Blindcrake — "Blueshift" (ambient/guitar/electronic)
- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 216 posts since 18 Feb, 2011 from Hawaii
Hi all, new tune I pulled together today in Bitwig... some ambient/post-rock-ish guitar on top of a kick and sub I crafted along with some shifting pads. Thanks for listening and hope you enjoy!
https://soundcloud.com/blindcrake/blueshift
https://soundcloud.com/blindcrake/blueshift
- KVRAF
- 21191 posts since 8 Oct, 2014
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Comments: So I'm listening and listening and 1:30 in I can see that it's just the same guitar riff over and over. Needs to go somewhere but it doesn't. And if it does down the road it's way too late. At 2:15 I'm bored stiff. By now, I've turned the station off. Mix is decent but needs an actual song to go along with it.
Music - 6
Instruments - 7
Performance - 7
Mix - 8
Overall - 7
Comments: So I'm listening and listening and 1:30 in I can see that it's just the same guitar riff over and over. Needs to go somewhere but it doesn't. And if it does down the road it's way too late. At 2:15 I'm bored stiff. By now, I've turned the station off. Mix is decent but needs an actual song to go along with it.
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el-bo (formerly ebow) el-bo (formerly ebow) https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=208007
- KVRAF
- 16368 posts since 24 May, 2009 from A galaxy, far far away
Seems a bit congested in the lows, but I quite like the overall ambience. My biggest issue is with the use of the bass drum for hits where a different drum would likely work better. And if you didn't want to include higher frequency from e.g a snare, maybe it would be worth removing some of the bass hit, using the remaining hits to act more as more of an anchor than they do currently.
- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 216 posts since 18 Feb, 2011 from Hawaii
Thanks both for your feedback, appreciated!el-bo (formerly ebow) wrote: ↑Thu Jun 13, 2019 4:12 pm Seems a bit congested in the lows, but I quite like the overall ambience.
- KVRAF
- 11483 posts since 13 Mar, 2009 from UK
I quite liked the combination of the dry kick with the warm bass and its contrast with the delayed/reverbed guitar. Decidedly diaphanous.
Good work
Good work
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experimental.crow experimental.crow https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=6258
- KVRAF
- 6895 posts since 9 Mar, 2003 from the bridge of sighs
PG 1543+489 ...
- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 216 posts since 18 Feb, 2011 from Hawaii
Thank you both...
- KVRAF
- 1980 posts since 19 Aug, 2008
Kind of music you might listen to after a long days work, dinner, then look out of the window of your hi-rise flat and contemplate life.
- KVRAF
- 3390 posts since 5 Mar, 2004 from Gold Coast Australia
Personally, I find the Drums in these otherwise Ambient pieces really undo the feeling of letting go that the piece otherwise seems to suggest. Drums can be releasing but when they are rigid loops with an emphasis on the midset of EDM & Hip Hop, they ground the piece instead of letting it soar somewhere. I too would like some melodic or narrative development.
Benedict Roff-Marsh
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 216 posts since 18 Feb, 2011 from Hawaii
Thanks!
Benedict, thanks for the thoughtful reply; I don't disagree with you, and I'm not much of an EDM or hip hop fan at all style-wise but I guess I do enjoy the 'sound' from time to time. I agree with the rigid loop comment but I guess being an old progressive rock guy and loving odd meters (I think the loop is 13/8 but I'd have to go back and count it) so the repetition didn't bother me... and as you noted, sometimes with my more ambient pieces I lean toward repetition/ostinato stuff (or maybe it's creative laziness!).Benedict wrote: ↑Thu Jun 20, 2019 12:05 am Personally, I find the Drums in these otherwise Ambient pieces really undo the feeling of letting go that the piece otherwise seems to suggest. Drums can be releasing but when they are rigid loops with an emphasis on the midset of EDM & Hip Hop, they ground the piece instead of letting it soar somewhere. I too would like some melodic or narrative development.
Thanks again for your comment and listening.
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- addled muppet weed
- 105553 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
i enjoyed it, very mellow.
a soaring, sigur ros type solo over it would be nice maybe?
as for the drums, id wash them out in reverb personally. but then i don't like drums
(well, they have their place obviously, just not in my studio).
a soaring, sigur ros type solo over it would be nice maybe?
as for the drums, id wash them out in reverb personally. but then i don't like drums
(well, they have their place obviously, just not in my studio).
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Adrian Earnshaw Music Adrian Earnshaw Music https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=9148
- KVRian
- 766 posts since 23 Sep, 2003 from UK
Nice mellow, ambient track, which I enjoyed listening to as I surfed around the internet. Drums are a little monotonous and could have done with blending a touch more with the track. That aside - nice job.
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- KVRAF
- 3390 posts since 5 Mar, 2004 from Gold Coast Australia