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Very cool! I like the guy getting the haircut. -

Agree with the above about the voc needing to come up more. Voc fx is very good. Excellent guitar work.

I had a rubber stamp made just for commenting on your songs. Here it is: Amazing guitar, outstanding song, most awesome production around. Kidding about the rubber stamp, but the comment stands. Wish you all the success you deserve.

Let's see, how many times has this happened now? I talk myself out of buying something. I stop by the Deals forum and.. Oh look it's on sale now. I have a lengthy internal dialogue arguing the pros and cons. You don't need it. Yes, I do...no you don't... I buy it. Every time. BBC Symphony Orchestra Core is mine.

Thanks everyone for the comments and suggestions. David, yes that's Heavyocity Vocalise and not NI like I wrote. Seems like almost every instrument I have goes into NI Kontakt.

So you're saying this is a random effect? 😁 Wookie, I'm really liking this! Listening to it for like the 4th time now. Just beautiful stuff my friend.

SoundCloud is bad enough but now this forum is getting SPAM. Looking at you dixonena and sudap. Reported.

Trying for an Irish or Celtic sound and this piece is mostly auditioning Vsts. So, a work in progress. I really like Bolder Sound Fiddle Vst which has a lot of articulations but I only used three of them. There are also a guitar and a flute that take turns playing the melody part - still not sure which one or both or none to use. I'll definitely keep the fiddle. It needs a female vocal track which I'll have to figure out how to do (the lyrics and - oh yeah a singer) but in the meantime I put in a lot of ooohs and aaahs from NI Vocalise. Thanks for listening/commenting NI Strummed Acoustic NI Electric Sunburst deluxe Indiginus Renaxxance Bolder Sound Fiddle v2 Embertone Jubal Flute NI Vocalise 2

Love the idea of turning family history into a song (and I just noticed the last name of the captain is the same as yours) I heard the previous version and I thought the voc needed some reverb/delay and pitch correction but I'm not noticing that in this version. Seems like it would be a difficult song for a vocalist but your singer pulls it off nicely. However I had trouble understanding maybe half the words but my ears ain't what they used to be. Pronunciation of some words seemed awkward like the singer was trying to fit too many words into a measure. Anyway, just my opinion. You have a great story to tell. Your distant relatives had no idea their great great grandson would write a song about them.

Quite an impressive piece Jerry. So I'm wondering how you go about creating something like this. It just seems free form to me, like it's not written beforehand but written as you go along, one section suggesting the next but directed by your mood minute by minute.

reggae-ish and a bit Cardi-B (?) I always like your creative approach to music and this one doesn't disappoint. Very good!

Can't believe how prolific you are and yet your songs maintain such high quality every time. Always a pleasure hearing your latest Doug.

Love the guitar and mridangam (never knew what a mridangam was before this). I like the song quite a lot but to me it got a bit repetitive after a while.

Yeah, a different style than what I'm used to hearing from you, Freddy. I like the "it is what you make it to be." Tom mentioned Mr Sandman, but to me it sounded a bit like 26 miles (the Catalina Island song). Hey maybe that's where happiness is!

Doug Thanks for the comment Wookie 😁 Mark It's surprising how many old movies and cartoons can be downloaded - and messed with. Daryl Yeah, that was a lot fun. Thinking now of fooling around with the dialogue. tom Thanks tom. Keep yer shoes on! Jacques I actually thought the movie was more sinister without any kind of soundtrack too. But it's like a big canvas to an artist - gotta fill it in with something. ☺️

This is an 8 min condensed version of Dracula, the 1931 horror movie with Bela Lugosi. The film doesn't have music or sound effects so I put some in with Omnisphere and u-He Zebra. The movie is public domain, downloaded from the Prelinger archives.

To me it's all about googling my name and my tracks pop up from various places, amazing my friends and relatives and especially my obnoxious brother-in-law with the Porsche.

Daryl, I like it esp that wah wah-ing guitar. Engaging melody and backing track too. Must have been a lot of work putting the video together! I can see you Googling "movies with running in them"

Missed this the 1st time around. Impressive production where everything works and, being a lyrics guy, I like the clever title.

Very good!

David, Very pleasant and a nice touch with the ocean waves. Which orchestral library are you using? I ask because the strings esp violin sound so much better than what I've done. Also do you put in a lot of articulations on the instruments?

I really like this one. All the parts are very good - orchestration, drums, excellent voc - making the whole thing sound professional. Only crit is the guitar around 3:50 seemed too loud to me. Hope you stay inspired to keep on making music.

Doug Thanks. I had auditioned a guitar, a cello, a violin, a bassoon and a clarinet to play the melody but the synth horn won out at the end. tom and Nigel Thanks for your comments. Appreciate that. Tom, I highly recommend NI acoustic pick Vst. Seems to fit in almost everywhere and sounds great. If you listen to it closely you realize that most patterns aren't all that tricky to do if you're competent at guitar, which I'm not.

Tom Love that old blues sound which you captured very well with the instruments and you really got it going with the vocal. Nice!

Hi Lynn My 1st impression was that the song sounded familiar, like another one of yours from a while ago? Anyway, I really got into the song. Like it a lot. I've mentioned before that my hearing has gone downhill the last couple of years so I don't trust my ears to make meaningful comments. For example I heard some distortion at 1:07 but no one else commented on that so I don't know. Very nice moody piece Lynn. To me it reflects on how I feel after reading the paper every morning, day after day...