|
Anyone made or making an album? (pg. 2)
|
View this Thread in Original format
| msz |
| cryo you're doing the pounding right? give eric a little slap on the cheek if he gets out of line |
|
|
| Eric J |
| quote: | Originally posted by cryophonik
Can we both move somewhere colder instead? All this heat makes me lazy and unproductive. :( |
Maybe Seattle or something. Its a little rainy, but its a nice town and doesn't get too hot. :) |
|
|
| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by cryophonik
Can we both move somewhere colder instead? All this heat makes me lazy and unproductive. |
Truth! I almost always do my best work in fall and winter.
I think part of it may be the melancholy mood of the colder weather, too. |
|
|
| meriter |
http://soundcloud.com/light-of-sumeria/winterland
Like Eric said that was just a collection of tracks really, more or less unfinished stuff dating back to 1999. It doesn't sound that great (finally got monitors just a couple years ago) but I thought the material was good enough not to just throw away. So much unfinished , might as well pay it it's dues and make something presentable. Ya know... setting out to do any huge project is inherently difficult. Everything is constantly changing and sometimes real life gets in the way of your creative plans. Just be in the moment and write. As long as you're honest with yourself and you're in the flow and putting a lot of energy into it you should come up with something cohesive naturally, eventually, cause that's where you're at in that point of your life. |
|
|
| kitphillips |
If your looking to get into doing albums, maybe you should try starting off with a small 3-4 track EP, which goes on a journey rather than trying to do a full on 12 track album first.
I think the whole thing with an album is that it should be fairly diverse, but also cohesive, which is a difficult thing to achieve IMO. Probably better to start out on a smaller number of tracks and just try to get them all sounding good before tackling a whole thing.
Have a listen to king roc's album and the 4 eps that went along with it for some ideas maybe... He released 4 eps then remixed all the tracks into a continuous album. That was a really cool concept I thought... |
|
|
| 19503 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Eric J
Maybe Seattle or something. Its a little rainy, but its a nice town and doesn't get too hot. :) |
why not move to a nation with social health care? |
|
|
| EddieZilker |
| quote: | Originally posted by cryophonik
Can we both move somewhere colder instead? All this heat makes me lazy and unproductive. :( |
Both of you should move to MI. :)
And grab the rest of these folks on your way. |
|
|
| Rognalf |
To make a bunch of tracks, all part of the same story sounds very appealing to me.
Still, in my 6 years of making music (10 if eJay counts), I have not even made an EP.
I could of course release a collection of random tracks and call it an album, but that wouldn't be right, since I believe an album should be about multiple tracks telling one story. |
|
|
| Kysora |
| I have so many ideas for concept albums but I really don't have the kind of initiative to make them yet. Mostly because I think trying to create an album full of instrumental uplifting trance that somehow has an underlying theme is pretty much impossible, or at best a waste of time. I'd rather record guitar and piano and do more freeform electronic styles around that, but I don't have the recording equipment at this point. So for now, it's one-off uplifting tracks, I'm happy enough with that. |
|
|
| EddieZilker |
| quote: | Originally posted by Kysora
I have so many ideas for concept albums but I really don't have the kind of initiative to make them yet. Mostly because I think trying to create an album full of instrumental uplifting trance that somehow has an underlying theme is pretty much impossible, or at best a waste of time. I'd rather record guitar and piano and do more freeform electronic styles around that, but I don't have the recording equipment at this point. So for now, it's one-off uplifting tracks, I'm happy enough with that. |
The method I used was to just write one song at a time. I'd then take the tail of the song I was working on previously, import that into a new track, and then start building a new tune around that. I'm not certain how FL handles mixes that would be as long as an album or even an EP but Project 5 (discontinued) actually held over an hour's worth of rendered songs and I was able to do additional leveling and mastering.
It might be a bad idea to do contiguous uplifting trance but you could probably work into it by putting more varying minimal tracks in between and work to the occasional peak. |
|
|
| Mad for Brad |
| you could make an album that is just 1 tune and then remixes. Sort of like a theme and variation type thing. Every track would tie in somehow to the original despite being completely different. |
|
|
| EddieZilker |
| quote: | Originally posted by Mad for Brad
you could make an album that is just 1 tune and then remixes. Sort of like a theme and variation type thing. Every track would tie in somehow to the original despite being completely different. |
Like a leitmotif kind of thing? |
|
|
|
|
