Adventure Theme

By ViridianLoom on August 11, 2024 7:34 pm

Quick VGM style tune that is based off an old idea I came up with for bass guitar back in like 2015. I was originally going to try just recording the bass solo but it sounded kind of boring without dialing in the ideal tone for it. I still included the bass midway through though.

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‹ Album Progress

Forgive me if I sound like a broken record with this stuff, but more updates about my upcoming album.

(REQUEST: If anyone is interested in hearing the album in it's current state before release and wants to provide feedback, please ping me on the discord. I'd appreciate the help because I'm too bashful to ask for it.)

I had the last two weeks off work and I spent that time working on my gothic prog album called Immerens, which I'm going to release under the name Venaht. I'm a lot closer than I was before but there's still some work to be done. I was pretty nitpicky at first but now I'm thinking I'll just release it with it's imperfections, however, there's a particular song that I really wanted to include but I might cut because it's just not up to the quality of the rest of the album. It's also a much older song that I recorded and it's defining bass tone was lost when it's relevant plugin crashed and I had to reinstall it back in 2022. Try as I might, I'm having a real hard to reverse engineering the mix so I can tweak from there. Maybe I'll release an EP of all the cut tracks or something. Right now I'm aiming to have it completely finished and up on streaming services by the end of the month, warts and all. I'm at the point where I just want to be done with it and I hope the song writing is strong enough to mask the mixing flaws because I'm too attached to it at this point to let anyone else mix it (plus, from what I've researched, that shit can get EXPENSIVE).

After that album is finished, I've compiled several VGM tunes that I'll be releasing under the moniker Catgazer as an album called Pineapple Cat. And we'll see where I go from there. I've been wanting to do more psychedelic/slacker rock like Tame Impala/Crumb/McBaise for a while so maybe that's the next thing I'll go for but I also have a lot of material for a Final Fantasy themed prog-metal album and a grunge/alt-rock album. Not enough songs for either to have a completed track listing but enough to have identified a specific sound for each.

Oh and there's another album, the one was intended to be a companion to Immerens, but I haven't quite figured out the full scope of sound for that one yet so who knows when that'll be done. It's more acoustic oriented but I'd personally be bored to listen to an entire album of acoustic songs so I'm trying to balance it with some other elements that keep it diversified. Thematically, these two are supposed to be companion albums because Immerens is associated with the night/moon and the other album (Working title: Elysia) is day/sun. Each album was supposed to lead from one to another, with the first and final tracks of Immerens representing a Sunset/Sunrise respectively.

Honestly, I keep pushing through with participating in WeeklyBeats this year but I would like to take a step back after this year or during this year to just focus on completing this backlog of albums and learning more about mixing. WeeklyBeats has done a TON for me as far as learning to be consistent and to refine my production skills through practice and repetition, but I'm getting to that point where I need slow down and study. I need to work on bigger projects that can't be scoped to a single week.

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August 12, 2024 12:59 am

frogcity

Nice work! I’m in a similar spot and planning to do a 2-4w cycle.

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August 12, 2024 1:00 am

frogcity

I enjoyed the Harvest Moon / Runescape sound and composition here

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August 13, 2024 4:07 am

levelcapybara

Cool VGM tune! Exciting to hear about your album progress too. I'm a big fan of your songwriting style, so I'm very much looking forward to it!

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August 13, 2024 5:40 am

Saguaro Gigante

I really really liked this! It was very trance inducing. This is the kind of song if I were playing a game I would stop or hang out in an area just a little longer so I could listen to it! Awesome work. Good luck with all your projects!

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August 13, 2024 7:10 pm

orangedrink

CATGAZER!

love it

awesome track, love when the bass drops

i could be available for album feedback depending on how quickly you need it!

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August 14, 2024 8:59 pm

Napear

I'm digging this track, kind gives me Legend (1985) vibes, though I'm not 100% sure why. Definitely has 80's dark fantasy energy though. Also good to hear the progress on the album(s). If you're looking to dial in mixing skills I really highly recommend The Art Of Mixing by David Gibson. It's a video series from the early 90's and it is cheesy AF... but if you can get past the mullets and star wipes, it's actually got a ton of really good lessons for core mixing skills, and how to use various mixing gear to great effect. Plus the whole series is available on YouTube FROM the author (as far as I can tell). So not even shady bootleg stuff... again... serious cheese warning. But I learned more from that video series than most of my master program mixing instruction.

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August 14, 2024 9:39 pm

Tone Matrix

Love how that first note with the bass hits each phrase. Almost like I'm doing a waltz dance but moving forward with a caravan. (yea i've been playing too many games they all just mashed into one lol).. The part at 1:16 oooh yais excellent organ outro part too.

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August 18, 2024 12:11 am

george bowles

love it, very progressive, downtempo, but still captivating

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August 25, 2024 6:56 pm

jwh

really great vibe, and yeah - that bass part that comes in is killer!

*I'm happy to listen if there's anything specific you're wanting feedback on for the album. I'm not on the Discord, but my email link on my WB profile should work.

it's rad that you have all these projects coming together.
and you might feel weird about it, but I personally don't think anyone would have an issue with you posting a song that you have remixed for the album as a WB song. even if it isn't something you wrote fresh, it's still current work if you're doing a new mix. I've done that a couple weeks, and having the weekly deadline gave me the motivation to actually finish something that had been hibernating on my hard drive. just a thought!

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