I don't think any TH-cam-video has ever made me happier than this. This is literally my favourite riff, and the one that pops into my mind out of nowhere the most often - and I never realized there were riff harmony tracks :D Thank you for this, it inspired me a great deal for the stuff I'm working on now! Could you also talk about your drums workflow? I can never get EZ or SD to sound quite so powerful. How do you set your velocities, how detailed are you in humanizing the beat, how do you compress it etc.? And another idea for a song breakdown could be the infinite layers of Explore, be curious - I'm interested in how you managed to EQ and generally mix them so each stays audible :) Or some insight into the less technical part of your songwriting process. Thank you, and cometobrazil, or more specifically Hungary.
To say that I love your music is an understatement, Subsume is a straight up banger and a masterpiece from beginning to end !!! Everything you do is amazing !!! Little Histories is one of my all time favorite albums, I'm so extremely excited for some new CLOUDKICKER music !!! Hands down my favorite solo artists !!!
Yeah there's so many cool touches in your tunes - the slide and ebow solo on Push It Way up was one of my favorite bits of music for a year before I realized it was even a guitar! Awesome soundscaping Ben 👍
to say I'm a big fan is an understatement, I've taken so much inspiration from your music and gotten so much better at mixing just from listening to your stuff.🤘
I still remember the exact moment that I discovered your music. Fade was the first album for me and it blew me away. Thank you for the inspiration and motivation. Cheers. P.S : please keep doing these videos about your songs.
I cant thank you enough for making this.. its nice to get a peek behind the curtain.. I'd never noticed that your left and right harmonies were slightly different, but it's a brilliant idea.
Dude I’ve had this riff stuck in my head randomly since the very first time I heard your work, which was right after this album released. I always thought I was alone in thinking this riff was just flawlessly beautiful. The fact that you made this video and I’m only discovering it now is crazy. I’m so glad you made this!!! This riff is my all time favorite of yours to this day (though a lot of close contenders). Hope you’re well Ben!
Fantastic look behind the scenes! Any chance we could take a look at the latter half of "You could laugh forever" for that amazing 'wall of sound' type tone? It's one of those riffs that just sticks in my head, and I feel like the tone has a lot to do with that. Love it to bits. Thank you so much for this content!
I don't think you realize how great is this. I've been making music alike you since 2014. You've been my higher reference to everything music production related and I've always wanted an opportunity to talk to you about how you build stuff. This is awesome. I hope you get in track to do it more. As of taking advantage of this opportunity, I must ask: How is your guitar writing process? I ask you about this listening to the "2016 03 27" track on SoundCloud. I know that is only a riff but how do you go about, if you would've written a song for this riff, structuring a complete song? I think the "2016 03 29" also apply for this question. Oh god, so many stuff I wanted to talk to you about! Thanks!
Hi Ben, I was always mesmerized about the distorsion of the guitar in the main riff of "Seattle". One of my favorites from you. It would great to see how did you build that awesome distorsions. Thanks for everything! You are really inspiring to me
Ben, so glad you put these videos out. Very interesting to see how it came together. Do you record your guitar tracks via microphone(s) or do you plug in via audio interface? When I attempt to plug in my guitar straight into my Mac with a Scarlet 2i2 interface, the latency is terrible even after adjusting the DAW latency settings. I've been doing at home music production for years like yourself and I feel like I'm making a rookie mistake haha.
Ben we need a video explaining how you mixed discoveries or beacons. The production of those albums are beyond the pale. and the fact that you did it so long ago simply blows my mind
Subsume is a masterpiece! I would love to hear about the section at 3:23 of A Weather Front, specifically the ambience that kicks in, it's always stuck in my head.
Mr. Sharp, learning all the guitar parts to Subsume has been a personal project of mine for a bit so this video is a great blessing in that regard. Would you consider doing something like this for the B standard tuned section of Weather Front? I'm really curious about the section at 3:22-5:22.
Unfortunately I can't do anything from The Discovery, Map, or Portmanteau. Those were recorded on an old Windows-based computer in a completely different DAW than what I use now.
This track is an absolute behemoth. I’ve always wondered about the final mix/master on this release. It seemed so dark and dense compared to your other work. I’ve often wondered how it would sound with an alternate or updated mix. Have you ever considered remastering any of your work? Regardless, I love what you do. Keep making great art.
@@glassguitars I was thrilled to see that it not only got a cleaner updated remaster, but that the tracks were properly separated! Always seemed strange that they were clearly composed and named individual tracks, but were not independently numbered.
We're all still waiting for more of these Master Ben.
please for the love of everything that lives and BREATHES make videos on mixing. we absolutely need it
I don't think any TH-cam-video has ever made me happier than this. This is literally my favourite riff, and the one that pops into my mind out of nowhere the most often - and I never realized there were riff harmony tracks :D Thank you for this, it inspired me a great deal for the stuff I'm working on now!
Could you also talk about your drums workflow? I can never get EZ or SD to sound quite so powerful. How do you set your velocities, how detailed are you in humanizing the beat, how do you compress it etc.?
And another idea for a song breakdown could be the infinite layers of Explore, be curious - I'm interested in how you managed to EQ and generally mix them so each stays audible :)
Or some insight into the less technical part of your songwriting process.
Thank you, and cometobrazil, or more specifically Hungary.
Seconded!
