manymanyhaha wrote:Thank you for providing such nice, lovely and composed tracks for us to use. Obviously your approach was different from the rest of ours and I don't know if your tracks got used more than everyone else's but they are certainly noticeable. Next year, for the source tracks, I'm going to do more field recordings and try to do more uneffected and perhaps a little lengthier and composed stuff, maybe? Or I may say sod it and revert back to form, haha.
That track of yours that you are talking about was the first thing I played. I immediately put Valhalla UberMod on it, turning Shape down to -100% to see what it would sound like with reverse and it sounded great. I also put Goodhertz Wow Control on it, to lofi it a little. I carried on messing with all the tracks from everyone and realizing that I liked bits of everything I had done with all the of them, I set about to use them all, even if for just a moment, as my CPU would allow, and I pushed the computer to the edge of breaking to do it
So it may not be noticeable with all the effects but every one of the source tracks is in there. Thanks again everyone, that was fun (I know. I keep saying that but it was, looking forward to next year!)
That's very kind of you to say so! I think we need to play something slower next time... I've tried explaining (and playing) ambient music to my son but he still plays whatever goes on in his head, and it's usually so good that I end up trying to play along... and the ambient idea kind of goes out the window! We'll work on it; at his age I probably would never have listened to anything slow either! Thanks for the description of what you did to the tracks - I assumed you'd put them through something expensive like a Strymon or some sort of synthesiser! I will have to bear those plugins some thought, they do sound amazing. What sort of software do you use these inside? I've been starting to use Reaper because I find it's MIDI editing controls much easier to use than the ones in Ableton Live Lite which I also have, although I don't find the interface very intuitive (yet). Most of our sound editing is done in Adobe Audition because I get it for free (licence from work for Adobe software) and I find it really easy to layer sounds, add effects and most of all edit out all the glitches I make when I record!
