trekkiejj
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Location: Lubbock, Texas, US
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 Posted: Sat Mar 31 2007 23:30
new piece, rock style |
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Ok...I bear my soul to you, now. This is the first track I've written in several years, and my first MadTracker track, so please be nice.  It's a basic, straight-ahead, mainstream rock piece--100% tracked. Samples are from various places; VSTs used include: Freeamp2 for guitar distortion, Helian Bass for bass amp, and Classic EQ, Classic Reverb, and Classic Master Limiter.
I would love to see any and all comments about it, especially in terms of how to improve the mix. I just finished the piece so it is untitled right now.
http://www.speedyshare.com/291243996.html
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XnmE
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Posted: Sun Apr 01 2007 16:06
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quite cool song with 70's feeling Guitar sounds very oldskoolish. I like the drums. What is that? Your own samples collection? |
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trekkiejj
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Posted: Mon Apr 02 2007 03:12
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| XnmE wrote: | | quite cool song with 70's feeling Guitar sounds very oldskoolish. I like the drums. What is that? Your own samples collection? |
Hey, thanks--that means a lot coming from you. I admire your work. I guess it does have a 70s classic blues/rock kind of feel, doesn't it? I'm heavily influenced by bands like Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Van Halen, etc., so that's probably why.
As for the drum samples, I got them from this website:
http://www.kara-moon.com/
Go to "free stuff" and "sample pool." The drums that I used are all done by Yppse--he/she has uploaded multiple packs of WAVs for just about every piece of a drum set that you can imagine, each of which has samples of the drum being hit in many different ways. Very, very high quality stuff. I spent many hours going through these sample packs and creating .XI instruments in MadTracker. And I still didn't exhaust all the possibilities.
Thanks for the comments, XnmE. |
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XnmE
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Posted: Mon Apr 02 2007 07:11
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| trekkiejj wrote: |
Hey, thanks--that means a lot coming from you. I admire your work.
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You're welcome and thanx.
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I guess it does have a 70s classic blues/rock kind of feel, doesn't it? I'm heavily influenced by bands like Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Van Halen, etc., so that's probably why.
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I can hear it. It reminds me Led Zeppelin or Deep Purple stuff. Song is more complex from my own rock/metal music. Very good guitarwork. I can hear oldskool sample based guitar tracking if im not wrong. In a few moments guitar sound like from Slayer VST, but in other parts i hear sample work and tracker efects like portamentos etc., i dont think you can do it with any guitar vst. Sound could be better ( i mean - more realistic), but its still tracked music and i like it. Good ideas and high skill. I must listen to this song with headphones when im back home.
Thanx a lot. I must give it a try. It sounds fresh to me. Im a bit bored with drumkit from hell.
About drumparts, i like these parts much too, not just a sound, they are really very well done.
Is it possible to publish the MT2 file? |
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Psalm 97
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Posted: Mon Apr 02 2007 16:11
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Wow! I just checked that site out and.......... wow! trekkiejj, post that site in the samples resource thread please. If you don't, I will.
Thread is here. http://www.madtracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=50 |
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trekkiejj
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Posted: Tue Apr 03 2007 04:15
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| Psalm 97 wrote: | | Wow! I just checked that site out and.......... wow! trekkiejj, post that site in the samples resource thread please. If you don't, I will. |
It's there--I posted it a couple of weeks ago. It's still the last post in the thread. I think I tried to do a direct link to the sample page in the post, though. |
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trekkiejj
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Posted: Tue Apr 03 2007 04:32
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| XnmE wrote: |
It reminds me Led Zeppelin or Deep Purple stuff. Song is more complex from my own rock/metal music. Very good guitarwork. I can hear oldskool sample based guitar tracking if im not wrong. In a few moments guitar sound like from Slayer VST, but in other parts i hear sample work and tracker efects like portamentos etc., i dont think you can do it with any guitar vst. Sound could be better ( i mean - more realistic), but its still tracked music and i like it. Good ideas and high skill. I must listen to this song with headphones when im back home.
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Awesome. Thanks! I'm glad you like it. I really appreciate the compliments. I feel like my creative juices have been restored, so I may have to write some more music in the coming weeks. Really this track started out as an experiment, but I liked the sound and just kept adding to it.
You're right about the old-school tracking--the piece is all tracked, but I was pretty pleased with the results. The crunchy rhythm guitar sounds pretty authentic to my ears, but you're right--there are places where the lead guitar especially really has a tracked sound. As you said, it's hard to get the tracker effects (like the portamentos) to sound 100% realistic. It's the difference between a completely smooth slide and sliding across a fretboard.
But, I do have to say that I don't play guitar (or drums, or bass), so this is as close as I've ever come to hearing what's in my head come out in a song. One day I'd like to learn to play, but I just haven't had the chance.
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Thanx a lot. I must give it a try. It sounds fresh to me. Im a bit bored with drumkit from hell.
About drumparts, i like these parts much too, not just a sound, they are really very well done.
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Again, thanks--that means a lot to me. Today I was listening to my Houses of the Holy album (Led Zeppelin), and it's funny--I realized that a lot of my drum parts imitate John Bonham, so, in a way I guess you could say that I learned from the best. 
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Is it possible to publish the MT2 file? |
Definitely! I'll upload it tonight or tomorrow and then post the link to this thread. One question--do I need to provide links where you can download the VSTs, or how exactly does that work? |
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Frazze
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bigandymac
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Posted: Tue Apr 03 2007 12:39
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this is cool, the guitars are very convincing. i think it would sound cooler with a stronger snare. |
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trekkiejj
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Posted: Wed Apr 04 2007 00:10
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Thanks, guys. Bigandymac: I agree with you about the snare--it is a little bit weak. I've thought about processing it to see if I can make it a little louder, or maybe lower the tone or something.
Anyway, XnmE requested a link to the MT2 file, and here it is:
http://www.wikiupload.com/download_page.php?id=117845 (the download link is there, it's just hidden--look on the right side of the screen)
The file is pretty large just because I never thought I would be sharing the MT2 file, so I didn't bother compressing or otherwise cleaning up any of the drum samples.
Enjoy! |
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XnmE
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Posted: Wed Apr 04 2007 13:42
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thanx im going to dl this when im back home |
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SoulEye
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Posted: Wed Apr 04 2007 15:25
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I hate remaking alot of samples into madtracker instuments. Especially drumkits. Could someone else do it for me?  |
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