Hi,
I have some very rough, pre-mix demos at: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page...?bandID=401754
I'd appreciate any feedback, if you have the time.
TIA
Stu Nevitt
www.StuNevitt.com

"Stu Nevitt" wrote in message
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Hi,
I have some very rough, pre-mix demos at:
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page...?bandID=401754
I'd appreciate any feedback, if you have the time.
TIA
Stu Nevitt
www.StuNevitt.com


Hi Stu,

Always a pleasure to hear your work! :-)

Gotta go to bed so I'll just comment on the first one, She'd got that sexy
look in her eyes :

I think the drums sound great of course and the sax and bass also. I don't
care for the keyboard sounds too much. The sound for the main theme is a
little too thin and watery. I think a fuller and dirtier real clavinet or
gritty Hammond would be more interesting. Also for my tastes I think there
is a little too much space or something in the main theme sections. I know
some will jump all over me for this but hey . . .what can I say? ;-) After
the first bridge there is some sort of tabla or other percussive thing
happening which might of helped to fill it out but it's too low in the mix I
think. I really like the two bridge sections, my favorite parts. The first
one that starts around 2:05 is great and I wouldn't change anything in
particular. In the second one I don't like the sampled string sound that
starts around 4:40. It sounds too 'removed' from the rest of the
instruments and damages the illusion that this is a real band playing, not a
programmed sequence. If you can swing it having real string players playing
that part would help a lot I think. Maybe even have them play the phrase
half as often and then bend / slide the notes down at the end of the phrases
to give it more of an 'eastern' feel.

OK, sorry for the ramble, nice stuff!

--
John L Rice


PS - and just a helpful FYI, make sure you post to Usenet groups with plain
text formated messages. If you use Rich Text or HTML a lot of newsreader
people use wont display it correctly and they wont bother trying to read the
mess it makes.

Thanks for listening & commenting, John! How do you insert links into plain
text formatted messages? I thought you had to format it as HTML to do that.
Stu

"John L Rice" wrote in message
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"Stu Nevitt" wrote in message
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Hi,
I have some very rough, pre-mix demos at:
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page...?bandID=401754
I'd appreciate any feedback, if you have the time.
TIA
Stu Nevitt
www.StuNevitt.com


Hi Stu,

Always a pleasure to hear your work! :-)

Gotta go to bed so I'll just comment on the first one, She'd got that sexy
look in her eyes :

I think the drums sound great of course and the sax and bass also. I
don't care for the keyboard sounds too much. The sound for the main theme
is a little too thin and watery. I think a fuller and dirtier real
clavinet or gritty Hammond would be more interesting. Also for my tastes I
think there is a little too much space or something in the main theme
sections. I know some will jump all over me for this but hey . . .what can
I say? ;-) After the first bridge there is some sort of tabla or other
percussive thing happening which might of helped to fill it out but it's
too low in the mix I think. I really like the two bridge sections, my
favorite parts. The first one that starts around 2:05 is great and I
wouldn't change anything in particular. In the second one I don't like the
sampled string sound that starts around 4:40. It sounds too 'removed'
from the rest of the instruments and damages the illusion that this is a
real band playing, not a programmed sequence. If you can swing it having
real string players playing that part would help a lot I think. Maybe even
have them play the phrase half as often and then bend / slide the notes
down at the end of the phrases to give it more of an 'eastern' feel.

OK, sorry for the ramble, nice stuff!

--
John L Rice


PS - and just a helpful FYI, make sure you post to Usenet groups with
plain text formated messages. If you use Rich Text or HTML a lot of
newsreader people use wont display it correctly and they wont bother
trying to read the mess it makes.

Stu Nevitt wrote:
Thanks for listening & commenting, John! How do you insert links into plain
text formatted messages? I thought you had to format it as HTML to do that.

He doesn't. He's just putting the url in the body of the message. Your
newsreader is identifying it as a url and treating it as a link.

Please don't top-post.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

Scott,
Pardon my ignorance but, what does "top-post mean?
Thanks,
Stu

"Scott Dorsey" wrote in message
...
Stu Nevitt wrote:
Thanks for listening & commenting, John! How do you insert links into
plain
text formatted messages? I thought you had to format it as HTML to do
that.

He doesn't. He's just putting the url in the body of the message. Your
newsreader is identifying it as a url and treating it as a link.

Please don't top-post.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

Stu Nevitt wrote:

Pardon my ignorance but, what does "top-post mean?

It means to put your response to a post all in front of the
quote you are responding to. A reader has to scroll down to
find the context for the response and then go back up and
read it. For short responses like yours it isn't so bad but
some folks give long (and often relevant) editorials in
response and then it gets really annoying if not a tad arrogant.

The most readable, and conscientious, form is to intersperse
responses in the quoted text (appropriately trimmed) after
each point that one is responding to so that the reader
doesn't have to skip around to figure out what the response
is all about.


Bob
--

"Things should be described as simply as possible, but no
simpler."

A. Einstein

On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 10:05:34 -0700, "Stu Nevitt"
wrote:

Scott,
Pardon my ignorance but, what does "top-post mean?

Top-posting is writing the response to a message at the top of the
response, above the quoted part of the message. You should position
your responses so that each response is AFTER the text to which you
are responding.

These links, especially the "A./Q." sections, should explain why
this is bad.

http://lists.debian.org/debian-curio.../msg00015.html
http://forums.kayako.com/showthread.php?t=3237

Thanks,
Stu

"Scott Dorsey" wrote in message
...
Stu Nevitt wrote:
Thanks for listening & commenting, John! How do you insert links into
plain
text formatted messages? I thought you had to format it as HTML to do
that.

He doesn't. He's just putting the url in the body of the message. Your
newsreader is identifying it as a url and treating it as a link.

Please don't top-post.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

In article ,
says...

On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 10:05:34 -0700, "Stu Nevitt"
wrote:

Scott,
Pardon my ignorance but, what does "top-post mean?

Top-posting is writing the response to a message at the top of the
response, above the quoted part of the message. You should position
your responses so that each response is AFTER the text to which you
are responding.

These links, especially the "A./Q." sections, should explain why
this is bad.

http://lists.debian.org/debian-curio.../msg00015.html
http://forums.kayako.com/showthread.php?t=3237


Even with Googlegroups' new formatting, trying to find information about
something in their archives is a lot quicker and less frustrating when it's
top-posted. I'd always been a militant anti-top-poster until I realized this
unescapable reality. For casual conversation I still stick with bottom
posting, but when answering a question, I top-post as much as possible now,
though by habit I'm still mostly a bottom-poster.




Thanks,
Stu

"Scott Dorsey" wrote in message
...
Stu Nevitt wrote:
Thanks for listening & commenting, John! How do you insert links into
plain
text formatted messages? I thought you had to format it as HTML to do
that.

He doesn't. He's just putting the url in the body of the message. Your
newsreader is identifying it as a url and treating it as a link.

Please don't top-post.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

In article EB_Te.219244$9A2.67321@edtnps89, Chevdo wrote:

Even with Googlegroups' new formatting, trying to find information about
something in their archives is a lot quicker and less frustrating when it's
top-posted. I'd always been a militant anti-top-poster until I realized this
unescapable reality. For casual conversation I still stick with bottom
posting, but when answering a question, I top-post as much as possible now,
though by habit I'm still mostly a bottom-poster.

This is not a recommendation of top-posting. This is a condemnation of the
horrible Google interface.
--scott

--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."