emeraldsoul

So at last, his sequel album, finally? Comes full circuit.

Whats the preferred tape machine? Just trying to avoid having to demo 4 tape machines plus the echo. I currently use Softube Tape, which is a bunch of tape settings in one plugin. Kudos for convenience. I also have Taupe from Acustica, which has a UI that challenges my old timers. Plus it destroys CPU. I'd be prioritizing a sense of 3D depth, and that pleasant smoothing of transients . . . Thanks for any tape tips!

you are getting some very good mix ears, John. The bass and drums are perfect, the piano too. Maybe the strings jump out a bit forward in spots, but no harm really. the mix was bright yet full in the bottom - very cool! cheers, -Tom

vocal are great, great bgv's. The drums are your biggest challenge here I think. I think they need to be bigger, closer, less reverbed away. Bass guitar can hardly be heard. These are things you will likely polish up and I think you definitely should, very good song, and as I started with, great vocal!!! cheers, -Tom

hard not to like! catchy groove and the mix sounded clear and professional. Dug her accent. cheers, -Tom

Thanks much. That seems to require a newer bfd purchase? I was originally working from a purchase of bed eco, which were those cymbals. I think everybody bailed on bfd eco, as it's now called a dead legacy product. For some reason.

Sorry, dumb joke made before coffee. I checked the info and its mostly about sounds that supposedly represent metallic elements. Putting two metals together (like copper and tin) making an alloy (bronze). So, dumb joke, swing and a miss. Sorry!

Don't forget to try two different instances running through izotope's Alloy.

Something very cool about your voice, I like the doubling, and the chorus vocals with the bgv's, great stuff. Sounds like lots of thought went into the bgv's in that chorus. Very effective! cheers, -Tom

Me too, and those cymbals were the best I've ever used, and I have SD3. So bummed they just got sucked under and never reissued.

Thanks Paul for the comment! Thanks Douglas, appreciate it! Thanks Bjorn! I was going for a kind of hypnotic heartbeat rhythm, glad it worked for ya.

I don't know where to start. Vocal performance excellent, super emotive and interesting. Snare was excellent, just a perfect tone. Laid-back yet driving groove, really excellent. the mixture of guitars. excellent indeed. The song? Excellent. so if I'm really picking the nits on the nits . . . the initial groove was hard to catch in the first three seconds, something wasn't lining up maybe? And the acoustic/nylonish guitar on the right? in the intro, could use maybe a bit more short reverb? It sounds a tad dry and almost like the sustain has been cut off intentionally? sheesh that was really excellent - great song and great skills. cheers, -Tom

Spring has sprung, thank god. Loved the jam and count me in for the banjo, loved that too. Some timing in the middle with the guitar I think, could be edited away easily. I just loved the sunny melody fitting the sunny scenes. Always a pleasure, I appreciate your compositional range, from avant garde to orch to chill-out jazz like this. You are your own lane. cheers, -Tom

Phil, really great job here. The song holds up well all by itself, my only thought was maybe in the spoken rap sections the vocals could come up just a bit in volume, but good enough as is. If you put that together in just a couple of days, that's a helluva job! Visuals suited the story but the song carries both imho. Nice! cheers, -Tom