Song from back in the day, which now is becoming something new all in its self!
Thursday, September 5, 2013
Friday, August 9, 2013
Saturday, June 8, 2013
Build Break Mold Make
Build Break Mold Make
Project1542 Audio log
Musical link>>>>>>Project1542 - Build Break Mold Make
Building down tempo to an up tempo building up beat, that’s
the best way to describe this monster, and this monster was a beast from
beyond. Monster in the sense that its long…you should be used to that by now, and
Monster because some VST instruments %#)E*(&@( don’t like to play with others in a crowded
environment. I want to blame Live but after more investigation poor programming
on the VST side is to blame.
Most of this was a far cry from what it was sounding like in
my head, but none the less the outcome was greater than expected. The biggest
step in where I want to go is really improving on some scales and chords. If
you listen to some of the recent stuff you can see the pointy head-stock of a
guitar permeating the mix. The blues pentatonic scales and chords are what I
have used to build the Project1542 from the ground up. This has worked well for
the heavy rock/metal/blues background, on the other hand its coming to the
limits of where I would like to take the music.
On that idea I am going to take some time until the next post focus on some chords and scales. If you really like this song and where it is going, don’t stress this kind of greatness doesn’t just get thrown out and I will be revisiting it soon in the future.
On that idea I am going to take some time until the next post focus on some chords and scales. If you really like this song and where it is going, don’t stress this kind of greatness doesn’t just get thrown out and I will be revisiting it soon in the future.
Listen to the recent audio logs and at least my feeling is
around a quarter of the way to final touches here. If we can keep ignoring
family, friends, and the infamous “you should have been there party” the music
will keep churning and burning. For now it’s off to the valley of the sun,
there is something about playing music in house in the woods with vaulted
ceilings that brings out fantastic creativity.
Saturday, June 1, 2013
Dark Die or Consumed
Project1542 Audio log
Musical link >>> Project1542 Dark Die or Consumed
This one is short and sweet. I was told there was a synth by
Hans Zimmer, if you don’t know who he is, he has been behind the music of such films
as: Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, Gladiator, Black Hawk Down, The Last
Samurai, Inception the list goes on and on. So I jumped a chance for a really
complex synth with some really awesome patches. I have been playing around with
it and well here we are, the drums and guitar are the only peace’s not produced
by the synth. All of the other sounds are coming through zebra except some
compression through Ableton.
-There will be more stuff in a couple of days got some more fantastic work on the way, this has been a tiny side project...for today at least.
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
ChopChop
Project1542 Audio Log 5-28-2013
So to start out I have some original material, then a one
hour continuous mix by Stan. The first
is another totally new production built from the ground up. I included a
screenshot for below for viewing pleasure, so you can see the kind of effort that
has gone into making it. For the most part it is a large portion produced with
a good amount of time put in it…(easy and easier I might add), and with that
time brings the power of bending a song to you will each step of the way.
Pay no attention to the length because it’s really two songs
the second portion really just got mixed at the last minute as part of a larger
live set… see picture below. Included guitar which I takes me back to some of
the stuff we were producing earlier last summer, however this time it is not
just this solid concrete thing that does not change, more like a ambient and
dynamic electronic sound with a great deal of stage worthy modifiable musical
properties. The name is a play on words (hidden meaning in everything).
Second part is a mix
of some old school trance I have been listening too, from the days when the balearic
island of Ibiza was the creator of some fantastic feel good music. My visit
there forever altered my taste in music, and sound which to this day I have
always been chasing. In hopes of bringing that same experience back here is the
track list for Stan’s euphoric mix.
Stan’s Euphoric classics mix-
1. Boccaccio - The sercret wish
"0-3:46"
2. Mauro Picotto - Lizard
"3:46-8:25"
3. Sasha - Xpander
"8:25-12:30"
4. Lovechild - Liberta
"12:30-17:04"
5. Pulser - Cloud walking
"21:41-25:50"
6. Gate - Iron Eden
"21:41-30:54"
7. Push - Strange world
"30:54-34:47"
8. Lost Tribe - Gamemaster "34:47-39:21"
9. Angelli & nelson - El Nino
"39:21-44:28"
10. Cascade - Trancend
"44:28-48:06"
11. PPK - ressurection
"48:06-52:28"
12. Veracocha - Carte Blanche
"52:28-58:13
Find your musical links at theTOP^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Thursday, May 23, 2013
A chiptune maybe?
Project1542 Audio Log 5-23-2013
So I was
playing with some patches on the synth and found a chip tune patch, really cool. I have watched some people
perform some chiptunes only once before and it was really amazing, hacked Gameboys
from the 80s turned into instruments making out of this world BPM and sounds.
So on a whim found this patch and turned it into something. The something would
be something probably listened to something like this ever. Experimental musical project we are so, we
bring you a chiptune with real drums, guitar and some other sweet stuff that
really thought was cool together. Make sure if you listen start at about 4:30
to the end favorite part of it, then listen to the rest if you have got that
far. If you like it let me know and I will try to make more for now just a
little fun with some crazy synths.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tubkwp10elk7w75/Chiptune.mp3
check back in a couple of days for 1hr euphoric mix of classic trance......
check back in a couple of days for 1hr euphoric mix of classic trance......
