Hello there Acidizer,

I wanted to thank you for listening to several of my rock type tunes already. I certainly appreciate the comments, as they are welcome....along with amy critizm.

I am at work now and can't easily listen to any of your music until I get home. But rest assurd that I will and give feedback to each one sir.

The computers here at work are basic and some have only snall speakers, so they aren't good to listen thru.

So I am glad you enjoyed the songs. as you may or may not have found out, I also play country, blues and... rock mostly.
I mostly always use drum sets I buy off the Internet, as I am not a drummer. Or if the song is fairly simple, then I can record some with my Korg M-3

If you read my profile or looked at my photo galley, then you can see the various instruments I own and use as needed.
I use Pro-Tools for all my productions as I never started with a adifferent pgm.

Has a big learning curve, but the results I get myself are pleasing to my ears at least.
OK..take care.....Oh..say..one more thing,,if you are into heavy metal at all..and I am not really myself...take a listen to 'Heavy Metal Highway".
That seems to be the favorite of most here.
Thanks again..
Randy.

Hello and welcome macbook1990,

I appreciate your glowing comment about this tune I made last year. It was one of the first Alt. rock tunes I put together and I really like it. I did make a longer version if you'd like to hear it. just send me your address. Basically I just
added in a repeat section, but it sounds nice.

Again, thanks a lot for stopping by and listening and giving a review. It is much appreciated.
Randy

Hi ya BigPete,
Yes, I just heard it and left a nice review. Again, if you didn't post a notice to it in the Members tunes section of the forum, then many may have missed it as so many songs are posted oh here each day, they disappear off the front page in hours or less!
Randy

Hello there BigPete,

Happy that you stopped by again. I'll check out your tunes again as well. I don't get on here as much as I should.

I guess I called this one 'Canadian Pride' because I felt that it had an 'Avril Lavigne' sound to it some. As you probably know, she is a Canadian young pop fox!

Your right about being long and boring. That turns me off as well. I just couldn't think of anything else to put in this one. But I did end up making it nearly twice as long by repeating a section not too long after i did it. Just didn't repost it is all.

Thanks for reviewing this.
Randy

Hello Lorin,

I appreciate your stopping by and listening/reviewing this tune. I use Pro Tools 8.0. With all the tools it has available, I am able to get the sounds I hear in my head.
I also Master every song before I release it as well.
I usually use recorded live drums from www.betamonkeymusic.com

Most all my latest songs have a bigger sound to them and 'feel good' according to the many nice reviews I keep getting.

It's not a matter of playing just one guitar in a track, you have to make layers of sound....like record the same rhythm track twice...once panned hard left, and then record again panned hard right.

You can't just copy-n-paste from one track to another as it won't work.

Anyways, that's how I make music. Partly from loops, and partly from my own playing.
I have the firewire Mbox2 Pro and use an external drive for audio only, and a DEll XPS laptop.

So anyways, I thank you again and I will review some of your material as well and give a review back. Thanks!
Randy

Hi again there Divbe,

I am glad you stopped by and took a listen and reviewed this tune. This was a shorter one.

I haven't done anything professional yet as I am still learning my Pro Tools software. Only been doing software music for a little over a year.....altho when I was younger, I had my own band and played all the 6 instruments I can play...listed in my profile.

Depending on the song we played at the time, I would play this or that instrument. This allowed more diversity in the songs we could do.

I liked country -rock music as that is what we played. Now I mix my own playing with loops I buy.

I cannot play drums, so I get them from
www.betamonkeymusic.com These are live recorded drums in 12 or 24 bit mostly. I choose 24 bit to work with.
I also have all my songs mastered in a studio.....or some I do myself as I am learning about it myself.
Usually a person that mixes and masters their own song...can't do both equally well.
Take care and thanks again for your comments.
(Guess I need a good vocalist next).

Randy

Hi there Brent,
Thanks for listening to my 'Canadian Pride' tune. The other tune I mentioned to you, you'll like even more :-).
Not that I am trying to get you to play it, just that it is pretty good from what I am hearing from all the other reviews, and near your type of music.

Occassionly I just do some loop based material to give my fingers a rest from playing guitar.
Putting loops together is like a puzzle before you, and you decide on how to construct it.

