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Very astutely listened, @gomoney14! It's indeed part of some percussive sounds in Spitfire Audio's "Media Tool Kit" and next to kitchen utensil sounds it sports a "hand tap" sound like drumming your finger tips on a wooden table. I used that one and sent it through a Filter bank with a bunch of wild presets that has it sound as if it had been pitched! Congrats on your great ears!
Wow, that's so kind, thank you, @mondostrat! Best of luck to you, too! I recall listening to yours and liking it very much! (I think I left a comment to that effect :-) )
Great original approach! Unexpected instrument selection (it worked well, imho). And I like how the tone changed at the clock. Good luck in the competition!
Great track ! I like festive vibe in the beginning, and how it progressively shifts into a machiavelous waltz, before concluding with just "whispers". Best of luck ✌️
Love your analysis/assessment, @hugochalon4898! Best of luck to you, too! I listened to yours as well and left an according comment, really great entry on your part, best of luck!
Ich finde das einfach so toll und bin so beeindruckt, dass und wie Du das kannst. Ich hätte weder die Phantasie für die Grundidee, noch das kompositorische Know-How für die Ausarbeitung, noch die technischen Kenntnisse, um das in der DAW zusammenzubringen. Ganz zu schweigen von meiner Unfähigkeit etwas auf einer Klaviertastatur einzuspielen. Und das alles am Ende noch ohne eine moderne GPU! Chapeau!
Nice work Wes. The start feels like all the forest creatures having a jolly romp thru the trees, before it all turns dark with the freaky whispers. Best of luck mate 🎵🎹
Thank you, Martin. I feel I've missed the mark this time. I wasn't even all sure whether to finish, but I hate leaving loose ends behind. So I completed it. Practically every other contender whom I've listened so far, I like better. Urgh... oh well...😇
Cool entry, I like the light-hearted first part and even more so the dark, cinematic part starting from 0:45 with those "whispers". Best of luck to you!
Thanks so much, Bryan, really appreciate your kind words! Forgive me for being a little M.I.A. as of late, it's too much crazy shit going on all the time which makes it very difficult to be in a mindset that's suitable for being creative. Just saying.
Thanks so much, Dave! Hearing you say that makes my day! And I wish I had your composing skills and productivity! 😄 Guess, as long as well all get to have a little take away, we're still alright, aren't we?😇🙏
Thank you, Martin. Yes, I need to alter that setting, it gets annoying, indeed. Also, I wasn't able to find out why one channel keeps cutting out almost as if a gate kicked in all the time. Ugh, so many factors to keep track of....😂😇
@@wesboundmusic If you allow me one advise: next time, just noodle again and re-record that video before uploading. I did it dozens of times myself aiming for the best quality I'm capable of, but hey, that's just me 😊 Keep up the good work
Well, I believe that was already another take after I had to become familiar again with the fingerings in order to get through the song. The first one or two takes for practicing I tried to discern what happened here, but haven't figured it out yet. The autofocus might be from the background removal plugin, so I need to either deactivate background blur or at the least alter it to where the autofocus remains stagnant. The audio thingy I don't have an idea just yet. Contrary to routing everything through the interface's input channel, I used the condenser mic in front of the little practice amp here, which sadly picked up more fan noise than signal and that's something I have almost no way of getting to silence (other than going through the recording out again, which sometimes produces too much latency and is difficult to directly monitor, which I prefer. The other thing that annoys me greatly is the video lag, which I can only get closer in sync by setting audio in a way that increases latency, in which case monitoring through the app becomes so annoyingly slow that it's like a delay and distracts me too hard. Guess, I'm experiencing ADHD when twiddling with these things... O:-) But thanks for the reminder, @@MartinHeidenreichMusic!
