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K.M.
I definitely see this opening, or running under the credits, of a film.
Good solid mix here.
Showcases your style and vision quite well.
You say its "your most ambitious" to date; keep it up!
all the best,
Tom
 

Thanks Steve, and please feel free to. 

Tom

High output buckers have never worked for me. Lindy makes the best, to my ears (same caveat as above). But I will admit, once I put a set of Fralins (8k, 9k) in my Paul, I’ve never looked back. I’ve got a good story on that one if anyone is interested. 

Maybe there’s something out there...

Tom

"they are what I consider to be the third/final portion of the general equation in setting up an amp sim rig"
Great amps stand on three legs; pre-amp, power amp, and speaker. So Christian has nailed it there.
With speakers it comes down to "excursion", and to my ears, this is why 100 watt (or 50 watt) single speaker combos
never can/will sound "right" (please note the caveat "to my ears"). You got to "spread" the load and "move" some air.
Guitar amps are all about harmonic complexity, and just like the pre and power amps, that complexity is all about "pushing" things a bit.
I bought the OX Amp shortly after it first came out, great idea, but in demoing it I found it not mature yet (again same caveat).
I think as time goes the OX or software will get there, I just hate buying in early and then having to update, update, update.
Updating software, no issue; hardware, ouch!
I've been using Two Notes with some success, just need to dig deeper.

Now onto the subject of DI, oh man...
all I will say is right now it’s Little Labs, wish they had a 500 version, I am kind of "jonesing" for the Neve 517; I gotta stop or I'll have one coming...

All the best to all in their "quest"

Tom

Thanks amiller.

Tom

Amplitube has been a "workhorse" for me, but I'm always "looking".
I'm more a 4 input Marshall kinda guy (read that JTM-45 or the Super Lead 100).
Had a plexi full stack back in the day so that probably explains that.
I do have the S-Gear and consider it top notch.
Although I had a 2210, I mostly bought it to be sure I was getting the more "modern" Marshall sounds in my amps;
so not sure the MRH810 is in my "ballpark".
I'm getting some mileage from the UAD '57 Deluxe, but some of their Marshalls leaving me yawning.
Really wish I could find an emulation that nails the EL-84 amps that are more to my liking than the 6V6 small combos.
I will have to d/l the demos from Kuassa and Nembrini, thanks Christian for the heads up!

T

What do ya think? Is this the "no-brainer" price, do I/we wait?
Samsung EVO 2TB

T

Well Freddy it seems we have more than a few things in common (and if you don't mind me saying, we old guys gotta stick together).
This song says "I love you", sounds like you're a lucky guy (and she's a lucky girl {hope that isn't sexist }).
I get it, been there, been doing that for 46+ years...
Off topic, is that a Vox Phantom in the Went to the Well image? Vox used that body shape a lot and there's not quite enough detail for
me to suss the exact model.

All the best, keep it up!

Tom
 

The only thing I'm not hearing is the hi-hat or ride cymbal. Kick, snare and bass are all well defined.
Otherwise I think its balanced just fine.
If I'm producing this one, I'd let the guitar and/or bass fade into the vocal on the breakdown at 2:38.
Or fade out and bring the vocal in a moment or two later; just kind of an abrupt change there.
Just me.
I know how it is "trusting" these ears that have been abused over the years; I feel for ya.
Print it, move on, certainly nothing glaringly "wrong" with your mix.

Tom
 

Freddy you’re too kind, thank you. 

Hidden, thanks for listening, Ozone 8 gets all the credit.

I don’t know what’s up with my website, I’ll rattle some cages in the morning.
Well that was odd, somehow the .com in the link went away.
I guess it was Rockus and Rollus (the gods of rock music) having a little fun at my expense again.

All is now well.

Tom

A little something I wrote years ago, never satisfied with it. Finally reworked it.
Somewhat biographical, or not...

Rock 'n' Roll Ladies

Let me know what y'all think.

Tom

Just logged in to check the forum before I get to work and lo and behold; a little Batsbrew to start my day.
I am now ready to boogie!

njoy I did

Thank you Bat

T

"Someone from Knt Washington just purchased TrueIron"
Yeah, I downloaded the demo, but you do that by "purchasing" the demo for $0.00; no money changes hands.
I misspelled Kent, Knt, that's how I know that the "purchase" was my download. So they aren't getting filthy rich.
I was researching how to authorize the plug, as I too am curious how the licensing works.
But, the question remains; what is the authorization and licensing system?

Tom

Nice open clean mix on the cans here. I wouldn't call it "lo-fi".
Well done.

Tom

Don't know what I'm doing wrong here, but I'm getting Lost the Race, Won the Game; but its all good.
As always enjoy your stuff Freddy, please keep it up!

Whoops! I found it, just had to cursor down; doh...

T

Looks like Metal is alive and well in Oz.
Man your drummer has a "busy" foot; I love it (but I guess that is part of the genre).
The energy level is tremendous, made all the more effective by the "breakdowns".
So spot on on some many levels.
Thanks for sharing.

Tom

More "Classic" Batsbrew. Great songwriting, arrangement, and performance.  I'm lovin' it!
That bass tone is most excellent, and the clean guitar; very nice indeed.
But man, those around you must have suffered some real tragedy to inspire all these tunes...

Tom

Gave this two passes; one on the cans, one in the Ford rental. Not hearing any issues.  Print it!

T

11 hours ago, Noel Borthwick said:

As mentioned "Master" is just the name of one of the buses in the default template and has no special meaning. One thing we could consider doing is only select the DEFAULT bus.

That would work for me. But every workflow is different. The beauty of CbB is it’s flexibility; it’s adaptable to any workflow. 

T

Generally I send the bass to the Drum buss. Occasionally it’s routed to Guitars. An occasional old project has it routed directly to the Master, but that’s a project that I haven’t opened in a long time. 

It is annoying to deselect all busses except the Master when choosing “Busses” in the export dialog, it would be nice if the export preset reflected this. 

T

Please no debate here but, in a friends studio we were regularly running 16 plus tracks to HDD; the drum kit being 12 of those; all at 48k 24 bit; on an i3 system.  This to a WD Black HDD.

Of course we we’re light piped in via an RME interface, maybe that helped. 

I’ll stick with the Black drives until Jim assures me “no worries” going with the SSD as an audio drive. One caveat, backup, backup, backup.  Redundancy is our friend!

T

The kick is good , I was curious if you had added beater to this one. 

As always, a fan,

T

So “main drive”,  you had your projects on this drive; multiple writes and re-writes?

T

Today I’m listening in a Ford rental, the kick and bass are happenin’! More beater on this kit? or this system is hyping those freqs. 

I’m not hearing any “issues” , I would not call it “overly” bright. 

Classic Batsbrew, Print it, move on. 

T

I see a “proper” DAW needing 3 drives minimum. 

250gb SSD for the C drive: OS CbB etc

m.2 for your samples; I’ve stated many times Superior Drummer, EZD2, Kontact, all load “yesterday” from the m.2 on my new StudioCat. 

I’m still using WD Black HDD’s for my projects. It is/was my understanding that the issue with SSD  comes with multiple write cycles.  Every time I pose the question; “are we no longer concerned about multiple delete/rewrite cycles on SSD drives”, I get no response. 

A fourth drive, HDD, for general data, backup images, etc. is a must have as well, but it’s your system. 

Good luck with the new system, I “killed” a cheap Dell laptop once trying to “wipe” it clean and start over, but that’s another story...

T