My Machine (Part2) - Johnny/Docca3/Holger/Steffen/AndyG

[AndyG6508]

UPdate 26-12-11: New mix by Steffen with improved bottom end posted!

Hi MCS,

Johnny came up with a great lyric about a machine he has designed...so I tried to set it to suitable music. Once again I had a great bunch of guys to work with. And their contributions were first rate, from Holger's awesome rock vocal, to AndyD's screaming guitar, and finally Steffen's skills in weaving together a very good mix (even if he may not think so and threw his hands about in the air a bit ).


Thanks lads!
Andy

PS - C'mon Johnny show us a picture of the thing unless its been commandeered by the Pentagon  .

My Machine (Lyrics: Johnny, Music:AndyG, (c) 2011

Alone at night in my workshop
Hammering out details
Ev'ryday I'm workin' non-stop
Dreaming of the holy grail

You should see how high she soars
With the sails on her scissor wings
She can row her sail like an oar
Sculls thru the sky of my dreams

(Ch)
You should see my machine
Beautiful and serpentine
You should see my machine
Long and lean with scissor wings
Machine, she's my machine
Machine, my-my machine

She devours wind for power
Spits it back out like cream
I sat her on an ivory tower
where we dream up mechanical things

I made her bellows an' nice, full bladders
Squeezes them when they're full
In my dream she's a dragonfly udder
With fat, pink nipples to pull

(Ch)
You should see my machine
Beautiful and serpentine
You should see my machine
I dreamed of her for all these years
You should see my machine
All precision engineered
You should see my machine
Long and lean with scissor wings

Late nights in my workshop
Hammering out details
Ev'ryday workin' non-stop
Dreaming of the holy grail

Machine..she's my machine
Machine...My-my machine

The Machine Band:

Johnny Williams: Lyrics
Holger Bremer: Vocals
Andy Doherty: Guitars
Steffen Offermann: SFX, Mix/master
Andy Gupta: Music, bass
Machinehead "Udder the Brudder": Drums

[docca3]

Woo Hoo - great to see it here ... what a blast to be involved with. It was great fun to be able to let rip - thanks for having me on board I know Stef had trouble with the mixing, but I love both of them he's come up with ... great job

AndyD

[Johnny]

"WoW" fellas that is sooooo much fun!!!

I love both mixes equally...

Steffen, you're like a fussy tailor

It's "buttons or bows" at this point, my friend

To the untrained ear the drums sound very cool

"You should see my machine"

She's poetry in motion....

Unfortunately, other folks have investment and the project is too young...

My lyric paints a pretty good portrait

the lovely hows remain unrevealed

This i promise, as it comes about,

You folks are first on the list!

Meanwhile, let "My Machine" thunder roll across the Heavens as a herald!

Billions of mega-watts of free, clean energy flow around us everyday

"enough to create any world we can imagine"

I love the song, Andy. It's a masterpiece!

AndyD, the solo is sooo satisfying (i hope you interpret that right)

Holger...what can i do...but keep thanking you again and again. "Thank You my friend"

And that freaking newbie "Udder the Brudder" you rock dude!!!!

Cheers, Everyone!

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[AndyG6508]

Hi Johnny,

Im glad that you feel the music does justice to the very cool lyric of yours. All the best with the machine and hope to see it for real soon!

Andy

I love the song, Andy. It's a masterpiece!

[stoman]

I can't wait to see that machine!

Regards,
  Steffen

[Mr. Mom]

Awesome song guys!!

Johnny, if you're machine gets picked up by a commercial enterprise... you already have the musical score to go along with the informational video - VERY COOL

PS - If you strike it rich... PAY MY ELECTRIC BILL

[CosmicDolphin]

Cool Song,

The lyrics are great and it's well played all around. Any song that includes the word nipples gets my vote 

I preferred the first mix posted. The vocals seem a little too low in the 2nd mix and it's a little bass shy.

I did read the thread so I know Steffen didn't have drum seps, which always means the mix is always going to be compromised. This is why the drums & bass aren't really working for me ....please drummers...always give the mixer seperate drum tracks otherwise we can't mix it properly !!!

As a whole I think just wanted a more raw & aggressive sound, I know Steffen tends to like his music cleaner but when it's genre appropriate a bit more heavy handed compression and distortion can go a long way.

Good Job Guys 

CD

[Johnny]

Mark!

Thank you for the nod on the lyric

Steffen, and you hear things that most don't!

"Fat, pink nipples" my favorite kind!

Interesting...

I recall a scene in "Fantasia" where the breasts of some woodland nymphs were exposed

All breast....No nipples!

Men can expose their nipples without a second nod, but...

You ladies better keep those nasty things covered...

John!, "You got it"

[Mr. Mom]

  On second thought Johnny... I'll gladly swap the electric bill for two of those nipple thingy's.

[stoman]

Boys ...

Mark, thanks for singing the same tune!

As for compression: The more I compress this song the more obvious the problems get. The toms are quite boomy too, but without the individual drum seps I can find no satisfying way to address that.

But let's wait until next year. Real drums have been promised.

Regards,
  Steffen

[PVD]

Guys:

Great listen, good package.

Paul

[r4m]

Nice one guys!! 

[CosmicDolphin]

As for compression: The more I compress this song the more obvious the problems get. The toms are quite boomy too, but without the individual drum seps I can find no satisfying way to address that.

Could try parallel compression , dynamic eq & Multing ?

CD

[stoman]

Could try parallel compression , dynamic eq & Multing ?

I've already done all that.

I posted a modified version today (on the thread in Studio "A") where it works better IMO. But still the basic problems remain.

BTW - when I master songs I almost always use parallel compression. I don't usually compress a lot though. What is you preferred way to deal with compression in the mastering chain?

Regards,
  Steffen

[CosmicDolphin]

Could try parallel compression , dynamic eq & Multing ?

I've already done all that.

I posted a modified version today (on the thread in Studio "A") where it works better IMO. But still the basic problems remain.

BTW - when I master songs I almost always use parallel compression. I don't usually compress a lot though. What is you preferred way to deal with compression in the mastering chain?

Sorry Steffen , I actually meant during the mix rather than any kind of mastering processing.

If I was mixing a stereo drum file with boomy toms, I'd probably snip them onto a separate cloned track and insert a dynamic eq to pull the boomyness out just on that section. Also that way if you had a drum compression buss running in parallel then the section with the toms wouldn't necessarily have to be routed to it also which may help.

I'd probably clone them and set up a fake 'room' mic type sound to ride in and out through the mix too. Sometimes I've made several clones with radical eq so I can trigger samples.  It's a PITA but you can still get alot of mileage from a stereo drum file if you need to.

With mastering it just depends.  I have about 4 compressors I like for mastering , one of them has a mix setting for parallel compression. I just go for the one that sounds best for the song, it's not always the same one.  I use wavelab so it's easy to insert a few, put similar setting into them and then 'audtion' them using the bypass button.  Sometimes it sounds better with two on gentle settings , other times I've not used one at all.

CD