Kevin Walsh

On 10/17/2020 at 10:43 PM, bjornpdx said:

I listened to a few of the tracks and I'm thinking wow such great songwriting skills and the voice to go with it.
You've got talent for sure.

Thank you, Bjorn, its very kind of you to say that.

On 10/17/2020 at 10:09 PM, emeraldsoul said:

Toes tappin. Your song has two parts and they are both brilliant. Kudos on the punchy yet controlled drums, any tips?

 

That was really great. And your vocal was awesome as well, great voice, man!

cheers,

-Tom

Thank you, Tom!

On 10/17/2020 at 5:37 AM, Paul Bush said:

``shot in the back´´ is a like kick in the ***** for me I´ll have to up my game 1,000 fold  to come anywhere near to that track  , loved it, well done, I`m going back to listen to the rest cheers

Thanks, Paul, I'm grateful for your kind words!

On 10/16/2020 at 9:27 PM, Max Arwood said:

Nice song Kevin.  Yes I agree - your vocals have a nice pop-rock sound to them. Great song too. I think the lead vocal could use a tiny more lows. I hope someone else will chime in.  Not sure where, and not very much. And just to say - It sounds nice the way it is.  I know what you mean about years!  Some people just pop songs out left and right.  I'm worse than you.  I'm embarrassed to say how long I have been working on several songs! 

Thank you, Max, nice to know I'm not the only one who works at a snail's pace!

On 10/16/2020 at 4:35 PM, John Maar said:

Now playing in the background. Very good! Rerouted from my PC speakers to my main monitors!

Hope it sounds okay through the monitors, all those tunes are mixed on headphones. I have to get me some decent ones, I don't like the old KRK 5's I have now. Thanks!

On 10/16/2020 at 2:21 PM, ABull said:

Hey Kevin, "Shot in the Back" is terrific --- that groove is infectious and the opening guitar is perfect.  Your vox are outstanding -- I like the rock grit in your voice -- the mix is great -- stellar work mate~~Allan.

Thank you, Allan, it's extremely gratifying to hear you say that. 

You always have such interesting melodies, and the mix is so clear. Great guitar tones throughout with a really good break. Great vocals and harmonies and yeah, the chorus works really well. Keep 'em coming! 

Wonderful composition with great performances and a pristine sound.  Absolutely captivating.

Fun with panning! It's big part of what makes this work. Like the vocal bits quite a lot.

Yes I have 5 and 6 running side by side with no issues so far.

I posted a compilation of tunes on BandLab as an album, "Invaders from Outer Space". Every one of these songs have been put together with a lot of help from the forum members here and at the old Cakewalk site. It's taken six years to write enough songs that didn't make me cringe too badly to justify doing this. I have one more song for it, the title track, but I don't know how long it will take to finish that stupid song, so here's the compilation.

https://www.bandlab.com/kevinwal/albums/b6bf15aa-240e-eb11-96f5-0004ffd2ff50

A great big thanks to you all for all the help over the years.

6 hours ago, Lord Tim said:

Ah you're talking about stretching to project kind of stuff, which I agree is very fiddly. I personally never use it that way, rather I'm usually quantizing/moving transient markers around and aligning tracks that way. That's also pretty fiddly, to be fair, but you can get some pretty consistently good results if you do the prep right.

Yes I am. I had one project that I really thought had some good performances but really needed a couple of extra BPM's. I ended up using Reaper to do that. 

I love Cakewalk though. I've had Reaper since it came out and I almost never use it any more.  

Really dug this one, a great laid back but slightly ominous groove and a really inspired solo. Mix is fabuloso. This is a keeper.

Well, when you need audiosnap you really need it and you just have to hope that you can set things up right to get it to work. Aligning everything to the start of a measure properly is a big deal, as is getting the BPM in the audiosnap window close to the actual BPM.  Even then it's even odds that when you click "Clips aligns to project" you will get different time stretches on every clip, some faster, some slower. But when it does work, it works a treat.

I've posted a new mix (#3) with Tom's feedback incorporated. It sounds a lot better to my ears, thank you for the help! One thing, is the acoustic too much? I'm relegated to mixing with headphones these days and it's pretty difficult to get things balanced that way. Your help is very much appreciated.

3 hours ago, emeraldsoul said:

I think I heard mix #2? I'd say get some more low mids into the bass? Or overall, bass volume up even more? I love an out front vocal and your is a treat, particularly when its doubled in the chorus, or with the bgv's. But to help the overall balance, maybe drop the lead vocal volume just a hair?

You have an acoustic stumming along and some of the highs on that are very bright indeed, super bright steel strings jumping out in spots, if this were mine I would drop the upper shelf down a bit . . .

You've made some cool, laid-back choices for this, nice job!

 

cheers,

-Tom

 

Tom, thanks for the great feedback. I'll give the things you suggest a whirl and post a new mix soon.

Loved the attitude you bring to the song, it's what makes it. An additional 100 bonus points for finding all those words ending in -ation. 💯

Thank you sir, I appreciate both of your listens! I thank your hound as well for giving me to opportunity to ease you in to the day.

Thanks for the feedback, guys. I did goose the bass up a little bit (actually re-did the whole bass line to give it a more flowing feeling.) I posted a new mix for you to review.  Sabby,  I don't really know how to play keys so I don't guess I'll be putting a  Hammond part in there, but you're right, it might just sound cool. 

Thanks, keep the feedback coming!

You've reached a milestone, time for a beer! Liked that last one, had a few hooks in there. 

I'm having real trouble dialing in the mix, your feedback is very appreciated. 

Update: Mix #3 just posted,  your feedback has improved the mix a great deal. I know it's getting better because I'm now hearing all of my mistakes.

Love the stealer too but I'm enjoying wailing on the fire breather. I actually think I prefer the Chicago. And check out the Tweedman, nice!

Sounds of existing presets are pretty nice. I haven't messed with any new cabs or IR's yet or any of the new amps,  just getting to know the new UI.

Not too impressed with the new navigation. The DAW intercepts keystrokes and interprets them as macros when I use the search dialog! Works fine in standalone mode. Maybe there's a setting somewhere to control that .

So far the sound compares favorably with S-Gear to my poorly tuned ear.

Shades of Pink Floyd! For a second there I thought the band was going to break out into "One of These Days". Pretty great video too. Thanks for posting this, I enjoyed it a lot!

Native Instruments FINALLY ships version 6 of what I thought was a dead product line. I was eligible for the upgrade pricing so naturally I had to get it. I'm playing with it now and it sounds pretty damned good to my cauliflower ears. 

I use version 5 a great deal. I also own S-Gear and Helix Native and while I tend to reach for S-Gear I have always found a use for GTR. So I'm pretty pumped that 6 has been released.