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dark wood venus

By mwmwmw on September 1, 2024 7:54 pm

the second part of this track is heavily inspired by folk artist Fursaxa, especially the track "alone in a dark wood" which always reminds me of this time of year. the air getting a little chillier, the sun at an odd angle. temperature steadily dropping.

🤘🤘hellllll yeah. Nice work

Love those bass sounds! What part is the CS80?

I like it. It feels less like a chill breeze in the woods to me, more like a Nazgûl is sniffing around meters away while I'm hiding under a tree trunk, though. Would be a good Halloween theme smile

Dude. This is a deep f dark wood indeed! That was so fun to listen to.

This has such a great sense of space, like the use of reverb through out is so well done.  And the bass is off the chain.  Great track. 

Oh snap, this sounds AWESOME! Spooky, dark, ominous and intense. Friggin' RAD. Great work!

SQF wrote:

🤘🤘hellllll yeah. Nice work

🙌

Princent Vice wrote:

Love those bass sounds! What part is the CS80?

It's a buried part at the end. i've got the sustain pedal down and I'm adding tones one by one until the end. i'm using it just to hold all those siren sounds together.

After a few weeks of beats and not ever being satisfied with my bass mix, I think I've finally found a good direction. My belief was that pure tone=better bass, but now I think that you need 2-3 octaves of overtones and it's a balancing act between low and low mid when they hit the limiter (if you listen back to some previous wb's, you can hear me struggling with it, bass too upfront and masking, or completely disappears on small speakers). 

This track the low mid could be a little louder (on Part 1 bass). Getting close to a good recipe though.

c-cube wrote:

I like it. It feels less like a chill breeze in the woods to me, more like a Nazgûl is sniffing around meters away while I'm hiding under a tree trunk, though. Would be a good Halloween theme smile

lord of the onion rings. i'm the nazgul hunting your onion rings mr frodo. I can see the ad now.


PeterM wrote:

Dude. This is a deep f dark wood indeed! That was so fun to listen to.

oh good, sometimes i worry that if it's too dark and weird I'm like the organ playing misanthropic bible thumper lady from Edward Scissorhands, playing her dirges all alone. 😅


Napear wrote:

This has such a great sense of space, like the use of reverb through out is so well done.  And the bass is off the chain.  Great track.

I've been playing a lot with dialing back my effect sends by A LOT. Then punching the effects in using the send commands on the M8. Works super well for those last beat snares that you want to have echo to eternity, but otherwise would rather not have the extra noise clogging up the mix. It's interesting how a single note into an effect will have a greater impact on selling the space that having it soaked all the time.


jegasus wrote:

Oh snap, this sounds AWESOME! Spooky, dark, ominous and intense. Friggin' RAD. Great work!

👻👻👻

This would fit great in a "Zombies ate my neighbors" remake.
Bit of exploration, killing a big boss and being stalked by a werewolf. 10/10.

This is a killer tune.

wow, so ominous and heavy. nice work, for realz!

Very cool….i especially like that ghostly rising and falling sound in the end…positively creepy. Have you heard Peter Baumann’s (of Tangerine Dream) track ”Haunted Heights”? You definetly should…it has quite a bit of the same moods you like to do.

I see CS80, I get interested. It's that simple.

Interesting to hear it in a modern context as usually everybody just plays vangelisesque stuff on it. Well, unless they are Paul McCartney, I guess.

Also so interesting you'd make this track thinking of Autumn. When early Fall is on my mind I'm not thinking "dark gritty trip hop" big_smile

But the track's good!

Sure feels like spooky season comes earlier every year.
- Spider

Devieus wrote:

Sure feels like spooky season comes earlier every year.
- Spider

I agree! even as a 365 spooky seasoner, it felt like sept rolled around and everyone was like ITS HALLOWEEN.



mwmwmw wrote:
Devieus wrote:

Sure feels like spooky season comes earlier every year.
- Spider

I agree! even as a 365 spooky seasoner, it felt like sept rolled around and everyone was like ITS HALLOWEEN.


Yes, some even earlier and mention it's right after 4 July. It makes sense, but there's still so much time between.

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