New Melancholy

Recorded in three parts, on my classical guitar. Theres some dissonance in the melody, its reasonably polyphonic in sections, I was experimenting and I'm not 100% sure it works, but the tune sticks in my head after I've heard it. Hope the dissonance doesn't make too many people wince, and its enjoyed by all.

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posted by Admira (6 comments total)

It's a catchy, beautiful melody and very well-played. I wish it was even tighter, timing-wise, but I wouldn't be surprised if others will say that one of the things they like is that it's a little "loose and alive." I also wonder what this would sound like if there was less reverb on some of the tracks, and/or if each guitar recording sounded more different from the other somehow (EQ, or extremely subtle effects). Just some thoughts... great stuff though. Thanks for posting.
posted by edlundart at 11:45 PM on March 9

Yeah it does all tend to mesh together in sections, I tried panning and little EQ tweaks but I found I was either ruining the sound, or not making significant enough changes. EQ etc isn't my forte sadly :)
posted by Admira at 2:30 PM on March 10

Melancholy indeed. Nicely done. You should encode your mp3 at a higher rate. 1mb for two minutes seems really low to me, low enough to audibly lower the sound quality.
posted by umbú at 6:46 PM on March 10

Yeah its 64 Kbps - for upload only, my bandwidth isn't what it could be.
posted by Admira at 7:44 PM on March 10

This is lovely. Thank you.
posted by Caduceus at 10:35 PM on March 10

Very nice.
posted by abc123xyzinfinity at 4:25 PM on March 11