danswift Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 This is the new first release by Kaytoo who's also now a member here on DV!If you'd like a limited cd physical copy you can get one @ Kaytoo on Bandcamp where there's a few copies left..the digital album is set to name your price btw.. https://kaytoo.bandcamp.com/ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBearOne8III Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 gonna cop when i get home. thanks for the share. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 This is really good! I just copped one of the CDs. There's 12 of 100 left at the time of me making this post. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danswift Posted May 18, 2019 Author Share Posted May 18, 2019 Cheers for moving this over into the Members Audio forum,Steve!.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaytoo Posted May 20, 2019 Share Posted May 20, 2019 Yo, thanks for posting my album Dan, much appreciated. Jaguar is now on your favourite streaming services (plus some that nobody on the face of the planet uses) so please download it and stream the hell out of it: Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/album/5XfhZeTqCQvArsAG52G7CwApple Music - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/jaguar/1463473241?uo=4Deezer - http://www.deezer.com/album/96782562Tidal - http://www.tidal.com/album/109369580 If anybody has any feedback, I'd love to hear it. Also happy to answer questions about how it was made. This is really good! I just copped one of the CDs. There's 12 of 100 left at the time of me making this post. Thank you so much for buying a CD man, really means a lot to me. Cheers for listening! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted May 21, 2019 Share Posted May 21, 2019 No worries mate! Welcome to the forum. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danswift Posted May 21, 2019 Author Share Posted May 21, 2019 If anybody has any feedback, I'd love to hear it. Also happy to answer questions about how it was made. Yeah dude absolutely..I'd like to hear the details of how you put this together and what equipment you're using etcetera, as I'm sure the other gear nerds here will too.. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broma Posted May 22, 2019 Share Posted May 22, 2019 Yeah man, this is really good stuff. Added to my Apple Music so hopefully you'll get a bit of doh Also, what Dan said. Be good to hear about your writing process and gear. Nerds stand up! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaytoo Posted May 22, 2019 Share Posted May 22, 2019 Thanks Broma! More than happy to nerd out haha. There's a reason I decided to finally make an album after 7 or so years producing. The only DAW I've ever used is Reason, which used to be pretty rigid when it came to working with samples. You couldn't timestretch anything and you had to use a separate bit of software called Recycle to chop things up - that was only really effective for drums as well and didn't suit working with longer samples. You couldn't even import audio files, it was really basic. When I finally upgraded from Reason 4 to 7, it had a new timestretch feature which gave me a creative freedom that I didn't previously have so I decided to put it to use and attempted to make an instrumental album. The majority of Jaguar is composed of samples which are a mixture of things I've recorded from vinyl and bits I've found on the internet. I love mixing the two together; for example, Ceviche combines samples from an old jazz vinyl I bought in Kent with a Childish Gambino cover of Tamia's 'I'm So Into You' I found on YouTube. I like the thought that those things categorically do not belong together but it somehow works. I also wrote some new instrumentation on most of the tracks but it's all pretty basic and isn't that interesting. In terms of gear, it's pretty straightforward; Jaguar was made exclusively in Reason with an MPK Mini and some Beats By Dre headphones as monitors (not something I would recommend trying, made it a nightmare to mix down!). Apologies for the essay, hope that was of some interest. More than happy to answer any specific questions if anybody has any. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broma Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 Def of interest mate Ah man, I used recycle back in the day. It was the shit at the time! And I think I had Reason 2.0. Never really got a handle on it and went to Ableton, then Cubase, then Logic, then back to Ableton again. Did you get your stuff mastered for the release or do it yourself? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaytoo Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 Def of interest mate Ah man, I used recycle back in the day. It was the shit at the time! And I think I had Reason 2.0. Never really got a handle on it and went to Ableton, then Cubase, then Logic, then back to Ableton again. Did you get your stuff mastered for the release or do it yourself? Yeah I used to love using it, you had to be really creative and think outside of the box but you could make stuff happen. All the other DAWs (Ableton being a great example) really pushed the boundaries on sampling though and Reason took years and years to catch up. Still intrigued by Ableton, I really should give it a go sometime soon. Kind of ashamed to admit it but I used LANDR for the mastering, it did a fairly decent job and I know nothing at all about mastering. I've tried learning but it just won't stick! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broma Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 Yeah, it's worth giving Ableton a go man. Even if you don't completely click with it, it offers different ways of doing things (like all DAWs really!) so you'll come up with something that maybe would have come out different with your usual tools. I find my tracks often have a different flavour if I deviate from my normal setup, not that I've done that in while but experimenting is always a good thing in my book. P.S No clue about mastering really either, I use izotope Ozone and cycle through the presets until something sounds ok-ish and maybe tweak a bit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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