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haha yeah ! Cymbals! because the green reflects on them. Nightmare indeed! Blue is a bit better though for light hair. And which program do you use for green screen?

By the way Tom. I kinda misunderstood your question before, and I think I didn't give you a proper answer. I apologise. Yes , the black background helps for sure to add certain elements. Specially effects like lights, smoke, fire and such stuff if I wanted to. But not as good as green screen for sure. But I stopped with green screens because green screen can be a pain to work with when it comes to long hair haha

Thank you Lord Tim! And yes, I think Kiske still sounds very good! 😃

Hey Tom, thank you for watching and commenting! much appreciated. As for the video, I can't tell much about the process, because I only sang on this one. 🙂 You can see my mixes and videos that I produced here : https://www.youtube.com/@RonniePenko And Jim's team mixes and video productions here : https://www.youtube.com/@jimramses7046

Hey everyone! This is my newest cover song with my friends. Jim Ramses my good friend and bassist invited me to sing Helloween's classic ''Eagle Fly Free'' on his newest video! Which was a lot of fun to do! Thank you for watching! Mixed and Mastered at Haunting Studios by Nikos Palivos Vocals recorded @ManoSoundStudios Video by John Manopoulos

Love the song, Steve! Sounds great! 🙂

Yeah I know, it's harder to grab people's attention with songs without vocals. But it depends on the song, really. Your song ''Bullet Train to Monaco'' I was waiting for vocals, it felt like there could be vocals on it imho. However ''Open Wheel Champion'' I didn't feel the lack of anything, it works very well the way it is. I like it very much.

Thank you Jeff!

As always awesome stuff, batsbrew! Beautiful guitar solos and mix!

Thank you for watching and commenting Dream Art Scientists!

Thanks for the recommendations batsbrew! Love Waves plugins, and I surely have some of them! Waves Sibilance is one of them! : ) Do you have Vocal Rider? For some reason, I had no luck with Vocal Rider in Cakewalk, the thing doesn't seem to work or I'm missing something. For bass I used only the TSE BOD v3.0.0 and been using it for a while since the ''welcome to the jungle '' cover and on. And for guitars... man, I think that the TH3 that comes free with Cakewalk is amazing! I have used it a lot! The videos I made for ''Welcome To The Jungle'', ''The Writing On The Wall'', ''Medusa'' and ''Hypnotize Yourself'' are 100% TH3 for guitars. And yes, I also wanna say. I also noticed that the new megadeth video and others are all 1080p. Which is strange! It seems that not many people know about this information, that with uploading a 2k video ytube would use a much better codec and screw up less. I can see the same problems I described when I watch this new Megadeth video ''Killing Time''. Some pixelated color banding in darker parts of the video. If they posted a 2k video it would be a lot better than this. Cool video anyway though, this is my favorite Megadeth song from the new album.

Yeah, I never know. Some say it's -13, -14 LUFS and others will say -16 LUFS. It's a bit confusing to me. Below this message I'm posting a print screen of my Loudness Meter for my Holy Wars cover master audio file. Very interesting what you said about 24bit/48000 because of ytube's HD settings. My audios are all 16bit/44100. But I didn't know that ytube had better audio settings for 24bit/48k. That's good to know. What I know and discovered recently though, is that ytube has a much better codec for 2k and 4k videos, and that info saved me from a whole lotta trouble that I was having with gradients getting screwed up when uploading to youtube, even with the video image being perfect rendered out of my video editor. I guess you noticed that videos on ytube that have much gradient are full of ugly color banding, specially 1k videos. And some blocky strange artifacts in dark areas sometimes. That's because ytube uses a worse codec for 1k, different than the better one used for 2k and 4k videos which also have some problems but a lot better. So from few videos on, I've been uploading my videos all in 2k and that improved so much the quality. Even if my videos are 1K, I render them in 2K anyway (2560x1440), just to get rid of that horrible youtube 1K codec. You mentioned you watched my video at 1080p, but it should be an option for 1440p also. (which weirdly sometimes disappears leaving only the 1080p, but refreshing the page it comes back, weird lol) But yeah, back to audio... well, I don't use a very aggressive limiter or compressor when mastering because I like the song to breath a bit. It feels more organic. I see many mixes even professional on albums that feel so overly compressed to my taste. Sound suffocated really. I DO use a very aggressive compressor for vocals and bass though. Because vocals are so dynamic, and the bass I want to be very even the whole song, so I compress the hell out of it, specially on the low end. Cause the bass I duplicate it and make a low and high pass, to control the volume of Lows and mids individually. Keep the low end raw and very very compressed and add some bass distortion on the mid/high copy letting it breath a bit more. I like the bass to be heard, like Iron Maiden songs, you always hear the bass haha And man, thank you so much for taking my attention to that ''stats for nerds'' thing. Indeed it says -1.5 db, which I think it means I could have it a bit louder then, as you said. Below my LUFS meter, you can see the time exactly of the song it's metering, which judging by the waves forms must be the part of the song that is the loudest or more even

Thank you so much Batsbrew! Good question! I wanna ask you the same question by the way regards that. The requirements you have in mind when uploading to youtube. I never really know the maximum volume that Youtube will accept without turning the volume down by itself. And also not sure if youtube only turns the volume down or add some kind of compressing or limiter that could maybe squeeze the sound if the volume is above youtube's requirement. So to keep it safe, I avoided making it the loudest volume possible. That's why it probably sounds a bit quieter than usual. I just wanted to make sure youtube won't change my mix in anyway when I upload it, in case it does it all. Would be glad to hear your opinion about this. In the mastering, it was done very little. I just added an EQ to increase a bit the mids, adjusted to a volume that felt safe and that's it. The limiter is very very soft. Because it sounded good to my ears the way it is right out of the mix.

If that damn is something positive, I thank you haha Thank you so much Andrew! Thanks Andy!

Thanks LeadFoot! It's a great song indeed! One of my favorites.

Great as always Batsbrew! I missed some vocals on it though : )

Sounds great Freddy. Well done!

Thank you Steve!

Very good songwriting and mix also sounds great! Well done Nigel!

Thanks! Thank you!

Thank you so much Nigel. Positive feedback from you is always a great compliment because you produce very good quality stuff. Thank you so much for checking out my videos.

Indeed! not an easy one! I didn`t even dare to try to play this on guitar haha. I preffered to go on youtube and look for people who could do it properly, and then I found Shawn McNair and Mark Grocki who are excellent guitar players, and then Jim Ramses for bass. So I sang and mixed this one, and mixing was a challenge, because there is so much going on this song. Thank you for watching and commenting. I`m so glad people appreciate it.

Sounds great Steve. Nice mix and her voice is very nice.

You mean which DAW I used ? I make all my audio productions entirely in bandlab cakewalk. And video in Davinci Resolve. And thank you so much for your kind words, really nice to read it. We all love this song and gave the best we could.

haha! I love Trapeze! so underrated band!