nich's 100 Most Recent Comments
| Smooth Sh$t by Rodamental | 1 year ago |
| Nice!! I don't know much about Rap/HipHop, but this is very cool! Smooth, almost a rap/jazz number. Like it! |
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| The State That We're In by Abstractvision | 1 year ago |
| Hey, this is my kinda song! Love the lyrics!! Great vocals, like the way you mixed it up. Good composition, leads me right through the song. Nice!! |
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| R.I.P. (tribute to Jimmy Mizen) by DLB | 1 year ago |
| Hi Dave, you asked me for a critique, here goes... Nice! Very good production! The lyrics are great, vocals, guitar, piano, all very pro! The composition is good and leads me through the story nicely. Very well done! I like it! ![]() From an engineering viewpoint (of which I am not a master by any means, just my opinion) : The vocals could have a bit more presence in spots, the piano tends to over-shadow the vocals. Only on the softer lines. Play with the volume curves to drop the piano in those spots by 1 or 2 dB. But bring it back up again in between. Or try a "Clear Vocals" EQ on the vocal track. Or raise the soft lines by 1 or 2 dB. The piano could use more change-up as the song progresses, same basic pattern with additional off-notes or scale-runs. It tends to add to the story-line feel, if not over done. It has a very good methodical rhythm, but towards the end of the song, should become more. Same with drums, more change ups as song progresses. Sometimes adding a few more additional hits or changing the "hit pattern" as the song goes from one section to another can be a good "attention grabber". Then repeat the new pattern until it changes again. I like the waves and ocean FX at the end, could maybe fade them in more gradually,... so they are not "there" too suddenly. Would help make them sound like they were there all along. (the volume levels are fine, just build more gradually) About half-way through the song, on the beginning of the line "Life has (click, click, click) left no chance" there is a clicking sound, can't tell if it's the drums doing something, or if its a redline somewhere. Check your GB file at that spot for red-line. If it's the drums (intentional), you may want to make it more obvious that its the drums. Hope I'm not being too critical, I think the song and collab is great! You did a very nice job of bringing it all together. The points I make above are from learning from my own mistakes. (as you can tell by some of my own music. ) Love the lyrics!!! |
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| UMUWA DESERT WINDS by AMBRADUNA | 1 year ago |
| This is beautiful! Love your sense of surrounding the listener with sound. Very good! | |
| Futuristic World by RAVENS | 1 year ago |
| Very nice composition! This is great! You've got a really good sense of composition. It all flows very well while changing up enough to keep it interesting. Nice! |
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| Longing by RAVENS | 1 year ago |
Nicely done! The poem is great. Very personal and sets the scene. I can see a murder mystery about to unfold while I listen. Nice vocals, very soft and captivating. Good one! |
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| Star Trek - Traitor by anitric2000 | 1 year ago |
Nice work! You did this in GB? Excellent. Probably timed for a soundtrack, but musically, I wanted more. More length, was over way to fast! You're extremely talented. Can definitely see why you working with paramount. The spacial qualities in this are great! |
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| Someday by KCsGROOVE | 1 year ago |
| Really good! Like this one a lot! Nice keyboard, good composition. I like your smokey voice, could bring up the vocal a bit more. Not volume, but more presence. Try the AUGraphicEQ on the vocal track, might give you more to play with, bring out the crispness a tad more. You've got a great voice, just thought the main vocal could have a bit more snap to it, the harmonies could be a tad stronger. The lyrics are great! Love your style! Good one! |
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| Magica Atmosfera by lupiroz | 1 year ago |
| Wow! Great piece. I don't understand a lick of Italian, but I love the piece. The sax is perfect, guitars are right on, everything sounds really good! Nice one! Had to edit in one more comment, the Sax is kickin! ![]() Nice! |
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| ARTWORK 1979-1984 by Barretok | 1 year ago |
| Nice work! Love your style! Lot of it reminds me of Picasso. Music is great too and very fitting for the art. Great stuff! |
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| Art Works 1 by nich | 1 year ago |
| Thanks for all the comments! Glad you enjoy my work (play). Shadow- I paint and draw more from my mind than from my eye-sight. My eyes are just tools, it's my mind the "sees" the vision. (that should tell you how warped my mind is. ![]() Many of these were done years ago, when my vision was better. Losing a little more every year. Now I do mostly digital art, PhotoShop and graphics tablet. Because I can zoom-in to see it better. A few more years and I probably won't do art work anymore. But, I'll be more focused on my music instead. That's OK. |
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| Right Before My Eyes by lupiroz | 1 year ago |
| Great one Lupe! Man, great vocals, lyrics, excellent playing. Like the off-note guitar tweaks! Leads me off track just enough to bring me back again. Cool! Constructively, you could add a little more punch to the drums, they sound a bit flat. Not too much, a slight tweak would do it. Give the snare more "hit" and bring the bass drum up some. IMHO Nice song! Really like it. |
