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| A Red Dawn (Take 2) by lewisgreenbaba | 1 day ago |
| Luis, This should be on the radio! Bravo! -Bill |
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| Broken Memories (sketch) by Mungo | 1 day ago |
| @lewisgreenbaba Thank you, Luis |
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| The Tarot Reader's Lament by padowan_learner | 2 days ago |
| This is witty and disarming. (later ...) so is the film! |
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| March of the Evil (sketch) by Mungo | 2 days ago |
| @A1K3M1, @padowan_learner, @pharmakeus Thanks you for listening and commenting! Chris #1, Thank you for the reference to musilimgauze. I remembered years ago thinking I was the only U.S. person who listened to Bryn. BTW, the "airplane" is part of the three synths I am using to play the bass line/underlying pulse. I was surprised at its sound when I started playing the repeated note in the outro. I recently got a new synth fro Izotope called Iris and have been toying around with it - I got lazy on this one and used three pre-sets rather than tweaking one of my own. In the left channel is "Bass- Drugged Crunchy", in the center, "Retro - Pretty Bent Piano" and in the right channel, "Glass - Fiddlesticks". The "melody" on top is a combination of Apple's African and Asian percussion kits and 2 more instances of Iris. Jeanette, It may be a while. 9 out of 10 times I go to my home computer, I want to discover something new. I have about 600 projects in my unfinished folder - never mind the dozens of voice memos on my phone I haven't started going through to translate into music projects! And a few Death Nougat pieces I would like to expand on. Chris #2, Thanks! Part of the claustrophobia is the bass line is slowly increased in volume through the duration of the track. And I did have a lot of fun doing this! -Bill |
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| il neige by TheMotto | 2 days ago |
| it may as well be in classical as long as the electronic music from the last century is stocked in the 'classical' section of record stores. (record stores, what are they?) Fascinating timbres and effects. |
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| mud street grassy area by TheMotto | 2 days ago |
| very interesting | |
| the toilet brush is broken by TheMotto | 2 days ago |
| amusing title. interesting work. | |
| King Crimson, I Talk To The Wind (Cover) by Rodrish | 2 days ago |
| one of my favorite songs. Nice cover. | |
| Recte Est (all is well) by A1K3M1 | 2 days ago |
| Love the production here. | |
| Something Just Fell Out Of My Head by DJShadowkat | 3 days ago |
| Loved the melody and playing throughout. I also enjoyed the production. | |
| The Shadow Machine (Broken Head Mix) by DJShadowkat | 3 days ago |
| Great atmosphere. I enjoyed this very much. | |
| Dark Passageway, I Dropped My Flashlight [Blasphemous Ritual Mix] by pharmakeus | 3 days ago |
| I enjoyed the atmosphere and guitar very much. | |
| The Love God by BigJimSlade | 3 days ago |
| This is the sort of music I love and explains why I still follow Matthew Sweet after all these years. Very well done. Excellent guitar and vocal melody, song and guitar playing. |
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| Sparkling by nexusone | 3 days ago |
| Very cool. I almost expected Robert Plant to start sining - it's probably how your guitar is tuned. | |
| Over the Ocean {In the Care of You} by pharmakeus | 8 days ago |
What ocean is this? Topographic ?  I enjoyed the song, especially the guitar and production. |
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| ANSWERS by KCsGROOVE | 8 days ago |
| Love the guitar and feel of this track. Lyrics are interesting. |
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| A Touch of Steam by padowan_learner | 8 days ago |
| Your selection of timbres and playfulness here are well done. I also appreciate the subtle distortion. | |
| My Generation by pharmakeus | 9 days ago |
| This is an unusual arrangement - enjoyed the vocals (main and bg) and guitar. The outro was very cool. |
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| House of the Rising Son (2012 MIx) by Mungo | 11 days ago |
| @lewisgreenbaba Thank you, Luis. I had fun with how the distortion effects turned out. |
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| Lactating Frogs by DeathNougat | 11 days ago |
