About 11 months ago I released my third song, "Search for the Missing
Link". To me, this song is the end of more than one search, the first
being my search for happiness which ended in Courtney, and to end another
search, this song hits on many of the compaints I had about "The Search
for the Missing Link", and the other songs I released around that time.
That song was reviewed in TraxWeekly, whose comprehensive reviewing system
brought to light many problems in my music. The first problem being low
sample quality, especially in the lead. In this song, I made my own
44.1Khz guitar sample, and echoed it to eliminate any complaints there.
The second complain about Missing Link was that the chord progression was
repetetive and static. Its true, I had the same 4 chords on rows 00, 16,
32 and 48 through the whole song. This song, in contrast, has dynamic
background instrumentation which constantly follows the lead to different
keys. Lastly, the mixing in Missing Link was poor, the instruments
muddled together, and it was hard to focus on the lead. With the help of
Pulse's wonderful Impulse Tracker, this song is mixed to the best of my
abilty to do all of the seperate instruments justice (i.e.-If you focus on
a particular instrument you can hear it distinctly), but draw a definite
focus to the lead.
I hope my efforts have paid off in this song. Please, if you enjoy it or
hate it, send me e-mail at vegas@westworld.com. :) Thanks.
Another song I'm releasing simultaneously is a much brighter bluegrass
song, in which I use 6 new samples to simulate actual guitar chord
strumming, behind a second guitar lead, and later, drums and organ.
Its called Lookin' Up, and can be found on cdrom.com under CCS-LOOK.ZIP in
the IT sections.
