(Funky Downbeat) Audiotic - How was I to know

[Audiotic]

Hi all,

I'm relatively new to the forum and very positively surpirsed by the high quality of music being showcased here!

I've been a ReasonHead since 1.0 and I'm planning to invest more of my time in it in the future. I'm running 9.2 now and after venturing in Cubase/VST/ReWire for a while I decided that I can't be bothered with the hastle/instability of anything VST so it's Reason only for now.

This is something that came about when I was kind of overdoing it with my vocal sample library. It has a positive vibe to it, so I thought it would be a good first share...
Any feedback is more than welcome!

Audiotic - How was I to know

ps: I hope linking external webspace is ok here? Havent found any evidence to the contrary, so I went for it...

[MGB]

Hey dude this is cool. I really like the gated sample/synth and I don't think you overdid it with the vocals at all

One thing that i noticed with your drums is that it sounds like there is quite a bit of reverb on the snare and hats but not on the kick. So when I'm listening it sounds like the kick is really upfront but the snare is much further back in the room. So maybe routing all your drums to a bus and putting the desired reverb on there or using the reverb as a send effect so it applies evenly over your drums.

but otherwise i think it's cool. did you play the rhodes sounds yourself or are they sampled?

[NekujaK]

Cool groove

[Audiotic]

Thanks for the feedback guys!

One thing that i noticed with your drums is that it sounds like there is quite a bit of reverb on the snare and hats but not on the kick
I've tried to adress the drums before.

I've tried adressing that problem before... But it seems like it wasnt enough. Of the 4 snare samples layered only one has a slight reverb on it (kong internally), but I guess the recordings of the "real" snare already has quite a bit of reverb on it. (or the heavy layering itself is the problem) I fear that I would have to redo the drums somewhat heavily to achieve homogeneity. I'll have to see if I'm willing to revisit the whole thing

...did you play the rhodes sounds yourself or are they sampled?

Played them myself. No loops used in that track... It's a tweaked Radical Keys Patch called Filter Wheel

[Carly(Poohbear)]

With regards to the snare and kick, if anything the kick is slightly light when played via my AMP (the snare is nicely placed), played via headphones the kick and snare are better placed.

Real nice funky track you have going on here, full of energy and movement

[Pete B]

Nice keyboards - sound and playing. I like the way some of the music is jumping back and forward across the stereo spectrum. One negative for me was that it sounds a bit over-compressed - there doesn't seem to be enough light and shade or space in the music. Or maybe it'd just sound better in a club than in my padded cell.