| @particledots It's panned harshly by design - I'm using two instances of Iris and wanted to keep them separated. I haven't had the time to delve too deeply into Iris yet. My current work task should end in 12 days and I'll have the time to dive back in. Only worked 6 hours today though ... might work on something this evening. I'm thinking of using the drum sound I got on the end of "Efflux", combining it with the distortion effect I got on "House of the Rising Son (2012)", perhaps applied to a guitar/synth gutar, with the Iris working as a pad in the background. I like Iris so far, but in my limited exploration, the way it works with the graphic interface is more interesting than the sonic result. The Ernest Borgnine track, I think, turned out more interesting. Although this one has a better title. |
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| Eternity (reanimated) by RazbaqueDirge | 11 days ago |
| Very much liked the production, tones and rhythms in this. Dramatic. | |
| Un rojo amanecer (A Red Dawn) by lewisgreenbaba | 11 days ago |
| I enjoyed this very much, Luis. Such sweet but sad lyrics. And love your guitar as always. | |
| House of the Rising Son (2012 MIx) by Mungo | 16 days ago |
| @pharmakeus LOL. I didn't catch the misspelling! On the song file itself, I've spelled it "Sun". Perhaps the spelling is appropriate since my original vocal is as close to gospel as it is the blues. I was intrigued how sending my vocal through a couple of drum transform effects, a drone effect and an amplifier made the vocal harrowing. And no offense taken, most folks who know me, know I am mildly eccentric-but not crazy. |
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| The Wake: Pathe'tique One: Perennial(MIDI DeMo) by Strigidae | 16 days ago |
| got me at the first sound of drums. I have a tendency to hesitate to call any of my stuff "final", but I do move on because I'm inclined to go to the next idea than to spend time in the past. |
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| Funeral March: Call me, The Beauty of a Falling Sky by Strigidae | 16 days ago |
| @Strigidae - not jazzy, I'd call it intriguingly martial. | |
| Efflux (sketch) by Mungo | 16 days ago |
| @Strigidae - you've probably heard more of my music than anyone, besides me! | |
| House Of The Rising Sun by LaFayette | 17 days ago |
| really interesting and cool to hear this one done this way | |
| Aurora by ByZanz | 17 days ago |
| cool/warm synth timbres. I very much liked the distorted high synth and overall production. Soothing, engaging track. | |
| Riot Van by pharmakeus | 17 days ago |
| thanks for sharing this, I enjoyed it | |
| Hope Battles Fear by RazbaqueDirge | 17 days ago |
| love the little percussion details, mood, choice of timbres. production. | |
| Efflux (sketch) by Mungo | 18 days ago |
| @lewisgreenbaba , @Audiogasm Luis, AG - thank you both very much! |
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| Ragin' Fury by BigJimSlade | 18 days ago |
| Very good vocals and guitar. I enjoyed the song too. | |
| My River Walk by Audiogasm | 18 days ago |
| Soothing. Very much like the guitar phrasing, tone, arrangement and production. |
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| ONE OF A KIND by KCsGROOVE | 24 days ago |
| very good song - melody and lyric. Enjoyed the production too. very mellow. I like the painting too. |
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| My Baby Baby by Beatle128 | 25 days ago |
| kudos to all! excellent song, arrangement, singing, sax, production. | |
| Minstrels Adrift an Acerbic Ocean by RazbaqueDirge | 1 month ago |
| evocative. dark. dream. excellent use of rhythms, timbres, textures and stereo space. excellent production. intriguing song art. |
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| The Uncertain Predictability Of Unpredictable Certainty by zagneek | 1 month ago |
| very interesting mix of parts. | |
| Sample Demo by Pcmx | 1 month ago |
| Very cool how you made those sample work for you. | |
| Buddha's Birthday (V2) by TomDevine | 1 month ago |
| Very cool track. I very much enjoyed the interplay between guitars and bass. | |
| Cool Spring Night v1 by Mungo | 1 month ago |
| @zallaz , @particledots - thank you very much for listening and commenting. | |
| Because (Beatles cover) by Beatle128 | 1 month ago |
| wow. | |
| What They Tell You by Beatle128 | 1 month ago |
