PhonoBrainer

My first vinyl was fantastic. No, really!

Zoom in for the mega-stars of 1973 . . .

But before this, I had listened to my older sister's vinyl that she left at home when she went to college . . .

And if you put these two together, it leads me to my first proper rock album?

5 hours ago, mettelus said:

I forgot to follow up on this. PB came back saying that they weren't sure of dynamic keyswitches and referred me to their forum. This thread has basically what I had asked about:

"As for scale switching, we are looking at solutions for this as a priority. We have conceived ‘link’ buttons you can assign keys and scales to and automate between but receiving midi input is also on the cards but may require further work."

In addition to my request (to better follow chord progressions or melody lines), this one specifically asked about key changes, which is even more critical. Right now, Scaler EQ cannot address either dynamically on its own.

In other words, scaler EQ works great as long as your entire song stays in the same key, or the same chord?

1 hour ago, Zo said:

Voxbox at that price is crazy ...

Would there be an audible difference between the "unison Apollo preamp" and the "native" version?

I thought this was pretty interesting! Very nice room setup and I appreciate the synth porn. I alternated between watching your moves and then closing my eyes  for just the audio. Both worked a treat!

I listened on my best headphones. I did hear some separation and panning of elements, but I felt like whatever YouTube does to audio might be doing you the slightest disservice. I bet it sounds just a hair more hi-res in your room!

That's a lot of effort - do you practice the moves beforehand before filming it, following a script of some kind? Super interesting process, and I appreciate the brevity. Some peoples "watch me jams" can be an hour long, which is quite ridiculous imho.

That fat-***** bass drony synth is the highlight, it's super rich, sounds great in this!

kudos!

cheers,

-Tom

Just now, Technostica said:

I'm too embarrassed to say! 🥵

Bring it, that ye may be judged. Approvingly.

Kind of like that Pulsar Echorec, anyone want to warn me off or suggest better? $33 for the Pink Floyd vibe

Studio One mofessional update to 6.5

Reason 12 with the Bvx vocoder

Komplete standard update, 13 to 14

Ueberschall Elastik with Funk Guitar

Grateful it wasn't more.

and the upgrade is on sale as well

https://www.thomannmusic.com/search_dir.html?sw=reason&smcs=00c75e_3671

this price beats Reason's own black friday prices

https://account.reasonstudios.com/signup/

Happy thankful day to everone in the forum, particularly the Deals crew, may it be filled with gratitudinosity.

Here's a picture of Narcissus, the plugins you own - looking at the plugins you want.

I like it, it's very smooth, and I like your vocal delivery a lot! Just enough twang!

My ideas for your mix? For the vocal mud, no need to re-record it, just try pulling a notch eq down around 250hz, narrowish Q, abot a 3 db cut. That's a mud removal starting point. This region conflicts with the bass guitar, so you might get the bass below 500hz all "mono" in the middle, while the vocals below 500hz might be pushed just a bit towards the sides. There are tools that do this sort of thing.

Drums are a bit pushed back, I'd recommend more hi-hat programming, and in the chorus, I'd go doubletime on the snare at least, so there's a bit more "drive" going on. That's a totally personal choice.

The acoustics and banjo? are out wide, very nice! They might be a bit dry or too loud out there.

Very listenable, cool lyrics, you have a good one here!

cheers,

-Tom

I've been on v5 since April of '22, and it rocks.

I will upgrade this time only for the new video lane, where you can bring in a vid and slide it around in the timeline, which v5 cannot do. For some reason.

On 11/16/2023 at 11:38 AM, Steve Patrick said:

Anyone else seeing this...or know why??

 

 

The artist formerly known as . . . Doghouse Riley!!! Love your tunes.

53 minutes ago, craigb said:

It's a weird world!

I bet you can guess why I'm putting this video into this thread, right? 😁

 

Trevor Horn produced "Owner of a Lonely Heart"

What do I win???

1 hour ago, Notes_Norton said:

Very pretty, but trying hard to "get it" . . . 

I see it, and if I were a performing member of Midnight Hour, I'd be watching the visuals, and the audience would be seeing my backside. 

A fact of which they would no doubt be eternally grateful.

14 hours ago, OutrageProductions said:

@smallstonefan;

Hopefully you are also aware that this instrument REQUIRES Kontakt 7.7 at minimum to run. 

And if you've been anywhere near the NI/Kontakt forum lately, you'll know that Kontakt 7.x is a hot mess currently.

Personally, Ima gonna wait til 8.x comes out next spring.

Yup. Does anyone know if I upgrade to Kontakt 7 hot mess, if I can still keep my Kontakt 6 and 5 installed and viable?

Aging Win 10 system from 2013.

So cool that kontakt 7 seems required for any newer libraries. What an Apple move.

UVI has their Percussion Factory, which is no slouch.

I'll probably get this new NI one, too.

Is it 100ft long?

Limiting myself to just effects, so no Kontakt or Omnisphere things.

Fab proQ 3 for eq

Raum for reverb

Gullfoss or Zynaptic Intensity, can't decide, for mix bus sweetening

Tone Projects Unisum for compression, usually master bus

Honorable mention, Fab Timeless 3 for delays

keep that thing covered

Shaker would be great. The BGV ooooh's cut off, leaving a beat at the end of the measure uncovered, to me it seems a bit of a dropoff. Your lead vocal (love your voice, and the airy wash of reverb that sits it perfectly) is mixed a bit hot for my taste in this mix.

How about this - reminded me of Marvin Gaye. Can't get much more of a compliment than that.

Excellent!

cheers,

-Tom

How is this different from the one they sell that looks identical?

Certainly more human than keyboard players, who are mostly bots.

Clank, zzzzzzst, whirrrrrr.

If our species is remembered in any way . . .  let it be for our cognitive capacity to change our minds, and for our behavioral inclination not to.