Kevin Walsh

Exactly my point! I do like the CLA2A quite a bit but I've found Kush's AR-1 to sound pretty great.

Thank you, Kenny, I'm glad to hear you liked it!

Philip, fear not, I'm very grateful for your feedback. I've been thinking along the same lines with respect to the arrangement. I struggle to push a song out of the path that it's laid for itself, and this one seemed to want a simple repetitive vibe. I think I have to let this one sit for some time until the grooves in my brain fade a bit and allows me to see other possibilities for it. Thanks again for your criticism, it's very welcome indeed.

Great stuff, Kenny! Three very different pieces and all of them are going in to my study pile. Personal favorite is "To Thine Own Self Be Blue". You always put together a solid mix with killer guitar tones. You're going to have to talk about how you record one of these days.

Yeah, I wish it would work. It shows a new "connected drive" with no licenses and a "disconnected drive" with all of my licenses. I was able to select and move three licenses to the cloud but the other four defy every attempt to correct things. I never thought I'd pine for an ilok solution. 😀

Just like the documents say to do, right. Did it work? No. Why? I don't know. I've contacted support. This is the third time this has happened in the last year.

Damn them and their stupid license management scheme. It's tied to your NIC and if you foolishly forget and disable a NIC for some reason, goodbye Waves plugin licenses until you can recover them sometime NEXT YEAR. Seriously, just slap me.

Such a cool song! A memorable melody with a really good chorus. I very much enjoy the tone of your vocals here. Reminds me of Donovan. The mix sounds kind of reverby and thick and confused to my ears, like some of the instruments and are competing for my attention. There's also a sheen of harsh highs that detract from the really nice retro vibe you're establishing. Again, such a cool song!

Thank you, Mark, I appreciate you taking the time to listen!

Thanks for giving it chance! I'm really glad you dug it, thank you!

Thank you bjorn, I'm always doing that too. I guess the lyrics do relate to a life event, but not mine.

Thank you, Paul! I appreciate you chiming in!

I use nectar too, but the assistant puts a sheen on the track that just kills the human element. That's great if thats what you're going for (modern pop, I'm looking at you) but not for more roots-oriented stuff or blues or classic rock styles (imho!) Like you said, it does do a great job of finding resonant frequencies, so its a good starting point but I almost never use what it suggests without a lot of changes. Have you tried Neutron? Same kind of thing for all the othe instruments. We live in wondrous days.

I agree, #2 although I like #1 quite a lot.

Thanks for listening and I appreciate your critique!

Not sure why I didn't see this earlier, but wow, this is really great stuff. I'm so grateful that music like this is still being done! Everything was just right, keys, (great playing there) guitar, vocals, really nice mix. But the bass sounds are so very good. Killer song.

My first Bond film was Thunderball. My dad dropped my brother and I at the theater and hit the bar. I was seven, my brother was eight. We sat through the show twice. My dad was really mad. Sean Connery rocked. RIP

Fantastic, Python-esque view of our current pickle. Great song, great works great melody, as always. Love your mixes, so pristine. And I loved how you snuck in those bluesy lines at the beginngs of each verse. Just great. I bow to the master.

Yeah, man! Riff rock! You always do such great stuff. Like all your other works, this one is my favorite. PS: I'm gonna steal some of your licks. Just saying.

I'm not sure how I missed this one! I really loved it, very imaginative changes and a bass line for a lead melody, great! Ooh! I just saw that you have a release 3, back in a flash. Just listened to mix 3, is my imagination or are the vocals clearer, maybe less compressed? Perhaps I'm mis-remembering. Whatever you did, I like this one better.

I'm always taken aback at how clean synth-based track mixes are, a momentary surprise at the start, then I'm into it. Really great lead sounds here! I would have sworn you have an electric slide guitar in there. Really nice, smooth and relaxing melody. Great work!

Yes, that's an acoustic guitar, its supposed to be a feature, not a bug. 😀 Thats exactly the kind of feedback I'm looking for, thank you Kurt!

Blimey, mate, those vocals! You have a really great voice and this melody makes great use of it. I envy your falsetto skills, very nice. The mix is really nice, clean but smooth, nothing harsh about it. I'd consider pushing that awesome falsetto high harmony back a bit in the chorus, it seems to me that it's burying the lead vocal. Love your stuff!

Really liked this cover, you did a bang up job on everything, especially the vocals, silky smooth. The mix is spot on as well, and the guitar playing and tone are fantastic!

Really dug the driving beat on this one and the arrangement, instantly memorable. The monotonic delivery is exactly right, along with the ominous "don't laugh at me." I love this one, it's going on the play list. The mix is great but my none-too sensitive ears are hearing a build up in the mids that kind of clouds up the lower frequencies of the vocals. Maybe it's all those delays piling up? Anyway, it's a very cool song and I really liked it.