| I like the melody, lyrics and singing. The synth horns, not so much, I find them distracting and detracting. I understand you're evoking the Savoy Truffle horn arrangement, but I wish the horns were better sounding; or perhaps, lacking good sax samples in the EXS24 (please, Apple!), buried deeper in the mix. | |
| London Calling (The Clash cover) by zallaz | 1 month ago |
| I enjoyed this. Saw the Clash in 1982 (wow, 30 years ago ...) at Red Rocks Amphitheater with two expat British co-workers. |
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| Bus of the Dead by pharmakeus | 2 months ago |
| I like the story and guitar playing. | |
| In Chinatown by pharmakeus | 2 months ago |
| I really enjoy the lead guitar here. | |
| Skybed by JanCivil | 2 months ago |
| I like. | |
| ex post facto by JanCivil | 2 months ago |
| I enjoyed listening to this. | |
| Piano Scramble [piano, piano, trombone, tuba, congas] by davidsmith99 | 2 months ago |
| I am picturing the Keystone Cops. Very enjoyable | |
| For Agustín [trio for two guitars and cello] by davidsmith99 | 2 months ago |
| I especially like the final third, but that comment is more a reflection of the mood I am in than the quality of faster, allegro section. | |
| Titan by Mosaica | 2 months ago |
| I like the tension and restrained dynamics of this. I like your vocal tone and phrasing. Enjoyable mix/production, at least on my headphones. | |
| LOOSEN UP by KCsGROOVE | 2 months ago |
| I have been in a Paul McCartney frame-of-mind recently and appreciate your bass playing here. I like the non-bass guitars too, but the bass was especially attention-grabbing. |
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| Bludgeoned To Dearth (Hard Core Ambient Edit) by zagneek | 3 months ago |
| I like the vibe to this. The mix of percussion and icy synths is very good. Wasn't expecting the slow down and change to mood (but still detached in way) mid point. heh, nice jazz there too. |
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| When I Said, "I Love You" by BigJimSlade | 3 months ago |
| Very good Big Star-like song and I like the vocals and guitar. | |
| Blown Away by BigJimSlade | 3 months ago |
| This music makes feel young and old at the same time. I very much like this - especially the hot lead break and vocals throughout. |
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| :48 second GarageBand Test by jojoma | 3 months ago |
| Jojoma, I think the Logic will make it "sound better" but it won't make unrealistic instruments sound more realistic. I worked in GarageBand until I was interested in more "unrealistic" sounds - the Sculpture synth. I was considering another synth to use as a Plug-in and realized that the cost of the plug-in was half the price of all of Logic Pro. How "realistic" these these instruments do or do not sound has more to do with my ability (or lack of after using GarageBand for about 3 months) - http://www.icompositions.com/music/song.php?sid=107081 . Later, still using GB, I was better, http://www.icompositions.com/music/song.php?sid=107494 Later, more MIDI, still using GB - http://www.icompositions.com/music/song.php?sid=108314 Using Logic hasn't made me a better musician or composer - it's made me more familiar with parts of the music production process. |
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| :48 second GarageBand Test by jojoma | 3 months ago |
| @jojoma jojoma wrote: > Wow, you caught the phase effect on the drums? You're good. Some really helpful points you've given me here. I understand what you're talking about the bass sounding blurry. I haven't been able to isolate the bass sound so the listener can hear it from the rest of the instruments. The bass balance is actually set in the middle. The balance knob for the bass is blurred out and GB won't let me give the bass a left or right shift balance. Not sure why. I initially locked all the tracks so I wouldn't lose anything. Could that be the reason? The reason it is blurred out is because you probably have set "Track Pan" for that track. The panning knob may appear to be in the center, but the panning balance is probably being set by "track pan". There is another more obscure reason for this situation - it involves using a bass MIDI track that was not originally created in GarageBand. I won't go into the details since it's probably not the case here. jojoma wrote: > Once