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By neon liminal on July 28, 2024 9:26 pm

GIANT DRONING WALL OF SOUND and some sloppy guitar.

Side note: Ableton screwed me six times trying to export the master.

Beautiful. The phrase “musical sunrise”
Kept flitting through my head. The introduction of new elements was great - those first guitar notes at 1:20, the dulcimer sounds at 2:20, when the guitar starts to gain motion at 3:25 - until suddenly the wall of sound had formed at 4:45. Magical and glowing. Amazing texture, energy that throws off sparks…a great build. The guitar was like jagged beams of light. No sloppy guitar detected.

Ooof I feel ya on those ableton_gnomes.  This has such an awesome build.  The space in the mix for everything gave me such floaty feels.  Musical sunrise sounds about right for this yes. If Heat had a sequel I'd want this in there.  The dulcimer really adds to the tension but oof the mourning heroic change at 4:27ish ooooh yes even more! Excellent track, fav'ed!

... ... ╭(* _ *)╮ ... .. I'm at a legitimate loss for words... this track is soooooo well produced.  The bit around 2:06... when the strings lead into those plucky sounds... <("0 ")> ... masterful.  And the placement of the guitar in space... like EXACTLY the reverb it needed... I'm blown away.

Magnifique! The guitar sits so perfectly in the mix and just flows into that massive reverb space the song has built up.
Goosebumps! The second section with the guitar is extremely reminiscent of Pink Floyd. Magical.
Straight up audio pornography.

as i said elsewhere, this track is absolutely heavenly

your work hits me on such a deep level. and i agree w/ Napear - your production is so inspiring.

i saw this image from Jay Ryan over at the Bird Machine when i was listening the 2nd time and it felt like the perfect visual complement for some reason:

What did Ableton do? If you're getting buffer underruns on realtime exporting then you're not alone. Track freezing is your friend! Especially for a long piece like this one.

Kudos for the track, it's splendid. While the soundscape progresses slowly like clouds, there's a ton happening. That opening 90 seconds builds an eerie atmosphere. Then it morphs into a wistful theme, which is interrupted with more dread, and then back to nostalgia. It builds up quite spectacularly to a finale that somehow combines all elements, adding some distortion that reminds me of F♯ A♯ ∞

Paisleyfrog wrote:

Beautiful. The phrase “musical sunrise”
Kept flitting through my head. The introduction of new elements was great - those first guitar notes at 1:20, the dulcimer sounds at 2:20, when the guitar starts to gain motion at 3:25 - until suddenly the wall of sound had formed at 4:45. Magical and glowing. Amazing texture, energy that throws off sparks…a great build. The guitar was like jagged beams of light. No sloppy guitar detected.

Thank you heart I'm gonna have to think about guitar as beams of light from now on ...

Tone Matrix wrote:

Ooof I feel ya on those ableton_gnomes.  This has such an awesome build.  The space in the mix for everything gave me such floaty feels.  Musical sunrise sounds about right for this yes. If Heat had a sequel I'd want this in there.  The dulcimer really adds to the tension but oof the mourning heroic change at 4:27ish ooooh yes even more! Excellent track, fav'ed!

OHHHHHHHMAHGAWD the Heat soundtrack was amazing .... I'm having flashbacks. Good lord. That was an epic compliment as well as an epic rabbit hole I'm now gonna leap down again ... thank you!!! heart

Napear wrote:

... ... ╭(* _ *)╮ ... .. I'm at a legitimate loss for words... this track is soooooo well produced.  The bit around 2:06... when the strings lead into those plucky sounds... <("0 ")> ... masterful.  And the placement of the guitar in space... like EXACTLY the reverb it needed... I'm blown away.

Thank you heart I'll admit, I'm a sucker for making some of those dramatic moments like the drop into the plucky sounds ... little too much fun. Also too much reverb but sometimes that's okay lol.

BarristerPlong wrote:

Magnifique! The guitar sits so perfectly in the mix and just flows into that massive reverb space the song has built up.
Goosebumps! The second section with the guitar is extremely reminiscent of Pink Floyd. Magical.
Straight up audio pornography.

Thank you heart yeah I'm gonna be riding on the Pink Floyd compliment for a while lol

jwh wrote:

as i said elsewhere, this track is absolutely heavenly

your work hits me on such a deep level. and i agree w/ Napear - your production is so inspiring.

i saw this image from Jay Ryan over at the Bird Machine when i was listening the 2nd time and it felt like the perfect visual complement for some reason:

I didn't understand this image until I saw it on a large screen - stupid cell phone - and wow it's compelling. Thank you heart I might have to compose a few more hurricanes of knives lol big_smile

rplktr wrote:

What did Ableton do? If you're getting buffer underruns on realtime exporting then you're not alone. Track freezing is your friend! Especially for a long piece like this one.

Kudos for the track, it's splendid. While the soundscape progresses slowly like clouds, there's a ton happening. That opening 90 seconds builds an eerie atmosphere. Then it morphs into a wistful theme, which is interrupted with more dread, and then back to nostalgia. It builds up quite spectacularly to a finale that somehow combines all elements, adding some distortion that reminds me of F♯ A♯ ∞

Reminding you of Godspeed! You Black Emperor is one of the highest compliments you can pay me, thank you heart

Ableton: it crashed on export. And while I had saved recently, I decided to trust the recovery anyway for some STUPID STUPID REASON BAD NEON BAD. Over the course of six exports I discovered, not in this order:
- it erased my mastering change/references in Ozone
- it disabled my de-noise plugin on the guitar track
- it erased the noise-print on my de-noise plugin on the guitar track
- actually I can't remember the rest.

In fact, listening to this track this week, I'm hearing a few other things it reset - the sorta bowed guitar that enters in the first 2 minutes has a much faster attack than I intended (and had changed), and to be honest - the reverb works, but I'd toned it down a lot, which tells me it reset the mix on a few plugins too. But I was already past time for getting it done that day so alas!

It's still a great track and this basically makes for a lot of notes for cleanup later and a reminder to never trust Ableton's restore function, at least not in version 12.

Some really enjoyable soundtrack and neo classical pieces this week, I just heard one with ice samples and it lead into this so well! I love hearing things at random. Anyways good work!

Blast me with these sounds, they crate a nice sense of space and fill it with some beautiful sounds
Especially the guitar, throwing the space into the ocean
- Ebrit

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