The Bouy - The Time Flies

:-) Avant Guard, now I see where you get it from!

I would mix those drums back just a tiny bit, not much, just a weence (in places).

The ride was fun! Nice tune.

JonBouy,

Very cool song. My problem would be that I'd drive way to fast on the road if this song was playing on the radio. Which of course means "Excellent!".

A couple of suggestions I'd make is it to bring out the bass sound a bit more and the overall brightness. The bass has a really cool groove to it but is kind of buried in the mix. I wish I was as good at getting the synth sounds you have in this mix. I'm a guitar player and when I get to play keys I usually use the patches without much changes because I'm not up on that stuff. I'm wondering if the overall mix is a bit too bright, but that might simply be because the bass need to be brought out more.

These are my opinions, don't sweat it if you don't agree. Keep up the great material.

Tom

Pesky lil' critters.

Cool! Made me wanna dance instead of sitting here working on this confounded computer! Thanks for the fun ride!

(and I still like what you did on my song!)

You need to put this tune to the next volvo or BMW commercial as the driver is zipping along at break-neck speed along the coastline. Of course the hot babe is sitting next to him with her hair blowing in the breeze.... You just can't sit still while listening to this Jon. Flies in motion instead of poetry?? A couple of nice things goin' on in here......

nice tune, open, airy mix, lotsa stuff going on, am i the only one sensing a strong 80s revival in a lot of the current tunes, i mean lotsa retro sounds and funky beats...it's the sort of thing i can imagine accompanying the ceefax pages around 4am, if you know what i mean!!!

Nice job.

I was impressed by all of the sounds you added together. It all fit really well, and had a lot of energy.

Good work.

sja

Snappy and sleek; interest combination of textures. Kind of loses momentum at 2:15 in the break down, otherwise moves a long nicely. It does have an advert music spot feel, you could do nicely with this kind of material there.

Jon, great use of the ol' virtual sound stage. Very pleasant to my ears. MIDI rocks!

I like how the song keeps moving. Tasty drum fills intro and exit the passages of the song very well. Nice layering.

Larry A couple of nice things goin' on? I counted at least 7 but I'm biased...

I'm only coming up with 6...where's the 7th? (just kidding, there's a lot of nice things going on)

I think I did steal your name (unintentional of course) or you have a split personality and you're responding to yourself..

I actually got confused on one of the postings thinking they were talking to me .

So I've updated my signature...I'm now Jon C, formally known as Jon.

You are, and will remain, the original Jon.

LOL - well put.

Hats off to the both of you .

A.K.A - Not Bouy

This tune complements your avatar ... groovy. I even sensed a hint of disco in there somewhere. Nice work.

Herb: Thanks fer the listen and the thumbs up.

Mark: Well spotted. That there groove button as in my Avatar activates the Regroove mixer in Reason and the beat is a fusion of '70's disco grooves fused with a more modern dance beat the result is the hybrid enforced by the groove buttons is what's going on here. I made Rex loops of some ol' disco classics extracted the midi to make the groove clips then the timing is imposed on the new material in varying degrees. So I'd guess you'd call it 'Progressive Bump'...

Reece: Praise works for me... No keyboards we're harmed in the making of this its all mouse work and cut and paste. The drums are my pride and joy, they are my own drastic customisation of the Reason Drum Kits refill which is a multi-mic setup, and is based on my previous studio experience, in fact an old engineer friend of mine has helped me put it all together.

I've put a lot of work into the drums over the last few months and am using quite a few grooves from my own playing days extracting midi, timing and dynamics from a library of audio loops I've built up during that time as well as building up good collection off the shelf grooves. This kit features samples from my own trusty Pearl snare.

I use Toontracks free EZPlayer for keeping the grooves all organized and layout the building blocks via that into Sonar. I then send the midi out to Reason for hand tweaking and ReGrooving in R4's sequencer that then plays out through the 'drums' which are normally housed in 9 or 10 NN-XT samplers contained in one Reason combinator along with 3 X 14 channel mixers for the main mic outputs, separate eq for each component with various compression routings and other miscellany. I've even got a room emulator built in so I can use dry one shot samples to get them sounding close to multi-mic'd ones.

A long answer to a short question, I know but I'm just glad someone asked after I've gone to those lengths...

The low end rumble is actually a note from a sub-bass patch I forgot to remove (because I didn't hear it...) after I made some amendments to that section...just checking if you've got your normal sharp ears on Reece...its reassuring to me that you never miss a thing.

Jon - wow - that's a lot of work with a mouse! I know - I've done whole songs with a mouse before myself and it's tedious! and I'm glad to have given you the opportunity to tell us about your drums! they really sound good on this to me, I think you've got reason to brag on them! keep up the good work!

OH - and what do you expect when the ears of a BEAGLE start listening to stuff???

No keyboards we're harmed in the making of this its all mouse work and cut and paste. The drums are my pride and joy, they are my own drastic customisation of the Reason Drum Kits refill which is a multi-mic setup, and is based on my previous studio experience, in fact an old engineer friend of mine has helped me put it all together.

I've put a lot of work into the drums over the last few months and am using quite a few grooves from my own playing days extracting midi, timing and dynamics from a library of audio loops I've built up during that time as well as building up good collection off the shelf grooves. This kit features samples from my own trusty Pearl snare.

I use Toontracks free EZPlayer for keeping the grooves all organized and layout the building blocks via that into Sonar. I then send the midi out to Reason for hand tweaking and ReGrooving in R4's sequencer that then plays out through the 'drums' which are normally housed in 9 or 10 NN-XT samplers contained in one Reason combinator along with 3 X 14 channel mixers for the main mic outputs, separate eq for each component with various compression routings and other miscellany. I've even got a room emulator built in so I can use dry one shot samples to get them sounding close to multi-mic'd ones.

I knew there was something extraordinary simmering in the kitchen...amazing.