Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Drum Loop

This is it the new drum loop. I fooled around with the pitches of some of the drums and also changed the panning. There several different beats and recorded different instruments and played them together. This is called layering the beginning and the end of the song. This is the result.

2 comments:

will said...

Very nice! I feel like I'm on an African Safari almost when i listen to this. I liked how in the middle of your song, you took one simple beat and kept adding to it to have a good result. It was a very long loop but I think it needed to be to do what you were trying to.

B. Rabuse Blog said...

Jacob,

A good first effort. You certianly have a lot of good musical ideas. It can be difficult to organize so many ideas into one piece. A word of advice, don't feel that you have to use everything. If your work suffered from anything it was that there may have been too much going on. Think simple.

What you have was good. All instruments were in their proper register and functioning as they should- ground rhythm by the kick drum, etc. Your panning was a little extreme though and listening with headphones, there was really nothing in the middle. It seemed at sound was coming from the far left and the far right all the time. I would tighten up your stereo field a little bit.

Consider putting the main idea of your groove in the middle (in this case, the kick drum) and adding all the auxilliary stuff to the left and right- but not hard left or hard right. A little displacement to the left or right can be very effective.

Overall, good work.