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Dramatic_Hammer
@Dooks-Fatberg
So I had a commission off a mate to do some music for a new podcast. I started off with a vague brief on structure but little guidance on style. Classic Trojan dub was mooted as a vibe and I got excited about playing about with filthy spring reverb and echo drenched one-drops with dub bass and echoey melodica parps... This didn't quite happen but I'd still like to have a crack at it.
But what happened instead is that sat down with macbook, headphones and ancient midi keyboard, found a filthy B3 sound and improvised the first thing that came into my head. Just pissing about on the white keys (natch). Added some phasey synth melody and sent the roughest of rough versions of this ditty over as the first of many options. Client LOVED it. Happy days. I do feel guilty for having passed off a piece of inept ham-fistery as the feem toon for his much sweated-over and beautifully designed podcast, but hey ho. I’ll take it.
So now I've tidied it up a bit (it was played live rather than sequenced) and am relatively happy with the basic structure, but the thing is, I know NOTHING about mixing electronic music. All of my mixing experience is with live audio. It’s bad enough trying to make the fecking piano roll do what I want but now I’m a world of trying to automate synth filters and EQs and I feel like a total fraud.
Does anyone fancy helping a brother out? It’s super simple. Only about a minute long with 8 basic tracks. I could use some help EQ-ing, filtering and arranging it.