To say that I love your music is an understatement, Subsume is a straight up banger and a masterpiece from beginning to end !!! Everything you do is amazing !!! Little Histories is one of my all time favorite albums, I'm so extremely excited for some new CLOUDKICKER music !!! Hands down my favorite solo artists !!!
Skyguide!
Hi ben, would love to see you breakdown the mix of 'From the balcony'.
Human KonstruKt Music is there anything specific you have questions about on that mix?
About guitar tones and time based effects and how they fit so well together, specifically!
Using that freeze pedal to sustain the distortion bits is such a cool idea
Yeah there's so many cool touches in your tunes - the slide and ebow solo on Push It Way up was one of my favorite bits of music for a year before I realized it was even a guitar! Awesome soundscaping Ben 👍
to say I'm a big fan is an understatement, I've taken so much inspiration from your music and gotten so much better at mixing just from listening to your stuff.🤘
I still remember the exact moment that I discovered your music.
Fade was the first album for me and it blew me away.
Thank you for the inspiration and motivation.
Cheers.
P.S : please keep doing these videos about your songs.
I cant thank you enough for making this.. its nice to get a peek behind the curtain.. I'd never noticed that your left and right harmonies were slightly different, but it's a brilliant idea.
Dude I’ve had this riff stuck in my head randomly since the very first time I heard your work, which was right after this album released. I always thought I was alone in thinking this riff was just flawlessly beautiful. The fact that you made this video and I’m only discovering it now is crazy. I’m so glad you made this!!! This riff is my all time favorite of yours to this day (though a lot of close contenders). Hope you’re well Ben!
Fantastic look behind the scenes! Any chance we could take a look at the latter half of "You could laugh forever" for that amazing 'wall of sound' type tone? It's one of those riffs that just sticks in my head, and I feel like the tone has a lot to do with that. Love it to bits. Thank you so much for this content!
painted a wall to this song on repeat for hours a few summers ago, song loops perfectly
I don't think you realize how great is this. I've been making music alike you since 2014. You've been my higher reference to everything music production related and I've always wanted an opportunity to talk to you about how you build stuff. This is awesome. I hope you get in track to do it more.
As of taking advantage of this opportunity, I must ask: How is your guitar writing process? I ask you about this listening to the "2016 03 27" track on SoundCloud. I know that is only a riff but how do you go about, if you would've written a song for this riff, structuring a complete song? I think the "2016 03 29" also apply for this question. Oh god, so many stuff I wanted to talk to you about! Thanks!
Спасибо тебе, Бен. Я жив благодаря только тебе
This is awesome Ben I'd love to see more videos from you no matter the content
Hi Ben, I was always mesmerized about the distorsion of the guitar in the main riff of "Seattle". One of my favorites from you. It would great to see how did you build that awesome distorsions. Thanks for everything! You are really inspiring to me
Neural DSP needs to make an Archetype: Cloudkicker plugin :)
Thank you! What a riff, this whole album was stupid good
Badass! Thank you for this, look forward to learning more about this from you.
Ben, so glad you put these videos out. Very interesting to see how it came together. Do you record your guitar tracks via microphone(s) or do you plug in via audio interface? When I attempt to plug in my guitar straight into my Mac with a Scarlet 2i2 interface, the latency is terrible even after adjusting the DAW latency settings. I've been doing at home music production for years like yourself and I feel like I'm making a rookie mistake haha.
You are brilliant, thanks so much for these❤
I love that riff... Cloudkicker is the best ever along with Isis.
I love this! (Hopefully) looking forward to you doing a mix walk through!
Ben we need a video explaining how you mixed discoveries or beacons.
The production of those albums are beyond the pale.
and the fact that you did it so long ago simply blows my mind
this was my favourite movement of subsume, i never heard some of these things though in the song
Huge fan of your Cloudkicker work, but had no idea you had a channel with this content as well. Great stuff
Subsume is a masterpiece! I would love to hear about the section at 3:23 of A Weather Front, specifically the ambience that kicks in, it's always stuck in my head.
Brilliant man.
Amazing. If you ever get time to do more, yes please.
Mr. Sharp, learning all the guitar parts to Subsume has been a personal project of mine for a bit so this video is a great blessing in that regard. Would you consider doing something like this for the B standard tuned section of Weather Front? I'm really curious about the section at 3:22-5:22.
It's all in A FYI, but yes I will consider it!
Please if you could do a tutorial video of Viceroy or Segue: or both!
Unfortunately I can't do anything from The Discovery, Map, or Portmanteau. Those were recorded on an old Windows-based computer in a completely different DAW than what I use now.
This track is an absolute behemoth. I’ve always wondered about the final mix/master on this release. It seemed so dark and dense compared to your other work. I’ve often wondered how it would sound with an alternate or updated mix. Have you ever considered remastering any of your work? Regardless, I love what you do. Keep making great art.
the dense more muddy mix of this album is what makes it so unique and worth listening to imo. Such a dam masterpiece of an album
It's been remastered now, look it up on Bandcamp :)
@@glassguitars I was thrilled to see that it not only got a cleaner updated remaster, but that the tracks were properly separated! Always seemed strange that they were clearly composed and named individual tracks, but were not independently numbered.
I'd like to see the Chorus of "We're going in, we're going down".
Cody Burke ok, I think I know what the chorus is
Would it require 14 people to reproduce it perfectly live?
3 people could do it
is this reaper?