Here is the first album of a recent project of mine, recorded, edited and mixed this winter with Ardour (under debian) !
Farandole is on the “pop” side of my musical projects, which inevitably tends towards noise for some reason :).
As usual, almost only FLOSS plugins were used (x42, airwindows, lsp, unplugred, tap, C*; noise repellent, neural amp modeller, ZL Equalizer to name but a few) and mastering was entrusted to the same person that worked on my previous releases (1, 2).
It’s available for free on our collective’s website and on bandcamp if you don’t mind the lesser mp3 quality ;).
This is excellent, nice one jean-emmanuel Some absolutely stellar guitar tones and motifs and melodies and all sorts going on here. Right from the word go, I’m really enjoying listening to this.
Was it a stylistic choice to have that grainy compression sound on the drum bus? And to have very little low end on the tracks? Those aren’t points of criticism or suggestions for improvement, by the way - I actually like the mixing / production and think it works ace for this type of music.
Downloading now because I’m really enjoying this I wanted to throw 5 € your way or something but you didn’t enable that in Bandcamp… Don’t suppose yous have one of those buy me a coffee things or anything like that, per chance?
Anyway I love what you and Sebastien have put together here. Superb work, nice one
A really fine production; I love ride cymbals that can also produce a “swish” sound. It sounds fantastic through my old Pilot speakers. Beautifully spacious drums. Somehow, playback kept stopping before the song “Sparkle,” and I had to restart it.
@willy_dinglefinger
I went for a grainy sound very early in the production, even during tracking there was some of that treatment to help us see where we were going, I didn’t changed the direction afterwards and rather tried to improve upon it. There were a lot of first times for me in this record, it was a funny journey ! As for the low end, well I suppose we didn’t want to drift too much appart from the live sound (small bass drum, no bass player) even if we did make some exceptions. Next time I’ll probably get a bigger bass drum for the recording, and Sébastien now has a submarine pickup (+ octaver) to create bass-ish lines on the fly.
(we’ve added a “pay what you want” option on bandcamp)
@guth
What browser / platform were you using when it stopped ?
I listened to your songs using Firefox running on CachyOS on an old Packard Bell notebook. With that setup, I can run an audio cable to my Yamaha AX-490 and listen through my old Pilot speakers. “PureDirect” sounds fantastic that way!
Edit - don’t change anything re: kick drum etc if that’s not how you operate nor what you’re going for It really does work ‘as is’ and there isn’t any need to alter the setup in any way
Edit again - I love the submarine pickups Excellent choice. I keep meaning to (maybe) jam with a drummer using my Danelectro baritone guitar because I love the sound when I split the signal to go through my bass pedalboard and guitar pedalboard (which then has two output channels itself). The submarine works really well for that.
Sebastien’s guitar playing is stellar on Bird Whistle, by the way.
Some absolutely stellar guitar tones and motifs and melodies and all sorts going on here. Right from the word go, I’m really enjoying listening to this.
I wanted to throw 5 € your way or something but you didn’t enable that in Bandcamp… Don’t suppose yous have one of those buy me a coffee things or anything like that, per chance?
It really does work ‘as is’ and there isn’t any need to alter the setup in any way