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| We Wish You Abnormal Christmas by ZipZipper | 5 months ago |
| I came here looking for something a bit different to add to my Christmas collection, and the first thing I click on is this... Joy, indeed to the world. |
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| XMAS 4 : No Presents by Jas | 5 months ago |
| My favourite song from the set. It's not Christmas until I listen to this. | |
| Walking Out by JHarley | 6 months ago |
| Are you breaking up with me, JH? I like the Hallowe'en/haunt me forever thing. Clever. |
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| Auto by JHarley | 6 months ago |
| I want to do a Madonna cover in the style of Kraftwerk, and this just reminded me why. Teutonic Teutonic Put your hands all over my body |
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| Faded Afternoon by JHarley | 6 months ago |
| This would fit nicely on Village Green Appreciation Society. | |
| I Am A Wave by JHarley | 6 months ago |
| Nouvelle Vague de Nouvelle Vague. | |
| Dancing in the park by ponkey | 6 months ago |
| JH I think we're up to 13 tracks and 16 minutes. Startling? Subversive? I still say ridiculous. |
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| Trash (spread the word) by JHarley | 6 months ago |
| I really can't tell which of the Beatles you are channelling here. All of their solo stuff mashed together I suppose. | |
| Goodnight, my love by JHarley | 6 months ago |
| This might be my favourite thing you've done. For someone who specialises in the atypical, this is atypical. | |
| Pull the Plug by JHarley | 6 months ago |
| In, out, job done. My thinking is to make an album that consists of about 50 or 60 of these mothers. | |
| The Complexities of the English Weather by JHarley | 6 months ago |
| You squeeze more into a haiku then Rick Wakeman does into an entire 20 minute keyboard solo. | |
| 2263 by JHarley | 7 months ago |
| What the hell is this? It's brilliant. |
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| TCB: Last Train by ponkey | 7 months ago |
| Holga baby. Colour flash, cross processed colour reversal film, double exposure. No photoshopping. | |
| Drunk Girl Crying by Blacklilyorchard | 7 months ago |
| This popped up again when I was browsing iComp. It's hard to believe I've been listening to this for seven years now, yet it sounds just as fresh as ever. I'm melting. Oh, what a world, what a world. | |
| Sleep by JHarley | 7 months ago |
| I actually do quite want to sleep. This is no comment on your fine song. | |
| Superhuman Man by JHarley | 7 months ago |
| This is really good I have to say, I'm impressed Guess it's my turn now |
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| Kraus? by JHarley | 9 months ago |
| The cult reawakens. Kraus! |
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| The Dr. Says You Have The Classic Case of The Breakdowns by Uplink | 9 months ago |
| Soothing stuff. |
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| SMAF: emperors will still be emperors by ponkey | 1 year ago |
| Thanks for the comments, guys! Pharmakeus: more conventional, yes, perhaps. I found the previous arrangement incredibly boring though - had it been a live drummer playing repetitively (but with a human touch) it might have worked, but unfortunately all my drums are loops. Hopefully I've hidden it enough that most listeners won't pay too much attention to that. Shadow: yes, this is still the pinhole mic, now in a MacBook. I do have a regular mic and preamp but it doesn't sound as good - the pinhole manages to pick up a fuller tonal range in my voice while minimising background noise. It really is a miracle of modern engineering. As for the vocal levels, yeah, I think it's difficult to make out the lyrics in some points - but as the lyrics were more thrown together than finely honed I'm not really too concerned about that. They're there to add a layer of vocal texture rather than meaning, so I think I'm going to leave the mix as it is. Thanks for the constructive feedback, though! |
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| emperors will still be emperors (old mix) by ponkey | 1 year ago |
| I've just uploaded a new version of this song with improved drums. | |
| people think (they know what they're doing)(beta mix) by ponkey | 1 year ago |
| Thanks for your feedback on this, everyone. I've gone and posted a new mix with more vox and drums, and a bit of added craziness at the end. |
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| potential by Jas | 1 year ago |
