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OMG, we used one of those 688's back in the 90's. All the punching in and out we ruined the heads and kind of barely salvaged a years worth of band recording.  I do think certain things sounded better recorded to tape, rhythm guitar sounds were great, vocals were better too. Don't remember mine being midi, just a cassette.

I think it sounds pretty good now.

You never seem to run out ideas, amazing. Great guitar playing, cool changes. I dig that sultry trumpet too.

Nice song and singing.  My only niggle is the bass sounds weak, it is kind of vague sounding.

Well done.

Interesting song, good work.

Interesting song with some good sounds. I don't hear any bass was this on purpose? 

What a great groove, love it! Kind of like some of the great bass grooves that Barry White had.

I've screwed up some tracks from too much stretching.

I would zoom in a lot more and make sure your transient markers bracket the part well before stretching. It's worth learning how to use the transients, I always use them to tighten up my bass and drum parts, makes the groove so much tighter sounding.

Did some more tweaks to it.

https://www.bandlab.com/studedude/ocean-blvd-056f10e3?revId=db50d25d-ac74-ec11-94f6-a04a5e79a6b8

Good song. Definitely some timing issues though. Do some audio transients so see how far off things are.

Very cool and good energy. Like the horns and of course great guitar too. Is this your usual group of guys?

 I think the drums may be too loud now, at least on my speakers it sounds that way.

Wow, this sounds really good! Nice recording, everything sounds good, especially the vocals, great work man. Hooky song too.

That's some pretty great playing! The recording sounds kind of muffled to me. Otherwise there is a lot of energy.

I like this tune, reminds me of a Paul Simon song. To  me it needs more bottom end and the drums are a long ways away. Maybe that's what you are going for . 

Thanks for the tip Promidi, I just downloaded the Mcompressor and it is pretty close to the safe in the way it operates. Appreciate the help.

Thanks! I'll give it a try.

OK, thanks. I was wondering if that's how it would have to be done, just being lazy and hoping for a way to not do it.

I didn't think of that for some reason but it accomplishes the same thing I did before, there is no processing on any of the tracks.

So I did a drag and drop from my cakewalk projects folder but none of the fx came with the tracks , it's all just dry. Is there a way to get them over with everything?

I think this started after one of the last couple updates because it always worked perfectly before. It will open and works fine it's just a bit scary when everything freezes (the song will keep playing though).

I have two separate songs that I want to combine into one, how is this done?  I looked at import in file but it wasn't clear how that would work.

This would have fit right in on Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon.

https://www.bandlab.com/studedude/ocean-blvd-056f10e3?revId=0fbe2321-7e6d-ec11-94f6-a04a5e79a6b8

I re-recorded the intro part because the string sound was bugging me. I also added a graphic eq to the bass to get rid of the hiss. Did a little remix on the strings.