you've locked the bass you can't change the balance? I can change the balance of the drums and guitar so not sure why the bass presents a problem. Check "Track Pan" by toggling "Hide/Show Parameters" for that track. You'll see a pull down list with "Track Volume" and "Track Pan". jojoma wrote: > Mungo wrote: > When I can pick it out of the mix, it sounds as though all the notes are at very similar MIDI velocities (related to the colors of the bars in GarageBand's piano roll). Can you elaborate? I'm not very knowledgeable in that area. Can I set these at different velocities to make the bass sound more real? How do I fix it? If it's a MIDI track, which I suspect it is, click it and a "piano roll" will appear in the bottom half of the GarageBand screen. You'll see a "Velocity" slider on the left hand side. This affects how hard the note is hit. If you hit harder, it will be louder, softer, more quiet. When you want to emphasize a note, you hit it harder than the notes before and after it. jojoma wrote: > Mungo wrote: > Most bass players would want to emphasize or syncopate with a beat, depending on what the drummer is playing. I don't have a good sense of that going on here. Yea, I kind of realized that...I'm very green at composing music so I have work to do on syncopation. For the time being, I kind of pretend each "musician" is showing off their chops by going off on their own tangent riffs. Kind of what a lot of pretentious and self-indulgent progressive rock groups do..ala Rush, Fates Warning, etc...or that's what I'm telling myself. Thanks for the great feedback. That's OK, I like some prog.  I do like King Crimson and Porcupine Tree.Rush? I appreciate their playing ability, I could never get around Geddy's voice and their music never intrigued me enough to overlook it. |
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| :48 second GarageBand Test by jojoma | 3 months ago |
| I'll get back to your questions this weekend when I have more time. | |
| Ghost Wharf (v3) by Mungo | 3 months ago |
| @BigJimSlade Thanks. No need to go through all my stuff. I'm looking to hearing more of your guitar playing rather than my keyboard approximations of guitar! | |
| Encore by charlybrain | 3 months ago |
| LOL at the song art. I enjoyed the beat and overall production. I also enjoyed its brevity, because I gotta go! |
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| Speed Burnin' Blacktop by BigJimSlade | 3 months ago |
| This is cool. Distortion and reverb sounds fine (to me, but then I'd probably spend most of my time in a cavern with a Sunn amp, if I could) |
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| Redline Daddy by BigJimSlade | 3 months ago |
| Your band name caught my eye (Kentucky Fried Movie). I'm glad I did, it's been a while since I heard some instrumental surf music. I enjoyed this, especially your lead playing, tasty reverb and how it sits in the mix. | |
| BumBADum by RockDHouse | 3 months ago |
| I enjoyed this. This wouldn't be out of place as a solo piano piece on a rock album, circa 1973. | |
| No More by theironsaul | 3 months ago |
| Love the abrasive tone and phrasing of your lead guitar. | |
| Violence: Pathe'que Two: Of Passions Starving each other's Rage(MIDI Demo) by Strigidae | 3 months ago |
| I like the sparseness and tension the music has. If I were mixing this, I'd bring the piano up more in the mix. But that probably says more about my bias towards piano sounds that what you are trying to convey here. |
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| :48 second GarageBand Test by jojoma | 3 months ago |
| > Do these sound like real instruments? :48 second clip I guess, it depends what you mean by "real instruments". Synths have been used for decades now. The drums sound the most "real" here, although their floating around the stereo space (with a phase effect?) detracts from "real". The "guitar" might sound more real I think if you added more "attack" (one of the compression parameters in Garageband). The "bass" in the left channel sounds blurry, but that may just be my old ears at the end of the day. It sounds very much like a synth bass and not like a simulated electric bass sound. When I can pick it out of the mix, it sounds as though all the notes are at very similar MIDI velocities (related to the colors of the bars in GarageBand's piano roll). Most bass players would want to emphasize or syncopate with a beat, depending on what the drummer is playing. I don't have a good sense of that going on here. Feel free to take my notes with a giant grain of salt. A lot of my music, as Mungo or Death Nougat, does not follow rules or expectations. |
