Martin Bannet

Really enjoyed this! Good mix ... mysterious and intriguing, yet very melodic.

This is a WEIRD one! Hi folks! For NO APPARENT REASON, the shortcut to Cakewalk (or any Cakewalk product, like my old SONAR Platinum) on my system doesn't call up the program anymore! But this is ONLY happening to the shortcuts that are located on the desktop?! I can call up the program ANY OTHER way, just not from the shortcut icon on the desktop. When I navigate via Explorer to the Desktop shortcut, no problem. When I create a shortcut on the C-Drive's Desktop Folder (located in C/USER/NAME/DESKTOP it will launch from that folder, just not my E-Drive's Desktop, where my real active shortcuts are all based, as I MOVED the Desktop to the other (E) Drive. I had a similar problem a while back with my DESKTOP not being accessible through Quick Access and did a relocate of my Desktop from one drive to another. That worked, but I barely remember the details of that operation. If anyone has suggestions based on their experience, that would be great! Thanks! M

Very good mix and tones being presented here. Nice piece of work. Keep it up sir! 🙂 (I'd kill for your bass effects chain. Great tone!)

Woah! Great song to cover and a great cover of the song! Pretty solid mix - I hear everything! Busy and interesting but in a great way! Super voice to do the piece too! Not much I could suggest to change at all! A mix (especially mine) could always be better, but I've spent years not getting one project finished due to lack of objectivity. That's my problem. I'd not touch this unless it's going to a pro studio/producer for eval. Just splendid! Congrats!

This is some pro-level stuff! Very Bob James! Nice mix and good work. Nothing over-compressed or unnatural. Well done! 🙂

Nice work. The acoustics are a super tone, but ultimately, a tad brighter maybe? If you're going for that 'quick decay' bass from 70's rock, then you got it nailed. Voice is up front, which is stellar! 🙂 And a great voice at that. Kick and bass buried, but maybe that's the style you're going for, so it's cool.

Great song! Bit of a flat mix but some great sonic concepts. More stereo ambience if you go to remix. But such a great tune! Really love it. 🙂

Man, this brings back memories. One of the last songs I ever sang for my mom. A classic of classics. Great job and wonderful to hear. Lovely, well-mixed voice 'n band/instruments. Thanks so much! :-)😁

Not so much legal advice, but opinion. If I wanted legal 'advice' I'd seek out a lawyer. Am not stupid, dude! 🙂

Brother of well-known Christian artist (deceased) freaked out when provided with mp3 'test sample' as it was a little too accurate/spot on! He decided against use of his deceased brother's AI voice. Oh well. 🙂

Thanks guys. Have tried using the onboard sound device (Realtek) and my AP-2496 soundcard. As I said, no matter WHAT audio program I use, there is the drift (Audacity/Sonar/Soundforge 14) and it's the same regardless of drivers, sample rates, buffer sizes etc. Tried to switch to Bandlab but my plugins weren't showing up right and it was just a buggy conversion. (Would like to keep my system as is, if you know what I mean.) I know that I can 'tweak' the separate audio tracks recorded while taking video can be stretched without any discernible difference, but that's still not the ideal solution. This wasn't happening 3 months ago. Just a new thing out of the blue. Drives are all checking out fine. When recording audio in Sonar, is there some setting/buffering management anyone can suggest that could curb the audio drift? So, no other wild guess out there?

Hey all! Boy, it's been a while. Here's the scoop and a HUGE THANK YOU in advance. I have done tests with Sonar/Soundforge/Vegas ... my soundcard's native drivers, ASIO drivers, Realtec drivers (PC's own system), WDM drivers and here's what I have after 14-15 minutes of audio. The audio that's recorded via the PC (on any software) LAGS behind the audio that's from say, a Youtube video (downloaded as MP3) or my 2 camera sources (whose audio is ALWAYS in sync - Samsung phone and Sony FX1000). They call it AUDIO DRIFT and it's a mystery. Here's what I've done to assess/fix: 1. Optimized AND Defragged SSD (I know, you're not supposed to defrag, but once was worth a shot) that SONAR/SOUNDFORGE/Vegas runs on - my Operating System Drive: C-Drive. 2. Cleaned out ALL unnecessary Windows bloatware and settings (as per PC optimization guides that have been around for years) 3. Tried JUST USING AUDIO software recording with no video-audio to sync with - same problem, so video is not the issue. Strictly audio recording over time. 4. Defragged 'landing' drives for the audio wav files (2 Terabyte HDD - fairly new) 5. Disabled Realtec/onboard sound in the BIOS 6. Removed ANY additional USER ACCOUNTS 7. Analysed system for ANY odd changes/software upgrades that could have been behind issues - and checked: no viruses/malware etc. NO JOY. I have narrowed down the problem to one of 3 things: 1. PC hardware (ram/cpu/mobo) is dying (system is 6-years old this coming December) 2. SSD (though reported as health with CrystalDisk) is dying 3. Windows Updates have altered something re Audio Syncing abilities. Any others I might have missed? So is there a fix for this that I can do RIGHT IN SONAR (I have Platinum Edition) that will 'shorten' the recording length by a specific amount of bytes to match other audio sources of the same material (from camcorders/phone videos, etc.)? Seriously if ANYBODY who figures out (not necessarily solves) my issues will get a free copy of any/all recordings I've done (whoopee, huh?) and a link to a handy-dandy EQ-Cut/Boost/Dip Guidance Chart I designed that has had over 500,000 downloads from my Box.com site. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ANY GUIDANCE RE THE ABOVE. MUCH MUCH APPRECIATED! Looking forward to direction from someone. Martin Douglas www.youtube.com/flagrantregard

Thank you everyone for the kind comments and help with the posting of links. Been posting links for years, but this is a new(ish) forum and I hadn't known about the right way to link a YouTube vid. Thanks again for listening! :-) M