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By Minnamari on January 19, 2024 12:13 pm

This song started out with me simply practising how to work with drums in my audio software and somehow ended up as its own song. So I built it all around the drums which is why there's quite a lot more drums in this song than I usually have. I started with singing some melodies over it (the words are a bit nonsensical since that was what spontaneously came up. After that I cut up the singing track and moved pieces around for a better flow. And then added the synth to fill the soundscape out a bit.

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I like the electronic norse folk energy. A bit like the band that plays the vikings soundtrack heheh

Makes me think of this folk artist in Copenhagen who plays mostly these slow compositions and explained once how she purposefully plays melodies as low bass as she can with her voice (her voice is normal tho) because it has a more calming, relaxing effect. And it's so true, it works that way with your voice too smile

A comment worth bringing up is to try and put more diaphragm on the voice (if you can and want to) and also try to use more dynamics, for instance in the drums. If you have more loud parts as well as space and silent parts, will make each of them stand out more. At least this was smth I learned that really made my stuff sound better.

this sounds really good, nicely recorded and mixed together. really engaging, nicely done!

horatiuromantic wrote:

I like the electronic norse folk energy. A bit like the band that plays the vikings soundtrack heheh

Makes me think of this folk artist in Copenhagen who plays mostly these slow compositions and explained once how she purposefully plays melodies as low bass as she can with her voice (her voice is normal tho) because it has a more calming, relaxing effect. And it's so true, it works that way with your voice too smile

A comment worth bringing up is to try and put more diaphragm on the voice (if you can and want to) and also try to use more dynamics, for instance in the drums. If you have more loud parts as well as space and silent parts, will make each of them stand out more. At least this was smth I learned that really made my stuff sound better.

Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, I felt something was off with the mix too, will have to look into that.


nedsferatu wrote:

this sounds really good, nicely recorded and mixed together. really engaging, nicely done!

Thanks, I appreciate it!

the drums sound great - listening on bad laptop speakers and it's coming through so clear
your mix sounds amazing
i really enjoyed the spontaneous vocalizing the harmonies at the end were a nice touch
"just be" - we shared a theme this week heart

This sounds cozy, liking the voice.
- Spider

emily wrote:

the drums sound great - listening on bad laptop speakers and it's coming through so clear
your mix sounds amazing
i really enjoyed the spontaneous vocalizing the harmonies at the end were a nice touch
"just be" - we shared a theme this week heart

Thanks emily, I appreciate it! Was fighting my perfectionism with this track in letting it be a bit more free..so it means a lot to hear there's someone who appreciated that. : )

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