HERE YOU HAVE MY NEW ALBUM: EXCALIBUR
Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2018 6:38 pm
Hi guys, what’s up?
Here I am presenting you my up-to-the-minute album: Excalibur, 10 blazing Fusion songs with crazy harmony-arrangements, melodies and solos I hope you enjoy it as much as I do! That is, a real lot! I honestly love what I’ve come to achieve musically with this album. Any comments, good or bad, are welcomed. I don’t mind being criticized.
This project is not to search for money, that’s the reason I’m giving it away. I earn my coins through other more specific means that give me the money I need, sometimes composing things I don't like or even dislike, but that is because it is a poor life economically speaking, being a fusion bass player, I can tell... So, my music has not being compromised, it is what I like exactly, because there is not the concern of being commercial, I am totally free doing it, I don’t need to please anything or anyone except the “music fan” I carry within, let's say, the “listener” within myself Of course, I do care if people like it or not, but while I’m composting, I don’t think about anything or anyone, I just have great amounts of fun in an parallel universe if you like
Excalibur: about 70 minutes of music in all, presented in FLAC format: 24 bit losless, 192.000 Hz, so you can appreciate it as pure and clear as possible.
The 9 first songs have been played with my Ibanez 485 5 string bass, which sounds amazing to me, and the last one, that is the 10th song, with a friend's bass which is an F bass, also 5 strings, Aguilar electronics with Saymour Duncan Soupbar pickups, a pretty good beast. He got my bass and I got his for a few days, that's why the song is called "Friendly Exchange". Slaping sounds great in his bass, but it is quite a hard instrument to play because it is a long scale with 0.45 strings and the maximum space separation between the strings, with very, very heavy wood, ouch... my fingers...
All guitars have been played with my Fender Telecaster Thninline, I don't remember the year now, but I think it is a 1954 reisued, mahogany, alnico, I like it today more than yesterday, I can tell... I never liked Teles much before, but man, it sounds amazing..., even if it is a little hard to play somtimes because I preffer softer left necks, but yes, the sound is..., great!
I insist in the concept-theory that says that instruments should not be judged alone if you will play them in a band, but rather, you should judge them in the mix, with others instruments, where you can find out if it does or not a good match with the rest of the participants. Well, the MINIMAX has a great tone in my kind of virtual bands and music, this is what I believe. I have used and abused this synth in this album.
I have also used many VST plugins and synths, Kontakt libraries, etc., and EZ Drummer for all the drums except for some real samples and other percussion instruments added to the mix to beef up the groove.
I have also extensively used Celmo’s BAM and GAM. I don’t longer use Mojo from Adern, because I-ve lost the license when changing card… a matter of licenses, a shame…
For mastering, I don’t longer have a fixed approach like I used to have long time ago, today I most of all LISTEN to every song in detail, and then proceed to do as many little and subtle changes as needed, but without a unique or fixed method, every song is treated differently. The changes I apply happen to be very few in fact, that is because I do all the needed job in the mix "AND" the recording process. I don’t longer make these two common mistakes which are: 1st, recording in the wrong way and then try to fix it, and 2nd, try to make the song sound great through a magical mastering, when the mix is not sounding decently well yet. The song (in my humble today's understanding), must sound great "in the mixing stage" already, and then get the neccesary touch of perfection through the mastering process. If I don't get a good sounding mix, I don't procceed to the mastering stage.
Well..., I don't know if you are going to find it "so good sounding", perhaps not, but I definetely sound much better right now than before, that is my happiness. Thank you for your time!
Enjoy
https://www.dropbox.com/s/eqx9p9atlujj0 ... .flac?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6vrm5oq7vuewv ... .flac?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/sbsgv6zev61lo ... .flac?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4o700p03xyiem ... .flac?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/dvtl6uay5srgj ... .flac?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zk5mjsmz4tymg ... .flac?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/n5ofnx7bxmmjl ... .flac?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/c7ofbguyfwh02 ... .flac?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/kbvrvfeni9he7 ... .flac?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9f870zff9tuop ... .flac?dl=0
Enjoy my Z friends!
