Hello Ardour Community! I recently wrapped up a project I’d been working on since about last winter. This was my first major project, and while it isn’t the most well-mixed or well-performed thing floating around this community I’m still proud of it . All songs written, performed/recorded, and mixed by me in Ardour 5 running on AV Linux 2018.
Feedback is appreciated! I can only hope to get better as time goes on, and I value the input of seasoned pros like yourselves!
Thanks to Paul and the Ardour team for putting together this wonderful piece of software.
Hi again nick! I’ve just listen to your songs, I think Early Morning and Neighbors are my favourites. So first thing I would play some more around with is vocals eq, a nice old highpass right up to 300hz for starters and then tweak accordingly to the context of the rest of the instruments. Vocals should be re-recorded more in tune in general with special attention to “passing notes”, but in Early Morning and Neighbors I think it’s worth trying the AT1 autotune and maybe they can stay as they are : )
One thing I feel I’m missing in Neighbors is a bass, are you planning on adding it sometime?
And how did you make your drums? are those hydrogen samples?
Thanks for the feedback! I definitely think vocal EQing is an area I need the most improvement with. There is some bass in Neighbors but I think it could be brought up more than it is - kind of gets buried under everything else! I sort of intentionally wanted the general sound to be sparse, but I think I may have gone a bit overboard on that.
Ah yes, those are Hydrogen samples there - that’s probably my favorite drum machine out there right now .
Thanks again for the input - I appreciate it! Like the old saying goes, “iron sharpens iron”!
. All songs written, performed/recorded, and mixed by me in Ardour 5 running on AV Linux 2018.
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