In fact, there are actual constructions kits you can buy that have all the instruments in it including drums. So then you have all the tools at your disposal and you can make something out of many loop segments.

Once you have all the loops in order you want to have in your tune, then you have to do 'micro surgery' and place the loop into the track so that it fits seemlesly, or someone will notice the ins and outs, clicks and pops, etc.

Clicks and pops can be smoothed out by using the pencil tool from the software, and the track zoomed in all the way.

So that is the trick actually.
Thanks again for stopping by and your review,
Randy

Hi Blair,
Thanks kindly for the review. I appreciate it very much. Just wanted to also let you know, later this week, I will be uploading a country/cajun tune that you might like. Quite a bit different instruments in it. Mostly in 'G' tuning...Has some harmonica in it too that I put together from loops.
Randy

Hi Voltage,
Thanks for your nice comments. I appreciate them very much. I believe your very correct in that playing live on stage, as I also did for a number of years, you get a feel of how you'll be 'judged' by the first tune you play live.

If it sucks, not many people will stick around to hear the rest of your songs. First impressions count so much in everything in life.

Whether I make songs from loops or record 'live' from here at home, I have to have my own input into every song I do. Otherwise, I am just duplicating someone elses thoughts.

With all the great keyboards out there today, etc, it is so easy just to use 1 finger and create an 'amazing rhythm section' that would take 10+ musicians on stage to duplicate.
I have one of those (Korg Karma) and haven't used it.. yet..on here.

Thanks for the comments Voltage, I appreciate your work very much as well.
Randy

Hi ya SEROKSATY,
I happened to be online when your review came in. I am glad you liked the song. I like it very much. I love the full sound it has. I want all my songs to sound 'full'.

Thanks agin...I will listen to one or more of your songs here tomorrow for sure and give a review back.
Randy

Hello there Mejdi,
Thanks for taking the time to review my latest tune. I appreciate it a lot.
I buy the drums loops from www.betamonkeymusic.com . However, they do have free samples that you can download usually from each set type.

Most sets cost about $29 and you pay by using Paypal, or some other means, and then you can download them right from there, or have them sent to you via postal mail.

However, I am not sure about oversees shipping via regular mail from them, so you have to read about it on that web site.....but I know Internet downloads are available, but most files sets are over 300 megabytes. So you would need a decent speed internet connection.

On Looperman here, there are many FREE short drum loops available too.
Thanks again for reviewing my song.
Randy

Hi there Mik,
Thanks for the kind review. This is one of my most favorite tunes I have done to date.
I'll agree that it was too short. I do have a longer version made up, but it is basically the same over and over..
I see where one fellow played this song 5 times.....but never left a review. Strange eh?

Why not just download it instead?
So I guess they liked it an awful lot too. :-0)

Again thanks for your review,
Randy

Hi Six,
Thanks so much for your review here.
So you have done a song as well with just loops. Great....I am looking forward to listening to it.

I have been around a long time, and probably 10 years from now, I may not even be able to do much, so I am making the best of my music abilities now before I get 'too old'. :-)

My quest is to make quality sounding music, and having done some sound reinforcement in the past, I like making the lead part stand out so you can hear it and not hidden in the background.

Thanks again Six,
Randy

Hi Planet!
Thanks for your review of this short tune. As I mentioned to Bill, I loved this song a lot and now wished I made it longer.

Arranging already made loops is fun to do...like a giant puzzle. Find the pieces that will fit together just right.
I have a few more I will put together and upload in the near future.

Thanks again,
Randy

Hi there Abe,
Nice to hear from you. I haven't forgotten you and your song. :-)

Glad you liked this little tune. I have a few more similar ones to work on, but they are on the back burner till I can catch up with what I have started.

Unfortunately, I haven't hardly listened to any Avril's songs...except 'Skater boi' hee hee

Maybe it was a sublimial message in my head as I made it?
Thanks for listening,
Randy

Hi there Alkie,
Looks like you take first place for being the 1st one to review my latest tune!
I am not sure about the Avril licks as I have only played a couple of her songs. She is an amazing talent tho for sure....and from Canada!

Any likeness of this song to her songs is purely a coincidence.
Thanks again for the review and I will review some songs of yours shortly.!
Randy