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by SpotlightKid
Fri Mar 08, 2024 4:07 pm
Forum: The Producer's Area
Topic: Getting a good (guitar) sound across multiple listening devices. Advice?
Replies: 30
Views: 1523

Re: Getting a good (guitar) sound across multiple listening devices. Advice?

IMHO getting a good amped electric guitar sound recorded is a solved-problem, regardless of whether you're using free or proprietary software, since the advent of impulse response (IR) convolvers, guitar speaker cabinet IRs and neural amp modellers. Even with the previous generation of amp modellers...
by SpotlightKid
Thu Mar 07, 2024 9:02 am
Forum: The Producer's Area
Topic: Getting a good (guitar) sound across multiple listening devices. Advice?
Replies: 30
Views: 1523

Re: Getting a good (guitar) sound across multiple listening devices. Advice?

Firstly, there is no one "right" guitar sound (or sound of any other instrument). It all amounts to what is appropriate for the song, its genre, and the mix and the feel you're going for. For example, if you're doing anything like rock, punk or metal, all rhythm guitar parts are often doub...
by SpotlightKid
Mon Jan 15, 2024 1:05 am
Forum: The Producer's Area
Topic: Libre Music Challenge #25: Christmas Windows
Replies: 20
Views: 58755

Re: Libre Music Challenge #25: Christmas Windows

Heyall, late feedback for the December submissions: Amberdrake - Metal of the Bells Has a cool early-Metallica thing going. I like the intro with the cymbals and the bass. But as soon as guitars come in the bass should provide the low end, which is totally missing here. Very solid composition but ul...
by SpotlightKid
Mon Jan 01, 2024 2:42 pm
Forum: The Producer's Area
Topic: Libre Music Challenge #25: Christmas Windows
Replies: 20
Views: 58755

Re: Libre Music Challenge #25: Christmas Windows

amberdrake wrote: Wed Dec 27, 2023 3:16 pm

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/amberdrake-38439 ... -the-bells

@amberdrake You need to enable the download option for the track on SoundCloud.

by SpotlightKid
Sun Dec 31, 2023 1:24 pm
Forum: The Producer's Area
Topic: Libre Music Challenge #25: Christmas Windows
Replies: 20
Views: 58755

Re: Libre Music Challenge #25: Christmas Windows

Here's my submission for the December 2023 LMC. I rolled last November's and this months challenge into one, since I used only real instruments, my voice and a hardware FM synth and Airwindows plugins. I had this ready on Christmas already, but I wanted to work on it some more afterwards, but I didn...
by SpotlightKid
Wed Dec 27, 2023 12:15 am
Forum: Plugins, Effects and Instruments
Topic: Rockman guitar sound with FLOSS?
Replies: 4
Views: 1553

Re: Rockman guitar sound with FLOSS?

As an alternative to Neural Amp Modeler there's also AIDA-X: https://github.com/AidaDSP/AIDA-X You can train models for AIDA-X with this repo: https://github.com/AidaDSP/Automated-GuitarAmpModelling The link to the cloud hosted training Jupyter notebook given in the AIDA-X readme currently doesn't w...
by SpotlightKid
Tue Dec 26, 2023 10:00 pm
Forum: Plugins, Effects and Instruments
Topic: Rockman guitar sound with FLOSS?
Replies: 4
Views: 1553

Re: Rockman guitar sound with FLOSS?

Actually, I found some models for Neural Amp Modeler on Tonehunt: https://tonehunt.org/search-results?search=rockman The "4 Rockman Channels" package also has the two clean channels. They don't include the chorus or echo effect, but I can achieve them with my own chorus and delay plugins: ...
by SpotlightKid
Tue Dec 26, 2023 5:36 pm
Forum: Plugins, Effects and Instruments
Topic: Rockman guitar sound with FLOSS?
Replies: 4
Views: 1553

Rockman guitar sound with FLOSS?

Has anyone tried to get those classic eighties Rockman tones using FLOSS? I'm talking the clean tone like on Def Leppard's "Hysteria" or the distortion rhythm tone like on "Pour Some Sugar On Me" or the lead tone on Boston's hits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2gSo2Vw-gE (Rock...
by SpotlightKid
Sun Dec 24, 2023 10:48 pm
Forum: The Producer's Area
Topic: Libre Music Challenge #25: Christmas Windows
Replies: 20
Views: 58755

Re: Libre Music Challenge #25: Christmas Windows

Similar situation here. I have recorded an "unplugged" version of my song (vocals and ukulele) already. I'm hoping to finish it tomorrow by adding (literally) some bells and whistles, so I can send it to friends as a Christmas greeting and post it in the chat. Then I can still polish it up...
by SpotlightKid
Mon Dec 18, 2023 12:50 pm
Forum: The Producer's Area
Topic: Libre Music Challenge #24: Real Instruments
Replies: 31
Views: 36705

Re: Libre Music Challenge #24: Real Instruments

autostatic wrote: Sun Dec 03, 2023 7:53 pm

So here's my submission, a complete song, written, composed and arranged from scratch.
Black Snow City - Million Pieces

Just listened to your submission. I like it very much.

I think a subtle string arrangement in the background could make it even better.

by SpotlightKid
Mon Dec 04, 2023 2:26 am
Forum: Original Scores & Recordings
Topic: Spotlight Kyd - "Parta Eklipso" & "Leaving Tonite" [Electronica, Electro Funk]
Replies: 4
Views: 3077

Re: Spotlight Kyd - "Parta Eklipso" & "Leaving Tonite" [Electronica, Electro Funk]

Sure, it would be possible, but I like the 16th beat as it is :D It gives the song a bit of a feeling of urgency.

by SpotlightKid
Fri Dec 01, 2023 10:25 am
Forum: Original Scores & Recordings
Topic: Spotlight Kyd - "Parta Eklipso" & "Leaving Tonite" [Electronica, Electro Funk]
Replies: 4
Views: 3077

Spotlight Kyd - "Parta Eklipso" & "Leaving Tonite" [Electronica, Electro Funk]

Hey, its BandCamp Friday (Artists get 93% revenue share)! So, I finally released my two (CC-by-sa licensed) tracks from my Sonoj 2023 presentation "How to play keyboards like it's 1978" on SoundCloud. https://soundcloud.com/spotlight-kyd/parta-eklipso https://soundcloud.com/spotlight-kyd/l...
by SpotlightKid
Sat Nov 18, 2023 2:08 pm
Forum: The Producer's Area
Topic: Libre Music Challenge #24: Real Instruments
Replies: 31
Views: 36705

Re: Libre Music Challenge #24: Real Instruments

From the rules page linke above: You must announce your submission in this forum thread, providing a link to your song. You must also include a short description of how it was made. Specifically, list all of the software and plugins that you have used. You can upload your track anywhere you like. Ho...
by SpotlightKid
Tue Nov 14, 2023 4:06 pm
Forum: The Producer's Area
Topic: Libre Music Challenge #23: Helm
Replies: 24
Views: 10361

Re: Libre Music Challenge #23: Helm

Here are my comments for the submissions of this round. I'm going to try to concentrate my comments not so much on aspects of composition and production this time, but rather on how I feel about the tracks. But don't hold me to that. A-Lin - Rugo I'm a sucker for these kinds of tracks: nice repeatin...