted a few months back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxrnbzk628Y

Damn, some people are fairly professional by comparison.

I do have a couple of warmed up practice tapes with our new drummer here. It's pretty much live practice demos with a couple overdubs then mixed.

http://soundcloud.com/earlnash

What do you guys think of these tracks I made in Reason?

http://soundcloud.com/doglatin/sandalled-vandal
This one is on its way to completion, but it needs something else in there. Not sure what? OTher than an ending of course...

And here's a pleasant sounding little loop I've been struggling to write all day:
http://soundcloud.com/doglatin/hertford-loop

I'd really like to get a track actually completed for once, so any comments/ideas most welcome.

That first track sounds p good, but yeah, could use that extra subbass you mention.

Dog Latin, I like 'Hertford Loop' as a sound sculpture very much! Could listen to that longer.

I agree that the first track, which has a sick rhythm, could do with some extra "flair" maybe, but I hope you won't abandon it!

Though hearing you play guitar makes me wish you could somehow bridge guitar, singing and beats (without becoming James Blake). You are showing true potential on a whole range of areas here!

Che LBI and the Rev. I've expanded Hertford Loop into more of a structured piece now, just needs a bit of icing.

LBI: as for playing and singing and electronic stuff, I made this album a couple of years ago in my room. Parts are quite sketchy and amateurish and the first song is awful, but if you are interested: http://mightysandyheathtransmitters.bandcamp.com/album/catgut-beefsteak-and-pride

"Che" = Cheers

MIXING IS SO F-ING HARD!!!

trying to mix my "little dog" track for the ilx covers loutallica project

it's like, on one hand, stuff like protools has made it super easy to just get stuff down to the point where ppl are like "yes that is a song" but it's that extra level of knowledge about compressors and EQ and stuff that really makes a good mix a good mix is what's missing! really irritating because i can hear in my head how it *should* be but i can't make it like that

in my darkest moments i'm honestly considering mixing this stupid joke metallica song at a professional studio haha

lol

i'm a lot more confident in my mixing than i was a year ago, but still not totally happy with any of my solo in-the-box mixes. doing a thing now where i'm sending stems (mostly groups of synths and vocals) to an engineer for him to bounce down to tape, then i combine those with my original bass & drum stems for a final mix. it has a nice analog summing effect and i still get to obsess over the final balance of everything.

seems like you already know what to do, m@tt. you don't want to blow this by not taking it to a pro studio.
i give so little thought to mixing. i have no idea what i'm doing.

actually i'm not going to stress that much about the mix because i know howie weinberg at masterdisk is gonna fix a lot of this in mastering

sending mine to bob clearmountain. he owes me a favor, you know.

really irritating because i can hear in my head how it *should* be but i can't make it like that

Yes, this is the worst feeling. I was explaining to the mixing engineer just the other day how I hate it when I know a section of a song needs to sound "exciting," I know that it doesn't sound "exciting" yet, but I don't know how to get it there.

But it's always interesting how when you do get it there it was often via a totally different route than you had first thought -- e.g., sometimes you make the vocal sound more powerful by turning something *else* up.

I really feel like DJing is making me better at mixing. When I mix my tracks with similar music, I can pretty quickly tell when there's a problem that needs to be addressed and I have a good idea of what needs fixing, way more intuitively than if I just compare it to a guide track.

this girl I'm producing got song of the day on popjustice yesterday.

pretty unmixed track we stuck up to gain a bit of interest.

http://www.popjustice.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5712&Itemid=243

Mixing is pretty much voodoo. You raise something up other things start to vanish. Pretty much I just go with notch EQing dropping something out trying to bring something in on the track you want to come out some.

The hardest thing to get for me is getting a good drum sound. I can make the guitars sound good and bass etc, but the drums are always kind of limited by where (an untreated garage), the speed (pretty much line 'em up and go) and how we have recorded (pretty much live in the same room quite loud).