| Love this. Just listened to it three times in a row and don't intend to stop. | |
| people think (they know what they're doing)(beta mix) by ponkey | 1 year ago |
| Thanks! Yeah, the vocals sound fine through my big headphones but kind of murky on my iPhone speaker. I'd be interested to hear how they sound on other people's systems... | |
| Dr Who theme by randolf | 1 year ago |
| Background hamsters notwithstanding, this is sonically a very faithful version. I'm impressed. | |
| Lonely Life by JHarley | 1 year ago |
| Well well well. How did I manage to miss this three years ago? Lovely. It's stuff like this that keeps me coming back to iComp. What can we do to get you to come back and post more, John? | |
| Silent Night Uke Style by RubyDubidoux | 1 year ago |
| Ooh I do like a nice uke. Lovely tone from all involved here. | |
| To Sir With Love (w/ManfromTexas) by RubyDubidoux | 1 year ago |
| Had this playing in the background and forgot I was listening to iComp. There's not many voices on here that can do that for me. | |
| Christmas song by the_goat | 1 year ago |
| Well, that was just bizarre and wonderful. | |
| Angels From The Realms Of Glory by lilmom | 1 year ago |
| Sounds like Vangelis in a good mood. Downloaded and added to my Xmas playlist! | |
| Lady Gaga Can Fall Off A Cliff by Uplink | 1 year ago |
| Dood you got noisy. I like the snare part at the beginning. I'm a disjointed kind of guy though... I would turn the drums down in the mix a bit, though, and bring up some of those electronic sounds. My tuppence ha'penny. |
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| Julie X Nine by KDMan | 2 years ago |
| God I love love love love love love love love love this song. | |
| pronto X mess by ShowGram | 2 years ago |
| Wow, it's been ages. Good to have you back SG. | |
| ADVENT:17 Joy to the World (punk) by ponkey | 2 years ago |
| Thanks for the comments, all! PowerMatt wrote: That was fun!!! Do it again!!!! Rinse and repeat as necessary, Matt... |
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| ADVENT:16 O Little Town of Bethlehem (punk) by ponkey | 2 years ago |
| Gossamer, I checked - the album, with 18 tracks so far, adds up to twelve minutes and twenty seven seconds. That's an average of under forty-two seconds per song. With the exception of Have yourself a merry little Christmas, where I break style for Christmas Eve, there is only one song that breaks the one minute mark. But yes, each one will fit in your stocking - or behind an advent calendar door! | |
| Running up the hill by 4haengs | 2 years ago |
| Good song! I was kind of expecting a cover of Kate Bush, and I'm glad this isn't one. I mean, Kate Bush is great, but I'm always happier to hear an original than a cover... Constructive feedback follows: Drums, keyboards and acoustic guitars sound great. Lead electric guitars are a little muddy in the middle of the mix there... perhaps try double tracking and panning the two parts into stereo. And I would turn down the echo on the vocals - I found it a little distracting from the song. |
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| Jingle Hell by Eidolonia | 2 years ago |
| Bang! And indeed wallop! Good hands, Eido, and good ears, Maple! | |
| Luscious Sirens by Digipoll | 2 years ago |
| This is a deeply peculiar piece of music. Thank you - the world needs more deeply peculiar music. | |
| Small Town Madness by DanielLambert | 2 years ago |
| This sounds like Christmas pudding tastes - and it's full of sixpences. There's lots of very odd noises in here that I almost broke my teeth on, but when I pulled them out I discovered I was a little bit richer. And the whole thing is on fire! I don't think my sister would like it, which also fits with the christmas pudding extended metaphor. | |
| Drive into garage by quintusl | 2 years ago |
| It's a very uneasy sounding piece. I enjoyed it. It reminded me ever so slightly of something from the Wall-E soundtrack... By the way, was that a shark at the end? |
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| Because I Like Them by NCSalmon | 2 years ago |
| Like some kind of primary metal thing you've got going on here. The closing seconds are awesome... | |
| Release Me by jkane | 2 years ago |
