eko
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By All Means a Bond Theme
Here is a song from a competition a few years back about Bond Themes And I think you know the singer Julianna. https://soundcloud.com/egon1/byallmeans1 Would be nice with thoughts and comments.
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Re:By All Means a Bond Theme
2013/02/23 14:51:57
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Well, you got me with this one, as I'm a sucker for cellos and an even bigger sucker for my favorite songbird, Julianna. Really interesting thematic backdrop for her to weave her vocal magic around... had an almost mideastern or Byzantine kind of feel to it. A great listen for me... enjoyed very much.
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Re:By All Means a Bond Theme
2013/02/23 15:09:16
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This one kept me on the edge of my seat. I love this production from the beginning to the end. Julianna's voice was the coup de grace.
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Re:By All Means a Bond Theme
2013/02/23 15:57:04
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This is great... very cool... What are you using for the orchestration..? Very impressive... 
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Re:By All Means a Bond Theme
2013/02/23 18:38:41
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Orchestration is really well done. You obviously put a lot of time and effort into this. The details are outstanding. I too, would be interested to know what you used for Orchestration. It sounds very pro.
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eko
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Re:By All Means a Bond Theme
2013/02/23 20:03:38
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Thnx Philz yes Julianna is a gem
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eko
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Re:By All Means a Bond Theme
2013/02/23 20:07:08
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Yes Lynn thank you for your words and as I stated earlier Julianna is a wonderful partner to work with.
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eko
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Re:By All Means a Bond Theme
2013/02/23 20:11:21
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Hi there Frank I am sorry but I can not tell you about the orchestration cause something happend there so its just audio now I guess it is Halion notes in some way.
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eko
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Re:By All Means a Bond Theme
2013/02/23 20:13:55
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Same answer to you marknoo999 I really dont know what orchestration I used on this sorry sorry
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Re:By All Means a Bond Theme
2013/02/23 20:53:11
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Very nice - well recorded - great instruments.
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Re:By All Means a Bond Theme
2013/02/23 21:31:00
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Well you certainly nailed the bond flick theme song genera? So good job there. It's difficult to do music like this.
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Re:By All Means a Bond Theme
2013/02/23 21:35:45
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I am going to risk hurting some feelings here. I adore Jules. I think she is a great person, and a dedicated songstress. But her voice is challenging to mix. Sadly Jules suffers a lack of natural resonance and timber in some ranges, and it is my opinion that she tries to compensate with vibrato. The engineer has to create those harmonic overtones artificially, and flatten the vibrato. I have yet to hear her voice mixed correctly (this is not meant as an insult to you).
It needs pitch correction. It is not about being in perfect key, it needs to be pitched to match the instrumentations used (she is not doing it naturally herself and often her pitch is forcing the songs key out of range). I think the vocal track is also too dry for her voice. I might try a delay effect or some convolution verb. I also think most people are cutting to deeply into the low end of her vox. Her natural timbre is in the lower spectrum.
I am sincerley uncomfortable making these critiques, and the sad truth is it is not specifically your fault Eko. It is ours for coddling our charished songstress perhaps too much. I have held back on a half dozen recent songs with her vocals, but this time... I had to speak up.
(I am sorry Jules, please don't hate me).
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M_Glenn_M
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Re:By All Means a Bond Theme
2013/02/23 22:16:30
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I'm an amateur for sure but I must agree the vocal comes across as less important (thin?) than some of the other instruments. On second thought, perhaps as a Bond theme this might be fine as in this form, it's not really supposed to be a chart song?
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The Band19
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Re:By All Means a Bond Theme
2013/02/24 00:51:10
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"I am going to risk hurting some feelings here." always an honest opinion, without being rude. There's something to be Shad for that?
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eko
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Re:By All Means a Bond Theme
2013/02/24 15:02:19
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CLEAN
Very nice - well recorded - great instruments.
Thanks Clean
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eko
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Re:By All Means a Bond Theme
2013/02/24 15:05:44
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The Band19
Well you certainly nailed the bond flick theme song genera? So good job there. It's difficult to do music like this.
Thankyou TB19 yes I was rather exited at the time and thought of a plot to a new Bond-movie with the name By all means - I even tried to get some attention from the filmmakers but Broccoli was quiet.
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eko
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Re:By All Means a Bond Theme
2013/02/24 15:15:16
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foxwolfen
I am going to risk hurting some feelings here. I adore Jules. I think she is a great person, and a dedicated songstress. But her voice is challenging to mix. Sadly Jules suffers a lack of natural resonance and timber in some ranges, and it is my opinion that she tries to compensate with vibrato. The engineer has to create those harmonic overtones artificially, and flatten the vibrato. I have yet to hear her voice mixed correctly (this is not meant as an insult to you).
It needs pitch correction. It is not about being in perfect key, it needs to be pitched to match the instrumentations used (she is not doing it naturally herself and often her pitch is forcing the songs key out of range). I think the vocal track is also too dry for her voice. I might try a delay effect or some convolution verb. I also think most people are cutting to deeply into the low end of her vox. Her natural timbre is in the lower spectrum.
I am sincerley uncomfortable making these critiques, and the sad truth is it is not specifically your fault Eko. It is ours for coddling our charished songstress perhaps too much. I have held back on a half dozen recent songs with her vocals, but this time... I had to speak up.
(I am sorry Jules, please don't hate me).
I think you hear things that I dont maybe its all about a bad mix? Nevertheless I can not agree with you upon Julis voice I think it is fantastic. But again you might be right I dont hear it anyway so no hard feelings from me you had to speak out your impression and thats allright.
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eko
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Re:By All Means a Bond Theme
2013/02/24 15:17:15
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M_Glenn_M
I'm an amateur for sure but I must agree the vocal comes across as less important (thin?) than some of the other instruments.
On second thought, perhaps as a Bond theme this might be fine as in this form, it's not really supposed to be a chart song?
Thankyou M Glenn I think I hear the same as you do...
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