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Virtual Music Studio => Finished Works => Topic started by: napoleonboot on September 16, 2013, 05:31:42 PM

Title: Dreams Of Eternity
Post by: napoleonboot on September 16, 2013, 05:31:42 PM

A prog-rock original created off-site.

https://soundcloud.com/george-williams-8/dreams-of-eternity

Me singing (and talking!), and others doing the rest. There's some classy guitar playing by my friends Rick Lamoreaux (USA) and Justin Elliot (UK). I enjoyed a thespian moment with the recital of the poem "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost at the start. If you stick with it after the first 1'20 it gets a lot rockier!

This isn't the final mix, as it's yet to be properly mastered  - this is was just quickly mastered using a preset.

[UPDATED LATER - THIS LINK IS ACTUALLY THE FINAL MIX]

Title: Re: Dreams Of Eternity
Post by: rightonthemark on September 16, 2013, 08:24:32 PM

this is killer George.
great performance & sound.
this is right in my wheel-house of the kind of stuff i prefer.
definitely going on the mp3 player.
\m/   \m/   

(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltulxyZmQb1r49zs9o1_100.gif)

Title: Re: Dreams Of Eternity
Post by: CosmicDolphin on September 17, 2013, 03:06:00 PM

Very atmospheric opening George

Well played & sung, I look forward to the final mix ( bit muddy at the moment )

CD

Title: Re: Dreams Of Eternity
Post by: AndyG6508 on September 17, 2013, 03:51:08 PM

Great stuff George another winner. Look forward to the final product.

Spent an hour listening to your songs posted on your soundcloud page, sound very professional.

Enjoyed the listen!

Andy

Title: Re: Dreams Of Eternity
Post by: stoman on September 22, 2013, 03:14:02 AM

Very nice, George - again!

I think the mix itself needs some tweaking before it can be mastered. Once that's done I'd probably spend a few dollars and have a professional mastering engineer (with a professionally treated room) do the finalization. Some of us here can do decent homerecording quality, but that quality will always be lightyears away from a professionally mastered product.

But do post a raw (unmastered) mix if you like. :)

Regards,
  Steffen

Title: Re: Dreams Of Eternity
Post by: Paulo on September 23, 2013, 04:38:58 AM

Great, Gerorge, as usual.

Title: Re: Dreams Of Eternity
Post by: napoleonboot on September 24, 2013, 04:16:24 PM

Now the final mastered version, updated on the earlier link, repeated here:

https://soundcloud.com/george-williams-8/dreams-of-eternity

This came out jolly well ... I hope to do more work with the same guys :)

Title: Re: Dreams Of Eternity
Post by: Donna on October 06, 2013, 12:14:26 PM

Listening right now, George. Crikey! This is a mighty impressive track.  :)
Love your vocals here (and the spoken poem).

Fantastic work all round, gentlemen. :)

Donna

Title: Re: Dreams Of Eternity
Post by: napoleonboot on October 24, 2013, 05:55:50 PM

Donna and all, many thanks for listening and commenting :)

Stoman, the final mix I posted was professionally mastered (by a USA-based studio guy called Danny Danzi - google him), we thought the same as you. I spent a few hours myself with various mastering plug-ins, and couldn't get it where i wanted it.

Title: Re: Dreams Of Eternity
Post by: docmidnite on October 25, 2013, 06:57:34 AM

Wow!!! Great!!!!

Title: Re: Dreams Of Eternity
Post by: Zax on October 26, 2013, 10:54:24 PM

Great job on the vocals, George!!

Music sounds great too.

Frank

Title: Re: Dreams Of Eternity
Post by: napoleonboot on November 11, 2013, 05:36:02 PM

Thanks for listening and commenting Henry and Frank. This song took about 6 months from intial concept to finished product.