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Dex, Glad you liked "Hotel NJ", I posted it cause I thought you would appreciate it actually based on your other songs. I have several cds filled with similar music. The "band" I was in at the time was called "Reverse Monster" and we did tons of stuff, recording every night in our living room, high as a flock of kites on dxm. I will post more after I get it all online again. I'm working on a new website for myself, to house all my creative endevours in one place.

I listened to a couple of your songs as well:

"Monkey off your back (NEVER)":
I like your use of a the drum machine beat. It fits just right for the mood of the song I think, mellow yet compulsive (as it repeats over and over). I have a hard time hearing your voice in this mix, but I am listening at work so it might be the speakers, but it isn't neccessarily a bad thing. I like how the voicee is hardly heard, as it sort of goes with the idea of the title, i.e. getting drown out, having one's head held under the water by the monkey on your back. I would maybe work on the mix to make a few catch phrases become audible here and there, just give some context to the lyrics. It's odd, I just played with a band in NYC last week, made up of a drum machine, a chick on keys and a dude on guitar. They had the electro meets greasy blues guitar hero mixture that I sometimes feel in your songs. I would maybe suggest for the outro some weird guitar sounds, maybe rubbing the guitar against a metal pole or something to make odd dissonance in the background, cause the monkey is never off your back...even as the song is resolving.

"Cry Baby": I love the raucous way this song starts. This song reminds me a bit of early Pavement recordings, which is a cool thing. Again, the vocals were buried, but again it could be my work speakers sucking. If you intended it that way, then you might want to boost them just a bit so the listener can at least take a few catch phrases out of it. I have less to say about this song as it is pretty short. I really do like the guirtar in it though.
 
CatfishRivers said:
and here's another new one...

Machine Arm
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If anyone can give me feedback on this tune I would appreciate it. I am trying to finish it up, but I think perhaps I should expand the loud majestic part that follows the flute intro. I know that I don't quite wrap that part up so well as it goes into the ambient second half if the song, but my question is should I extend that part? I got some feedback from a dude on a Reason community website, and he said I should bring that part out, but I listened to his songs and I don't quite mesh with his style and approach, so I'd like it if you guys could lend me your ears and opinions on this one. Thanks dudez and dudettes.

(sorry but you might need to save the song to actually hear it...not sure what's going on with my host site, hence the reason I am making my own site as stated above...)
 
Leg said:
thanks dude :) yea "help me blues" was sung + played at the same time...just completely improvised late at night...i can't play electric in the dorms late at night :( yeh...(and i DO realize it's mostly senseless blues guitar noodling, heh, i don't think being electrified would make that much better ;) )

i gotta listen to "Hotel NJ" sometime!...hmmz...
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Please do! It will make you laugh I promise...it is just a few pages back in the thread.
 
Catfish. I finally round the R3 CDs! Burried randomly in a bunch of other shit. I'll get that shit up an running soon. I have a ton of brand new stuff to upload, mostly acoustic, but as you know, im all about hybrid, and strait up electro too.

Sure, you could fiddle with any of my uploaded songs. Unfortately, ALMOST everything since the start of this year has been recorded in almost uncomprehensible LO-Fi. But they are all great songs and further push the envelope for my creativity.

I was thinking about reason, and was wondering if i was unable to plug a midi keyboard into the set, would it still be worth my time, just for back up or even full-fledged "other" tracks as part of the whole, then bring it down to acid pro, thats all i got for sequencing, with my setup....was even wondering is R3 would be good for fucking with samples, in any imaginable way possible. I'll keep you fucks posted. And thanks for R3 Cat.
 
Awesome man, glad you found it. I was gonna send it again this week if you didn't actually find it...can't wait for the Normal Heights Electrojam Extravaganza!
 
well you can take whatever you want off my Normal Heights site on sound click, and fuck with em all you want. I give you full freedom.

CAN YOU USE REASON JUST TO ADD TO SONGS? cause im using acid4.0 for a sequence and recording with a mic.
 
With reason you would need to do that in reverse unfortunately. There is no direct recording of live instruments available. You'd either have to use reason as a rewire slave (not sure if acid has rewire capability) into a workstation enviornment (acid might be able to do this, cubase can, ableton live, sonar, or use a 4 track or something) or on the other hand, you could write the reason parts of the song, make a wave file and then import the wave into acid and play to it. You could also import a wave file of a song you made through Reason's NN-19 sampler (or the NN-XT) record that as a sample and then record reason over it.

So for the last example, I could take one of yer Normal Heights songs, play it as a wav through reeason using the NN-19 sampler (I'd have to record the sample into the sequencer) and once that was recorded, then add whatever else reason has that I wanted to use, even the mastering suite can be used to boost the original wav file's sound and eq'ing.

