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Mohoyoho
Joined: Dec 03, 2003 Posts: 1632 Location: Tennessee
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Cyxeris
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Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 2:12 pm Post subject:
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Good stuff, man. I could go for it being just a hair brighter, but I like what I have heard.
Cyx _________________ ∆ Cyx ∆
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mosc
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Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 3:44 pm Post subject:
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Very nice pieces. Thanks for posting them. The first is a beautiful blend of the naturally recorded sounds and synths. It gives me a feeling of being there and then floating away to somewhere else. The second piece is quite enjoyable too. Last edited by mosc on Thu Feb 12, 2004 4:11 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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elektro80
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Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 3:57 pm Post subject:
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Great stuff! _________________ A Charity Pantomime in aid of Paranoid Schizophrenics descended into chaos yesterday when someone shouted, "He's behind you!"
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Mohoyoho
Joined: Dec 03, 2003 Posts: 1632 Location: Tennessee
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mosc
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Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 4:14 pm Post subject:
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This is the situation almost everywhere. One of the reasons I started this site was to help leverage the community we are starting to form. The first phase is to support and encourage each other. We are starting to see how this can happen, and we're starting to do it. The next phase is to cultivate an audience. |
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egw
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Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2004 9:13 am Post subject:
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Hey Moho
Do you know Giles Reaves, Tony Gerber and the other folks at Space for Music? I believe they're in your area.
http://www.spaceformusic.com/main.html |
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Mohoyoho
Joined: Dec 03, 2003 Posts: 1632 Location: Tennessee
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RFBB
Joined: Dec 03, 2003 Posts: 148 Location: Tennessee
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Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2004 11:28 am Post subject:
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Great to see all the positive comments posted. MOHO has a knack for combining the beautiful with the obscene, and producing some truely amazing soundscapes. _________________ "Oh, it's yours? Then go ahead and kick the shit out of it..." as said to Michael Victor by Howard Moscovitz 06/05/05
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cloudscapes
Joined: Feb 09, 2004 Posts: 100 Location: Montreal
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Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2004 5:21 pm Post subject:
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These are *very* good tracks Mohoyoho.
The Appartment Ledge: makes me think of the movie Blade Runner quite abit, I could definatelly picture this track in a movie with a similar atmosphere! The synths as of 3:30 and 4:20 are great! Great use of ambient sounds too.
Test: Very nice. The sounds 6 minutes into it are particuarily eerie (in a good way). And I absolutelly love the synths as of 8:28, beautiful! I dig the subtle bass you can hear at the very end of the track.
These are very good tracks, you should be proud! Keepers for sure. I haven't heard of a couple of the synths you mentioned, I believe I will be checking them out!
Thank you! _________________ Sonic Crayon DIY effects lab |
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Mohoyoho
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Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2004 11:49 pm Post subject:
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Thanks RFBB and Cloudscapes.
In Test (which actually is named Desert March) the synth you hear at 8:28 is an Alesis Ion. At 6:00 what I think you might be describing is VSampler. I took many wav files of different phrases from a variety of synths and layered them on top of each other. Each layer is heavily modified with filters and effects.
On Apartment Ledge I'm not sure what synths are doing what. I created it over a year ago. The one at 3:30 might be my Waldorf Q. The other sounds like it could be a Reaktor synth or a layer of different synths.
I created The Apartment Ledge with a vision in my head before sitting down to my synths. I originally envisioned standing on the ledge of a tall skyscraper overlooking a big city on a busy overcast day. But when I started making it everything sounded very close to the street. So I named it The Apartment Ledge which didn't sound so high off the ground. _________________ Mark Mahoney
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paul e.
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Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 9:56 am Post subject:
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mohoyo
i also enjoyed your music very much
altho, i am tending to agree with cyxeris that. in your case, some eq or maybe multi-band compression is needed to really bring out those sounds, which sound a tad muted
esp. in apartment ledge
i just did a quick eq while listening and found you have a lot of room to boost all freq's and thus making it more evocative and impactful
this is a positive comment i think, because it would actually be really cool to hear those tracks in their full sonic glory
nice ones _________________ Spiral Recordings |
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Michael Chocholak
Joined: Nov 27, 2003 Posts: 305 Location: Cove, Oregon, USA
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Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 11:22 am Post subject:
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Quote: | Here in East Tennessee there are very few people who appreciate this kind of music. This is the land of Country, Metal, Blue Grass and Southern Rock. When I play out with a group I'm in, we are lucky to have 5 people in the audience. |
Yeah, I can certainly identify with that. You walk down the back streets at night and every bar emits the exact same C&W bass line. Up here though all the younger cowboiz listen to rap. But hey at least that's cultural diversity in action. And this is a college town! The only way we might perform again is if we got our funk/jazz band together (seriously). Yeah 5 people in the audience and one is the janitor waiting for you to finish so he can lock up.
