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My new EP

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Hi all,

At last I can proudly present my new EP , already available on Bandcamp (free listen). I will post also when it is on YT.

let me know what you think of the mix and mastering job.

EDIT // ADDED : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi3RoALp6o0

Bandcamp link: https://matsuka.bandcamp.com/album/song ... ead-wolves

Of course it was made with Xite as a soundcard with SpaceF stuff. Could almost be a SpaceF demo. Neodyne for the bass (all tracks), some sequences (Delta Rider, Amerindian) and other tones (kind of "flute" on "We Look Up"), Del-Ray/Dubby for all delays on all tracks, Rodin EQ to sculpt some sounds (basses, pianicas, harmonicas... some other sound not sure which anymore, but Rodin was not the only EQ, it helped a lot before/after many other Eqs), and the spring reverbs setup and their free eqs and routers :-)

I also use a melodica and a pianica, and harmonicas... the pianica is really hard to record and equalize. I did the best I could (the pianica is heard on "Old World Gone", the cheap stagg melodica is on track 5). Harmonicas are easier. They force the blues scale (major). I also play most guitars (except lapsteel, dobro and when it is very fast ;-) i use parts of sample that I fill with the melodies I want with an SG amped by VSTs)

I also worked a lot on mastering and giving everything a vintage sound. For mastering I tried to limit myself to a integrated loundness of -8.5 , which makes short term tickles -7dB. Amerindian sounds quiter but it hits -8 / -7.5 on many parts of the track. So, I could change that but I am reluctant to do it (it would require some automation on the master levels). May be later. I am over that :-)

With this EP, I truely hit the limit of my monitoring setup, I must change that, find new headphones because the ones I use do not work well below 60hz (found the ATH m70x might be a good direction).

Anyway, enjoy Bandcamp link: https://matsuka.bandcamp.com/album/song ... ead-wolves
I will post Youtube version when avialable.
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Excellent work Mehdi. I love the Morricone touch. Mastering is almost perfect!
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thanks :-)
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:) Ça me rappelle une virée en Jamaïque
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Gordon Gekko wrote: Sun Mar 23, 2025 9:56 am :) Ça me rappelle une virée en Jamaïque
Oui mais avec des cowboys et des indiens, ce qui rend la Jamaïque encore plus intéressante :)

PS. Je savais pas que tu étais français (Mehdi je savais). Marrant...
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There's a 17 minutes video clip now (more like a "Full EP" + giant slideshow with images in relation to the ambience I have in my mind)
Il y a une vidéo de 17 minutes maintenant (plutôt un Full EP+ slideshow géant à base d'images évoquant l'ambience des titres )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi3RoALp6o0

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Impressing video !
What tool did you use to make these vids ?
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Images were generated with MidJourney, then animated with hailuoai.video mainly because it is cheap and does a decent job (much less garbage results than runway.ml) and with no prompt or simply "slow camera forward" in 99% of the cases.
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ThnX. Didn't come accross hailuoai.video yet.
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