Thanks for the review SineRider, glad you enjoyed the tune. I haven't heard of mogwai but the wiki writeup sounds promising, i'm all for instrumental rock! I'll have to give them a listen.

Cheers,
Daniel

Hi Alrubedo, thanks for the great review! Glad you dug the track and gave it a download. This is probably my least popular song (in terms of downloads) that i've done this year. Oddly enough, though, it's probably one of my own (personal) favorite tracks of mine. Anyways, glad to see others enjoy it too!

Cheers,
Daniel

Hi Vojife. I usually record my self to pc, but I also do a lot of programming too for stuff I can't do my self (like orchestration).
This song is actually mostly live playing unlike a lot of my stuff. All the synth parts were recorded live via keyboard and then just time adjusted later. The drums were performed live as well via a midi drumkit, also time adjusted later. Guitar and bass work are all performed live as you hear it. Some of my other songs which use orchestration are all programmed.

Generally speaking though, guitar, drum and bass work I play live in my songs, everything else is programmed. Hope this helps :).

Thanks for the review.

Cheers,
Daniel

Hi Jeff, thanks for taking the time to review another one of my songs! I'm glad you enjoy my work.

It's also good to see Progressive Rock is not dead after all, seems to be making something of a comeback these days which is nothing but good news, believe me!

PT is indeed a big influence on me, especially Gavin Harrisons drumming, the guy is godlike in ability. Lyrically they can be a bit washy, but musically PT is unmatched, and they're by far one of the most interesting bands in my music library, every single album sounds different, but they all have that unmistakeable style, and that's what I love about them, they're never boring.

Anyways, cheers for the review!
Daniel

Hey man, thanks for the awesome and lengthy review.

I don't remember 100% but I was either using Atmosphere or Sampletank (might've even been a combination of both). They're really the only two synth vst's I ever use anymore since they seem to cover what I want to do most of the time. But yeah theres nothing fancy with the synth going on in this song, just 2 (or 3) different pads playing single notes with some filter automation, thats it.

I'd highly suggest amplitube. I was a GR user for a long time too but even GR never sounded real to me as good as it was. If you were to blind test me with amplitube and real amps i'd be hard pressed to tell you which was the real thing! Amp sim tech has come so far..

About the hihats, yeah, I hate those 32nd quick fills too, when I was all in depth mixing and mastering this I had never noticed it, and then a week later when I listened to the song I was like, wtf was I thinking.. Another thing that bugs me is some balance issues between the drums and the bass. But really it doesn't bother me enough to go through the process of editing and re-mastering the whole thing, i'm awesome lazy like that ;).

The drums are indeed Addictive Drums using a custom preset I made which utilizes kit pieces from both the Retro and Jazz adpaks (I think i'm XLN audios best customer, lol). I think the only original piece of kit from stock AD i'm using is the kick drum (tama) otherwise everything else is from an adpak. I hate the stock sound of most of AD's drums if only because they're just so overused these days, ESPECIALLY the presets.. (if I hear that 'startup' preset in one more commercially made song, I might stab somebody).

Anyways, thanks for review man, I appreciate it, hope some of my comments on the vsts has been helpful.
And hell yeah, Porcupine Tree is ear sex.

Cheers,
Daniel