Monday, May 20, 2013
One to remember!
Project1542 Audio log 5-20-2013
Musical Link above^^^^^^^^^
This I can absolutely say is the best work so far in Ableton,
it just sounds really good. The other 2 works that were posted earlier fail in
comparison to this. It really shines. Playing it is a joy all in itself,
feeling like a producer directing each instrument telling when and where to
sound. Ableton takes so much work but this work really pays off. So now cheers,
to tear it down, reconstruct, rebuild and do 100,000 more times, and 100,000
times better. Only thing I would like to add is some live guitar with some deep
hard chords on the bridge, maybe some lead and vocals.
Other than that it feels solid. I know you will feel the same
way, if you don’t, well I have no idea what you are doing reading this. That is
the confidence this has produced.
Thanks to the guys at Ableton for making Live 9. Its mind bogglingly
complex and hard to learn, when your left brain is Cubase and have no previous
electronic music background it was hard at the very least to retrain a brain.
However it has help make some fantastic work, and it’s totally up to the
operator to create, innovate, and express, that is what the music is all about.
Link above is above^^^^^^^^^
-Stan
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Project1542 Audio log 5-12-2013
Project1542 Audio log 5-12-2013
This one is really going out there. It has been really fun to
produce and really getting down to having fun instead of learning. The noise
bass fader is really cool you will notice I was playing with it. I am still
getting used to timing it just right and some other mixing type stuff. However
this is by far the best one yet. The complete song is mixed in real time and it’s
a completely original mix. Project1542
dual spin state
Monday, May 6, 2013
A New Beginning
A New Beginning
Seem like a long time, and probably is. I have been gone for
some time a couple of months, even though months have felt like most of a year.
Somehow the giant experience that I have gone through has made it feel that way.
The experience… here on the blog at least I will only refer to as a small trip
I once took. I was a trip of learning and experiencing that I will not soon
forget. It has shown me what is pushing the edge of music, and changing the scene
as we know it. You would think if anybody asked. How the music industry is doing?
The most common big label response, is that internet is killed the market, and
ruined music as we once knew it. This answer could not be further from the
truth, in the real world there is a whole new breed of musicians that are
pushing the envelope with live performances, venues big, small and some underground. This has changed the studio sound of so many
before, to an almost irreproducible sound that is the selling point to draw
fans out and into the music.
On that note as I have returned home to draw on the new inspiration
I have found, started working on it as soon as I got home last night. What
follows is my own flavor of what I have listened to and the skills I have learned,
during my little trip to the real world. All of it produced from start to finish
made in an evening, with Ableton live. You will find some screens to show a
little of what I am doing. Work always can be done but I felt it best after so
much time to give you a dose of what I will be working on.
Another Audio log: Project1542-Undiscovered (and original
mix)
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
-Private stock mix – To – Public-
To start off let’s see where we have come since the inception
of the project. In the days of the beginning it there was 2 of us jamming on
some guitars, or bass, probably drunk, stoned or somewhere in-between. We liked
what we were playing however we had no place to take it beyond the confines of
small parties, groups of friends and our living room floor.
From there we
graduated to studio recording lots of sharing and eventually YouTube postings,
1st gig and so on. During that time we have all grown up a little
some of us spreading to other cities and places. What we have now though
represents a continuing of that original passion for music in all its forms.
Now two of us make music the way two people can do it best, grim is good with
drums and sampling; and I now am controlling DAW’s, recording, effects setups, wiring,
keys, and guitar.
-Stan
This will be
improved and lengthened as time will allow, plenty of content to add. Link below
Monday, January 28, 2013
Indie the movie (part 1) 30min Rated [PG]
Three cheers for all of the Indie crew and thanks to Dave!!
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Project1542 Audio Log 1-22-2013
More samplelogic goodness!
Partly restructured added filters limiters and some parallel compression for a nice thumb sound. Over all structure is the same just 2 peaks instead of the one before. Grim has added a drum line but for now its being left out, we are having problems limiting the drums and creating that same thump without blowing the RMS. Couple of days and you can check back on that as for now, we think it is miles better then before and it is loud and polyphonic. Best way to enjoy is with a good pair of headphones or a killer stereo or 5.1 anything else and you are missing the expansion waves from the effects setup..Enjoy!
Friday, January 18, 2013
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Project1542 Audio Log 1-8-2013
New tune for the New Year.
Resembling some kind of turn of a dial from, crossover,
happy hardcore, then on into trance, trance anthem, club mix, progressive
trance kind of sound. It might sound like you took a trip back early 2000s,
however it is what we were trying to accomplish. Many people do not understand
how Project1542 goes from, rock, hard rock, jam kind of style, to something
like a trance anthem...the answer? Is in the repetitive slow building eruption feeling
that culminates in the crescendo peak of the song or mix, the sound is unique,
and very interesting because of its complexity. We want to recreate that in a
less electronic fashion with a mix of analog and electronic sounds. Then comes
the task of learning the essence of what we are looking for….This song is part
of that journey from beginning of trance to progressive trance (no Dubstep) sound.
For the mean time enjoy Sample logic found below. It’s long like past couple we
have been working on but that is the point.
-Stan
Monday, January 7, 2013
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