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| 16 YEARS (revisited) by DLB | 1 year ago |
| Nice! I like the tightness of the group, you guys sound really good! Did you record individual tracks or is this a "live" record? Constructively, the vocals could be more up front, more "vibrant". Not your singing, it's great, I think it's the mix. Course, that only applies if the tracks are recorded individually. If it's "live" (if it is, I'm really jealous!) pump the volume on your mic more, EQ with slightly more high-end, but not to crisp. That might bring the vocals up front more. This allows you to use less compression on the mic. I've gone overboard on the compression before, makes it sound like I'm singing inside a barrel and reduces the "presence" of the vocals. Not a good thing. I could go on and on, sorry. Great song though! You have a good voice, sing it out! |
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| Orange Sky by DLB | 1 year ago |
| Nice! Reggae Blues! Got great lyrics too! Nice. | |
| Daves Blues by DLB | 1 year ago |
| Wow, great tune! Love the guitar work, man... wish I could play lead like that! The whole band sound tight! Good one! |
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| Pacific Awakening by feenixx | 1 year ago |
| Nice and creative! Good work. My only suggestion would be to vary the quality (mood) more. From my own experience, classical is based on pushing the standards to their limits and beyond. It's a balancing act of keeping it traditional, while adding your own talent and flair. You're very good at adding your own talent, now tell me a story with it. Lead me somewhere and back again. I'm just an amateur classical myself, played in highschool and college. But I like what you're doing with it. Nicely done! |
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| Bridging by pm | 1 year ago |
| Hey, I'm listener 5051! Nice! I've played with these loops as well. You ever going to upload more? Good one, little hard on the ending though. But, good variation. |
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| Hands off icomp by ciheins | 1 year ago |
![]() Great!!! This is excellent! Like a 60s protest against big brother. Very cool! |
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| Purple Cadillac by Dylan | 1 year ago |
| Great tune! Very tight, this is a collab? Great job! (hell ya!) Kind of a Creedence mixed with Clapton. I like it! Did you get the caddy out of impound yet? ![]() |
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| Smooth As Silk by Joanna | 1 year ago |
| Nice! As good (or better) than anything I've heard on the airways! Great lyrics! | |
| Aliens Are Dancing on the Milky Way by Joanna | 1 year ago |
| Cool! Very fun! Great voice! | |
| Hello Josephine by Dylan | 1 year ago |
Nice! Love the harmonica, and the guitar! Rockin! 70s, take me away! ![]() |
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| In Between Worlds by Djev_Asnew | 1 year ago |
| Great setting! Very mystical. Like the soft background voices, intriguing. Like listening to my secret brain. | |
| Exception to the Rule by bigt93to98 | 1 year ago |
| Great tune! Love the lyrics. |
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| Where Do We Stand by ScottCarmichael | 1 year ago |
| Nice vocals and lyrics....and playing...and collab. Very pro sound! Great job! | |
| A Case Of You by wal4uJR | 1 year ago |
| Great cover! Beautiful vocals, really good. | |
| Night Birds by pete | 1 year ago |
| Nice, soft, heartfelt. Very touching and well done. | |
| Voyage to Chittagong by MidiOrleans | 1 year ago |
| Nice mood! Really like to flow from ambient to percussive and back again. Good one! | |
| She Leaves by dirigent | 1 year ago |
| Very good collab! Nice fill with the music, leading the lyrics through the story! Amazing vocals, soft and subtle! Like it! | |
| Eingang (entrance) by Narananda | 1 year ago |
| Great ambience! The piece surrounds me and leads me somewhere. Doesn't matter where, it's the journey that's important. Nicely done! | |
| The Rain Is in My Brain by Bob6stringer | 1 year ago |
| Nice one! Good guitar and vocals/lyrics. Good mixing! | |
| The Comet by feenixx | 1 year ago |
| Wow! nice constrained cacophony. This should be the soundtrack for one of those NOVA shows on PBS. Great work! | |
| Midnight Commuter Train by feenixx | 1 year ago |
Nice! Great stop and go effect, feels like I'm really on a train! Whoops, missed my stop. Well, guess I'll listen a while. ![]() Great layering of sounds and music! |
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| NBA - Nerds Bearing Art by nich | 1 year ago |
| Hey Bob, Ya, I was a contracted high-end beta-tester for an advanced multimedia software company. Had to learn to make all my own movies, 3D objects, animations, clipart, backgrounds, audio, music, soundFX, etc. So I could push their software beyond it's limits and report the problems "issues" to the programmers. They would make corrections in the code and send me another beta-version to test. I worked with both Win and Mac systems. I was the only person I knew that crashed my computers 10 or 12 times a day, on purpose. ![]() I enjoyed it a lot. Oh, and thanks for the comments, glad you enjoyed it! |
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| Cellos in a Storm by nich | 2 years ago |
| Thanks David, I'll look at it again, I think they are in some parts. But a fresh ear always helps! ![]() Thanks for the input. |
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| Time to change by KCsGROOVE | 2 years ago |
![]() Nice one! Great lyrics! Good job redoing an older tune, I know that's not easy. Didn't hear your old recording but this is nice! Love the guitar! |