| Why was I expecting Englebert Humperdink? When I read the lyrics it reminded me a bit of Laurie Anderson's song walking and falling. Not just the fact that it uses the word falling - I could imagine Laurie Anderson reading the lyrics over this music, too. (I actually listened to it again and did my own Laurie Anderson impersonation over the top. In my head - and probably nowhere else - it worked great!) I love your guitar tone. The whole piece is very filmic. Incidentally, since you have "disabled ratings on this song, indicating that constructive comments would be appreciated," I thought the drum intro/outro was a bit of a cop out. Your vocals and guitar work are both very strong so I would start the song with those. Perhaps an "overture" - a little fragment of the guitar and vocal plays for four bars before disappearing and being followed by the drum intro as it is now. (Actually I'm just mentioning this after listening back to a few of my own incomplete songs and realising that each of them has exactly the same intro - bad habits...) Who is the girl with the blackest eyes, by the way? |
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| Remember a Day by bud2 | 2 years ago |
| You know what? If you're going to cover the Pink Floyd, this is exactly the way to do it. I love Piper, and I'm very impressed with what you've achieved here. | |
| Doom Despair and Agony on Me by Matt Granz | 2 years ago |
| Boom! | |
| Pixie The Flying Dog!! by GumGirl | 2 years ago |
| I had to come back and watch this again. This video makes me happy. | |
| Jamnit by ROTU | 2 years ago |
| This is some interesting sounding stuff. I really enjoyed the flute and vox. | |
| Hair by brendajean | 2 years ago |
| You have a very nice voice. If I knew what the word mellifluous meant, I'd be tempted to use it | |
| MARY's SISTER (w/ Taylormade) by MickD | 2 years ago |
| Wow. This is what they should be playing on the radio. The whole thing is so good that it almost seems churlish to single out one thing - but as a struggling guitarist myself, I love the guitar tone at the beginning. You had me right from then on in. |
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| IF YOU ARE NOT HERE by tritonkg | 2 years ago |
| You have a very nice voice. I enjoyed it. | |
| SMAF: science? (it's starting to rain) by ponkey | 2 years ago |
| Thanks! Yes, Bec, when I listen back to this now I do think there are parts where the vocal is loud enough and parts where it is not. I will have to come back to this someday when I am finishing off the album that this is meant to be part of. | |
| SYSTEM ERROR by conorcorbett | 2 years ago |
| This has a nice, small, closed, almost claustrophobic sound to it. I like it a lot. It's quite unusual. | |
| Ghost Wharf (v3) by Mungo | 2 years ago |
| I have a feeling everyone dies at the end of this movie. It's an interesting piece of music - it all kind of comes together and makes a lot of sense somehow, although I can't quite grasp how. | |
| Scary scar-shaped Scream by Winchesterfield | 2 years ago |
| That's one of the best intros I've heard in a very long time! | |
| TCB: on the way to Shibuya by ponkey | 2 years ago |
| Nah, that's not a run-on sentence Baboon this is. Thanks! | |
| For Emily (S&G cover) by ponkey | 2 years ago |
| God this sounds horrible. I really don't know why I uploaded it. | |
| For Emily (S&G cover) by ponkey | 2 years ago |
| Thanks Steven! The upcoming eurobeat punk version will not be quite so, um, beautiful... | |
| TOKYO by Drugon_voice | 2 years ago |
| Hello from Kamata... love it. Great work. | |
| Yellow duster by swimmyfishy | 2 years ago |
| Boo! Too short! (I really like it...) |
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| Watch How I Go by NoGoodProd | 2 years ago |
| As Up implies, you've got some good base material here. Perhaps it needs some production work to get the most out of it. The drum pattern is good, but could perhaps use a filter or plugin of some kind to give it a harder/dirtier sound. I have the same problem on my own beats - but like I say, it's a good pattern and definitely worth developing the sound. Same with the piano. I would advise experimenting with sounds... | |
| TCB: Bendy Neck by ponkey | 2 years ago |
| Gossamer, if my music gets (any) stranger (than it already is), you will know what has happened. Incidentally, the first song I released after leaving the hospital was this: Wonderful World |
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| Mountain Of Mud by Dyl | 2 years ago |
