Posts by Coreblade

Quote from Southdakota

Excellent...you have gained a new fan! Love your heavy guitar tone that starts around 1:40. All around very well done.

This is crazy! Thank you so much for your support
You can also listen to my songs on Spotify:

Quote from Per

Nice! Huge guitars are always welcome. Tightly played too with the timing changes. Couple of places I'd have liked the lead to be a little higher in the mix but otherwise sounds real nice and smooth to me.

Awesome to hear that. Thanks a lot! I am always open to feedback, so I will try to take care of that in the next song

Quote from deadman42

Well done Stefan, interesting tune and quite some nice stuff and ear-catchers in it. Monkey_Man nailed it when he speaks about the mix which is really good and indeed not over-complicated as the Prog stuff sometimes brings along.

Thanks for sharing, good one

Wow! thanks for your comment. This means a lot to me. Hope I will be able to continue such mixes

Quote from Monkey_Man

Brother Stefan! Long time no speak, mate.

Thankfully your music still screams, "Stefan!" and I can recognise it as you straight-away.

Nice one, mate. This one's definitely branching out a bit from where you left off. It's still got your signature contrasts 'though, which I love. Also, you've managed to resist the "over-complicated-mix" thing again, so I reckon you've got that "issue" licked, man.

As always, I see the mountains where you live in my mind's eye whilst I listen. The "quiet" passages really convey a feeling of solitude in the great expanses of the mountains.

Sounds to me like your mixing has moved up a notch too - there wasn't really anything wrong with it previously, but somehow it sounds more-controlled to me now, with no unwanted surprises or anything jumping out more than it should.

Seriously man, great job, and well done and thank you for sharing, matey!

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Again! Thank you so much. Your comment always makes my day.
So glad to hear that i was able to fix that "over-complicated-mix" issue. thanks for the hint!
I hope there will be a playthrough again in the future. maybe this or next summer
Yes I tried some things in mixing, which turned out well. Hope the next song will also be like this one (mixing wise).
Thanks buddy!!

Hello together

Hope you're all right? Finally something new from me

Do you like the new song?

Stefan Wenger - Singularity

I would be very happy about feedback.

Greetings and a nice evening

Stefan

Quote from Monkey_Man

You're too kind, Brother Stefan!

Keep up the great work, man, and I'm honoured that you've tried to "hold back on complexity"!

PS:

It's something I also struggled with back in the day when I last recorded. I just kept adding parts, probably because I found it so easy to create things that worked / fitted the song, but in the end, especially looking back now that I'm older, I way-overdid things. As writers, we have to learn to not be too-precious about our parts. We must be willing to remove some altogether, and shorten intros and so on.

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Thanks a lot!!
Yes It is very hard to achieve. But you are right, less is more sometimes

Quote from deadman42

Stefan, great tune, well composed and well recorded. Very creative. I like the dynamics in the song and the lot of fine details. Rythmic delay guitars have always attracted me so much throughout my whole life

So true but so hard to achieve. Indeed that's my experience as well and indeed the feedback from third parties is quite valuable regarding this point. They don't feel the sweat and pain it cost you to make a particular part or intro or solo or whatever. They just see what it does to the tune overall. Can be tough but mostly it helps to focus on the key aspects of the song.

Thanks a lot man! Your comment made my day such nice words

Quote from Monkey_Man

Stefan, my man!

You know, I've still got all your clips on my iTunes / music-clip portable drive that serves as my home stereo system via a laptop, interface and old studio monitors.

I'm telling you this 'cause the 1TB drive is 999GB full, and every time I want to add an album to iTunes I have to sacrifice clips. I've trimmed everything down to the bone, but yours have never been in danger of being removed. You're in high-class company too - all my favourite asian EDM and rock clips, western prog metal, rock and fusion and also all my favourite live gigs (Carlton, Lukather, Greg Howe, Japanese fusion, Toto, Liquid Tension Experiment and so on).

Now that I've blown all that smoke up your ass... this latest song sux man... only kidding! Yes, it's different, but IMHO it continues on with the progression you started last year (or the year before?) towards using more of that textural "U2-style" delay, for want of a better description. More-complex but without getting too-busy.

You've managed to hold back on the complexity (you'd remember our discussion), and I'm sure this would have made it much easier to mix. I've a feeling it might almost have "mixed itself".

