šŸŽ„ Christmas Track Challenge

only from that angle, from any other it was just a bunch of junk on a table :joy:

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Great work!

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thanks for your feedback - just listened to it in the car and think i see what you mean, it is a little muddy, especially in the lows and low midsā€¦ overall balance is not good. it is done mostly rytm only and stereo recording with no mastering, except cutting extreme low and high frequencies in ableton. most sounds are made in rytm with the sample from the beginningā€¦ arp sounds are from digitone. might work on that mix a bit if i am in the moodā€¦ guess i should try to better separate the elements from each other also the kick is a little over the top maybe

what do the others think in terms of mixing? opinions/suggestions?

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Listening in a car is great, I always forget to do it from laziness but when I do my mixes turn out better. As far as mixing I also heard that ear fatigue can change the way you listen to a track drastically so I think its good to take breaks from music/sound.

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Sound design is done. Just the arrangement, performance, recording, auditioning (in the car, of course) and re-recording to do and Iā€™m done!

Iā€™m gonna be sweating to get this finished in time.
:disappointed_relieved::disappointed_relieved::disappointed_relieved::disappointed_relieved::disappointed_relieved::disappointed_relieved::disappointed_relieved::disappointed_relieved::disappointed_relieved:

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I made another version, hopefully more balanced - worked on the kits directly on the machines and did a new recording. (a little noisy)

please submit your songs, folks- only a few days leftā€¦ but no preassure :stuck_out_tongue:

the few submitted tracks have been great so far

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Iā€™ll be putting a stop to that happy little run of greatness in a few days, donā€™t you worryā€¦

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Very cool, well done Sir!

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Will be too late by then, Iā€™ll drag this down as soon as my rushed video is done uploading! haha

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Had hoped to make something more proper, but damn itā€™s been busy here.
Recorded what I had on the little Digis and left it at that, at least thereā€™s something. :slight_smile:

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I took the laziest route and just sampled the first youtube hit when googled Jingle Bells and did something that Iā€™m not proud of. Enjoy!

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Some times itā€™s good to be lazy!

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need a few more ornaments for the :christmas_tree:

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me too :wink:

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Just finished recording (all live, no overdubs, about 370 takes).
Just a bit of limiting and compression, some auditioning in the car, a bit of last minute tweaking and itā€™ll be ready.
Itā€™s a bit shorter than I would have liked, but a nasty dose of shingles earlier in the month limited my time (as well as two jobs and a nine month old) so youā€™re only getting 2:30 out of me.

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Done.
Well, thereā€™s a fumbled transition at 1:40ish but I canā€™t be bothered to record it again.
Just to be clear, this is very NSFW.
Iā€™LL SAY IT AGAINā€¦NOT SAFE FOR WORK.


Merry Christmas you filthy animals.

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Fin you legend! :joy: this put me in the Christmas spirit rightly, the snowman has been called and the tequila is out!

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ok, I made this a few years ago, but Iā€™ll share just for fun:

All OP-1:

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Sounds like itā€™s based on a Rotterdam style first executed in the early 90s :blush:

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That was the intention. Iā€™d like to think if I was 20 years older Iā€™d have been famous (at least in the Netherlands).

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