Emmet - new CD finally finished

[Emmet]

Yes, its that time again whereby people get to listen to lots of Emmet related stuff that we haven't had to knock out ourselves..its Version 2.0

Its a 6 track EP (or does that count as an album I dunno) featuring top remixes of Emmet tracks by our very talented mates (in no particular order)

Max Hall
OG
Disko Ticklerz
Plasmastorm
Anigman
Ian Round

Click the link below to download the mp3 ep and artwork (so you can burn your own CD).

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HO1LXGT3

Seeing as we currently have a shortage of webspace, the download link is courtesy of one of those file upload/download sites, you have to wait 45 seconds before you can access it but it all seems to work OK.

[King of Snake]

Originally Posted by Emmet

yeah, the production has kicked up a gear...stuff like Headcharge and The Gate are finally getting the state musically where I want us to be.

Now we have to adapt all the stuff from the album versions into to do them live...more work for me !

downloading now...
btw I wanted to ask, what do you feel were the main advancements you made technically speaking to get the production to this level?
I feel I'm kinda stuck with the quality of my mixes, especially when trying to use more than a couple of sounds at once and getting the beats to kick properly, but I need some better monitors as well.

also, how is your football anthem coming along? Are you on the verge of commercial breaktrough?

[holden]

Originally Posted by Emmet

Yes, its that time again whereby people get to listen to lots of Emmet related stuff that we haven't had to knock out ourselves..its Version 2.0

Its a 6 track EP (or does that count as an album I dunno) featuring top remixes of Emmet tracks by our very talented mates

Sweetness! New Emmet-inspired goodness. Plasmastorm remix is soooo banging!
Cheers for sharing so many tunes with the fans, Emmet! I've really enjoyed the promos.

[Emmet]

Originally Posted by King of Snake

downloading now...
btw I wanted to ask, what do you feel were the main advancements you made technically speaking to get the production to this level?
I feel I'm kinda stuck with the quality of my mixes, especially when trying to use more than a couple of sounds at once and getting the beats to kick properly, but I need some better monitors as well.

also, how is your football anthem coming along? Are you on the verge of commercial breaktrough?

Well the remixes are all done by our mates but in terms of what we're doing at the moment a lot of it is down to 'experience', I've been concentrating properly on the music side of things for about ten years now and experience does seem to make my/our stuff sound better.

A lot of dance/electronica can be quite sparse in terms of arrangement and what you tend to find is that the less cluttered the mix is the more the individual elements can stand out Benni Banassi and Satisfaction or Kernkraft/Zombie Nation being the first tune that springs to mind. Alas, I tend to go for the wall of sound/throw everything and the kitch sink in there which makes things a right bugger to mix at times.

As for moniitors, as long as you know what they're putting out your fine, I dont use studio monitors just a decent set of Celestion hi-fii speakers, I've had them 16 years and I know what thngs sound like on them so they do me fine.

Make use your individual elements are properly EQed so that each part is 'shelved' and sits in its own frequency range; i.e. bass part = low freq..if you've got a string/pad part roll off the low end on it so it doesn't clash with your bass. If that sort of makes sense

As for the football; its 'out there' showing on 3 TV stations at the moment, someone somewhere is trying to have a word with Vodaphone regarding ringtones and the like..that would be good

[King of Snake]

Originally Posted by Emmet

Well the remixes are all done by our mates but in terms of what we're doing at the moment a lot of it is down to 'experience', I've been concentrating properly on the music side of things for about ten years now and experience does seem to make my/our stuff sound better.

oops, yeah I was talking about your album actually not the remixes. Forgot to quote the proper post...

A lot of dance/electronica can be quite sparse in terms of arrangement and what you tend to find is that the less cluttered the mix is the more the individual elements can stand out Benni Banassi and Satisfaction or Kernkraft/Zombie Nation being the first tune that springs to mind. Alas, I tend to go for the wall of sound/throw everything and the kitch sink in there which makes things a right bugger to mix at times.

As for moniitors, as long as you know what they're putting out your fine, I dont use studio monitors just a decent set of Celestion hi-fii speakers, I've had them 16 years and I know what thngs sound like on them so they do me fine.

Make use your individual elements are properly EQed so that each part is 'shelved' and sits in its own frequency range; i.e. bass part = low freq..if you've got a string/pad part roll off the low end on it so it doesn't clash with your bass. If that sort of makes sense

Agreed, experience is of course the key. My mixes now sound much better than when i started out some 7 years ago. I don't really spend enough time making music at the moment so progress is slower. I am using more eq now, especially the shelving you mention. Pretty much all sounds except the bass get the bottom end rolled of which definitely helps the clarity of the mix.

[Emmet]

and a bit of mastering always helps too. We use a multiband compressor which beefs the bottom end and adds that 'shine' on anything above 10K.

[Dirty0900]

You guys are Sweet F.A, that got voted one of the worse footie songs of all time, despite just coming out........

[Emmet]

excellent...who voted us that?

The track is supposed to be terrible, I think people are missing out on the post-modern, ironic stance of our intentionally bad record.

[Dirty0900]

Originally Posted by Emmet

excellent...who voted us that?

The track is supposed to be terrible, I think people are missing out on the post-modern, ironic stance of our intentionally bad record.

Q TV, i think you were number 3.

[King of Snake]

Originally Posted by Emmet

and a bit of mastering always helps too. We use a multiband compressor which beefs the bottom end and adds that 'shine' on anything above 10K.

didn't you also get to mix some of your tracks on a big expensive analogue console at some point?
Thought I read that somewhere on your site a while back.