Simple Sunday
By laguna on March 8, 2020 11:31 pm
Hello, Weeklybeats family!
First of all, apologies to everybody commenting and dropping by. I am really struggling to manage my time between my job, real world chores and audio and video creation. Please excuse me if I haven't responded to you.
This one's my first Reaper project ever. Done entirely this pretty Sunday, day of the deadline. It's really simple and there is no mastering, as such. I'm still quite new to the interface and even the synths I used today were new. ADL and OPL FM chip emulations under Linux, Dexed FM synths and some Zyn-Fusion (the "prettier" ZynAddSubFX cousin). Almost all synths are running presets.
I could swear there's constant distortion in the track, but since I'm so unfamiliar with everything and I created a delay chain with some kind of bit reduction, maybe it's my own creation playing against my ears. Please let me know if it sounds too harsh.
I put the whole mix through cassette tape in order to smooth those high frequencies out, but I really can't hear much difference, if I'm honest. At least I could "normalize" the quiet mix with the tape, but don't expect any magic "warmth and natural compression". I DO have the equipment, and when working properly, tape sounds quite decent. No warble and exaggerated flutter, like those "80s synthwave" presets... And don't get me wrong: I love those.
It is just me or maybe it's better to use Tape Emulation VSTs instead of real tape, after half a lifetime of nostalgia and fake "Stranger Things" memories of past decades?.
It's damn simplistic and quite uninspired, I'm afraid. I hope to learn the basics of this DAW, because it's quite promising and I still can't find my software of choice on Linux. At least this time I didn't gave up and went running back to Ableton on the Mac.
I do have a video of several of my tracks in the making, but now I really should be sleeping instead of editing, so they'll have to wait. Keeping a streak of videos is quite harder that just making music, at least for me.
Must go to bed now...
Best wishes to all of you, around the world. I hope you had a great Women's Day globally. I wish society keeps making progress so one day it wouldn't be necessary to remember some people that we all are born equal.
Peace and respect, Weeklybeats family!!!
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