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faultier wrote: also re: having no control over the direction a track takes > exactly the reason why i dont think i'm capable of making a consistent set of tunes for an EP, let alone an album

Well, look at Bud, he's got like 3 or 5 ep's worth of tunes, in various directions, because the fucker cranks. Just sort and stack em together later. You know?

def
if you dont have a straight plan like i wanna make whatever a trapddr album :3
you should just make tunes work on old ones and listen through what you made and sort them by feeling really you got some instrumentals so make an instrumental folder
you got some with vocals and more like faster future garage dif folder

and its really wierd anyways some tunes i really just made people liked really well (for the range we work anyways)
and other tunes where i put alot of effort into didnt work that well so i guess if you like a tune but you didnt work hard for its still a good one you know what i mean

like maybe think about an ep till sunday and present it here and the tunaers could listen through and maybe one is really not fitting or sth or maybe all are cool its really hard to tell by yourself though

definitely agree with this. just make tunes, think about everything else later.

I'd definitely be happy to give feedback on some overall EPs. Would be nice to see how some tuna submissions get shaped up and polished into something bigger a few weeks/months later.

well thing is if only for tuna i've been making 1+ track a week for months now, so i do sit on a shitload of unfinished tracks, but the thing is, even if i was to sort them by genre or by how they sounded, there's like massive difference in production values which is more the issue i was thinking of

this said, the string of remixes of Bud's stuff i made for the tunaweek are shaping into something that could be a sort of consistent EP, i might run it through you guys (when/if i ever get to a point where i'm feeling it's done)

also, i really need to get on the feedback for this week

I personally don't feel any great compunction to homogenize a collection of songs.

WHAT DUZ TUNA! MEAN

Who are you again?

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FEELING GOOD TODAY DUDES!

Like sweet little baby jesus christ the lord himself i have returned

I've missed you guys, will hopefully have sumting for this week, been fairly productive recently.

Listening back through the past weeks the standard of you guys' tunes have been sick!

We kept pointing at his back and (quietly) telling people "That's M8son...."

welcome back m8son

nowaysj wrote:I personally don't feel any great compunction to homogenize a collection of songs.

but i'd say, my point wasn't as much about being able to homogenize a collection of songs retroactively just for the sake of it but more about wishing to have the ability to carve a larger cohesive piece of work from the get go, as a conscious process. like a writer that can write ok short stories but would like to be able to write a novel (not sure how that metaphor works, but you get me)

finally on that feedback:

@harkat: liking what you got so far, it just needs some work on the structure imo, like stripping it down a bit at times, maybe automate some stuff, add incidentals here and there, just make it more interesting and less samey throughout. possibly bring in another (even really subtle) element after your breakdown? also agree with yilan, you should put that vocal sample a bit more on the forefront.

@budspencer: sick sound design on those basslines, mixdown is on point. wish the end wasn't so abrupt tho, it could have gone for another minute i'd say. aside from that hard to critique it really. on a more personal taste level, i'd like it to be a tad grittier, a la early vex'd. for ex: use mild distortion on some of the snares. stuff like that, idk...

faultier wrote:

nowaysj wrote:I personally don't feel any great compunction to homogenize a collection of songs.

but i'd say, my point wasn't as much about being able to homogenize a collection of songs retroactively just for the sake of it but more about wishing to have the ability to carve a larger cohesive piece of work from the get go, as a conscious process. like a writer that can write ok short stories but would like to be able to write a novel (not sure how that metaphor works, but you get me)

Yeah, I don't participate in albums too much. I've never gotten more from an album than the sum of the parts. And to the opposite, I usually get less than the sum of the parts, as songs seem to detract from each other in certain ways.

I'm sure that is just me.

Feel free to speak more on what this compunction to carve a 5 song set of songs from one rock feels like, what motivates it. I really don't get it at all.

idk, i guess i like to think i write music about stuff, like there's a topic i'm addressing when i write a tune (allow the pompousness)(btw, nowj, i feel you do that too, but maybe i'm wrong) and i'd like to be able to stretch that over a set of tunes with an overarching theme and common aesthetics, something like self-reference, intertwined themes recurring throughout the whole piece? not sure that's clear... i guess the novel metaphor is the best i can come up with.

this said, i get you tho, most "albums" are just a collection of tunes, but there are exceptions that manage to pull it off imho... and that's what make these "masterpieces" in my eyes
most likely there's a bit of (probably unnecessary) nostalgia of the times where you'd purchase a CD/LP and go home to sit through the whole of it, as opposed to handpicking the track you like based on 30s previews on itunes

tl,dr: i'd like to be able to make a concept album (again, allow the pompousness) but i don't think i can pull it off

Yooooooo, took a hiatus from producing for a minute to catch some inspiration. Glad to see the tuna get moved to the production thread. Hopefully gonna have some stuff in the next couple of weeks. TUNA! forever

Oh shit, we're in production. I was hanging out in my underwear and shit.

no no i think just the whole contest subthread got erased

oh and faultier/defaultuzr offered to run the tuna this week!
so send your tunes to him this time please

aye safe i'll probably have somethign done this evening

Thought you were bizand?

was only a 24 hour one this time lol

You're working shifts. A month off. Six hours on. Twenty four hours off...