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| Hobo's Lullaby (cover) re-master 2 by Audiogasm | 3 months ago |
| In a way, it sounds as though it could have been recorded in a box car, with the mic about 2 feet from the guitar. I think the anbience sounds fine. I enjoyed this very much. |
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| Every Single Touch (My Skin Is Letting Go) by MakenaMonk | 3 months ago |
| I enjoyed your vocals and production very much. Good lyrics too. | |
| Alienfunk by lewisgreenbaba | 4 months ago |
| Excellent funk here, Luis. Love the guitar playing. and overall groove. | |
| Belim (excerpt) by Mungo | 4 months ago |
| @lewisgreenbaba - Thank you, Luis. | |
| couldnt get it quite right by Lapskin | 4 months ago |
| I am intrigued by the mix of darkness and light in this. | |
| The Pool is Empty, Even Though It's Summer Time. It Might Have To Do With That Big Monster With Sharp Teeth That Is Sitting Down At The Bottom Waiting For People Like Us To Jump In And Be Eaten, But That's Not A Problem, Since There Is No Water. by Uplink | 4 months ago |
| I enjoyed this much. I especially liked the change in dynamics and back towards the middle. | |
| 4+4=8 by Uplink | 4 months ago |
| LOL. Maybe this is why Don Cab are instrumental. |
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| zeppelin on fire by VertigoSteps | 4 months ago |
| Enjoyable and well done. I especially like the vocals. | |
| The Sounds of Other Things by Audiogasm | 4 months ago |
| It is good to listen to this one again. Very relaxing and yet entrancing. | |
| Tribute to The Mighty Temptations by morgan102 | 4 months ago |
| If you ever want "help" forgetting a lyric, contact me. Morgan, I hope you had a merry Christmas and have a very happy New Year. -Bill |
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| Darkest Knights by nikrox | 4 months ago |
| very good mix and production. Very much enjoyed the guitar playing and soothing melody. | |
| Day By Day by JCLeonard | 4 months ago |
| Very cool song. I like your way with lyrics and melody. Gives me a Robyn Hitchcock/Ray Davies vibe. |
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| Sweet Blue Nutcracker Suite by revoltington | 4 months ago |
| Very cool. The juxtaposition of the organ motif section against the blues work-outs is a great idea. Some of your slower phrasing and tone here reminds me of Roy Buchanan. |
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| The Beatles *& QUEEN covers by FunkoMatt | 5 months ago |
| This was fun to listen to! |
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| Viagra Mamma by artneuro | 5 months ago |
| Since Zappa is gone, someone has to document 21st century life in "folk songs" like this. This was fun to listen to. |
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| Gittin' Me Up by brewchugger | 5 months ago |
| This is excellent and very cool. I love the feel of this, the instruments and voice sound fine in the mix to me-at least in headphones, and the solo at the end was icing on the cake. | |
| Fables (rev 1 of Foibles) by Mungo | 5 months ago |
| @brewchugger - I haven't heard "The Body" - I'll have to check it out. I finally got into some Pink Floyd about 4 years ago, after avoiding them for years since they got played to death on FM radio. Thank you very much for listening and your comments! |
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| China Girl (Cover) by EvilFactman | 5 months ago |
Quote: C'mon guys this is truly awful but it was worth it all for the google ads Ha ha. Had to use one of them for the pic in case they go away. Wal my good buddy is the hearing aide on the fritz? :D That's the spirit! I had a good time listening to this. Cool, 171 cm is just over 5' 7". Got her number? |
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| Montana (Zappa Cover) by EvilFactman | 5 months ago |
| This is inspired - I like the vocals here very much. | |
| Foibles (sketch) by Mungo | 5 months ago |
| @brewchugger - thank you. I have found that my music tastes over time have gravitated towards instrumental music. | |
| Polk Salad Annie by brewchugger | 5 months ago |
