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maxxpump
I am a musician from the south of the UK, I like making music and playing with my synths. I've made game music and electronic music professionally in the past. I aim to keep on designing delightful and complex music for many years to come.

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The return of Evil Ed and other remakes from the achives

Posted by maxxpump - March 3rd, 2017


So for my next trick I want to remake a song which I composed during a dark winter of 2007 (or around then I can't quite remember), I tell you I don't quite know what I was smoking that night but I came up with a tune which was at the time to me so convoluted that I've been kind of scared to do a reboot of it. The song in question or I should really say a project, is the Evil Ed project. Which I posted up last year and it seemed like it got a good reaction as it stayed up on the song of the month board, before some blatant troll zero bombed it to oblivion. Last time I looked it had nearly a thousand views and several hundred downloads (which is really good going for one of my submissions on Newgrounds). I'm not going to rush this by any stretch and you might not even see a preview for the next few weeks, but I will try to update you to the progress made on this complicated project which I'm going to make even more convoluted than before...I'm going to add in new things I've learned in Sequencing, Live playing, Vocal handiwork (in a limited quantity not to scare anyone off), I'm going to record my keyboards and accordion and really get a properly dark mood going with this, I want to make it sound as good as last time around, somewhat better, but give it a flair which might even turn it into a proper neo/classical and electronica track. You can probably tell I don't have a specific direction for this new piece, but this is the fun or being an artist and hope this become a flagship song of my channel (at least for a few months at least, I'll see what happens). 

I've spent the last week hunting through projects which I've sequenced and now am learning to play properly on keyboard so expect some more live sounding productions to come out of this channel, as I'm now using this new MIDI keyboard more and more. I found there is a ton of cool sounding projects in the achive, which are just in small file formats which may be made into full projects at a later date and also a return and remake of some of the projects from my old Sequel project files, namely those from 2006-2009. 

As you probably work out now I'm predominantly piano roll sequencing kind of guy, had limited access to controllers in the past, I can play keyboard and play up to grade 6 classical training level, but choose not to play that often because of a cycling accident just over a decade ago saw that I shattered both wrists and playing piano for me now is an ordeal, pain, but I still go on and try not to whinge to much.

I made a bunch of projects called Beat (which is a early filing system which I adopted and those songs now don't have proper names), I will try and post some examples in the next week, gauge peoples reactions and may make subsequent remakes, if they go down well, but do expect the format to be Exe.Dist- Beat #. namely I will try to post Beat 22 and Beat 5. (this is more of a note to myself). 

Only other note is I have a new microphone coming next week, hopefully I can afford to buy the reflections filter, pop shield, as well as possibly being a valve microphone, but it may not depending on research, and the fact that I'm only spending about £100 on the microphone. I think I'm going to try to go with a SE electronics branded one, but I'm open to suggestions; I have naturally a deep voice so I believe going for a wide or large diaphragm condenser microphone is the way to go. I'm replacing my cheaper £40 ish mic which is a presonus mic which get this if you turn the gain up all the way and do foldback on the desk or in cubase there is no feedback which is usual for a dynamic microphone, not a phantom  powered condenser. I'll keep the Presonus M7 as its good as an accordion mic, but will testing the suitability when I get the new microphone, as other wise its just liable to go in the bin. 

I've finished redesigning Beat 32, so that will be up shortly. 
 


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