| Grrrr! Yaaaarrrrggghhh! Growwllll! are all good words to describe the guitar sound here. I like your guitar sound. This is a two to three hour cover so obviously it doesn't sound like something that you've been polishing for weeks, but I've got to say I'd love to be able to put something together like this even in two to three days. I should start working on my technique. In the last minute or so, I could almost hear a kind of men's falsetto going "de doo do do doooh!" as a background vocal - I think it was just in my head, but it worked well. You could consider that next time! I actually can't recall hearing a Dylan falsetto... |
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| TCB: This Year by ponkey | 2 years ago |
| Funnily enough, William, there's no guitar on this - that's all mandolin! | |
| CW3 #1 A Place To Call Home by etgilles | 2 years ago |
| Having done a cover of a cover of a cover of a cover of this, I have just this to say: so that's how it goes! | |
| Take Your Pills Living In A Box by Henno | 2 years ago |
| The "nurse... nurse!" at the beginning took me back to Pink Floyd's "The Wall" a bit. Nuttier than an explosion in a praline factory. (By the way I took the liberty of switching the collaborator credit from ponkey to ChineseWhispers... I'm sure that's what you meant!) |
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| 10 Story Fall by Uplink | 2 years ago |
| "very sort of modern rockish" is right. Up, you need to find yourself a regular singer to work with. But not a rock singer - someone with a very soft, gentle voice (like Pete Doherty or the girl from Arcade Fire) or a very non-singing singer voice (like the guy from Arcade Fire). The less the singer fits this style of music the more interesting the results would be. That's my two penn'orth... | |
| Which Way To The Highway (Re-make) by Uplink | 2 years ago |
| Plink-Oâ„¢, I turn my back for five minutes and you go very seventies and prog on me... an interesting direction... yes, it needs bass. You could even put a bass solo in at the end there, actually. But then bring the rest of the band back in with some Verve-style strings and go a bit mad. | |
| Revelations by lilichi | 2 years ago |
| "They're supposed to last longer." Yes indeed. |
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| you want it this way by Jas | 2 years ago |
| What do you mean ruining? Enhancing, surely. I like the very bassy sound you have on the first guitar and how the trebly stuff comes in later, and I really like the chord progression - it's very folk (I've been learning some early Bob Dylan stuff lately and it has that same fresh unpredictability that you don't get so much in guitar music these days). Nice! | |
| alpha beta gamma delta by ponkey | 2 years ago |
| So sorry, stringer. Subsequent spam stopped. | |
| SHY by rickywaterman | 3 years ago |
| Your voice is fine! You don't need to double track it. (One fun thing to do, though, is to double track some parts and then suddenly single track a random line here and there (with the volume level slightly boosted on it, of course. Or occasionally switch from double tracking the melody to harmonising - just a couple of other ideas to play with!) One thing I would suggest is doubling up the guitar part and stereo panning it to give the instrumentation more width - at the moment you have a single guitarist surrounded by singers. The best way to do this, of course, is to play and record the same guitar part twice - small variations will keep the stereo correctly separated - but since you're out of action at the moment, here is a workaround: copy and paste the guitar part onto another track, and with the timeline zoomed in as far as it will go, drag one part a single "click" to the right. Hey presto - instant stereo separation, and your group of vocalists is surrounded by guitars (tweak panning as necessary!). Hmmm - just reread your description and realised that you said this is a first draft, so maybe you already know and plan to do all this anyway! Ah well... |
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| TCB: nice girls are always by ponkey | 3 years ago |
| To quote Fatboy Slim, "Er... I don't normally do this kind of thing..." Thanks for the comments! It had been three days since I posted and no one had said anything, so I was beginning to get worried...  |
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| Get ye behind me Satan by debrooze | 3 years ago |
| Thanks for the download! I'm looking forward to the follow up. Bike rides, eh? One of the best places to compose, I think... I've got a few of those myself. | |
| Not For Me by Naaji | 3 years ago |
| ...but then again, anyone who asks you not to change doesn't love you, either. Eh? Eh? | |
| Get ye behind me Satan by debrooze | 3 years ago |
| PS - Can we talk you into allowing downloads? | |
