PhonoBrainer

This guy is amazing. Once Djokovic fades, look out.

13 hours ago, cclarry said:

I leave for the Big Apple in the morning!  I've never been there so I'm looking forward to seeing it!
Staying in Midtown, and doing a bus tour, and a Liberty Cruise, then dinner at Hard Rock on 
7th, and then seeing a Broadway show after dinner!
I board a ship in Brooklyn Sunday morning for a 9 day cruise!
Needless to say, I'm pretty excited (and terrified LOL)

He found a deal he kept to himself. 🧐

Well done Larry, have a blast!

Absolutely loved this! Great tune, great playing, maybe the mix is on the bright side? Would have liked a bit more of those low bass strings, but wow, what playing! Sounds like you wrote this? Very very cool.

cheers,

-Tom

Has Acustica run out of colors yet?

😅

Larry's competition:

This was super watchable and informative. They dipped above and below the radar so much, so wonderfully original the whole time. 

It's for the Japanese rice wine they make in Ireland.

Hmmm. How's the cpu hit? Might need to demo . ...

21 hours ago, bitflipper said:

. . .  But this is at a level most musicians will never experience  even peripherally (Swift puts on a 3-hour show with no opening act). I wonder how this translates to smaller acts trying to fill a theater. 

. . . As long as people want to get laid for the price of a beer, there will always be a place for the lowly bar band.

This helps me see the capitalism in the music industry quite clearly. Swift is Microsoft or Amazon, with dominant market share and control. Bar bands are the Mom and Pops, struggling to find a niche amongst the crumbs that Taylor Bezos might leave behind. ?

Also, I hope you use the second paragraph I quoted in your onstage patter. They'll love you for it 🙃

9 hours ago, Grem said:

These chimes sound good.

Thanks for chiming in.

Anyone compare that eq to the Air band on the Maag 4? 

no brainer

Groove is solid! Arrangement is built well! Funky understated guitar! Well supported by pads! Bass holds it down! Very cool!

She has a very emotive vocal and sings with passion, which is awesome! I'd say in this mix her vocal is sibilant which is a bit distracting. Plenty of punch in her vocals, which might be a bit overcompressed? Her initial transients cut deep! So there might be room to dial back the compression a bit, or drop compression's eq away from the upper sibilant registers.

Sibilance can definitely be in the ear of the beholder. I beheld it! Others may not.

Still this tune is a great jam, and she has a very likeable voice for sure.

cheers,

-Tom

Very cool! Great guitar work and tones! I didn't really get full-blown EDM out of it, but the fusion/lights out jazz side is super strong. With the modern whooshy touches! I did wonder if some of the risery-whooshes might sit better in the mix, and not encroach on the guitar or other elements, if the high eq was trimmed a bit from the whoosh. 1:25 area?

at :026 maybe double check that kick rhythm?

very creative, good writing and playing!

cheers,

-Tom

On 8/7/2023 at 7:11 AM, jngnz said:

Can anyone say anything good about Vintage Horns?

It was an awesome tool in the toolkit!

In 2014.

Ok @craigb correct, seems like many passengers jumped and ran and lived! I got Mandela rolled.

62 survivors? That's a gas. So, @craigb, where did you get that quote about the "survivors" from?

This thread IS on topic, it's an analogy for Bit's band . . . 😁

2 minutes ago, bitflipper said:

 It all started going downhill when they began putting fuel pumps inside gas tanks, and the public meekly said "OK, that makes sense".

Technically, just a bit before that, when they opted for hydrogen instead of helium in the Hindenburg:

Wow! I caught both mixes, second one does seem cleaner, very nice! The vocal delay on her? voice is amazing. Your vocals and guitar work just shine. Love this.

SubVibe is female? I wasn't completely sure, it doesn't matter but the vocals hit that sweetspot of upper register male / sultry female. It's got me wondering! Great song, great mix.

cheers,

-Tom

That groove pops for sure! The bass especially, it's like I can hear the fingers on the tapewound strings!!! Kudos. The funk guitar that comes in around :40 is mixed very bright, I dunno, might be worth rolling a bit more upper end eq away from it? Or drop it .5 db? Just a thought.

How can a mix be funky as hades and still have gobs of clarity! Very very niiiice.

cheers,

-Tom

Sounds like you may have had an issue with this advice? 

Tom Waits and Warren Zevon combo? Very fun project, loved the rhythmic changes, kept up the interest, particularly in the second half/less busy section. I very much appreciate your songwriting style which speaks from within and is not dictated from external pop peer pressure.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm late for my afternoon nap.

cheers,

-Tom

Got a Joe Walsh feeling from this, a good summer chill vibe! Guitars, harmonica, keys all come along nicely balanced. Plenty of very cool parts and musical ideas!!! Kudos!

The drums were either 1) recorded live? then we must accept some limiting mix environment expectations . . . or 2) using a sample instrument like EZDrums or similar? Then I think more could be done to the kick (more bassy? less muffly and less compressed?) and the snare (more beef? more snap?) and I'd suggest to achieve that, I'd recommend doing the "reference mix check" checking your mix alongside, A to B comparison, a pro-level mix, Like for instance a Joe Walsh tune  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hD5lmf2LLE

This kick-***** plugin goes on sale a lot, you just put it at the very end of your Main Out master channel, load a bunch of mixes you like to check your mixes against, and A-B compare your way to greatness! Don't be put off by the $199, it hits much much lower quite frequently  https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/products/adptr_metricab.html

Sorry to get all linky but I think your cool song deserves it.

cheers,

-Tom