Thankfully not at all like any of the references you cited (trance, house). Really dig.

Thankfully not at all like any of the references you cited (trance, house). Really dig.

I love the melody progression and chords on this, very pretty. I like the emotional abandon vibe that trance can have too. This feels kind of deep house-ey I suppose, but dang genres, hard to draw lines sometimes That's a great quote from Royksopp, glad you shared that. Good jobbing working with what you have and finishing another week!

I love the melody progression and chords on this, very pretty. I like the emotional abandon vibe that trance can have too. This feels kind of deep house-ey I suppose, but dang genres, hard to draw lines sometimes :) That's a great quote from Royksopp, glad you shared that. Good jobbing working with what you have and finishing another week!

monitors: whatever you have works. as long as you intimately know your reproduction gear. some people would shoot me for saying it but a good pair of headphones is going to do you a lot better as far as mix goes than a set of monitor speakers. if you buy expensive monitors but don't spend money treating your room, you still can't trust them. headphones, while they have some disadvantages, are going to pretty much sound how they sound no matter where you use them (ok there's people who get anal about head positioning and with glasses on and off which does effect the seal BUT it's still a whole different world from trying to accousticly treat spaces).

ANYWAY! dig the direction

monitors: whatever you have works. as long as you intimately know your reproduction gear. some people would shoot me for saying it but a good pair of headphones is going to do you a lot better as far as mix goes than a set of monitor speakers. if you buy expensive monitors but don't spend money treating your room, you still can't trust them. headphones, while they have some disadvantages, are going to pretty much sound how they sound no matter where you use them (ok there's people who get anal about head positioning and with glasses on and off which does effect the seal BUT it's still a whole different world from trying to accousticly treat spaces). ANYWAY! dig the direction =)

Ah, you make a good point. I do use monitor headphones and will keep doing so. I do enjoy hearing music in space though. Space as in, my living room, and not like, outer space. But I will hold off on spending any dollars for a while yet.

[quote=starpause]monitors: whatever you have works. as long as you intimately know your reproduction gear. some people would shoot me for saying it but a good pair of headphones is going to do you a lot better as far as mix goes than a set of monitor speakers. if you buy expensive monitors but don't spend money treating your room, you still can't trust them. headphones, while they have some disadvantages, are going to pretty much sound how they sound no matter where you use them (ok there's people who get anal about head positioning and with glasses on and off which does effect the seal BUT it's still a whole different world from trying to accousticly treat spaces). ANYWAY! dig the direction =) [/quote] Ah, you make a good point. I do use monitor headphones and will keep doing so. I do enjoy hearing music in space though. Space as in, my living room, and not like, outer space. :P But I will hold off on spending any dollars for a while yet.

loooool ya I enjoy composing IN SPACE ( outer space ) as well to the point where I'll lazily not even bother plugging into headphones or speakers and just bang stuff out on the iPad speakers... and I'll for sure play a track out loud on my studio monitors (genelec, do love them) but it's more for a gut check than for trying to mix anything detailed off them with the sound bouncing off everything in my room.

[quote=Avarine]I do enjoy hearing music in space though. Space as in, my living room, and not like, outer space. :P But I will hold off on spending any dollars for a while yet.[/quote] loooool ya I enjoy composing IN SPACE ( outer space :P ) as well to the point where I'll lazily not even bother plugging into headphones or speakers and just bang stuff out on the iPad speakers... and I'll for sure play a track out loud on my studio monitors (genelec, do love them) but it's more for a gut check than for trying to mix anything detailed off them with the sound bouncing off everything in my room.

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Really glad to hear someone I admire saying that! I'm quite sick and tired of "audio experts" and "comparisons and tests". If it sounds good and you get familiar with your gear, that's 90 percent of it. Don't get me wrong, I love my Mackies, but cant stand the endless conversation: "I can't sound like X and Y because i don't  own A and B pieces of gear".

Totally agree on the VST "let's buy sumtin' new" rant. I usually wait until I can't sincerely make any particular sound with anything else, give some thinking, then buy.

It's true the track is not trancy neither housy, but it's quite good and certainly more intimate

Nice job!

[quote=Avarine][quote=starpause]monitors: whatever you have works. as long as you intimately know your reproduction gear. some people would shoot me for saying it but a good pair of headphones is going to do you a lot better as far as mix goes than a set of monitor speakers. if you buy expensive monitors but don't spend money treating your room, you still can't trust them. headphones, while they have some disadvantages, are going to pretty much sound how they sound no matter where you use them (ok there's people who get anal about head positioning and with glasses on and off which does effect the seal BUT it's still a whole different world from trying to accousticly treat spaces). ANYWAY! dig the direction =) [/quote] Ah, you make a good point. I do use monitor headphones and will keep doing so. I do enjoy hearing music in space though. Space as in, my living room, and not like, outer space. :P But I will hold off on spending any dollars for a while yet.[/quote] Really glad to hear someone I admire saying that! I'm quite sick and tired of "audio experts" and "comparisons and tests". If it sounds good and you get familiar with your gear, that's 90 percent of it. Don't get me wrong, I love my Mackies, but cant stand the endless conversation: "I can't sound like X and Y because i don't own A and B pieces of gear". Totally agree on the VST "let's buy sumtin' new" rant. I usually wait until I can't sincerely make any particular sound with anything else, give some thinking, then buy. It's true the track is not trancy neither housy, but it's quite good and certainly more intimate :) Nice job! [img]https://media.giphy.com/media/aSxvq2jEInSdW/giphy.gif[/img]