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| Living in a dream by KCsGROOVE | 2 years ago |
| Nice work! Liked the easy-going composition of it. Very good listening. Could possibly fade the ending strings more gradually, but thats own personal taste. Nothing wrong with this one! Good solid, well composed. I like you voice also, wavy, yet in-tune all the way. Very easy Clapton-ish. Like it! |
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| Worst Concert Ever by ciheins | 2 years ago |
![]() Great work Chris! Good editing and composition! Very fun, many memories. ![]() I've been doing a lot of this type lately, working on a comedy CD thats all narration and FX. I can appreciate the effort that went into this one. Nice! |
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| Protocol (collab) by becwil | 2 years ago |
Nicely done collab! Very good dissonance that melds perfectly. I like it! ![]() |
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| "MonicaBlues" by fatchance | 2 years ago |
![]() Great job guys! Really tight. People you play with a lot? Really nice! |
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| Grumpy'sBlues by fatchance | 2 years ago |
![]() Love it! Classic grind. Sweeet! |
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| Epic Fantasy by ciheins | 2 years ago |
| Ok, how did you build this from only loops? Great work! Great composition, you've got an epic movie soundtrack here for sure. Nice! | |
| Earthquake on the Dance Floor by ciheins | 2 years ago |
Nice composition! Shades of matrix! Good work! |
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| We can be friends by KCsGROOVE | 2 years ago |
Nice job! Love the funk! Very nice. You have the perfect voice for it. Guitar is great! Only critique I can offer, make more!!! ![]() |
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| Parade of souls by KCsGROOVE | 2 years ago |
| Great guitar! Like the horns too! Could possibly bring out the piano more, maybe in a few sections. Nicely done! |
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| Looking Into Fire (UF) by becwil | 2 years ago |
| Very mysterious. Love the drums mixing with the ambient fills. Takes me to pre-history, or possibly to exploring Mars. Great work on the involvement! You tell a whole story without any lyrics. Nice work! | |
| The Big Mellow (collab) by becwil | 2 years ago |
![]() Nice! Very Pink Floyd-ish mixed with a little Clapton. Like it! |
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| Broken Chains (collab) by becwil | 2 years ago |
Very nice! ![]() Sounds like an MGM soundtrack! Love how it goes back and forth between major and minor. Very involving. Could possibly add more beef to the drums, try setting a bass amp filter on them, then drop the volume and EQ the mid and high range up more. Great work though! Like it! |
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| Santanarama by fatchance | 2 years ago |
![]() Wow, great job! Guitar takes me away! Inspirational. |
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| Girl from Ipenema by fatchance | 2 years ago |
![]() Nice rendition! Love the creative additions! ![]() Great timing! |
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| Killing Time (1 hour mix) by ciheins | 2 years ago |
![]() Nice Ci! Great builds, ever thought of adding a solo instrument? Might take away from the drum-time theme though. Like it! Really like the quieter parts. Emphasizes the builds even more. |
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| In Love with My Best Friend by nich | 2 years ago |
Yea! Finally. Been looking at/trying to use iComp for 2 years. I can finally participate!! Feel like I just crawled out of the proverbial jungle and started walking. ![]() |
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| Be Your Own Horizon by nich | 2 years ago |
| Thanks for the comments! You can check out samples of the songs on my 1st CD by going to: www.emeraldisletechnologies.com Click on the Artists link and then Ted Nicholas. Move into my music section and click on "Blindscape, Tales From the Ted Zone". Thanks again for the comments. Ted |
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| Mother (Acoustic Pink Floyd cover) by johanevander | 3 years ago |
![]() Nicely done! Very good voice! |
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| Straight Man In A Gay World by Dylan | 3 years ago |
![]() Great work! Really tight, in a loose kind of way. You have a very "Dylan" style. Nice! |
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| That's all I'm giving you by pete | 3 years ago |
| Very nice. I like the way it builds. | |
| Divergence (UF) by becwil | 3 years ago |
| Nice one! Has a Native American/Jurassic Park kind of feel. | |
| Blast by danman4961 | 3 years ago |
| Nice drums! Like the change ups. Good work! | |
| Bass Alert by danman4961 | 3 years ago |
| Nice mix! Enjoyed it. | |
| Around The Rainforest by archie7777 | 3 years ago |
| Nicely done! Good panning and placement. | |
| March of the Dead by rex | 3 years ago |
![]() Short, but sweet! Very good composition between instruments. |
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| Racial Harmony by rex | 3 years ago |
| nice composition! |
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| Body Search (Joanna's voice) by archie7777 | 3 years ago |
![]() Weird, strange, groovin', mystical. I like it! |
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| Song for the itiswotitis's frogs by Luttor_Grosvernoff | 3 years ago |
| Nicely done! I can see the frogs dancing. | |
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