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Kevin Walsh

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  1. 7 hours ago, Larry T. said:

    Hi Kevin....enjoyed the whole song very much....especially your lead guitar sound....it's exactly what I aim for, clean, precise, serves the song....the piece moves along very nice with a comfortable vibe that really kept me listening 🎼🎻🎺🎧

    Thanks so much for listening, Larry, and I appreciate you taking the time to comment!

  2. Interesting panning going on here in the opening section.  I cannot hear the vocals very well. The vocals panned to the left are a bit back in the mix, and the bass, drums and guitar seem to occupy the same space toward the right with the other vocal. The overall effect is a bit unclear and chaotic and it's hard for me to follow. That may in fact be what you're after.  Assuming it's not, I'd try for a more conventional panning with vocals, drum and bass in the middle with some separation between the vocal parts, and guitars panned right and left.

    Your recordings are typically nice and clear with good tones coming from the instruments. On this track I can't hear some things very well so I think some playing with levels to get a better balance would help.

     

  3. On 11/8/2021 at 1:12 AM, PJH said:

    Wow Andy! 

    Get off your high horse! So you're telling me that every guitar player that plays a Les Paul replica should be ashamed??? I can name Ibanez, ESP, Cort, Yamaha, PRS (Gibson tried to sue them and lost the case). These guitars are not trying to pass of their replicas as Gibson knock offs. They do not have Gibson on the headstock.

    I have a Gibson Les Paul Standard and can honestly say that these Japanese hand made Tokai Loverocks completely blow the Gibson away in terms of build quality, attention to detail and playability.

    You have no idea of any guitar player's personal situation and have absolutely no right in telling someone what they should be playing.

    I really don't even know why I'm bothering to justify myself to someone who thinks that they can dictate to anyone about personal choice. I shouldn't even dignify your comments with a reply.

    I have a fantastic LP knock-off, it's an Agile 3200MCC and I sold a Gibson LP  Studio to buy it. Twice the guitar for a third the price. Wish I could play it as well as you play here, really well done.

  4. I found a bunch of phase issues in the vocal tracks, a bunch of takes that were still hanging around messing things up. I fixed all that and popped the drums a bit but it change a lot of the vibe of the original, I think. Let me know if you guys thing it's improved or made worse. 

  5. 2 minutes ago, mark skinner said:

     Kevin , Fantastic vibe !  I Loved the vocals and harmony and the guitars had So much texture . I totally agree with Gary on the drums , I think the vocals could take a little of the same treatment , and they seem to be phasing a little during the thick harmony parts. When you First started singing I could see Bowie doing it , then it went to a lot of great different directions.   You have a real gem here.      Superb ..   mark

    Thank you mark, it's  nice to hear your feedback! I first did the vocals an octave lower but alas, I do not have the vocal chops to pull it off. So I did another take over the top of the original vocals. You can still hear the original take. Thanks for pointing out the phasing, I missed that.

  6. Thanks gary, I'll give that a try and see how it sounds. I have a bit of trouble with high frequencies so it's s no surprise to me if  I've cut too much.

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  7. Update 2: I've addressed some of the issues raised by folks throughout the thread. I think it's improved in a lot of ways, but I also think that some of the energy has been taken out of the second verse. Or am I imagining things? One last trip through the tune if you can stand it, friends! To make it easier on you I've added a few more guitar flourishes here and there that I like, and one I had recorded but forgot that I had muted. Doh!

     

    Greetings, fellow slaves of the muse, I've finally kind of finished a song that I started some three years ago. It was incredibly difficult for me to get this one out. Still, please feel free to criticize as you see fit.

    One difference in my approach to guitars in this one is the use of a Rock Crusher attenuator line out to capture the flavor of my home-brew Deluxe Reverb clone. I think there's a qualitative difference between sims and this approach. In any case, please let me know what you think about any aspect of this song, and thanks in advance for your comments.

     

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  8. In terms oflow latency I was never satisfied playing into Cakewalk through a vst  amp sim. Even with a very powerful computer there was just too much fiddling around  required to get the latency to a reasonable level. I found that Guitar Rig 5 run in standalone mode alongside Cakewalk got me very good realtime sounds and allowed me to record in Cakewalk at the same time. I use an Audient ID22 which I love. 

  9. The mix was really good, thought maybe the bass was a very small bit forward, it kept stealing my attention from the lyrics particularly around the bridge (which is pretty damned nice.) Piano is divine. Damn I liked this one. Really enjoyed the journey the chords took me on. 

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  10. Thanks wookie, this is a nice one, I enjoyed the changes in the middle quite a bit and the end was quite good.

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  11. I gave this a listen last night on my phone's little dinky speakers. I think that if a mix sounds decent that way, it will sound great on phones or speaker. And this sounded good on the phone. I could hear everything. Yeah, you're right, the bass is too forward but at least it's tone is really good.

    I just gave it another listen on the ol' Slate VSX phones with the plugin active and set to Archon room, mid fields and it sounds pretty good. Get that bass mixed in right and it will sound a lot better. I'd love to hear more of the guitar. I like it's tone quite a bit. 

    I'm curious, what do you guys intend to do with the product of these jams? Inquiring minds wonder.

    Are you going to do more development with Blood Bath 535? I liked that one quite a bit.

     

  12. I'm sure this is a common problem  with the aging boomer generation. I have severely compromised high-frequency hearing acquired in the military. Up until now my strategy has been to mix it as best as I can taking into account my hearing loss and then letting a lot of different people including people on this forum hear what I've done.

    If I recall correctly sonarworks plugin has an algorithm that applies correction based on the average frequency degradation for a given age range, but I don't know if that will help you given the nature of your hearing loss.

    I think what makes the most sense is knowing what frequencies are compromised and setting up a special EQ that compensates for them.  

    However you choose to deal with it,  sitting on the porch hasn't been an option for me.

  13. Thanks, that's exactly what I was after.

    Those drums sound pretty freakin' real to me. Guitars sound great too.

    I didn't know a Twin Reverb could be se on fairly low volume.  Ha!

  14. That track is good! The mastering job sounds pretty good too, but it sounds in places like the track has lost some definition between instruments. Maybe you have it set to be more aggressive?

    I didn't know about the free bandlab mastering service, I'll have to check it out.

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