| heh, it's been probably 40 years since I've heard this. Cool version, shades of ZZ Top. | |
| Afternoon Nap by brewchugger | 5 months ago |
| wow. I like this audio journey fascinating arrangement and production. sweet lead guitar tone. |
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| Inherited Ways by brewchugger | 5 months ago |
| I like the arrangement and production very much. I wasn't expecting the guitar solo, it's cool. Very strong chorus and vocals. |
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| Octopus Ambulance by Mungo | 5 months ago |
| @brewchugger, thank you! I love exploring effects and sounds for their own sake. @revoltington, thank you for your comments! I usually try to have the song art complement the music, I appreciate you noticing, I'm not sure that many people notice. I appreciate the comparison to Pink Floyd and the 2001 soundtrack music. (I love the idea of a psychedelic guitar erupting from a Ligeti vocal soundscape ... hmmm ....) @particledots - feel free to download, edit as you wish and incorporate into your music, Bryn. Or If you want the Logic file, let me know. I'm sorry I didn't post this last year with the other 2. I'm guessing I didn't because it's the least Fripp-like of the MungoTronics and we were tossing Fripp effects ideas back and forth. "Shower of sound" is a good description of the sound produced by the two fast bursts of notes (around :35-:45) being compounded through the rest of the peice by the delays. |
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| Octopus Ambulance by Mungo | 6 months ago |
| @pharmakeus - thanks! I may reuse the latter part of this in some future work (or more likely re-use the effects). | |
| The Arbitrarium by revoltington | 6 months ago |
| BTW, my first thought was "boy, this guy makes me feel real lazy in my drum programming, I need to pay more attention to that". I especially like guitar playing and the choice of instruments in arrangement here. The bell sound is very pure and the part is entrancing. |
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| Watermelon In Easter Hay (Zappa cover redux) by revoltington | 6 months ago |
| In the last two days I finished reading "Zappa the Hard Way" and listening to Zappa & the Mothers Carnegie Hall 4 CD set, so I guess you could call me a Zappaphile. I bookmark my artist page (rather than the iComp him page) and haven't had any problems using Safari 5.1.1. I would try clearing your Safari cache and, if that doesn't work, in case it's some Flash ad causing the problem, going to http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html and selecting "Delete all sites" button in the Website Storage Setting panel. I enjoyed listening to this. I like the drum programming - it captures some of Vinnie's frenetically tossed off odd playing early in his career. I most liked the guitar playing. Well done. |
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| Take Up Your Sword and Ride by pharmakeus | 6 months ago |
| I enjoyed this. I was especially intrigued by how the faux flute effect invoked memories of Chris Wood of Traffic. | |
| Riff by maglasser | 6 months ago |
| I hear an "eastern feel" from the descending figure on the harp-like synth (or more specifically, an Indian feel by way of 1967 George Harrison) and some of your harmony, especially towards the end. I like this. |
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| Penile Dementia by artneuro | 6 months ago |
| Makes me want to get into my car and go fast. | |
| Chrysochroa by ChrisComet1 | 6 months ago |
| I like the bass and percussion. | |
| Make My Heart Sing (Vocals open for collab) by SierraRace | 6 months ago |
| I haven't heard a voice like this interesting since Diamanda Galas. | |
| Grannys guitar by Dustwood | 6 months ago |
| I liked this a lot and appreciate some of the sonic stuff going on the background that adds some color and texture to the track. | |
| Skull Driller by Dustwood | 6 months ago |
| I couldn't resist listening with a title like this. This is very good, I especially like the guitar part, its production, and that cool clanging chord. |
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| angry by Dustwood | 6 months ago |
| This is a very controlled anger. I enjoyed the playing and mix on this. It's hypnoticly catchy and the unexpected keyboard break was cool. |
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