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Posted by: Caelumamittendum Nov 12 2019, 02:56 AM

My editing skills are limited, but I hope you will enjoy it anyway! It's the first time I've made an actual playthrough video of a song of mine

Posted by: enlo22 Nov 12 2019, 03:14 AM

very cool man, glad to see you're making videos now.
the clean parts reminded me of Opeth, you've got a unique sound for sure.
I like the bass tone as well, and the integration of the piano/synths was really well done.
my favorite parts are at 45 seconds and at 4 minutes, that riff mixed with the synths was really nice.

Posted by: Caelumamittendum Nov 12 2019, 03:20 AM

Thanks for the awesome comment I was inspired by your videos, to be honest. Your songs and videos are always top notch, so that inspired me to dive into the world of making videos too!

Posted by: Todd Simpson Nov 12 2019, 04:08 AM

Spiff! The way you balance counterpoint in this between the guitar and keys is really cool. Shades of Dream Theatre and Opeth abound. Really good keyboard work. I didn't realize you were such an accomplished keys player!! Cool vid as well. I see at least 3 camera angles which means 3 x the work. Nice!!

Todd

Posted by: Caelumamittendum Nov 12 2019, 04:10 AM

Thanks, Todd! Yeah, 3 camera angles - had to do a few takes, as I wanted to use the same camera on all angles.

Arh, keys are programmed to be honest! I'm not that accomplished, but can play a bit, but I never really practice it, but with a bit of practice it should be doable, so maybe it's something for a future video!

Posted by: Kristofer Dahl Nov 12 2019, 03:27 PM

YEAH! Killer composition, and very nice guitar sound as well!

Posted by: Caelumamittendum Nov 12 2019, 03:39 PM

Thanks, Kris!

Posted by: Farine54 Nov 12 2019, 09:44 PM

Very beautiful compo, I love the atmosphere.

Posted by: Phil66 Nov 12 2019, 10:42 PM

That's brilliant Ben. Thanks for sharing.

Posted by: Caelumamittendum Nov 13 2019, 08:47 AM

Thanks, Farine! Thanks for listening and for the nice comment



Thanks so much, Phil!

Posted by: Mertay Nov 13 2019, 10:14 AM

Nice! I liked the song more and more as it continued which is something even bands with official albums can't always accomplish. The mix is cool actually but I felt it could benefit more from (a more aggressive) mastering process.

Posted by: Caelumamittendum Nov 13 2019, 03:45 PM

Thanks for listening, Mertay!

I honestly didn't do much mastering. I just added a mastering plugin and chose a setting I thought sounded good, but my friend who's more into production than I am told me the same thing. Maybe something for the future

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Nov 14 2019, 01:59 AM

This is awesome Cael! I can appreciate much more your composition with this playthrough and I love it.

There are many great things here, starting with your guitar tone which is one of the best that I've heard from you. Besides the sound, I like the stereo effect (or maybe you've recorded it twice?).

I like all parts but I found the section at 3:00 very unexpected in a positive way. We talked about this band in the past, but once again Fates Warning comes to mind... check out this album:




You'll really enjoy it.

Keep this stuff coming!

Posted by: Caelumamittendum Nov 14 2019, 02:01 AM

Thanks so much, Gabriel

I double tracked the guitars and panned them hard left/right. I don't know if that's the best way, but it's what I did

I'm gonna listen to the link now!

Posted by: Mertay Nov 14 2019, 10:47 AM

My advice is using the free or preferably affordable algo. based mastering web services with projects like this. When aim'ing for an album or important single then use a more expensive service.

You're getting to a point where distributing some of the work is more beneficial then spending your time on every step of the production, none of us can be the best at everything A typical youtuber prefers to do this himself (aside the mega popular ones, or anderton's like store channels etc.) but you have an artist approach going on.

I write this not to critique but honestly think your music has passed the demo phase.

Posted by: Caelumamittendum Nov 14 2019, 02:25 PM

I appreciate the feedback and comment for sure!

As for passing the demo phase, I would like to have material (material that I'm somewhat happy with, that is) for an entire album before taking the next step. I do have an album on YouTube, but I'm not entirely happy with it, neither structure wise, playing wise or compositionally. It's the 49 minute song "A Celestial Voyage", but I've come to think it would be better to have shorter songs, such as the one in this thread (which is actually also part of "A Celestial Voyage"). When I have enough material for an album, I'll try and figure out who to go to - I have a friend who does great production work albeit more in a pop rock genre, but I suppose it's a place to start

Posted by: DeGroot Nov 15 2019, 12:10 AM

Wow, great track and play through! Also agree that the guitar tone is very nice.

Posted by: MisterM Nov 15 2019, 05:55 AM

Hi

I have the feeling of listening to a vinyl record 33 rpm.
It's really very good. The riffs of the guitar are awesome and killer tone.

Posted by: Caelumamittendum Nov 15 2019, 07:34 AM

Thanks, DeGroot! I really appreciate the nice feedback



Thank you so much, MisterM! For listening and for the nice comment

Posted by: Todd Simpson Nov 18 2019, 05:17 PM

As you can see from all the great feedback this video and song is killer! I know it can be a LOT of work to put something like this together but it's well worth it imho. I'm glad you are making playthrough videos. They really are a cool way to share your music. I hope we can make a playthrough video for our next collab!!!
Todd