@@wesboundmusic it's amazing how many things need to be fixed in order to create a good video, isn't it? My guess is that app. 95% of our viewers have no clue what it takes to come up with a good video :) For the video lag another two tips: you could adjust the delay in the camera settings, so that it fits the sound perfectly. OBS really does a great job) or you just record sound and pictures seperatly and then edit everything together afterwards. I use(d) both techniques and they both work great. Again, keep up the good work
Thanks so much, @@MartinHeidenreichMusic, I appreciate your tipps and will put 'em to work and try things as you suggest. And yes, I concur about those clueless 95% ... ;-) (pretty much the same applies where it pertains to music, where in this day and age everybody will go "Oh, they did that using AI, no big deal, I can do that too"... It's a bit sad to have to notice how appreciation goes by the wayside so long as stuff is entertaining or simply distracting for a split second, isn't it? It's very different from how we learnt our trade, isn't it? Oh well... can't impede progress, I'm afraid... O:) We gotta make the most of it with what we got, don't we? What else was there, after all... ;-) Have a great day in your beautiful (not so ) little paradise there! :)
Thanks much, @brianoneal, that was quite fun and took place in one of the sought after venues in my former stomping grouns 😅. I think I miss playing with other musicians and live. Never made it as far here as you did with KEM and your solo projects and even being a headliner the second year at Catalina Jazz Festival, all of which had always been part of the dream I did my very best to make a reality. All the more rewarding to see you chime in here! Thank you, you are and always were an inspiration to me, not only as a musician, but particularly and maybe even more so as a human being. Happy Father's Day! ( it's Father's Day holiday here today😊)
Thanks a ton, @brianoeal! To share a stage with you ... well, it still is a dream I want to keep alive for a moment longer :-) Hope, life treats you kind these days!
Thanks kindly, @LiehrJazz | Dietmar. Your pockets are deep enough in other areas, like niftily arranging a piece on the 7-string guitar that makes you sound like an entire band.
Thanks for the mention and thumbs up for your tutorial. Beatmapping is the perfect way to go IF you want to use timesynched risers, downers, swells, transitions or whatsoever to enhance the pictures even acousticly. Saves a lot of time if you want the silence or boom to happen at the very right moment. Here's a tutorial of mine where I show how I scored the same scene once "free floating" and once using a beatmap. Might be interesting: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-P--tCwv6IWw.html
🙏, @MartinHeidenreichMusic! I thought I had linked to your great tutorial, at least had intended to. So thanks for adding the link as it's a really concise one that introduces the concept greatly!
@@wesboundmusic you linked to one of my beat-mapping tutorials, thanks. The link i posted now is another tutorial showing how i scored the same scene twice: once with and once without beatmappping to show the eventual differences musical and technical wise
360p? makes it near impossible to see what you are doing onscreen...and beatmapping, if done right, doesn't necessarily create insane tempo changes 😉 but to each it's own, no stress about that
It should come out as more than 360p when upload has finished and the servers rendered the correct resolution, @stefanorossi3480. (I see the HD 1080p option now in the video settings on the client side) And yup, as you say: I'm sure there's a smarter way of using it and the way that Martin demonstrated, it looked straight forward. Maybe something to with me still getting learning how to readjust to just accepting the options provided and not improvise on my own or something.
Alright, there we go,@@stefanorossi3480 ! As for the contents: I'm aware this will be old news for many and especially for the experienced ones. As I need to self teach and think others might find themselves in that position as well for whatever reason, this is more "noob material" ;-) So bear with me.
Lots of fun. Love it. Gives me strong 80'- Christmas-Movie-Opening-Titles vibes. Matthew Broderick struggling down the corridor with a box of decorations, that sort of thing.
Haha, thanks, love the mind imagery | your imagination here! Yep, the 80ies ... can't get 'em out of my system, those were my formative years in music, I think. And also my most active ones when I toured with this 80ies cover band year round, playing well over 300 nights a year and needing to replicate all these big productions that were the state of the art in pop back then as a group of only four. Best school one could've wished for! (although it wouldn't have hurt to have a little help from some "Keith Richards Medicine" to overcome the physical exhaustion that went along with it. On 2nd thought: Maybe not ;-) ) @2BDTRMND
Thank you kindly, @stefanorossi3480! And best of luck to you, too, in case you participated! That reminds me: Head on to the playlist and check out others contributions! 🙂
Thanks kindly, appreciate your kind words, Chris | @ImpliedMusic! Gonna head on over to the playlist later tonight to treat myself to the other entries! What fun! 🙂 Happy Holidays to you and the family!
Haha, @MartinHeidenreichMusic - I like it, wes_shred! :-) Thanks for doing these prize draws and best of luck to all the other contenders! Happy Holidays!