Here I am presenting you my up-to-the-minute album: Excalibur, 10 blazing Fusion songs with crazy harmony-arrangements, melodies and solos I hope you enjoy it as much as I do! That is, a real lot! I honestly love what I’ve come to achieve musically with this album. Any comments, good or bad, are welcomed. I don’t mind being criticized.
This project is not to search for money, that’s the reason I’m giving it away. I earn my coins through other more specific means that give me the money I need, sometimes composing things I don't like or even dislike, but that is because it is a poor life economically speaking, being a fusion bass player, I can tell... So, my music has not being compromised, it is what I like exactly, because there is not the concern of being commercial, I am totally free doing it, I don’t need to please anything or anyone except the “music fan” I carry within, let's say, the “listener” within myself Of course, I do care if people like it or not, but while I’m composting, I don’t think about anything or anyone, I just have great amounts of fun in an parallel universe if you like
Excalibur: about 70 minutes of music in all, presented in FLAC format: 24 bit losless, 192.000 Hz, so you can appreciate it as pure and clear as possible.
The 9 first songs have been played with my Ibanez 485 5 string bass, which sounds amazing to me, and the last one, that is the 10th song, with a friend's bass which is an F bass, also 5 strings, Aguilar electronics with Saymour Duncan Soupbar pickups, a pretty good beast. He got my bass and I got his for a few days, that's why the song is called "Friendly Exchange". Slaping sounds great in his bass, but it is quite a hard instrument to play because it is a long scale with 0.45 strings and the maximum space separation between the strings, with very, very heavy wood, ouch... my fingers...
All guitars have been played with my Fender Telecaster Thninline, I don't remember the year now, but I think it is a 1954 reisued, mahogany, alnico, I like it today more than yesterday, I can tell... I never liked Teles much before, but man, it sounds amazing..., even if it is a little hard to play somtimes because I preffer softer left necks, but yes, the sound is..., great!
I insist in the concept-theory that says that instruments should not be judged alone if you will play them in a band, but rather, you should judge them in the mix, with others instruments, where you can find out if it does or not a good match with the rest of the participants. Well, the MINIMAX has a great tone in my kind of virtual bands and music, this is what I believe. I have used and abused this synth in this album.
I have also used many VST plugins and synths, Kontakt libraries, etc., and EZ Drummer for all the drums except for some real samples and other percussion instruments added to the mix to beef up the groove.
I have also extensively used Celmo’s BAM and GAM. I don’t longer use Mojo from Adern, because I-ve lost the license when changing card… a matter of licenses, a shame…
For mastering, I don’t longer have a fixed approach like I used to have long time ago, today I most of all LISTEN to every song in detail, and then proceed to do as many little and subtle changes as needed, but without a unique or fixed method, every song is treated differently. The changes I apply happen to be very few in fact, that is because I do all the needed job in the mix "AND" the recording process. I don’t longer make these two common mistakes which are: 1st, recording in the wrong way and then try to fix it, and 2nd, try to make the song sound great through a magical mastering, when the mix is not sounding decently well yet. The song (in my humble today's understanding), must sound great "in the mixing stage" already, and then get the neccesary touch of perfection through the mastering process. If I don't get a good sounding mix, I don't procceed to the mastering stage.
Well..., I don't know if you are going to find it "so good sounding", perhaps not, but I definetely sound much better right now than before, that is my happiness. Thank you for your time!
Enjoy
https://www.dropbox.com/s/eqx9p9atlujj0 ... .flac?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6vrm5oq7vuewv ... .flac?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/sbsgv6zev61lo ... .flac?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4o700p03xyiem ... .flac?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/dvtl6uay5srgj ... .flac?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zk5mjsmz4tymg ... .flac?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/n5ofnx7bxmmjl ... .flac?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/c7ofbguyfwh02 ... .flac?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/kbvrvfeni9he7 ... .flac?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9f870zff9tuop ... .flac?dl=0
Enjoy my Z friends!