Posts by KD

  • A walk in the park

    Very nice Per, this walk in the Park might have been lethal ;) The mix was 'in your face' with lots of presence - in a good way.

  • Recording bass - boomy notes - any advice?

    Btw one really fast way to clean up excessive bass frequency in guitar profiles is to turn up the "clarity" soft knob in the amp section, maybe worth testing on your problematic bass profile? This is obviously not the right solution if the room is the problem.

  • Male castrato + Andy


    Wow thanks a lot Waraba for the kind words about my singing. I have not recorded too much of this kind of singing and I felt a little insecure about it, so it's really great to get some encouragement. I have been listening to Omar for the last day and it's pretty cool and exotic!


    My biggest inspiration was actually Enya, I had just discovered the version below and was completely floored.


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    Given the reality of the situation in the Middle East - I wanted to give the word Israel an Arabic sounding twist. Of course I'm a Swedish guy trying to sound Arabic :D not sure I pulled it off :thumbup:

  • Pavic, Hard Rock album using Kemper

    Very powerful sound and strong songs - I hope you are getting the success you deserve!


    I particularly liked the video story of "In your eyes". Coming up with- and realizing a story concept that works in parallel with the music is not easy! You pulled it off in a convincing way.

  • Haha noodling with the kids

    Nice video - and playing!


    It's funny because shortly I got my first daughter I came to believe kids were the most devastating thing to ever happen my music. 5 years later I realize it was quite the opposite - my kids broaden my horizons and make me a different - but better - musician.


    Keep em coming Sam! :D

  • Very angry tune

    Very fresh lines Mats!


    How we express anger is relative to our personality, and this song tells me you are indeed a very relaxed guy. This makes me want to get to know you and your music better! :)

  • Recording bass - boomy notes - any advice?

    Bass is a constant struggle for me as well, and the main problem is that most of us don't really have a monitoring environment allowing us to truly hear what's going on down there.


    As mentioned, reference monitoring pro productions is (always) a good idea, but when doing so it might be tempting to turn your bass up in your mix (because after all it can't be a clearly heard as the one in the reference mix). However this will most likely land you in the most common pitfall: a too bass heavy mix which clutters everything and makes it impossible to get competitive levels (= loudness). The trick is to give your bass a boost in the high frequencies (typically 2,5khz and up). When this is done correctly, you should be able to turn the bass frequencies of the bass guitar down - while still hearing the bass instrument (ie the higher frequencies of the bass) - and this will give you a more balanced mix.


    As a solution to your boomy problem, the "poor man's trick" is is a gentle high pass filter at ~100Hz. Better would be a multi band compressor which can tame specific parts of the bass sound (you need to do the later in post production as KPA does not support frequency range specific compression).


    Another common method is to split your bass track up into two different tracks in your DAW, this allows you to treat the low-end part of your sound differently, and you can easily adjust levels. This also allows you to add a different amount of compression to bass, respectively high-end part - of the bass sound.


    I do find this method a bit less intuitive when mixing, and I'd rather have a useful bass sound from start (that's one of the reasons I requested multiband compression in KPA).


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    I find when recording bass it gets pretty boomy on some notes - any suggestions for pre or post processing ideas to deal with this? I use compression VST to even out the tone.


    So simply put: If you try to EQ this away, that EQ will also affect notes you don't experience as boomy. If you try to compress it away, that compression is likely to kick in on other parts that are loud (for other reasons than boomyness - so to speak).


    The perfect compromise is multiband compression, which allows you to do these kinds of tweaks with surgical control.

  • Male castrato + Andy

    I figured I should be allowed to joke since it's about me. And though the odds are probably against me, I must insist I am not actually a castrato :D I am a male though :thumbup:


    Solo starts at 00:55 and I am using using AFUM-JMP C1 X from Andy's Marshall toolkit pack. I am really happy with this tone since I have had that super sustainy marshall-meets-Les-Paul type of sound in my head for a long time.


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    I hope you are having some great holidays!


    --Kris