For those of you who have known me here over the years, you're probably used to my particular outside-the box visual style as well as mysti-poetic subject matter related to my site, CompassionSensuality.Net. I don't expect people to jive with the subject matter. All I ask is to withhold judgement or ridicule -- this is simply a request for feedback, particularly on the how well the music sounds.
The self-powered amps in my 5" KRK near-field speakers are shot so they I bypassed them as passive and I have only a very consumer amp. So even though I use Cubase, it's hard to get a mix that is as crisp and professional as you are probably used to. In short, doing the best I can.
Usually, I do all the music myself (play all instruments through my antiquated but sturdy Korg Trinity) and customize my own MIDI drums/percussion. This time, a musician I know gave my permission to use a strings/pads track of his aptly called "Ethereal" that I really like and then I added a couple of instruments and arrangement to match the flow and ethos of the video. While I did improve the EQ of his original which I feel didn't have enough mid-lower range, there is only so much one can do.
Due to the proliferation of devices and platforms on which one sees videos and hears music, the end user's equipment will have much to do in terms of how good the sound quality is. Due to that this is the Vimeo embed version at my site, it should be playable on most non-computers.
As Farss once suggested, maybe I should do more voice-over, less text. And I even tried it with this one but I felt that my voice or any voice interfered with the music and the gentle flow of it all, so stuck to text. The final video and music mix was done in VP10e. Visual effects were done with Particleillusion.
Please be gentle in your technical/editing critiques yet honest.
Thank you.
The Noble Wand - 1:53 min.
The self-powered amps in my 5" KRK near-field speakers are shot so they I bypassed them as passive and I have only a very consumer amp. So even though I use Cubase, it's hard to get a mix that is as crisp and professional as you are probably used to. In short, doing the best I can.
Usually, I do all the music myself (play all instruments through my antiquated but sturdy Korg Trinity) and customize my own MIDI drums/percussion. This time, a musician I know gave my permission to use a strings/pads track of his aptly called "Ethereal" that I really like and then I added a couple of instruments and arrangement to match the flow and ethos of the video. While I did improve the EQ of his original which I feel didn't have enough mid-lower range, there is only so much one can do.
Due to the proliferation of devices and platforms on which one sees videos and hears music, the end user's equipment will have much to do in terms of how good the sound quality is. Due to that this is the Vimeo embed version at my site, it should be playable on most non-computers.
As Farss once suggested, maybe I should do more voice-over, less text. And I even tried it with this one but I felt that my voice or any voice interfered with the music and the gentle flow of it all, so stuck to text. The final video and music mix was done in VP10e. Visual effects were done with Particleillusion.
Please be gentle in your technical/editing critiques yet honest.
Thank you.
The Noble Wand - 1:53 min.