michaelhanson

Same exact thing happened to me two days ago.  I was advised to email cakewalk support by another member.  I haven’t had time to try that route yet.  Cakewalk is a secondary DAW for me and I’m focused on projects and production at the moment.  

I attempted to update my email at Command Center.  A very old email was used for my original log on and I no longer have access to it.  I got the response that it sent me an email to confirm, which I am never getting.  Sadly, It seems that I can no longer access any of my Legacy Products.  I was after Rapture.  Such an excellent plug in. 

The closest disaster that I’ve avoided was with my Rick bass a few years back.  I set it carefully in its stand to take a break between sets.  During the break, one of the board mixing engineers decided he was going to mess around with cables on stage and started pulling them around the stage.  It flipped my Rick face forward out of the stand and skidded across the strange face down.  I gasped and was literally afraid to pick it up.  

When I finally got the nerve, I was surprised to find zero damage on the face of the bass.  However, there was a small dent on the backside of the neck.  How, I still have no idea.  I filled it a little with some super glue and smoothed everything out.  You can still slightly feel it sometimes while sliding up and down the neck.

As far as guitars go, I own both a Les Paul Traditional and an Eric Johnson Strat.  I started playing Les Pauls in the early 80’s.  I’ve owned at least 6 different Les Pauls over the years, all seeing live play.  I’ve yet to break a headstock after 45 years.  
 

Nice tune, well done by all!  Typical excellent Bapu production. 

How do you guys get Sound Cloud to embed in the Cakewalk forum?  It’s very easy on other sites, but I’ve tried everything here and can just not figure it out.  I asked this on my tune as well, if it’s more appropriate to reply there. 

By the way, does anyone know how you embed Sound Cloud on this forum?  All other forums I belong to embed the song.  😐

OK, figured it out.  

I am continuing to update some old songs with new plug ins, Superior Drummer 3, remixing and remastering.  This is another song from over 12 years ago.  Let me know what you think of this mix; hopefully I've grown over the years.  

On 5/31/2025 at 6:13 AM, Gswitz said:

I got bitten by a tick in my front yard. 

Now I can't eat pork, beef, lamb... and dairy is iffy.

I’m not sure if I could survive that long without ice cream.  Thats brutal and sorry to hear this. 

13 hours ago, T Boog said:

It's super ironic that I just came across this post. I was just walking in the park and something stung the hell out of me right between my fingers. I squished it instantly and it fell but I couldn't find it so I don't know what it was. I was under the trees so it may have been a caterpillar, a bee or a sandfly maybe. Anyway, it's red and it's burning. 

If I don't make it, I want y'all to know that I hate all of you for outliving me. 😡

 

Well, it’s 13 hours later and we’ve yet to hear from T Boog.  I recon he hates us all. 

On 5/29/2025 at 12:28 PM, steve@baselines.com said:

Nce job Michael - did you fix some of the things others brought up?  I didn't hear anything that sounded off to me.  I liked it a lot when the electric guitars came in!

Steve

 

Thanks Steve.  No I have not made any adjustments to the mix and your hearing the original post.  I was waiting to her additional opinions on the overall mix and was going to just go back, hopefully once, to tweak.  I’ve had several other mixes that I’ve been working on in the mean time. 

Thanks Paul!  All very valid points and things for me to consider.  

Here is another song that I am reworking from the past.  I did a complete update on plug ins, amp sims, drum software, attempting to bring a fresh version to a solo album compilation.  Let me know what you think.  

The feedback that I receive from this forum has always been invaluable.  Thank you Wookie for pointing out the background noise in the recording.  

I was able to go into the Lead Vocal track and reduce much of the hiss.  Still a touch there, but much better I think.  Abbey Roads Chambers seemed to really be accentuating the hiss and pushing it forward in the track.  Moving to a different reverb plug in, seems to have helped that a lot.  If its still really noticeable, I guess it would take some repair software to clean up the track...or record a new vocal.  

Hey Wookie, 

Thanks for listening, hope you've been doing well.

Good suggestion on listening in mono; no I have not checked that.  

Real bummer on the background noise you are hearing.  I thought I had done a better job masking the noise.  This is obviously a really old recording done in more primitive times.  Maybe 20 years ago in my early days of recording.  I ran this one past Beagle (Reece) before posting and he didn't mention it, so I thought I had done a better job of hiding the noise.  I guess I could investigate picking up RX 11 Elements or something and see if it can be cleaned up some more.  There is always the option of retracking where there is noise, depends on which tracks I guess.  I need some of the John Lennon AI cleaning software on this one.  🙃

Extremely well done.  You captured the essence of McCartney’s vocals for sure.  Love the instrumentation, very well done.  This is up there as one of my McCartney favorites as well.

