PhonoBrainer

Having bought a coronaload of plugins for mixing, here's the ones I actually always use. . . EQ = Fabfilter ProQ3, Maag 4, Oeksound Soothe Comp = Waves API2500, the Glue, Softube Drawmer s73. (Limiter = Fabfilter pro-L 2) Specializers = Softube Tape, Zynaptiq intensity Modulaters = Waves Brauer motion, Soundtoys echoboy and filterfreak and Microshift Reverb = Seventh Heaven, Breeze 2, Spaces What am I missing out on???

Andy! Stranger things are yet to come for us all, I'm afraid . . . many thanks for the listens, I hope you and yours are faring well through this . . . in future vids, no more dentists without prior disclaimer!

Bjorn I think you and I live on the same musical street a lot of the times. Thanks so much!

I hadn't thought about that, it's true! Thanks for the listen . . .

Of course I would love this!!! old sound clips, Tangerine + Kraftwerk influenced, really well mixed. Thanks for the fun, Bjorn! Extra Credit for awesome use of mod wheel! cheers, -Tom

This is what I want to listen to when I'm in the outer bay airlock preparatory to my spacewalk to go pry the Neptunian Squid off of the starboard sewage port. sonically, 10/10. cheers, -Tom

I'll see your Waylon Jennings reference, and raise you Gordon Lightfoot and Bruce Cockburn. Vocals are really good! The guitars shine as well. Lyrics keep you in the song, to say the least! cheers, -Tom

Steely Dan leaps to mind, and the lyrics make that happen bigtime. If you can pop for a better drum sampler, I'd recommend Superior Drummer 3. It's pretty great for what you are trying to do musically here. Loved the guitar, both rhythm pickin' and the lead. Those drums really need work, but the vocals are nice and clear, the guitars are very solid indeed! Welcome to the Struggle, it is Real! Glad to hear your tunes . . . cheers, -Tom

audio and vid worked together very well. I expected to be longer? Shouldn't she have a mask on? a great creepy number. cheers, -Tom

You've got this genre down, brother. Awesome. cheers, -Tom

I really liked everything about this (fantastic, quiet mood - I was walking the harbor at 3am - super sounds chosen for the feel of that!) but tbh the vinyl crackles for me kind of wreck it. It sounds like sand in the gears, or an unwanted geiger counter. But to each their own. I think if present less often, it might still result in the effect you require. But my vote counts not! It's still a wonderful piece of music. cheers, -Tom

I thought EZ already described bass as an instrument? ? Ok I know that's bs, it's amazing in the hands of a master.

Awesome . . . what day is it? I've been using playing cards clothespinned to bicycle spokes up until now. Thanks, OTS !!!

To subscribe to the print edition for a year in the United States is $66. Just fyi. A bit steep?

Quick turnaround on this project! Obviously you can't take the "ten years" workflow approach . . . Lyrics are smart and great. The chorus, the third line where you take it down and it do the C to G thing, that's a clever bit of chording right there. It makes the song memorable! I heard a bit of sibilance in the prechoruses, particularly the first one. Other than that the mix is a clean and clear as a clean and clear bell. Really great. I hope they get together soon! Have they heard this yet? What do they think? cheers, -Tom

1. Make yourself happy, artistically 2.

Hmmm. If you are in a real blues band, you need to respect the blues. Blues don't take kindly to synth noodlin'. Sounds like what you really need is a side project. Or get it together and be the online one-man progfest! You start getting all portamento in a blues band and you'll have to duck the whiskey glasses they whip at your head. Seriously, go light a fire under this guy with your intricate, well-conceived, architectural, self-indulgent, polyrhythmic epicness . . .

Hey Tom! People have been imputing meaning into "fire" since man was but a wee tadpole. And so it continues! Yes the WTF ending is my favorite as well, many thanks for sticking around until the end! cheers, -Tom

Mix tips from you are gold. You should have heard the acoustic guitar before I turned it down I'll get on that. Too much snare is a definite recurrent pattern in my mixing, thanks for the observation. In a song with a vocal I'd be more careful but here I'm ok if the snare kind of drives it. Worth a look, tho. cheers and thanks! -Tom

Funny you should mention laptop because in the first mix of this, the bass completely disappeared in earbuds and even on decent headphones. there are two bass elements (8dio Adagio Bass, and the AGY YinYang) and I really had to eq them with boosts up north in the 500-600 range to get them present enough into the earbuds. If you got the video, thanks and again so sorry for the waste of your time cheers, -Tom

Thanks Douglas, it is Enyalike, I hear that. Many thanks for the listen!

I assure you the WTF was intentional and you are just as confused as I am. The fire, did it mean anything? It's an "anti music video" of a kind so all I can tell you is the fire is up for interpretation. You could, for example, interpret it as hilarious. Or, something else! many thanks for the listen and condolences on the waste of your time, my musical friend. cheers, -Tom

Hope you all are safe! This was begun in 2017. The video is . . . well, I'll let you figure that one out if you want. I'd dearly love mix or other comments, this one was suprisingly tricky for how simple it was. I dunno. the Soundcloud link is below as well. thanks! -Tom

It's a pretty darn cool delay that washes along after that lead vocal. It gets panned around so nicely. I think the mix is decent but maybe just a bit light in the kick/bass dept. The song itself is performed with passion and is totally solid. Nice one!