Tests/Clips I've Made

[Kris]

These are little samples and pieces of songs I've made in the past month or two.

http://www.flashasylum.com/db/files/Kris%20portfolio/Song_Player.swf

[cjc0007]

Just listened to them.
Very impressed (Y)
:)
Favourites are... Electro, Rawr, Piano/Guitar test and Marios Antidepressants

(pardon my spelling)

Do you record these yourself or mix them?

[Kris]

I play, record, and mix them myself.

[Shagg]

Wow, very impressing. I liked how each song was a differently style. I personally loved the style to Hearts. Do you mix the drums with a computer or are they recorded live?

[cjc0007]

I play, record, and mix them myself.
Even more so impressed :D

[exetra]

I do like this overall. I'm curious as to what your recording method is exactly (software(s)/microphone(s)/amp(s)/instrument model(s) etc). Crits as follows:

Piano/Guitar thing:
Not much to say about this really. I thought the piano sound was a bit too brittle and the guitar was too top-end heavy. Good composition though.

Hearts:
I noticed what sounds like a bit of air noise in the guitar recording. It gives a nice character to the sound imo but I'm into noisy crap.

Arid:
Hrrrmmm. I'd ease off the reverb on the hand drums and maybe shorten the decay too to make it sound less washy.

Electro thing:
The drums are too busy for my liking. Some of the synths seem a bit cheesy and simple.

Rawr:
Hrmm. I like the industrial vibe but I don't think the transition into the almost new-wave guitar riff is sound.

Mario drugfuck:
Didn't load for me. Oh well.

[Kris]

Wow, very impressing. I liked how each song was a differently style. I personally loved the style to Hearts. Do you mix the drums with a computer or are they recorded live?

Most of them I play on my handy dandy electric drum set, then I clip it out and loop it. Some things (like the beginning of RAWR) have programmed drum sets that I made myself.


Piano/Guitar thing:
Not much to say about this really. I thought the piano sound was a bit too brittle and the guitar was too top-end heavy. Good composition though.

Thank you. I'm not quite sure what you mean by top heavy considering all the guitar is EQ'd to mostly middle and high frequencies.


Hearts:
I noticed what sounds like a bit of air noise in the guitar recording. It gives a nice character to the sound imo but I'm into noisy crap.

Thank you. I could filter it out with a gate at the beginning, but this is kind of an older version compared to the version I have of this song so far. The his is mostly feedback from my fan in my room since it gets so fucking hot in my apartment/studio thingy.


Arid:
Hrrrmmm. I'd ease off the reverb on the hand drums and maybe shorten the decay too to make it sound less washy.

I personally love the reverby sound since it's supposed to sound a little more ethnic.


Electro thing:
The drums are too busy for my liking. Some of the synths seem a bit cheesy and simple.

I love the tech-drums. And the synth is cheesey because the music genre of "electro" is cheesey, and bleepy.


Rawr:
Hrmm. I like the industrial vibe but I don't think the transition into the almost new-wave guitar riff is sound.


This isn't exactly a song. It needs a transition to tie them together, but they are tests and experiments. It's not quite supposed to be together.


Mario drugfuck:
Didn't load for me. Oh well.

Try again. It works for me.

[Kris]

A Classical composition I started today

http://www.flashasylum.com/db/files/Kris-Chase/Ivory_Ahab.mp3

[Shmuh]

It was pretty coo'. Kinda reminded me of Danny Elfman for some crazy reason. Inspiration?

[Kris]

Not really but I can definitely hear how it sounds like him.

[blacksurge]

Piano/Guitar test: I loved this. I don't like many piano melodies, but this "style" I guess is one I love.

Hearts: I personally hate this genre of acoustic guitar playing, but it was still good nonetheless.

Arid: That was unexpected :P I really like it

Electro Experiment: That was pretty intense haha. What did you use to make this? I've always wanted to make techno but I don't know where to start :\

Rawr: That was also intense :P and also very unique. Also sounds like you were using a digitech pedal? I can get a really similar distortion out of mine

Mario's AntiDepressants: I didn't get much out of this one. Idk, it just didn't hit it for me.

Those were really good, you should show us the full songs :P

[Prawnatron]

Mario's AntiDepressants is epic I love how you put the sounds off the game in it. :gj:

[AeroRocker]

Do you have any tabs for any of the compositions?
I especially liked "Arid."

[HordeFusion]

I'm really addicted at Piano/guitar test, i really like it when the drums start playing. Kinda of a climax.

[Prawnatron]

nvm

[Stealth Prawn]

The classical composition is great. I can really hear the Elfman that Shmuh was referencing. Something about the bass in it, it's on a different beat than the treble sounds. I want to say it's on the downbeat, but I'm not sure I'm using the correct terminology. It's been a while. But I did like it, reminds me of all the Elfman scores I did in band class.

[The_Solipsist]

I would use more suspended chords on Piano/Guitar Test, also, a major minor key change would've sounded really good around :30-:40 Otherwise, both instruments went together nicely, but the drums were too poppy.

I absolutely love Hearts, please write a longer version of it. Add a trumpet solo.

Arid is pretty kickass, but I have to agree with Exetra about the reverb.

The drums on Electro Experiment are too much. Too much gain, they become more of an annoyance than anything after a while. The melodies also were somewhat weak, but they went nicely, otherwise.

I didn't like Rawr.

Mario's AntiDepressants is pretty ingenious, but the pause was too abrupt.