Ambient Doom: an exerpt from my project

Hi peeps, I've been scarce lately working on my Trumpet 'n Gong project.
here's a tiny sample...

http://soundcloud.com/gongshaman/seven-trumpets-of-the

(please use headphones or good spkrs for best sound)

thanks for listening

ZW

 

:cheers2:

 

Right on!

 

Nice...

 

ominouscient

 

Thanks so much for the replies and kind words y'all!
It really means a lot to me.

My studio time is very limited right now and my web access even more-so,
but will try to upload more clips when I can...

Thanks again very much for listening :daisy:

ZW

 

Awesome

 

Pretty good, kind of reminds me of this guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eAOKoh0pZI&feature=related"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eAOKoh0pZI&feature=related

 

Well,thank you guerillabedlam, I'm flattered to be compaired to someones favorite Electronic artist.

I really don't consider myself an electronic artist in that the energy for the source sounds (which happen to be Orchestral Brass instruments) is ultimately provided by the Universe, the earth (Gravity), my muscles, my lips, my breath... and my brain.
The sounds were actually produced in real time, wiggling air molecules in space before being recorded by a microphone to digital.

here's another little clip

http://soundcloud.com/gongshaman/twilite-realm



ZW eace:

 

From my perspective you should wrap the trumpet in much deeper reverb on that track, dark dense reverb... Just my 2 cents.

 

Thanks Ty', and you're right there are a few spots really that jump out as a little dry, too out front....
there are seven horn tracks on that cut, you might be suprized that several I purposely produced absolutely dry to emphasis a contrast in texture, a hack attempt on my part at a kind of psuedo 3-d effect( the gong tracks have no post-processing other than final mix compression)...

I always want lots of dark reverb, but it tends to flatten the sound if not carefully engineered for each track so that the combined ambiance doesn't unduly muddy the final mix.... hey, I was restraining myself! I didn't even resort to flange, exessive multi-tap delay, automated pan sweeps or anything!...lol:mickey:
Also its a challenge with my crappy microphone/ pre-amp/sound card converter to get natural sounding brass without compressing the piss out of everything. As for the gong, I take what I get until I can get a good ribbon mic on the sumbitch.

One day I'll get my ass in a real studio with an experienced engineer that really knows how to set this shit up..

Thanks again Ty


ZW

 

Use drastically different reverbs on each track so nothing sounds like it's in the same room and then pan each track differently in the mix. Not the accepted "studio" answer but this genre doesn't have accepted standards...