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Very nice, enjoyed that. Great guitar tone. Recording sounds beautiful.

You nailed it. They have music like this where I work (a hospital) on a TV channel that shows a continuous running stream.

Thanks Wookie! Thanks for listening, I think I needed the extra distortion to fill in the gaps since I'm a slow hand. Thanks for commenting Tom! Appreciate it man.

Thanks Kevin! The bass is pretty simple, cheap fretless jazz into free Amplitube SVX 500 basic plugin. I'm not a bass player but I must say I have enjoyed playing the fretless, it's my favorite. It does have fret markers otherwise it would really confuse me. I agree it is a fairly basic arrangement, it turned out that the chord changes in the song where really difficult for me to play to (love jazz but don't really understand it), I almost trashed the whole thing out of frustration. So that's the reason it's pretty brief. Thanks for commenting.

Love the guitar layers, I would never be able to come up with that, they compliment each other nicely. The distorted and clean sounds going back and forth is perfect. Great job, oh and the vocals are very nice too.

Very professional vocals and guitar work. My only critique is the vocals are too loud, otherwise great.

Your dad must be a hip dude, nothing like what I heard in the car LOL. Man who remembers Monkey Wards, love it. Very cool tune, I have always liked the sound of a sax and guitar together. I just ordered me a cheap sax to try and get back into it (we'll see) I played some back in the 90's.

Thanks David, I use a modded 65 dollar ebay strat straight into the focusrite. Using BiasFx2 plugin which includes a distortion box, auto wah, chorus, 69 Plexi amp then delay and reverb boxes. The BiasFX is nice in that it includes a lot of classic Fx boxes. These plugins make it so easy to get decent sounds quick. I have some really nice home built tube amps and Fx but I would be spending all day trying to capture a good tone.

Thanks a lot Hidden Symmetry, Pavlovs Cat and Jack! I just realized the congas cut short on the end so I fixed that, can't believe I didn't notice.

Very nice song, you're a good song writer. When the solo guitar comes in there's some percussive sounds that are distracting. I would use an EQ like MEqualizer where you can sweep the curve around while you listen, I always use it to find the sweet spot with an acoustic. Sometimes a graphic EQ is better when it's a very narrow specific frequency that needs cutting.

I like the groove, very reminiscent of the Talking Heads to me.

https://www.bandlab.com/studedude/layin-it-down-2394472a?revId=78b26bfa-8792-ec11-a507-0050f280e91e Instrumental Jazz/Rock original song using a strat with BiasFx2, Fishman midi guitar with Velvet keys, Jamstix drums, Ezdrummer2 congas, Glarry fretless jazz bass. Suggestions/comments welcome.

Well written song, good work, I like all the changes. Very nice guitar tones.

Really like this, it's a toe tapper. That bass line is too cool, the guitar, sax, keys all great stuff. Always excited to see one of your songs here, thanks for sharing.

I like it, really smooth, sounds great. Very good guitar playing. Cool break for the bass solo too.

Good job writing a song about junk, catchy.

Hey, thanks for that. I flipped the switch so I'll see if that fixes it, sure would be nice because it's been driving me nuts.

I have weird random problems with various vst instruments that change settings on their own. My Jamstix drum program will go to zero volume or the kit will not produce sound and I have to reload the kit to get it back, I think I did this 5 times yesterday. My synth and keyboard plugins will keep dropping the volume to zero and sometimes change the sounds I have selected. Is there a setting somewhere that allows these changes?

Nice, you know your drag racing lingo that's for sure . Rock on.

I can totally hear Petty there, love his stuff. Every time I finish a song I start thinking it's the last good one I'll ever come up with. Who knows where they come from and if it may dry up, but you gotta keep trying.

Very pretty song and great vocals. Personally I would like to hear the bass more. Good work.

Really good vocals on there.

Things sound pretty good but the kick is really distracting. It's a big woofy over powering thump. I don't think it fits at all, but if you love it at least turn it down. The trumpet sounds great.

Cool tune! Fusion is my favorite genre. Very good playing, I'm jealous. Those drums must have been a lot of work, I can't imagine. My only little niggle is the bass seems weak, I think the song would have more impact with a bit more bottom. Great job on this one man.

Boy, that's a treat for the ears! Really great composition with many cool changes, great job. Fantastic playing too.