| Get ye behind me Satan by debrooze | 3 years ago |
| The production on this is bizarre, and very charming. I have a lot of time for this - and gotta love that guitar solo! | |
| Sally Harper's Woods LIVE by RichardRinger | 3 years ago |
| I think it's so exciting that you're in New York, Richard. Now the rest of the world can discover you. Maya's voice is great, too - it reminds me a lot of Laetitia Sheriff. |
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| TCB: walk don't walk by ponkey | 3 years ago |
| Thanks for the comments, everyone! Shadows, yes, all the vocals here are still recorded through the built in mic of my eMac. I have an external mic and preamp now but haven't managed to get the same clarity of sound yet... | |
| Killer Shrews LIVE by RichardRinger | 3 years ago |
| Sentimental for me too - I remember et saying to me "Have you heard this guy called RichardRinger? He has this great song called Killer Shrews..." | |
| Live In Peace (i) by MakenaMonk | 3 years ago |
 This is pretty damn fabulous. That's a very solid music track, nicely arranged, and yes - that horn! My only criticism on the production is that the vocal (which is a great vocal) sounds like it was recorded in a different room from the rest of the song - the reverb seems much too strong to me. Maybe you could cut the reverb down to bring the vocal forward in the mix and bring in some echo at key points in the song to add to the dub feeling of the whole record. I'll be downloading this song as it is, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed for an alternative mix! |
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| Down At Jimmy Mak's by pdxflint | 3 years ago |
| Nice groove! The bass is certainly strong, but sounds fine on my headphones (but then again, most things sound fine on headphones). My general monitoring technique is to play the song at medium volume and wander off into another room - that really tells you when one part is too loud or quiet, I think... Perhaps the different solo instruments could be panned off to different sides more to separate off and spread out the sound a bit? There's also a very seventies-cop-show-theme keyboard sound that comes in after about 35 seconds which would definitely be better turned up, I think. Hope this is helpful! |
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| Am I Qualified (parts 1&2)? version 1 by artist08 | 3 years ago |
| You see, the easy and obvious thing to do would have been to start off acoustic and then go disco. I'm glad you didn't do the easy and obvious thing. | |
| Watch The Ride by DanielLambert | 3 years ago |
| Silly doesn't even begin to describe it. Fabulous does, though. | |
| help! by ponkey | 3 years ago |
| This is a song that I really really love, but I think it's easy to bounce along to the beat and miss what the song is saying. One of John's best early lyrics I think. | |
| Message In a Bottle (The Police cover) by Ahset | 3 years ago |
| This sounds to me like mid-80s Depeche Mode (circa Black Celebration) doing this song - nice! I'm not too sure about the pitch correction on the vocals, though. I think it can be an interesting trick to highlight certain passages but there is a danger of overkill - it distracted me from the rest of the song here. | |
| Why? by borris | 3 years ago |
| If the Black Motorcycle Rebel Club were more fun they still wouldn't be this PostSonic Brainpiercer Whippin' loud. So what would be the point? | |
| Intensely Quiet by Neumuzik | 3 years ago |
| Jingle. Jangle. Bingo. Bongo. Flim flam floom in the dead of night. Fifteen men on a dead man's chest. Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum. Shim. Sham. Sping. Spang. These are the lyrics running through my head as I listen. |
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| The Best Selling Textbook of All Time by KDMan | 3 years ago |
| You know, KD, I had worked out that you would be doing a song about that next. Just don't ask me how... Incidentally, this is one of the best song titles ever. |
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| Walking on the moon by ponkey | 3 years ago |
| Yeah, I have to admit that the bass on this sounds horrible enough that it meets my criteria for "however much I like your song overall, I never want to listen to it again." Thanks for your comment on the drum sticks, randolf - I made the amateurish mistake of keeping them at the same volume throughout, rather than dropping them down low after the intro part (which I think sounds okay). Is the sound clipping/distorting on anyone's system? I was a bit worried about that. Mastering and compression works very differently on this version of GB than on my old one. |
