PhonoBrainer

This is a novel I would read. Good luck and good music on the journey.

Vocals are great, the instrumentation choices are killer, the lyrics are heartfelt, the chord changes are freeeekin tasty!!! This one sounds like you spent some quality hours on the mix, sounds really clean, separated, tastefully compressed and effected. Wonderful! The only critique I could suggest is to take the hi hat down 1.5 db, and give at least .5 db back to the sidestick loved it! It never got boring . . .oh I forgot the bgv's were so supportive, there and not there at the same time. Wonderful! cheers, -Tom

I only have the pro-l2 limiter and the pro-q3 . . . they sound great, and have awesome GUI. That pro-q3 eq is an absolute dream to work with.

Can you buy this on Amazon?

Right on! It's got a great beat, very "up" . . . nice vocals! Any chance, for example at :32, the first "you" in your choruses, sustaining that into a "yoouuuuuuu" rather than truncating it? Hey it just occurred to me and not all my ideas are winners. Super cool bass line!!! Now, if I were you, I wouldn't feel compelled to mention that "she's not Aprhodite" but that's none of my business!!! nice tune indeed, let the games begin! Have fun and will listen for the update! cheers, -Tom

Lyrics are great, storytelling is a strength of yours. I noticed the lack of center, which is acceptable in instruments, but disconcerting in the vocals. But your voice has an awesome timbre! There's a couple of clipping pops you might want to track down, for example 3:50 and 4:07 - and both of these are at the beginning of a vocal line. Whatever is taking it out of the center is loading, or overloading, the sides. This could be a clue? If it's a mono vocal (as most are) are you processing it with any stereo plugins? If so, maybe switch 'em out for mono processors, you never know. Anyhoo, to the extent the song is autobiographical, it's a story very well told and my condolences on your situation. cheers, -Tom

I'm waiting for Ian Dury's Box of Rhythm Sticks.

Love the low baritone all over the place in this one, it gives the song a substantial weight. Great vocal. @:11 you want "too long" (the truth must be spoken) I listened a couple of times, those lyrics are really quite well thought out. cheers, -Tom

Cool! I think you might look at reverb spaces. The bassoon is in a small room? But there is a little hall reverb on the strings? You might kill all the reverbs on the Kontakt instruments, and feed all the instruments into a thumping great concert hall with a small amount of predelay. If you haven't done that already? Or, something else entirely! It's a pleasant meander, and I found myself pleasantly adrift. Until the ending, which needs a warning sign "Bridge Out Ahead" cheers, -Tom

Those are some tasty synths and rises! I'd vote for vocals and drums up - let us feel the power of vocals and drums, to match the heady synths. This is one of my favs of yours thus far. Cool beans!!! cheers, -Tom

Wonderful interplay of vocal/guitar/cello/accordion/ and mandolin? !!! Is it a mandolin? Link: Mix-wise, I'd say that awesome vocal could come up just a hair.

Mix was really clean, and the vid was certainly easy on the eyes! Super project, this! cheers, -Tom

Damn, Kenny, fastest Photoshop in the West. I liked the Hamilton-esque one best! Major skills.

On a dead upside-down shark? 😒

Emin to Amaj, there and back again x infinity. Moderate tempo. Garage band staple. The drummer drifts and slows down, annoying the keyboard player. The bass player is someone's nerdy friend, just picked it up last week. The guitar player is the boss but plays WAAAAAY TOOOOO LOUDDDD because he is going deaf. None of them can sing, much less sing and play at the same time. Somebody's sister knows a hot chick. She can't sing, either, but her hotness keeps the band together for two more weeks until she picks the drummer, who leaves the following week and that's when they all look at each other and realize it's time to read the next post.

Notes. The first place to open up will probably be Mar el Lago, so sniff out a gig there?

@noynekker - boy you hit the nail on the head about the video! I've started it, and I agree "theatre of the mind" is difficulto translate visually, especially with a budget of near zero! But I like my chances, we'll see. Thanks so very much for the comments! @vechung - make mine a gin and tonic, thanks! And thanks for the listen! @Lynn - hopefully face masks and tin foil hats have differing levels of efficacy! Maybe not! Thanks for the comments . . . @Douglas Kirby - yeah, original is important, like your stuff is! I dunno I just can't get fired up about covering another's song, maybe because I was in a cover band for 15 years. Yeah, that's it. thanks very much! @Bajan Blue - thanks Nigel very much for giving this weird little song a listen!

Thanks!!! @bjornpdx - ah yes now you see why I do a lot of instrumentals! I actually wrote and recorded most of this in 2014, and it took me six years to get the guts to do three little background vocal parts!!! Many thanks for the listen . . . @AndyB01 - thanks, you are too kind, so glad you enjoyed it. It's a quirky little song so not to everyone's tastes perhaps! You are very musically open minded and beyond considerate! Thanks again! @DeeringAmps - thanks man!!! It was really fun to stew on this for six years. Total back burner. You know how it is. And the "page turning" is recorded tin foil ripping, believe it or not! Thanks for the comments, much obliged . . . @daryl1968- Thanks! I think I found the key to a successful mix - only have piano and voice! Two inputs, so easy to manage! And it still took me a while! Glad you dug it.

Hi Steve! This was an education for me, I wasn't really familiar with this song, but you seem to have pulled it off nicely! That's a creditably McCartney vocal! I'd offer an idea, maybe boost the vocal a tad, in spots in really needs to come above the level of the competing piano and synthstrings. For me, everything clicked in the mix better when it was full bass accompaniament, but I get the song must have the dynamics of stripped-down sections. Otherwise, the mix had great separation between the instruments, and I agree it's a pleasant and interesting song! Nice job on it! cheers, -Tom

Hi Doug! I listened to the full mix. Excellent song, love the parts, love how they come together. What would you identify as the chorus in this song? I'm hearing verse / prechorus / chorus ? I think one thing you might consider is adding an element that really boosts the chorus, like a backing pad or doubled vocal or something, a ha! An organ pad!!! just to get the arena really rocking! Very Tom Petty, awesome! cheers, -Tom

Sorry, I should have checked the name. "Aidan O'Driscoll" plenty of hints on offer, a fine Irish name it is. I'll check out that site because I'm a big Thomas Dolby fan, and that's what we do.

Has the patriarch taken into full consideration any unwanted psychological remnants this might produce in the boy holding the shears? Could be a bit traumatic for a six year old who is expressing reluctance. Now, if he could do it with a light saber, that's another story 😊

The last game I really enjoyed was Rogue, on the Unix platform or server or whatchamacallit. Or, "Canyon Defense" at miniclips.com. Wish they had either of those on android. As you can see, I'm nOtagAmer4LiFe Ok boomer out.