My first full album!

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I've just released my first full album on both youtube and soundcloud, wanted to say thanks for all the feedback over the past year and I hope you all enjoy it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q67E57-yrg&t=001s

https://soundcloud.com/toby_morgan/sets/between-fields
I've never checked your posts nor have I seen them.
Let me tell you though....... I'm very glad I saw this one. I was actually pleasantly surprised!
Whole album is amazing man, great work. Cannot wait to hear more.








Check out my SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/jbarn97
Yes, it's excellent!

Could you tell us more?
On the approach?
On the theme?
About technique?
On the importance of LMMS in this album?
Do you work alone?
?
Waaw, your music sounds really special and cool. This is a true inspiration when it comes to the possibilities of LMMS and other music making stuffs. Did you make this just with LMMS? The sounds sound really natural.
I downloaded an mp3 version of the tracks to listen them more closely.

Well, I have several unknowns about:
- the quality of the audio files you use,
- the possible reduction of quality of audio files operated by Soundcloud
- the compression rate used by the site that converts these files to mp3

But anyway, I used Audacity's spectrogram view to “listen” your tracks, and here are some details that may be of interest to you :

- Some samples seem not to have been cleaned.

- For example, considering the first 50 seconds of Elephant Fungus, the “useful information” of the sample whose playback speed has been decreased (detune to bass) stops at about 8 kHz (so the band is between 0 and 8 kHz) and there remains a small band of “residual information” extending from about 14.5 kHz to 16 kHz (residual information that does not provide anything at all, so that can be filtered; or you can add and play with noise; or ...). I tend to think that the quality of this sample is rather low. In any case, depending on the quality of the sample, it is often useful to take a look at the spectrum when you detune a sample towards the bass (because it often needs to be cleaned).

- On Morning Walk too, it's less visible (just about all along the track), but there's at least one sample that shows a residual band of information that ranges from about 13 kHz to ? (the mp3 is cut at about 16 kHz).

- It seems you've cleaned the bottom of the spectrum on all the tracks except Rain Dance.

In any case, I like very much.
it sounds great. And as someone said, it would be nice to get a kind of report on how you used LMMS. There are some instruments like guitar in your music, did you use LMMS as well to record those parts?
TobyMorgan96 wrote:
Fri Jun 23, 2017 11:42 am
I've just released my first full album on both youtube and soundcloud, wanted to say thanks for all the feedback over the past year and I hope you all enjoy it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q67E57-yrg&t=001s

https://soundcloud.com/toby_morgan/sets/between-fields
Congrats on releasing your first album. :)
Because alot of lmms users, including myself, know that making an album is not always easy.
There is alot to like, in these 5 tracks.

Dawn Chorus -
When that string note came in at 1:27 secs all the way to 2:00 secs, that whole part
really brought out the impressiveness of the song.
Personally, I think the that the fade out part, from 2:28 secs onward, could have been
a bit better. :)


Morning Walk - I remember commenting on this tune last year. :D
And I still find it to be, a really lovely music track. It's still my fav from you so far. :)


Elephant Fungus - It's interesting, how this track starts off, like a sci fi forest planet type movie intro and then it transitions, to a nice guitar tune. And then it changes back and forth again.
The only problem with this track, is that the volume is too low on it.
And as I said before, this tune is an interesting mix, of countryish and natureish styles and tones. :)


Rain Dance - I still love, the bass guitar strumming, heard from the start of the track
all the way onward. Good tune. My other fav track.


Todays Pine - Lovely chorus singing intro. Bravo!
I think I commented on this track already? Hmmm.
There is alot of magic going on here, with the singer and the piano playing, really going
well together.

You, the singer and the writer, all did wonders on this.
Congrats to all three of you, on this track. Lovely. :)
brandystarbrite wrote:
Sun Jul 02, 2017 3:45 am
You, the singer and the writer, all did wonders on this.
Congrats to all three of you, on this track. Lovely. :)
Is this a project with three people?