This is my music

Mobi

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After registering to this forum I took a look around to see what kind of people you have hanging around here. After listening to some songs by different users I thought that my music isnt good enough to be introduced to you, most of you make songs sound so professional. My style isnt anything like anyone elses in this review section and my songs sound mostly like sketches compared to songs around. I havent done any mixing or mastering on the tracks actually, I havent mastered those skills yet. So, listen to them as sketches of songs and give me your honest opinion about them, I wouldnt mind getting some tips either.

If youre still intrested in what kind of music I make then you should check out site with my music, www.mikseri.net/mobi .
Thank you for advance and I hope you enjoy my music, even a little :p
 

Krummhorn

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Mobi,

Congratulations on having the courage to do these and making them available to the forum community. :cheers: We all have to start someplace - and you are off to a good start. Keep up the great work :grin: !

Kh
 

Jeffrey Hall

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Hello Mobi,

Yes, thanks for posting your link. I think you have indeed done some mixing, since you must have combined several tracks to get the final audio. :) I listened to several of the tracks on your site. I have two comments that I hope will be a help for starters. (I'd also be interested to hear what hardware and/or software you are using.)

1. Some of the tracks sound quite centered, as if many of the tracks are panned to center. This makes the song sound "narrow," both in my monitors and in headphones. A hardware mixer or audio production software will let you pan the voices around the stereo field to get a broader and fuller sound.

2. All of the tracks sound slightly off center to the left...not by much, but it's noticeable. It's best if your mix doesn't feel "heavy" to one side or the other!

I hope these comments help. I did indeed enjoy listening to your work. (The percussion, by the way, generally fills the mix nicely, and at a good level.)
 

Mobi

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Hello and thank you for having time to listen my songs.
Your comments mean a lot to me and Ill see what I can do to correct these things you point out in your post.

I have tried panning tracks for a bit but it seems I havent done it enough.
Im going to listen to my songs again and see if I can make them sound more broader. Actually I did some more mixing with the Nightmare song and I would like to hear if you think its any better than the original version.

My equipment contains Brownsville electric guitar, m-audio keystation 49e, sennheiser 835e microphone and some other instruments I like to play from time to time, like ukulele.
I record through Line 6 toneport UX2 and use Ableton Live for recording my actual instruments. I use Reason with the keystation and I make drums with it too, I have roland electric drums but Im not good enought so that I could play drums for my tracks :)
I also just bought new headphones, AKG K171 studio.

I have added the mixed version of nightmare song as an attachment, lets see what you think of it.
Thank you once again for taking time to listen to my tracks and giving me some spirit to go on with this music :grin:
 

Wyatt

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I don't know why you think it isn't good enough, this stuff is good, and really well put together! Keep up the good work!
 

Jeffrey Hall

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:up: I do indeed think that sounds like a fuller mix. Impressive bass presence -- almost on the edge of being too heavy, but it works well with the whole "Nightmare". Keep up the good work!
 

Mobi

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Hello ppl, gather around gather around!
New Mobi song has seen the daylight, you can get it from artist page which I have included in first post of this thread.
Id like to thank Wyatt for his kind comments and Jeffrey for giving me valuable tips to make my songs sound better.
Make yourselfs comfortable and head out to listen to the new song.
Comment are welcome ;)
 

Krummhorn

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. . . . . I have added the mixed version of nightmare song as an attachment, lets see what you think of it.

Mobi ...
I agree with the others ... this modification in mixing is much better - lots more presence and more like a live performance. Keep up the great work ;)

Kh
 

Mobi

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Greetings people!
I thank you for your kind comments again.
I have new song out again and if you have time and intrest you should check it out. I continue doing these instrumentals and this time I made one with a lot of orchestra intrument in it. I hope you like it!
 

ferchis

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i've just hear "ancient". very nice, mobi, keep that up

i found it particularly interesting and, to tell you the truth, quite similar to some things I do, so... someday we can join forces jajajajaahh

see you, congratulations!

Fernando
 

Mobi

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It's been a long time and at last I've got smething to offer you.
My new song Smokey's different from my earlier stuff, its kind of a jazz piece with smooth feel in it. You can almost see the smoke if you close your eyes, thats what Smokey's place is like, smooth and smokey.
I've been doing more jazzy songs now and I will release more soon.
Hope you like this new style Im going for, let me know!
The song can be downloaded from www.mikseri.net/mobi , thanks for your support!
 

Krummhorn

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Mobi ...

Enjoyed this new direction in your music composition. Is that you singing the vocal in Smokey ?
The abrupt ending was unexpected ... maybe that could be a vamp and fade out.
 

Mobi

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Thank you Krummhorn for your comment. Yes, its me singing there :)
I dont think Im particularly a good singer but I do my best.
I had to check the word vamp from wikipedia but if I understood correctly you want me to repeat the ending and fade it out? Maybe Ill give it a try.
 

Krummhorn

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Thank you Krummhorn for your comment. Yes, its me singing there :)
I dont think Im particularly a good singer but I do my best.
I had to check the word vamp from wikipedia but if I understood correctly you want me to repeat the ending and fade it out? Maybe Ill give it a try.

Mobi,
I think your singing is just fine ... your diction and annunciation of the lyrics are superb, a wonderful quality to have for any singer.

Sorry for the confusion about 'vamp' ... I sometimes forget this forum is International in its scope and always fail to realize that some english words make absolutely no sense in another persons language. Indeed, you are correct about the fade ... maybe the original starting theme could repeat and a pretty gradual fade out.
 

Mobi

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Gosh :eek: That must be the nicest thing anyone ever said about my singing :D
And Im good in english because I think it as my second language, I almost know it better than my own language. I somehow like it very much and I've been good at it since I was a kid, Im also learning japanese at the moment so maybe someday I'll test it on my songs :p
I also did like you advised and here's the result, I think it actually sounds better this way, floating away like a ship to sunset :cool:
Thank for the tip Krum :)
So go on, take a peek of the new version.
 
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Krummhorn

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Nicely done :clap:, Mobi ... the fade really worked out well :clap:. Keep up the great work :cool:
 

Mobi

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Hello again fellow MIMF's!
Ive been very productive and I have another jazzy song for you to listen to.
Its a story about mysterious blackmailer :cool:
Give me your thoughts about it, cheers!
 

Jeffrey Hall

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Hi Mobi,

I listened to both Smokeymix and Malone. These sound pretty good! Very nice thumpy bass fitting the character of the music well.

I can hear your accent, but your English is superb. Compared to the international community, Americans are way behind in their knowledge of foreign languages, so I'm impressed with your fluency.

Malone sounds, to use an English semi-slang word in this context that may or not make any sense, "sultry." I guess that means a sort of dark, smoky, and not quite disrespectful bar, with the band on an irregularly lit stage and lots of folks drowning their sorrows around the tables. At least that's the image it conjured up for me!

Overall, I think I liked Smokeymix a bit better. Your singing fits the music well. On Malone, you are much closer to simply saying the words in time with the music, and in that regard, here's one constructive criticism...your voice sounds very up front relative to the music. I had the feeling that to sit with the band better, you might try adding some breadth or reverb to the voice. That's not needed in Smokeymix, but I think for the more spoken words it might convey the images of the lyrics better, like a singer onstage saying them in a husky voice into the mike. Since I don't do any vocal stuff, I can't say exactly how you'd engineer that, or even if my thoughts are completely off the mark. Just a comment for you to consider or ignore as you wish!

Thanks for posting these; I like jazz a great deal and enjoyed listening to them.
 
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