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| soundhound by Dirtys_wine | 3 years ago |
| Great bass sound, and I like the way the guitars work with it. Honestly speaking I'm not a big fan of this vocal style - it seems prevalent in American rock, and I prefer a more straightforward delivery, but that's just my own musical prejudice. Works well overall. | |
| What They Do Everyday by jobu | 3 years ago |
| I agree with the above - this is a great song and I really like your performance. Yes, maybe a pop filter would help - you have a good warm sound to your voice though. The only thing I noticed was some ambient "life beyond the window" noise - perhaps you need to do what the Beatles did during the recording of "A day in the life" (I read somewhere that they had to stop traffic in the streets surrounding Abbey Road to record the full sustain of that final chord) - you should try that: "Oi! Shut up everyone! I'm making MUSIC here!" ...or alternatively just turn the mic down a bit more and get even closer. With that pop filter. Nice song! |
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| you really got me by ponkey | 3 years ago |
| Strangely, mdestiny, I am completely with you on the Zappa-Bond thing. I almost wish that's what I had been trying to do all along. In fact I might just pretend that it is. | |
| My Headstream by ponkey | 3 years ago |
| Yeah, I don't really know what I was channeling when I did this - I thought up a couplet and then recorded a verse, ad-libbing the rest. I really have no idea what a headstream is - or perhaps, on reflection, I do. Hmmm. | |
| All Along the Watchtower by Mark_Hayes | 3 years ago |
| This is weird and brilliant. I'd love to add some bits and pieces and remix parts of this, if possible... | |
| iCompositions v1 by pm | 3 years ago |
| Yes, this all looks vaguely familiar... from back in the days when you could listen to every song uploaded and still have a full time job and a family... where everybody knew your name (but of course there was no chat, so you didn't get the full "Cheers" experience available now). I even remember deleting old songs to make room for new ones because there was a 100MB file storage limit... | |
| High High! En Why? by RichardRinger | 3 years ago |
| I can't think of any useful feedback to give you on this, Richard. I like it a lot. I agree with Storkaas - you should tour with Tom Waits. Are you left handed? |
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| You Cannot be Wrong if You're Doing What You Want by jobu | 3 years ago |
| The vocal sounds like Billy Corgan has been round to your house recently. How close are you to the mic when you're singing? It sounds like you could afford to get closer and turn down the gain. Guitar sound is lovely, though. Charming song. | |
| King of the Golden Hall (LOTR Cover) by elfdaughter | 3 years ago |
| Impossible as it is to replace real strings with MIDI, I think you've done a fine job with this. On the other hand, it would be interesting to hear the instrumentation varied from the original so that this becomes not a copy, but an interpretation - but then again I guess I just have a thing about MIDI strings outside of early 80s pop. |
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| knowledge by Jas | 3 years ago |
| An old song for you, maybe, but new for me. Lovely. Lovely guitar playing - you sound like an orchestra - or at least I can hear the orchestra in the back of this, like something by Nick Drake perhaps. But you don't sound like Nick Drake. You sound like you. You are a very popular musician in my house, sir... |
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| While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Mystified | 3 years ago |
| It always weirds me out that so many carols have different tunes in England and the States. This is one melody I wasn't previously aware of, but so sweetly (I'm with becwil on this) sung it was that I had to download it. | |
| Do You Hear What I Hear? by hippodance21 | 3 years ago |
| Nice arrangement and I enjoyed the variety of tones. This reminds me why I hate MIDI horn sounds and love the real thing. | |
| A Christmas Prayer by mfwmiles | 3 years ago |
| I cannot do this song justice in my daft little comment here so I will just say this: yeah, that theremin part was cool. Who would have thought that theremins could be so festive! | |
