When you're in love with that special lady
Sinister Rhythm Guitar
Gemini Drums and Mastering
Shadow63 Title, Lyrics and Vocals
SpinDizzy Bass Guitar
OceanGreen Keyboards and Mixing
Offthewall Lap Steel Guitar
Many thanks to my fellow players for another excellent contribution in helping shape this little mishmash of chords. Phil(bassman78fr), Francois(Graiouf), Eric(Letchadrums), and Ana(Ana2022). Always appreciated!
Space, time, nothing will keep me away from you as long as I have my old TELESCOPIO.
Just finished. Would not be possible without such a talented team:
dsilver - Daniele Silvestri drums
MarioLicataBassist - Mario Licata bass
Rbradley59 - Richard Bradley guitars
EddieBlower - Eddie Blower harmonica
ecopunk - Tim engineering mixing/mastering
Best
Since the boys aren't sharing, I will!
Massimo De Agostini marked this collab as finished today and it rips!
Aggravation
Massimo De Agostini
John Heavern
Danilo Iovino
and
Myself (but they really did all of the work ;))
I hope you all enjoy it!
And, I thank you, guys, for inviting me to do this tune with you because I love it!!!
I'm looking for someone who either plays drums, bass, or does vocals..or all of the above, to collaborate on some music. I have a few riffs and ideas going. Just want a fresh perspective
We just finished ULTRA.
It is the story of each of us, ordinary people doing extraordinary things daily while manage to get older and wiser.
Hope you enjoy it as much as we did.
Oh man. I just took four gel tabs and I can?t stop thinking about this poem:
I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
My tongue, every atom of my blood, form?d from this soil, this air,
Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same,
I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,
Hoping to cease not till death.
Creeds and schools in abeyance,
Retiring back a while sufficed at what they are, but never forgotten,
I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard,
Nature without check with original energy.
This goes out to the audio engineers out there...
So, while I have been a part of this community for about four months now, I am still figuring some stuff out.
I have been going into the mixing process assuming that someone who says they can mix, can actually mix, thus not feeling the need to say anything about my feelings on mixing my vocals with autotune, vocoders, pitch correction, etc.
My thoughts on autotune, vocoders, etc...
I am not a fan, unless used properly, meaning, VERY minimally, so as to not even really notice it.
Any great sound engineer will tell you that pitch correction should only be used sparingly and only if absolutely necessary. It should not even be noticeable in the mix.
I am here to have fun and take pride in any finished collaborations I am a part of. If I sound like a robot or the notes I am singing are completely altered, I immediately become disconnected from the tune and bummed out.
Making music is ALL feeling for me.
Fuck it if there are some pitchy spots on a dry vocal sep.
As long as the mix sounds good and everyone sounds like their hearts are in it, that's the sweet spot.
And completely altering the notes I sing is a bit offensive to me. If you want something other than what I contribute, you could get anyone's vocal to change all the notes you want, but I'm really not okay with that.
That said, I suppose I work best with people who play music that makes them feel something, over people who are strictly technical.
I think the worst part is that instead of letting you know where you are off and giving you a chance to correct it yourself, many engineers just take the liberty of doing it themselves without even telling you, and that's just a shitty way to work with people if you ask me. I would never do that to any tracks that people contribute to my collaborations.
If I can't fix it, and very minimal pitch correction isn't doing it, then I am not the right vocalist for your tune. It's that simple, and that's perfectly OKAY! :)
I'd much rather be given the boot than have my vocals so mutilated that I become detached from the project altogether.
With that, the question I have for the audio engineers out there is this...
Do I need to immediately make this known prior to mixing?
I feel like it would come across as offensive to those of you who understand the concept of the proper use of pitch correction.
I certainly never want to offend anyone, but I also want to be very honest about this subject in particular because it is hands down the most reoccurring issue I have had during my short time here.
Oh, and one other thing I have noticed... a few times, people have actually listened to my thoughts on the subject, but tend to limit actual vocal effects altogether, which end up not mixing well with the instrumental in many cases. I love vocal effects, and use all kinds, depending on the song. At the end of the day, the effect/s are added to my natural vocal and the notes are not changed.
So, what would you all consider the most effective and respectful way to communicate these things, and when should this communication occur without offending anyone?
I'm going for quick, blunt, and respectful. :)
I really appreciate any insight or advice on this!!!
YOU ARE THE ONE THAT MADE ME
The lyric was inspired by my wife, Kit. Bobby Watson sent me a beautiful piano ballad that I set the words to. Philippe Pansard laid down yet another wonderful bass line. Alex Zulaika added the perfect drums. Tom Henry joined in and sang the vocal with incredible heart and soul and added a solo. And Tom Hellsten made us all sound great. We hope you like it!
HATTY'S PASSING THROUGH
Lyrics by Liam Butler
This is a little folk/songwriter style melody draft I created for Liam's lyrics. We need some solidly performed, good sounding and well recorded replacements for the following artificial demo parts:
- Drums (+ percussion)
- Bass
- Acoustic Guitar
- Male Lead Vocals
Red Bell
Not sure where this one might go.
Open for replacements and or additions.
Lyric and vocal welcome. Or leaving it as an instrumental
with some lead work, guitar, keyboard, synthesizer, etc.
cool .. but not quite as cool as you .i know...
regardless heres some real deep lyrics i wrote its a love song
thanks to my FRIENDLY koolaborators .
credit to all these guys here on this one
go check em out..
we got
Maxdeago
and PortlandKeyboards Mike and
hobbit78 Pierre and me what a top crew man
hello everyone,
i've been trying to hone my skills, and decided it might be beneficial to seek some advice. i just mixed this one with my latest workflows.
i realize it may be a lot to ask, since there's no reward other than hearing some of the fine musicians that are on this track.
at any rate, any feedback is welcome. perhaps it'll be just what i need to get to the next level.
thanks!
i have remixed this track with considerably less compression.....
the latest version is the one in the player on this page now.
in fact (and my face is a little red here) i was using a compressor/limiter at the end of my mix buss chain that is usually set around -4db of gain reduction. i never thought to look at it, because it's usually just fine, but it was squashing at a whopping -24db of GR. that in itself was doing ridiculous things i'm sure, but i decided to move it out of the signal chain as it is designed to add loudness. i may end up putting it back in, but i'll probably try things without it for a while.
original posted track is here:
https://www.kompoz.com/music/collaboration/1211712/file/1226102/2
YOU'VE GIVEN A VOICE TO THE MOUNTAINS--DANCE VERSION
France had the awesome idea to do a dance version of this one and sang another gorgeous vocal and played the keyboard. Philippe and Brian added a wonderfully danceable bassline and drum part respectively. Brian also contributed keyboard synth, other sound FX, and mastered the song. We hope you like it!
A lively little number from a top team of helpers notably: Mario MarioLicataBassist on bass, Francois Graiouf on guitar, Tez Teek for lyrics and Stef AusTxStef for backing vox. Oneself torturing the drumskins and also your eardrums with vocals :)
I give you SEARCHING...hope you like it.
Thoughts please for Tez who is currently suffering health problems. Here's hoping for a successful procedure and quick return to fitness!