Hope that helps.
 
guys take it to PM!!! i can't keep up with this thread!!!

by the way, i listened to hotel NJ but couldn't sit through all of it ;) too far out man, was kinda funny tho

and Machine Arm...was kinda boring, I dunno, you could launch into a whole Atom Heart Mother-suite-type-thing, I think, or at least that's what it seems like it's going for...but...I dunno...didn't do that much for me...

maybe i'll give them another go-over sometime soon

[by the way, I just uploaded another song right now called "Downtempo Abduction (There & Back Again)", you can find it on my page at http://www.soundclick.com/bands/2/markkolkin.htm :) check it, it's kinda cool, different from the other stuff I have up there]
 
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^"Alien Abduction"'s drumbeat sounded off beat and erratic a couple times in the song.
 
i know the drums are bad :( dude, it was me on keyboard drums :(

keyboard drums are pretty tricky...
i think for decent recordings i should try to figure out the beats in my head + use fruityloops :\ it's just hard + time-consuming to first figure out the drum beat and then record along with the drumbeat...meh...but yea, i have not been very succesful at keyboard drums, ever...i think i would have to record each drum sound separately, but that would also require working them all out individually, to some extent, beforehand...
 
The key to playing keyboard drums well is to let your hands bounce on and off the keys. By only pressing donward without keeping your wrists and hands snapping back up you lose time and you misplace beats. Remember, just like Gummybears, bounce bouncee bounce!
 
Hey everyone...my band is playing tonight in Manhatten, NYC. If yer in the area, you might want to come check us out. My drummer (who works as a graphic designer for Rolling Stone) whipped this up and I think it kicks ass.

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I'd love to meet any of you in person. Thanks for reading this.
 
nice, i'm nowhere near NYC tho (good ole O-H-I-O...heh)
 
Any good music venues out there? I'd like to know where's cool to play if we ever make it out that way ;)
 
Off topic but fuck it, i just got out of rehab. Catfish, how was the gig? The crowd? How big? and their response? Did you make any money, just for fun, just for beer, just for pussy, just cause you LOVE playing, or all over the above?

My girlfriend/love of my life, lives in NYC right now, and once i get my shit together, i'm going to move out there with her, so maybe we will actually be able to do some real jam sessions, and you could show me how to use R3 in person! ...lol, i wouldn't be living out there for another year or 2....plus NYC is fucking expensive to live in any area of the city where you feel safe having a home studio and instruments and the like.

I'll post some new stuff within the next couple days...and I'm getting a new computer/preamp and everything, so I'm gonna be putting out A LOT of shit. And FINALLY get to use my nice condenser mic again and do LINE IN recording for the needing things and the like.

Catfish, you have a PM.

Dex
 
I dunno about good music venues out here, btw, Catfish...I don't get out much.

I went to a show at Skully's and it was quite nice. Seemed to have good sound, to me, but I think that's more up to the band, in the end, than the venue. ? Or maybe not...but it did sound nice :)

Newport (right across from OSU) is ok...

maybe just the show i saw at skully's was a lot better than any i've seen at the newport, although The Breakfast was quite fun opening for Hookah at Newport :)
 
CatfishRivers said:
Any good music venues out there? I'd like to know where's cool to play if we ever make it out that way ;)
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oh wow. there are so many gold places to play in Columbus, OH. all are located in central Ohio, Columbus, campus area, high st.

Bernie's Distillery, Little Brother's, Whiskey Dick's, Skully's, Newport, etc etc. Catfish if your band ever comes to central Ohio my band could definetely get you on a gig.
 
Axl and Leg, thanks for that info. And Axl, when we make it out your way I will definitely take you up on that offer (you rule dude!). Our show went well and we got paid in cash money. Oh yeah bitches. There were no audiencee members except for our band for the first 2 acts, a local guy named Sampsonic, and a band (which I think I have heard of before) called Coppermine. Luckily we were able to bring in about 40 people, plus some random folks who weren't there to see any band in particular. So it was good for only our 4rth show.
 
Glad to hear things are going well for your Catfish...btw, that poster on the previous page is pretty fuckin' awesome. =D

We're currently shopping our presskit around town here in Chicago and hope to be gigging soon. It has been a year since we have played live and we are more than ready at this point. I can't wait to debut a bunch of new songs for folks, although it's kind of a shame our fanbase is non-existant in this city, although I guess that makes our whole catalog of songs (a little over than thirty originals) completely new for people. I'm anxious to see how we will be received. :)
 
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