If you're able to remix the song easily, it might be an idea to try reducing the 'verb mix and decay time on the rhythm-delay parts. The delay is already pushing the guitar deeper into the stereo field and IMHO the 'verb doesn't therefore need to be as-wet or lengthy as it is now. See how you go if you can do it. IMHO it'll bring the song into focus more by reducing "muddiness" and help the lead stand out better too.

Anyway, well done again, brother. Something's gonna have to be erased from that drive to make room for this.

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Thank you very much for the nice words. The fact that my music always has its place on the hard disk really flatters me!!

I really took the "hold back on complexity" topic to heart. Sometimes it may still be a bit too much in some parts, but I give my best

Thanks for the constructive criticism with the delay. I'll give it a try.

Again, I really can't thank you enough. As I said, your comments always make me very happy.

Cheers Stefan

Quote from MuddySludge

Stefan, that was a gorgeous dynamic composition. Those melodies sing man!!!

Thank you so much for your comment! This means a lot to me, thanks man!!

Hello together

Hope you're all right? After a break, I released another song last weekend.

In style maybe a bit different than my previous songs, or what do you think?

Stefan Wenger - Orbit

I would be very happy about feedback.

Greetings and a nice evening

Stefan

Quote from Lance-a-not

Song is awesome, and your playing killer!

Love the guitar tones, they all sounds great.

For me the drums are taking over the mix too much though, mainly the kick... But hey, I am a guitarist, so I want to hear you better.

Your other tunes have have the kick sitting a bit back further, Ortus for example... Wonderfully sick tunes!

Stellar work though, seriously bad*ss

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Many thanks for your feedback! Glad you dig it

Yes the kick is sometimes maybe a bit too loud. But it really depends on which speakers you are listening to the song. Will try to do that better in my next song. Its difficult to find the perfect balance for the drum and guitar

Thanks again my friend. Your Feedback made my day!

Quote from Kempermaniac

I like it, well done!

Thanks a lot

Hi everyone

I just uploaded another song. As the title suggests, the song contains several different parts and therefore many changes. But listen to it yourself and get a picture:

Stefan Wenger - Dualism

What do you think of that? I would be very happy about feedback.

Greetings Stefan

Quote from 808illest

Nice track, Stefan!

Thanks buddy!!

Quote from waraba

sounds great as your great mix is clear, and I appreciate all the cleans & crunch tones. The bass end ( or 7 Sring guitar ???) part is a bit too distorted and in front for me , but I guess that was your intention.

Thanks a lot for your feedback! I really appreciate that
There are distorted guitars involved (8-string) and these are part of my style. My sounds are a mixture between some soft cleans and heavy distorted guitars which unites two extremes.

Awesome! Can't thank you enough my friend!!

I was afraid that there might be too many changes in the song and that it might confuse the listeners. I'm very happy that it goes well.

This sounds interesting, thanks. I am curious and don't know what to expect.

Hi everyone!

Hope you are doing good? I finally managed to release my next song
I would be very happy about your feedback. This helps me a lot.

Youtube link: Stefan Wenger - Pulsar

All guitars and bass was played over a KPA. Hughes & Kettner Trilogy Profile (my own) for distortion, stltones profiles for cleans and bass.

Have a nice weekend!
Cheers Stefan

Quote from 808illest

Cool track, I'd like to hear some vox on that one for sure!

Many thanks man! Sure would sound good, but not if I was singing

Quote from Monkey_Man

Just picture the Swiss Alps in your mind's eye, Shawn. The cool, thin air and vast expanses between the mighty peaks go hand-in-hand with his signature ambiences... IMHO.

To me, Stefan's work evokes this imagery. This is why I keep badgering him to somehow find the time to create some footage along the lines of his earlier work for his newer clips.

There will definitely be guitar playthrough again. just not for every song

Quote from Monkey_Man

I just posted it. See the edit in post #2.

Awesome man!! Thanks again. You've got some good ears.! I played all the lead tracks on the neck pickup, so maybe that is the difference you are hearing. EDIT: I forgot, that I also increased the mids of the lead guitar
My goal is for people to recognize me by my songs. Very nice that the recognition is there in this song.
Your compliments make me happy, bro!!

Cheers Stefan