PhonoBrainer

Having heard your excellent work for a while now, with great guitar work (love the whammy tremelo dips!) I think I'm noticing the bass. It seems to breathe in the mix a lot less than the other instruments. It might be so 2-D as to "narrow" the overall mix. How do you record the bass? I wonder if your interface is giving it enough depth of field, or if some compression could be backed off? I dunno. It's not an awful bass mix, I just think it could be improved. I assume your bass is mixed right down the center? Maybe I'm crazy but I think your awesome guitar, and even the drums, have more roomy life to them and mix width than the bass does. Maybe I'm giving you a starting point on a wild goose chase . . . sorry! I do like your style and the genre is always a good listen. cheers, -Tom

Keep it up '80's man!!! I'm right there with ya. It's a great rendition and you have a touch with this. There's a bit of sibilance on the vocals in spots. "Mistaken" "Speak" I highly recomment Oeksound Soothe, it would fit in well with your other toys. I do like how your posts give the background on your tools, and "Ozone 8 doing whatever it felt like doing" was pretty epic! I would cut the intro or at least cut the high pitched quick filtered synth up top, it opens your effort and makes me think "video game" but that's just me. I think your effort has more weight and substance than an intro with "bleep blurp bleep" signifies. cheers, -Tom

Lynn's comment nailed it! I'd bring the vocals up in the mix. I'm not sure you need that big puffy sub kick on the one. It's a bit of a distraction. Just a thought. I like your voice, and the mix of it, so let it be heard more! cheers, -Tom

Great playing! I found myself wanting the strings gone, just to hear the piano. What does that sound like? The strings do make it swooshy and romantic, however. Nice one! cheers, -Tom

Way good! Those Teslas have really come a long way. When she says the guy is "switching genres" . . . you could have switched the background music to a skiffle polka. Anyway, to be serious, I liked the dark brooding tone and the percussion builds the tension very well. I don't think there is any really criticizing your compositional choices because there is no right answer . . . I do like your choices! You must be totally sick of watching this clip, I bet? cheers, -Tom

That's a good performance for sure! The woodiness of the guitar comes through wonderfully. You might consider a slight volume boost of the vocals, and if you haven't yet done so, dip the volume just a smidge on the guitar when a vocal line is happening? Your guitar has a wonderful percussive strum transient, but that also helps wipe out the vocal just a little. My .02 Kroners on your lovely effort! cheers, -Tom

Consistently great productions in my opinion . . . this one has the 1980's / 2020 mashup down. Love it! cheers, -Tom

I could totally see this used in a movie scene. It's brilliant and very evocative. On headphones I heard some digital clipping artifacts occasionally? Like where two abutting files weren't crossfaded. One example @ :42. It might juist be a Soundcloud think, I dunno. Might be worth a check for those. super cool piece, sorry to hear the movie didn't work out. cheers, -Tom

Actually we don't all know that. But I do now, many thanks! Rogue on the Unix server had absolutely no sound at all, and was the best computer game ever invented !

So even though it appears like a fraud, a scam, a ripoff . . . . I'm still feeling pissed that Spaghetti Western is $59 . . .

That's how I got Portal, from BF, for $29, although it took exactly 6 months afterwards. Still MF followed through on it, kudos! I

Some of these are so old, the dinosaurs posted them on MySpace.

Can't believe you bypassed the box office gold that is Areefa Plankton

Muskokiaan!

heh heh!

Just in time for Father's Day . . . Spaces I owners can upgrade to Spaces II for $184 . . . that's a whopping 116% ON!!! Or you can buy Spaces II outright for a 60% discount, just $149. But what fun is that, Dads? Seriously, this continues to be the stupidest thing I have ever seen in plug-in pricing. Happy Father's Day to the Dads out there!

Which bear is the most condescending? Pan. DUH!!!!!

Fun fact! Byrnjolfur Sveinsson of Iceland is a huge fan of the band R.E.M. , and likes to sing along!!! "That's me on the Kronur . . ."

Yeah but they spelled crazy with a "k" and it's all caps, so you gotta respect that.

If they can't figure it out, they shouldn't breed!

If it were me, I'd only bother to reinstall those plugins as they presented themselves in the projects I was working on. Spread the pain. But if you are a commercial operation or working with other people, that doesn't really work . . .

Alas no, but I bought Taupe and it's a good master bus eq . . .

Elephant Man, far right? Just wondering . . . and Tom Russell appears to be The Most Interesting Man in the World? and there's a huge-***** sailfish on the wall in a diner? and they drink Mexi beers but he's having a Roy Rogers or a melonball? and of course, an accordion??? and it's "Haley's" not the correct "Halley's" ? Exactly what the Haley is going on here??!!?

well what is the one Acustica plugin that I could use on the master bus to make a jazz funk electro mix sound like magic?