PhonoBrainer

I notice that tailorante medieval era II is actually on sale. $155

They actually got me for a hundred bucks over the weekend. First Waves I let ashore for years. I got five cool plugs though.

Uh, great for the simple fact that somebody else knows the genius of "Run Lola Run" . . . I kept thinking of running scenes you might include, and voila! There it is! Great concept and kudos on all performances! Cheers, Tom

Hope your family deal worked itself out ok, Larry.

Kudos on the song and the vocal performance! And your choice of instruments works perfectly. I dug the guitar solo! So here's a few ideas, worth what you paid for 'em! The snare is compressed and has a sustainy ring-out . . . and that ring out is getting flanged by something pretty hard. It might sound better with a clean snare tail? Same issue for your cymbals, they are flangey as heck. If that's what you are goin for, you got it! But you might look at your drum bus processing if it is masssssshing a sustain tail on snares and cymbals that you don't want flanged. At 1:40 - you've got a nice buildup right there, organ strong, and then it dumps out into kind of a low-energy part after 1:40. A little emotional letdown? What could you add after 1:40 to keep the build going? Just a thought. sweet tune yo. cheers, -Tom

Darwinian evolution must be reconciled with human psychology. If there are chicks watching him do this from the get go, and, for the sake of argument, can we assume that they are really HOT chicks, said females will respond to his epicness, extremeness, and overall derring-do with a dramatically increased desire to mate with him. I feel comfortable in my assertion of HOT chicks watching, because why else would any dude do that? Probably not for just chicks of the lesser hotnesses. Assuming there's anything left to mate with at the end, he might have just secured a purchase for his seeds in the greater gene pool. Darwin, eat your heart out.

They probably had the idea a while ago but it got delayed. . . . I'll get me mask . . .

Why yes, actually, some blues would be really great right now! An absoulte 100% A+++ on all those awesome guitars! Well played and well captured! cheers, -Tom

freekin love it!!!

My listen was on decent headphones, so any mix comments should be taken with a grain of headphones. I like this song!!! It's like a slow prog, as far as the chord progressions go! Really cool choices, and your vocal mixing is killer, those bgv's are quite distinct from the main and very tastefully mixed in at lower volume. Nice on that! And the lyrics aren't too shabby, either! Mix wise, not bad but I think the vocals are covered up a little. Bass down .5 db across the song? and anytime there is a vocal, taking the left panned guitar noodle down .5db, and the organ down maybe a full db? anything else that's in the center with the vocal, I'd take volume automation quite seriously and drop it out at least .5 when you are singing. You may have already done some of that, it's all an infinite amount of monkeys with a nearly infinite amount of plugins. cool tune!!! cheers, -Tom

Fishing has its ramifications.

This one as well:

Is it sort of like this ???

Just looking at these Jurassic romplers gives me a warm digitally fuzzy feeling! Ladies and gentlemen, may I present . . . my 1990's.

A pleasure to hear! The simplicity is a winner on this one. Maybe the U-he synthhorn is a bit too up front in the mix? I've been looking at picked acoustic. How do you like working with it? good one, nice and mellow for those slow days down on the farm. cheers, -Tom

Where? Where???

I demoed it but it didn't pass my rather rigorous "instant gratification" test. But I think a knob twiddler could get somewhere with it eventually.

Wilson!!!!!

That high synth plucky thing when it is matching the guitar, like 2:30 - 2:50 area, very effective and mesmeric!!! If this were my mix I'd be happy with the synth textures, but I'd want to bring the punch of the drums up a bit. If you want the drums bigger, you might reach for a compressor like an API 2500 that can really add smack. Waves' version is eternally on sale as a $29 wonder. cool tune, thanks for posting! -Tom

I liked the mix, pretty controlled. Good job on the sparkly upper stuff. I liked the more ambitious chord changes starting around 1:14, great energy and movement, but then it all settles down again into more sustained chords. for me that makes it fall off a bit . . . but then again, I kept wanting some high energy drums to kick in, and that isn't your goal at all! So I think your piece is great, but it's a bit of a neutral palette perhaps, onto which the listener can project quite a bit of their own stuff. And that makes it a great ambient piece! cheers, -Tom

I think they charge by the knob.

This borders on Larryesque. Well done!

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I wore that Koln Concert out on vinyl and your version brought back the memories! Many thanks, I think you did a great job and the piano was recorded very well, whatever you used! cheers, -Tom