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La rivière

By djippy on August 14, 2022 11:26 am

Hello guys! I am on vacation right now at Rivière Batiscan for 3 nights, then I'll go in another region, so setup is very minimalistic (and I forgot to bring headphones).

This one was done with only the laptop, no monitoring (other than laptop speakers). Logic X, without any of the libraries that are on an external harddrive at home... You guys can skip the last min if you want to, it is as you wish.

Just used the electronic drum kit, used the keypad to play the drums, some quantize. Same for piano, copy pasted the piano track, added another tone, some improvised vocals, voilà!

glad you are on vacation!  the background hiss adds a fun little flavor.

enjoy your time!  maybe post a picture from the trip next week!

lol i was really waiting for something big at the end

Hope you have a good trip! We need to star #macbooktracks for tunes recorded purely with the built-in mic. Nice job!

Nice laid back vibes on this. I enjoyed. Nice work!


Ipaghost wrote:

This goes well with the tune!

Enjoy your vacation!  This has a nice chilled out vibe to it that fits the vacation theme.

mixed without headphones?! pretty amazing(i should try one just on laptop speakers), i especially like the little highlights in the beat(like the cowbell), adds ornamentation in the highs like little fish jumping out of the water that flows throughout the track. a perfectly picturesque microcosm of how i imagine nature in the countryside there. beautiful one heart

Hope you are having a good time. Enjoy.

I like the minimalist setup, the humming and the simplicity of the track. Set against the background sound of the river and the context where we can imagine you camping next to the river, it's just perfect. I love the chord/note choice at 1:22 - really giving a relaxed and a little melancholic accent to it all. Profite bien des vacances!

CosmicCairns wrote:

Enjoy your vacation!  This has a nice chilled out vibe to it that fits the vacation theme.


Thanks a lot!

RajaTheResidentAlien wrote:

mixed without headphones?! pretty amazing(i should try one just on laptop speakers), i especially like the little highlights in the beat(like the cowbell), adds ornamentation in the highs like little fish jumping out of the water that flows throughout the track. a perfectly picturesque microcosm of how i imagine nature in the countryside there. beautiful one <3


"mixed" is a big word... I did leave all the presets as is, no eq or compression directly on the instruments tracks. Just levels with the river recording where I did add my spoken vocals. I did put a "warm vocals" fx chain preset on this track. I was able to have access to internet to upload the track to Landr and just use AI mastering from them.


Q-Rosh wrote:

Hope you are having a good time. Enjoy.


I do thanks, Need to start a little something for this week soon...


Kedbreak136 wrote:

I like the minimalist setup, the humming and the simplicity of the track. Set against the background sound of the river and the context where we can imagine you camping next to the river, it's just perfect. I love the chord/note choice at 1:22 - really giving a relaxed and a little melancholic accent to it all. Profite bien des vacances!


Merci!


Djippy summer slow jamzzes! Your voice rings true and sounds very cool over the ambient sounds. Enjoy your time away!

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