right on! keep progressing man
Reviews for "The Dark Desolater"
Spadezer responds:
Thanks
This is really good and a great improvement over your older stuff. Just needs more of your older melodies! The sound design stuff is really nice.
Spadezer responds:
I'm flattered by your positive and unexpectedly short review. It's interesting that you miss the older melodies, and I wonder if maybe it was because those were more intricate. I know the focus of this piece wasn't the melody but I did focus and taking the theme and trying to alter it in diffferent ways without distorting it.
Thanks
Thoughts while listening:
Starts out VERY Tim Burton. Somehow turns all Slender Man, while retaining that Burton quality. Love the drop! Makes me wish I'd pulled out the headphones for the first listen! Methinks I'm gunna hafta have a convo with you on how to make dub...I wanna, but I keep failing. Do you use a keyboard while you record, or do you do the qwerty thing? Or what I used to do when I still used FL - manually click in each note on the grey grid?
I am totally getting down with this! Needs a strong voice shouting a hook. Maybe some kinda mass of people.
Thoughts after listening:
Welp. You gots the dubstep, there is no doubt. While I am personally not a fan of overly digital-sounding FX, you've used them remarkably here! When the competition is over, if you'd like, I'd love to put an electric guitar track in there for the melody line! Methinks I should get into contact with you to maybe start learning a bit more about the genre. I love good dubstep, but dammit, I can't make my DAW do what's in my head!
Full marks, my friend! Good luck in AIM!
Spadezer responds:
Much appreciated, and thank you. If you want, sure go ahead and hit me up. I'm not sure how much I'll be able to help, especially since I still feel like I fight with making what's in my head play out well in a DAW. What has helped me though with the first time I really tried making a dubstep piece, binge on listening to some dubstep songs and try to listen to the details. What I found is dubstep requires a lot of attention to the small details to make the whole. For example, I watched "We are Number One (Dubstep Remix)" for inspiration and found the drumming generally in Dubstep is a lot more minimal than what I was doing in my other stuff. Also, dubstep tends to separate sounds a little more than what I've done in other pieces too, like there's less harmonizing among different synths.
As for what I do, I have a keyboard to attempt plucking out what I hear in my head, or I use it as I'm messing with knobs to play with the sound of the synth. Otherwise I'm doing a lot of clicking either because I know what I want or I'm cleaning up what I record.
Thanks for the compliments and good luck back to you.