Happy that you could post this as a cover.  I’ve got a cover of Come Together that I’ve done, but I really never know what to do with it, as most of the internet music sites say, “no covers”. 

This red one and the other blue one, made me beg my parents for my first guitar. 

I haven't been around a lot lately.  Many might remember me as MakeShift in the old Sonar days.  When Cakewalk went the way of BandLab, I just changed to my name (Hanson).  I had teamed up with several members here and we were writing and recording songs as a virtual band of songwriters, under the name Scandalous Grace.  We put out 4 full albums of material.  That band has kind of been disbanded, however...so I'm working on a solo project.  

I'm going back to songs that I wrote and recorded pre-SG and remixing and remastering; updating plug ins, the whole works. 

Here is the 1st that I've spit on an polished up a bit.  Let me know your thoughts.

Someday I Want To Fly

Cool song Clint!  Nice to hear you back at it again.  Love the guitar work, great tone and tastefully played as always.  I hear nothing I would change about the mix.

I struggle with lyrics from time to time.  I tried out a lyrics writing AI program to see what it would generate, to add to some lyrics I had already written.  The results were interesting.  Not all usable, often simple and cliche, but a few lines got my thinking process jump started.  
 

I suspect it will get better very quickly.  I could easily find AI to be useful as a cowriter or something to bounce ideas off of.  There are already near rhyming apps that I’ve used for years to help the writing process.  I think it depends on who’s behind the wheel driving the car, who’s making the final decisions that matters.  AI isn’t going away, so I’m trying to figure out how to embrace it as a tool.  

My understanding has always been that theory was developed to explain why music works and sounds good.  It’s kind of like what came first, the chicken or the egg.   
 

When theory is not followed, but something still sounds good, then it’s often written in theory as an exception.   
 

I think it’s good and OK to understand theory, but I do think that it sometimes keeps people from coloring outside of the lines.  Some people can’t stand coloring outside of the lines and others find that to be interesting and creative.  
 

Similarly, blue is a primary color and that is a rule of design….but does the sky need to be painted blue.  

1 hour ago, paulo said:

Just tell them all that meetings are for people who can't make their own decisions, so if they need to have a meeting then they're clearly not up to the job.

 

 

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I wish it were that easy.    The problem is that they can all make there own decisions, but then they vary from staying with national standards.  ?   Our customers expect the same experience at NAMM or CES.  

3 hours ago, Rain said:

I've been working remotely since 2019. I had done that for a year before moving to the US in 2010-11.

A lot of friends reached out when the pandemic hit because they had trouble adjusting to remote work.  I couldn't imagine why they had so much difficulty - for me it's the best possible scenario, short of earning a living with music and books. I never have to leave the house except for groceries, once a week.

I have my work laptop and display on a file cabinet on wheels, tucked by the side of my desk. Come the weekend, it takes me less than 40 seconds to clock out, close everything and roll that thing out of sight in another room for the next couple of days. Otherwise, it can always be tucked in a corner when I work on music on weekdays. 

 

I'm a  national operations manager and my job consist of holding meetings with our Branch locations all over the US and Canada.  So, for me, it makes total sense to not go to an office when my office is really MS Teams.   I travel quite a bit, so I am still face to face with people as well.  

At this stage in my career, I find working from home to be a huge blessing.  I also have the discipline to do so.  I might not have had that discipline in my younger years.   Eliminating 2 hours of travel and replacing that with sleep has been great for my overall health.  

4 hours ago, Shane_B. said:

When companies start to equalize the WAH/salary ratio it's gonna get real fugly.

 

I'm not really worried about that, as I'm 3 years from retirement.  

5 hours ago, Bapu said:

As of this writing I'm doing both.

I'm on the forum, in my office that is both my job workstation (on one side of the room) and my studio (on the other side of the room).

I can relate.  A little over 2 years ago I became full time remote at my work position.  My office serves both as a studio and remote work office.  Two separate computer systems, each with a set of dual monitors.   Lunch hours often become recording sessions. 

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It takes a while to transition to Studio One from Cakewalk.  All of the features are there and more, but they are often called by another name.  YouTube is your friend.  
 

I now prefer the work flow in v6.5 over Cakewalk.  I never thought I would say that after 20 years as a hardcore user. 

13 hours ago, Bapu said:

I can without reservation that all my DAW products (CbB, Studio One, Reason, Bitwig, Cubase, Digital Performer, Mixbus/Mixbus 32C, Reaper and ProTools) have pluses and minuses of somewhat eqaul measure (just not the same ones).  Each one has its use for me and I use them when I need to.
 

Just curious, which DAW are you using as your primary recording software?