<non-pony> <original> <neurofunk> The monolith

[balsamfir]

https://soundcloud.com/balsamfir/the-monolith-2-hour-project

If any of you guys ever get down on the fact that you can never seem to finish a project - try this sometime: Limit you're self to 1-3 hours, sit down at your computer. Make and then publish whatever comes out. It's certainly a good way to get by creators block, and also provides the song writing experience helpful for when you actually put a lot of effort into something. This is something a friend and I stated doing, and so far I'm improving much faster than I was when I would just spend hours trying to make the tiniest little thing sound good. Chances are that by mastering something on it's own you'll make it sound bad in the track anyways.

Back on topic - yeah, this is a neurofunk song... Made in 2 hours.

[Pimps_McGee]

And then the bass was phat.

No but for real, I love the processing that's going on in that thing. This is a guess but did you make that in Reason by any chance? I know the Thor synthesizer is very popular for those big nasty reeses.

Mixing wise the samples seemed a tad bit drowned out in the end though, but for two hours this is very well done.

[balsamfir]

Thanks man .

About the reason thing - I was kinda thinking that it sounded like it was too, but it was actually made in fl studio. I created the wave in harmor where I distorted the crap out of it, compressed it, then sent it on its way to a mixer where it was split up (1 low, 2 mids, 1 high) - mostly for flanger / phaser effects. I brought it back together, eq'd, distorted, ran through a vocoder, distorded - done. As for the drums : I know what you mean. It's kind of funny actually - The drums don't have any effects on them whatsoever (aside from a compressor on the kick), so I know what you mean when you say they're a bit over powered by the track. The only reason why they stick out as far as they do is because I literally just sidechainned everything.