Towards the end of October we are going to do a second batch of recordings and I'm going to try some different things. I got a headphone distribution amp and I am going to setup the guitar and bass direct for the base track and cut the drums in the room without a ton of bleed from everything else. Then we are going to go back and overdub on top. The scratch guitar and bass could still be usable, as I have been able to get some decent sounds with a bass preamp and running a line off an attenuator.

Oh yeah and I still need to get my drummer to get a new front bass drum head with a mic port. That solid drum works probably good for jazz in Rudy's living room to get the real sound of the kick, but it about impossible to get the beater sound just with a microphone on the front of the kick drum (especially with a bass amp and a loud tube amp in the same room not minding the PA with the live vocals).

I tried putting a mic on the inside of the kick where the beater was located but that thing was picking up so much from the snare and seemingly everything else, it was a worthless track to use in the mix.

Only posted a few times on IMM, used to spend lots of time I Love Vinyl, but here is the stuff I make.

http://soundcloud.com/markusmidnight

Mixing is pretty much voodoo. You raise something up other things start to vanish. Pretty much I just go with notch EQing dropping something out trying to bring something in on the track you want to come out some.

ime if i find myself in this situation it generally means a problem with the arrangement. what instruments are you having a problem with? how essential can the parts be if they are easily masked by another part?

curious as to what kick drum mic you are using. is the kick being played particularly softly? i don't think i've ever gotten snare bleed in my kick mic...

I wouldn't say masked, but become less present. This is more in fine tuning a mix going for say an instrument texture rather than something being heard at all. Say you boost a snare track a half to one db to try to get to cut just a little bit better, but when that total track is boosted, you loose a bit of texture out of say the attack on a bass guitar or kick drum. It's not a total mask like something moves out of phase, more on a micro level in the whole mix when you have gotten to the point that just raising or lowering your faders or trim on the mixer channels won't get you 'there' and at that point really it is the limitation of the original sound in that particular track. EQ, compression, etc. can work some but at some point, but with each of those choices it is a compromise and ultimately goes back to the inherent weakness in the original sound.

Our drummer has a trad style front kick drumhead that doesn't have the built in port for putting a microphone into the kick, so it is hard to get that more high end thwack of the beater on the inside head. Early on in practices, I tried some tricks to isolate the kick a bit and it really made it worse by putting a blanket over the kick with the mic underneath (which worked pretty good to cut down some high end bleed when micing through the kick port) but with the full face kick drum head, it added this weird low end rumble to the proceedings. It was better to just let it bleed.

What I tried to have another option on getting that beater on the kick sound was putting a second microphone and track on the other head, where the beater is located - but that track turned out to be pretty much worthless to try and mix, as it would get the beater and a crap load of the under snare sound (rattle rattle) on each hit. Yeah you would get the beater better, but the rattle from under the snare was annoying and really couldn't be EQ'ed out with any good results. I ended up not using it at all and quit recording it. I've tried double micing a snare with one on top and one below and it has never panned into anything usable.

yeah the kick thing does sound pretty challenging. i'm assuming removing the front head entirely is not possible?

(best kick sound i ever got was from one with no front head)

surprised about the snare thing - i love top/bottom snare micing, wouldn't do it any other way now. though there was that time i finished a mix and wondered why my snare sound was so thin, not realising til later that i hadn't flipped the phase on one of the channels..

Hiya ILX, long time no speak. I've recently come out from the depths of wherever it is that I hide and brought out some new music stuff.

http://lynskey.bandcamp.com/album/idea-prime

If you're a last.fm person it's on there as well

http://www.last.fm/music/Lynskey/Idea+Prime

― Lynskey, Saturday, July 23, 2011 5:43 AM Bookmark

Oh man, I missed this and I was a fan of Lynskey's old electronic stuff. I still listen to one of his track's not infrequently. Lynskey, if you don't mind a brutally honest comment, your production is fucking awesome and the vocals on this do not really stand up to it.