2024-MAY-01 Info: Check out our current running Songwriting Competition 081 - which offers an interesting twist and a focus on sound design.

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by alavault
Thu Apr 21, 2022 06:42 CEST
Forum: Songwriting Competition
Topic: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC056 April 2022 - Winners announced
Replies: 60
Views: 33023

Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC056 April 2022 - Submissions until 24-04-2022 23:59 UTC+2/CEST

Hello there ! Submission (Atar 8K50) : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_rkY2mz7XNKowB9v2shAsb4_llk5aFo-/view?usp=sharing *** This is a draft from last year where I experimented with SuperWave P8, to get that JP8000 sound I love so much. Underlays with Spire. Basses too. The drums are from Superior...
by alavault
Tue Apr 19, 2022 18:13 CEST
Forum: Songwriting Competition
Topic: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC056 April 2022 - Winners announced
Replies: 60
Views: 33023

Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC056 April 2022 - Submissions until 24-04-2022 23:59 UTC+2/CEST

Hello there ! Submission (Atar 8K50) : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_rkY2mz7XNKowB9v2shAsb4_llk5aFo-/view?usp=sharing *** This is a draft from last year where I experimented with SuperWave P8, to get that JP8000 sound I love so much. Underlays with Spire. Basses too. The drums are from Superior ...
by alavault
Sat Apr 09, 2022 10:24 CEST
Forum: Mix Challenge
Topic: MIX CHALLENGE - MC085 April 2022 - Winners announced
Replies: 152
Views: 50006

Re: MIX CHALLENGE - MC085 April 2022 - Submissions until 21-04-2022 23:59 UTC+2/CEST

Salut ! Mix :https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hBaK4IQ6r-oQ7X7j45RTjDPl8EjFGrb-/view?usp=sharing *** Usual setup : track to busses, busses to master. 3 parallel comps : rhythm section, vocals, everything else not mentionned previously. I didn't try to reproduce the original vocoded vocals as it remin...
by alavault
Wed Feb 02, 2022 16:34 CET
Forum: Mix Challenge
Topic: MIX CHALLENGE - MC084 February 2022 - Winners announced
Replies: 154
Views: 58478

Re: MIX CHALLENGE - MC084 February 2022 - Submissions until 21-02-2022 23:59 UTC+1/CET

Hello, Mix : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZJDePORSntxcYy2yCZatZ8-rJrYx_THH/view?usp=sharing I tried to keep the mixing time under 3 hours, to see what I can do "under pressure" Drums : Kick : gating, EQ, comp, clipping. Sent to a parallel comp. Snare : gate, EQ, comp, clipping. Trigger...
by alavault
Thu Jan 13, 2022 01:15 CET
Forum: Songwriting Competition
Topic: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC053 January 2022 - Winners announced
Replies: 57
Views: 39052

Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC053 January 2022 - Submissions until 24-01-2022 23:59 UTC+1/CET

Arelem If you want to know more you can read the standards for loudness and equal loudness perception : ITU 1770.4 on loudness algorithms : https://www.itu.int/dms_pubrec/itu-r/rec/bs/R-REC-BS.1770-4-201510-I!!PDF-E.pdf ISO226.2003 on equal loudness curves : http://www.sengpielaudio.com/Acoustics22...
by alavault
Thu Jan 06, 2022 16:51 CET
Forum: Songwriting Competition
Topic: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC052 December 2021 - Winners announced
Replies: 40
Views: 26783

Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC052 December 2021 - Winners announced

@Mister Fox ,
Could you be more precise when you say "the drum samples (and room for the whole set)" ?
Thank you !
by alavault
Sat Jan 01, 2022 15:45 CET
Forum: Songwriting Competition
Topic: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC052 December 2021 - Winners announced
Replies: 40
Views: 26783

Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC052 December 2021 - Voting until 03-JAN-2022 23:59 UTC+1/CET

So here is my votes. This is feedback from me, alone. According to the rules, my collaborator isn't supposed to give his votes. EsteveCorbera: It seems the musicians have fun when they are playing. Good. Above all, the coherent phrases that come from the clarinet sound good. I can not really identi...
by alavault
Thu Dec 23, 2021 07:22 CET
Forum: Songwriting Competition
Topic: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC052 December 2021 - Winners announced
Replies: 40
Views: 26783

Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC052 December 2021 - Submissions until 24-12-2021 23:59 UTC+1/CET

I sadly do not have much time to give feedback this month. Just some quick pointers, maybe: @alavault and @A Future in Noise I can't really comment on the dissoance. But I can at least tell you that the second guitar solo is a bit loud. Other than that, the vocals are cut "too high" (give...
by alavault
Sun Dec 05, 2021 10:03 CET
Forum: Mix Challenge
Topic: MIX CHALLENGE - MC083 December 2021 - Winners announced
Replies: 127
Views: 53650

Re: MIX CHALLENGE - MC083 December 2021 - Submissions until 21-12-2021 23:59 UTC+1/CET

Hello ! Mix : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X2QaSiivjNFD_4TrBhhtXMGAz1f_GJGJ/view?usp=sharing First remark : the vocal double should have re-recorded. It's way too out of time. Anyway, AC GTRs : Panned L/R, EQ, comp. Short verb and parallel guitar comp "Lead" guitars : amp emulation, EQ...
by alavault
Sat Dec 04, 2021 07:58 CET
Forum: Songwriting Competition
Topic: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC051 November 2021 - Winners announced
Replies: 55
Views: 24411

Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC051 November 2021 - Winners announced

Hello !

Congratulations to everyone who participated : your submissions were so varied, unique and interesting !
I would like to claim IK ModoBass please.

See you in the ballroom. Maybe. :shrug: