Thanks.
That really helps the mood.
Its just how it is for me and my music I guess. Been like this since the 90s. I have been singing, but was never as good as others, played guitar since 84 and never been as good as the others. I know. I should practice more. But the fun part of practice fades when friends never want to work with you even you have been in the same church since 1978. Basically grown up together. For me I don’t want to try to “impress” people. I know that wont work. I just want to try to be creative in my corky way. The few people I have worked with have gotten their money. Like Nina on this song. I have tried even to ask local people to do things together and such, but they say f u in their nicest way. I’m kind of used to it. I don’t want to get thick skinned because of just “music”. Being kind, honest and a good friend is more important for me. I will never ever say to someone that they are not my friends just because they criticize or don’t like my music. My music isn’t that important.

It's tough to find musicians who are on the same wavelength as yourself. Just the way it is I guess.

It is.

Well. Have to put in that Zarg did work on two songs for me for free. I dont think he do that to anyone, so dont say you too have to get work free, just because he helped me out.

One of the reasons I went solo acoustic years ago is because I could never find anyone who wanted to play the same kinds of songs I did. Plus, I've always been more drawn to acoustic fingerpicking than anything else, so it worked out. Now at the age of 59 I'm finally starting to sing a bit too, so it's never too late to reinvent yourself.

Thats good.

I don't care for the NI symphony series that much, but I really like what you did with it. The piece could easily be on a movie sound track for example.

I write music because it's the best way to bring out the creative side in me.  I post it here just to have other people listen to it besides my wife and a couple of friends.

A few years ago I put out a couple of CDs through CDBaby with the thought that maybe I could make a little money, but that's not happening. Not fun. But making the music is fun so that's all I really need.

Yeah.
It should be fun. If not your doin it wrong.

And i think the NI sounds best in a mix too. And blended with orher instruments they can sound ok. Alone you can make some sound tracks. But i dont think you can make a Bethoven symphony sound that great.

emeraldsoul
I listened to the "full metal mix" and thought - what am I supposed to not like here? Very Cirque du Soleil. The strings were mixed a bit softly perhaps. The hi-hat maybe could have a brighter dusting of reverb.
 
Sounds fun. Sounds good! What's the existential problem here?   :)
 
What if anything are you going to do with this? Are you scoring a show or something?
 
cheers,
-Tom

Constructive criticism is the best way of learning!
 
:D

I am a little crazy here. Giving you the whole song. It is long. I wanted to record the song with all the lyrics. And the German lyrics from before 1600 had 9 verses, and the Norwegian guy translated putted on a 10^th verse.
 
Anyways. You hear the Symphony Series in context.
 
I didn’t want to much of if, because the song then wouldn’t be the same anymore. At least I didn’t like the too much repetitions on the verses I showed above. The orchestra could stand alone as a Preludie tho. I have full Symphony on the 3 verse. But no percussion. That didn’t fit. And just violin 1 and 2 on verses 2, 4-6 and 10.
 
I have to add that there is some difficulties rendering this. I had to do the violin 1 and 2 one more time before making this mix for instance. Its because the long notes on the last verse was choked. I guess that’s a known Cakewalk bug. And non of the instruments are paned out of the box. You have to pan them yourself. If you don’t, it will sound wrong. I guess that the stereo image on the track take in account that the violin 1 on the back and left has another panning than the violin 1 guy on the right in front. So giving the violin 1 a 40 to the left will spread them out in that aria. Many of the sounds need to blend to other sounds to sound ok. And on its own I guess the Symphony Series is to clean? You need to ad some noise or “sound” to them. But that’s what I like with them. They blend perfectly to a mix with a band. They don’t ad to much other than just enough of the sound they represent.
 
I don’t know if this makes any sense. But here is the link anyways.
 
https://soundcloud.com/oyvind-skald/882-eg-veit-i-himmerik-ei-borg-0105