Light Bearers

Final Song Update 11/08/13
 
Well, this time I wanted to create something that reflects how we all should have a walk, in this life, worthy of our calling, and how we should be a light in the world to others. There has been to much chaos going on in this world and I don't think some people get it. If we are to love one another, how can we condemn and ridicule others, before we look in the mirror at ourselves and our own faults. Just something for us all to think about before judging others without a cause. I wanted this to be epic and full of a lot of textures and voices, so I hope I accomplished that in this piece. It was a lot of work arranging all of this, but I hope you find it worthy of the message I am trying to convey. As always your comments and critique is always very much appreciated.
 
http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=12540962  "Light Bearers""
 
Peace and Blessings, John

Thanks Walt for listening and commenting on this, I will check it out in the wav files and see what I can do to work on those issues. I most likely don't have them lined up exactly and it could be throwing everything off at those locations. All of the samples were originally created in different beats, but I converted them all to the same FPB. I have a tendency of getting things off a bit because my eye vision isn't the best in the world, especially at 4:30 am. Yes, I was working overtime trying to get this one done, but that's how it goes that early in the morning. Thanks for catching those. Hope the rest sounds alright. Thanks again.
 
Peace and Blessings, John
 
Walt, I did go in and fixed the issues, at least I think I did. One thing was I had Ozone 5 set in analog mode instead of digital mode, make a big difference. Sorry about that. Adjusted all settings, so I hope this sounds better for you. I also removed and moved a few samples around and adjusted the fades in and out where you were describing. Hope this works for you and everyone else as well. Thanks for the heads up.
 
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Chas, Thanks for listening and for your comments, they are much appreciated. Lots going on in your work as well.
 
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Walt, I convert all tempos and FPB (Frames Per Beat) within the Sonicfire Pro 5 sampler converter. I can also adjust them in Sony Sound Forge Pro 9 but usually never touch it there, because it is already done before using the samples. At 0:50, that is on purpose and intentional, listen to that closer, it end on a note and the keyboards start. As for the guitar sound between 1:05 (keyboards end and strumming of acoustic guitars (2 of them in sync) start with a cymbal splash in background) and 1:40 guitars end and orchestration starts. The acoustic guitars sound exactly the way (I) wanted them to sound for this piece, just like the electric guitars with their distorted gritty sound. I'm not getting what you mean by warbling, for the acoustic guitars, I thought they sounded awesome the way I edited them.
 
I know that this sounds not as good as the 292 mp3 version or the .wav files, but when loading to soundclick it never does sound as good as the original tracks. Could also be the width I used for this with the stereo imaging settings. The exciter imaging and compression and limiting are all good. Equalization, as far as, post-in and post-out are all good and so is the maximization settings. Not a lot of reverb on this and so I don't know what your hearing. Are you using headphone, computer speakers, or reference speakers. I use Truth Reference Speakers with 8" reference speakers in them and these speakers tell the truth. I think it just might be the soundclick player (the freebe one) could be the issue. I'll check it out again, but while typing this I listened to it and checked out those locations your talking about twice and I'm still unclear what your thinking. Anyway, thanks for the concern.
 
Peace and Blessings, John

If it's not bothering you then just ignore me. :) Never!! Still checking it out, but have to go out of town for a couple of days. Thanks Walt!
 
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If Keith Green and Train and Lindsey Buckingham got together to write a song, I am pretty sure this is how it would turn out. Epic.

ohh and sorry for not replying to my own last post.
i was busy with some new toys :-)
so once again sorry.
 

James, Thanks for listening and for your comments, they are always interesting and much appreciated.  Very epic indeed.
 
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The transition @ 1:40 didn't really seem to fit John. I liked the different pieces though. I would really like to see you do more with an idea along the lines of verse verse chorus verse verse coda chorus chorus. 

Boomin36Beats, Thanks for listening and for you comments, they are much appreciated.
 
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Mark, Thanks for the listen and the nice comments, they are much appreciated. It went #1 on Christian Rock Charts today, so this arrangement is working to some degree, but still needs a tweak hear and there. I'll just let it play out for the time being and get to the tweaks latter.
 
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AT, Thanks for listening and for your comments, they are much appreciated. At 3:30, that does sound pretty good and so when I rework this piece, I may add some more to that piece of the arrangement.
 
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Walt, I was wondering if this sounds any better to you or are you hearing the same issues? Tried to work on it a bit and think the issues maybe fixed. There were some volume issues in those spots, so I adjusted them. Let me know. By the way this went to #1 on Sound Click Christian Rock and 29 in Rock and made Sound Click top 50. Not to bad for having only a couple of mistakes. Thanks for your help.
 
Peace and Blessings, John

theguitarplayer
Walt, I was wondering if this sounds any better to you or are you hearing the same issues? Tried to work on it a bit and think the issues maybe fixed. There were some volume issues in those spots, so I adjusted them. Let me know. By the way this went to #1 on Sound Click Christian Rock and 29 in Rock and made Sound Click top 50. Not to bad for having only a couple of mistakes. Thanks for your help.
 
Peace and Blessings, John

Sorry John, I'm still definitely hearing the time stretch distortion.  I think the only way to fix those is to use a different converter, or just don't change the pitch/tempo as much from the original audio clips.
 
But the bottom line is that most soundclick listeners aren't audiophiles and it doesn't seem to matter to them, since the song is doing so well!

Walt, This should be better, spent 2 hours on it. Hope you enjoy this better, plus added a couple of things.
 
Peace and Blessings, John