Really liked both tracks. Just looped them after they loaded. Particularly like The Apartment Ledge. I agree with Cloudscapes Blade Runner comment. And I think the eq is debatable. I see what Cyxeris & Sudden are saying, but... then again the more I listen, the more I hear subtlties that might remain subtle but more apparent with a tweak. But they're dreamy as they stand. _________________ Que la musique sonne - Edgard Varese
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seraph
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Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 11:47 am Post subject:
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I have to agree
nice tunes, keepers for sure _________________ homepage - blog - forum - youtube
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Mohoyoho
Joined: Dec 03, 2003 Posts: 1632 Location: Tennessee
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Cyxeris
Joined: Oct 30, 2003 Posts: 1125 Location: Louisville, KY
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Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 4:00 pm Post subject:
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Mohoyoho wrote: | Thank you all. As to the EQ, could the fact that I have compressed these tracks at 64K have a bearing on the sound? I was just trying to keep the file size manageable. |
Absolutely it could. Not sure about the effects on frequency response, as this has more to do with the codec used than the bitrate, etc., but all of these do have some effect.
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paul e.
Joined: Sep 22, 2003 Posts: 1567 Location: toronto, canada
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Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 8:38 pm Post subject:
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Quote: | As to the EQ, could the fact that I have compressed these tracks at 64K have a bearing on the sound? I was just trying to keep the file size manageable. |
yes good point actually
i think it is the 22khz sampling rate that is chopping some of the top of the brightness off
still a little beef-up with say, a multi band compressor, would make the sounds come alive and utilize the speaker more
esp with the events liek the train sound etc
not louder per se tho, just more 'more'
just my 2 cents for your consideration _________________ Spiral Recordings |
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cloudscapes
Joined: Feb 09, 2004 Posts: 100 Location: Montreal
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Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 8:46 pm Post subject:
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I've been listening to these two tracks (and a third I found on your website) nonstop today. I'm totally hooked! Can one order your CD via mailorder if he or she isn't lucky enough to buy one at a live show or doesn't live close to one of the mentioned retail stores?
This is amazing stuff! It's given me new ideas too, for my own music. (without actually copying of course |
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Mohoyoho
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Cyxeris
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Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 9:06 pm Post subject:
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You should talk to Mosc about making it available here.
Cyx _________________ ∆ Cyx ∆
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mosc
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Mohoyoho
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mosc
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Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 8:20 am Post subject:
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Mohoyoho wrote: | Do many get sold here at EM? |
No, not many.
I'm hoping that as we get more artists we'll get more customers. We're going to do a compiliation project here soon; I just have to work out some of the details. |
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elektro80
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Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 9:01 am Post subject:
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The numbers aren´t that bad really, but we have to set up a campaign of sorts in order to get more people here. _________________ A Charity Pantomime in aid of Paranoid Schizophrenics descended into chaos yesterday when someone shouted, "He's behind you!"
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AgentA
Joined: Oct 23, 2003 Posts: 65 Location: Philadelphia Pennsylvania U.S.A.
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Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2004 11:42 pm Post subject:
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Hi Mohoyoho,
Checked out the tracks awhile ago but am just now getting around to
joining everyone else in the well deserved applause. Thanks for sharing.
The Apartment Ledge seemed to get more intense with each replay.
You know, catching sounds I didn't hear before.
This is well crafted. Keep it coming.
sudden wrote: | Quote: | As to the EQ, could the fact that I have compressed these tracks at 64K have a bearing on the sound? I was just trying to keep the file size manageable. |
yes good point actually
i think it is the 22khz sampling rate that is chopping some of the top of the brightness off....
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Ah, so I think that's why lofi mp3 at 32kbps sounds better with a lower sampling rate. Less brightness = less high end artifact noise. But yes, lower fidelity.
Have to say, your 64kbps encodes sound just as good as some 128kbps encodes I've heard. _________________ Power On,
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