Podianer.
PodianerThis is a song I made in Podium. I am a hobby musician (guitarist) and have not the professional gear to make my band’s songs sound the way I want. But with Podium, working on songs is pure fun. 😛
Please let me know what you think of this song.
darcyb62Nice guitar work… What are you using to get those sweet clean sounds?
I’m no expert but this sounds pretty good. What type of professional gear do you think you need that would improve on this? I think it’s darn good.
An is is fun isn’t it? In the end that’s all that really matters.
PodianerHi,
Thanks for your reply. The clean guitar actually is Freeamp2, a plugin. 🙂 I prefer this for clean sounds, because of its versatility. You can tweak until you have the right sound. You do not have to record again 🙂
Try google. This thing sounds very good, and it is free. Even crunchy sounds are ok.
By saying “professional gear” I mean decent mics, a tonal correct monitoring situation here in my “studio” (I don’t have one! 😉 ), hardware interfaces that give you a nice tube saturated sound. I try to achieve all that with software, but software allways simulates the original. But nowadays one can achieve a pretty good sound in comparison to what was possible a few years ago. By the way: ezDrummer is wonderful! You can hear it in this tune. I think it gets very close to a real drumset. And its light on the resources. My mixing knowledge doesn’t allow me to mix a real drumset until it sounds THAT good.
And you are right: Fun is all that matters!! I love Podium for allowing me to have this fun with my tunes.. 🙂 (I was so frustrated with Cubase, I almost lost the fun factor)
UncleAgeFirst of all, the song and the sound are pretty good. I like it. Thanks for posting. I don’t know what you’re using and I don’t know what’s considered “pro” [check some of the the Bruce Swedian threads over at gearslutz] all the time but I think the sound is good and to me, that’s what matters.
If you would allow one point of advice though…
Near the end the drums seem to be buried in the mix quite a bit. Not a bad thing really but it’s only noticeable because of how well balanced the different parts are in the beginning.
Just my thoughts. And thanks again for sharing 8)
PodianerThanks for your kind words! They justify the hours I spent for the mix 🙂
You’re advice is a good one. I’ll try to bring the drums in the foreground at the end of the song. I must admit, ballads are quite hard to mix, because there are different parts with different volume settings. But I’ll give my best. 😛
By the way, it would be great if we could have some kind of a music lounge here in the forum. I assume the user base of Podium is very versatile as far as music is concerned. We could help each other with mixes and ideas.
Would anybody be interested in that? ❓
darcyb62@Podianer wrote:
Thanks for your kind words! They justify the hours I spent for the mix 🙂
You’re advice is a good one. I’ll try to bring the drums in the foreground at the end of the song. I must admit, ballads are quite hard to mix, because there are different parts with different volume settings. But I’ll give my best. 😛
By the way, it would be great if we could have some kind of a music lounge here in the forum. I assume the user base of Podium is very versatile as far as music is concerned. We could help each other with mixes and ideas.
Would anybody be interested in that? ❓
I’m in.
Conquistador@Podianer wrote:
This is a song I made in Podium. I am a hobby musician (guitarist) and have not the professional gear to make my band’s songs sound the way I want. But with Podium, working on songs is pure fun. 😛
Please let me know what you think of this song.
Not bad at all! “can you heaaaaar meee” 🙂
ZynewaveBy the way, it would be great if we could have some kind of a music lounge here in the forum. I assume the user base of Podium is very versatile as far as music is concerned. We could help each other with mixes and ideas.
The forum here is probably the easiest way to communicate, but you could set up a project collaboration page in the wiki. This would provide you with a place where you could upload and share project files, wave files and mp3 files.
Podianer@Zynewave wrote:
By the way, it would be great if we could have some kind of a music lounge here in the forum. I assume the user base of Podium is very versatile as far as music is concerned. We could help each other with mixes and ideas.
The forum here is probably the easiest way to communicate, but you could set up a project collaboration page in the wiki. This would provide you with a place where you could upload and share project files, wave files and mp3 files.
What I meant was rather a sticky thread only for songs. Perhaps this is easier than in the Wiki.