PhonoBrainer

Do I recognize Virharmonic Bohemian Violin? Or??? This piece is really lovely and I like how it unfolds, evolves . .. the middle part around 1:27 gets a little choppy with the marcato? maybe a touch more reverb on those? I dunno. cool piece Starise! -Tom

Adaptiverb owner. The hi res is there. The tweakability is there. The complexity is, too. And it all makes your CPU say "Feed Me, Seymour!!!" I've used it mostly for sound design rather than regular mixing duties. The main trick up its sleeve is that it can tune your reverb tails into the notes of the sound source. You play a c triad, the reverb comes out strongly tuned c triad. Like it hides the overtones in the reverb tail. It also is good at feeding the reverb tail back into the original signal in weird ways. It's a pretty special tool but honestly I use the free Subspace ten times as much. Fwiw

I like it very much, it's a listening adventure. In the beginning I kind of wanted the lead guitar noodling to either come up in volume, (it's often quieter than the hi hat), or prolly just a hair less reverb whist keeping it atmospheric. Somehow! I'm guessing, live drummer? Pretty impressive however it's played or programmed. I think the entire thing has a massive sense of vision. Mix-wisem I'd vote for a little more "air" up top, it's a bit focused on midrange, which is understandable given the instrumentation, but any kind of eq that cak do one of those 20khz air boosts or upper eq lift shelf might help it breathe a bit more. To be fair, I listened on headphones, decent phones, but that might be the "air" I'm missing. I dunno. Great track, great adventure. cheers, -Tom

I too have multiple trips of soul searching in this area. Ya gotta go! Let's just say, usually "social distancing" is not a problem there. Very cool track, Bjorn. Certainly evokes the feeling. Mix-wise, I think the whole piece could be longer, actually. I like the drums that come in, and if you are going to have drums then turn them up? . . . and at the very beginning you might insert a half a second of silence, it starts rather abruptly upon hitting play. Meet you at that one motel with the cabin-y looking sprawl at the base of the Vermillion Cliffs. cheers, -Tom

That was fun, and totally cool of you to share that visual time capsule. I kept looking for the bungee jumpers but not, maybe thirty years later? Nice singing! I'd vote for vocals up as well, just a smidge. cheers, -Tom p.s. extra credit for your Dad's argyle hiking socks!!! A bold choice!!!

Fwiw I bought it. Not reading the manual, I youtube some guy using just the eq, monkey copied those settings he was dialing in, on the master bus of a song in working on. Bass got immediately more sustain, yet tighter in focus. Glued the tracks nicely together. Sounded professional. More clarity as well. That was just the eq on the master bus ... No idea what's going on but in this application it sounded to me like an ssl compressor only it didn't really raise the noise floor. I did detect some mashed drum transients but I took another compressor off the drums and things calmed down. Ok, I know, who cares. Guess it's time to read the manual.

Lars I have a toe in the acustica waters. A user really has to get past a learning curve on those interfaces. I'll agree that there is a slight advantage in a three dimensional quality they can give to a sound, if you figure them out. I only have purple and gold, but I've tried a few others. Not taupe. On the downside, in my experience anyway, acustica plugins are more buggy. They don't always play nice. And there's that inherent lag between moving a gui knob, and hearing a result, because of how they have done their modelling. Do you have softube tape? I use that a lot, I'd be interested in a comparison. More downside? Ok, if you have a support issue, they seem to operate on something like a helpdesk ticket system which, at least a few years ago, was not very well run. If you have a nice fast computer, I don't think the extra CPU hit is going to be noticed. To be fair, I don't own their latest offerings . . . but there might be a reason for that. Perhaps later iterations have solved some of those downsides. Meanwhile I will dutifully download the taupe demo tonight. What the Hades. Thanks, Larry! By the way they are going to run out of colors soon.

I notice your desk is right flush on the wall, you might look into pulling it off th wall a bit, even a foot or two helps

How much is your foam budget? I don't think the window is a deal breaker. Are those Venetian blinds? Any window covering to help diffuse any snapback from that window will do fine. Does the sun set in that window. Is it westward facing? Mine is and I have to wear a hat to cut the afternoon glare as I look at the monitors in front of my windows. You might get away with some small foam patches at the mirror points. The ceiling has a wider mirror point I that you might think! Bass traps in the corners are also good. Hope your neighbors are cool! I think the more live recording of guitar amps and vocals you plan on doing, the more foam yet gonna need to deaden the reflections. Good luck and maybe share an after picture? Cheers, -Tom

That was mesmerizing, in a glass of wine looking out the window kind of way. Very well done. Lovely 3/4 rolling triplet feel. What did you use for the piano, it had a perfect dreamy ambience. cheers, -Tom

sorry may I add I really liked the vid!

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Ok Boomer!!! Actually I wanted one but I couldn't afford the $399.95 or whatever the hades it was. But I did have a couple of daisy chained cassette players to degrade stereo tracks with. 💩

Thanks Michael! The Soothe plugin tends to knock out any upper eq sharpies that the compressor shards out, if that makes any since. Appreciate the listen and the comment.

Thanks Paul. In isolation there is madness. I think we all know that now.

Thanks so much. TMJ so sorry indeed.

plus 1 on that chorused and phasey guitar. Maybe the lead vocal solo is a little dry, just a bit of delay or rvb? You probably already have a bit on them. Your bgv oooohs seem spot on! Is your lead vocal panned a bit left? Maybe bring that back to center? I dunno, I've never known for sure but I like the lead vocal downtown, particularly in a sparse mix like this. YMMV. good stuff bro cheers, -Tom

really cool, thanks for the morning jazz wake-up! -Tom

Am I hearing a Wavestation patch? "chik -chik zhaaaaa" love it. Part whatever. Super chill. got the squid off of the sewer vent btw, thanks for asking . . . cheers, -Tom

you can friggin write a song. Love the arrangement choices. I'm pretty sure your rhythm guitars in the first part of the song are out just ahead the beat of the snare. The drums and bass seem locked, but you might check to see if those guitars are anticipating the drums just a tad. The lead guitar seems in the pocket, tho. excellent as usual! cheers, -Tom

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