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6 hours ago, Paul Bush said:

Hi Kurt , thanks for the comments how do you edit your live instuments ? do you konw any tutorials tips etc other than quantizing   cheers p

Never had any luck with batch quantizing, I do it with audio transients. Change track clips to transient, zoom in, if you click on the track you can bring up the audio snap window - I like to slide the threshold on the right to about 75% that cuts down on the number of markers generated. Then you can shrink or stretch you notes as needed. This takes some trial and error and it can be over done where it distorts the sounds. I frequently move the markers to more precisely manipulate the segment. I always align the bass with the drums, it's amazing how much tighter the track sounds after that. Rhythm guitar, you have to be conservative because it can make for weird sounds. Pretty time consuming but I find it fun.

This computer is only about a year old so not going to get a new one.  I think I will continue to stall on the update.  When I switched from my old computer to this one it was about a week of computer hell trying to get cakewalk with all the plugins working right again.

Is the consensus that windows 11 upgrade is pretty safe with cakewalk? I feel tempted to do it but also afraid of the consequences.  Anyone still have unresolved issues?

Good song but it sounds like there are some timing issues.  I think if you can tighten it up and maybe bring up the bass a bit, it would sounds much better.  I rely on Cakewalk to fix my sloppy playing all the time, got to love digital editing!

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.

On 2/21/2022 at 1:26 AM, Wookiee said:

Another pleasant start to the day too.

Thanks Wookie!

On 2/21/2022 at 4:20 AM, Afrodrum said:

That sounds very cool, reminds me early Steely Dan. The guitar would benefit imo if less amp gain is used

Thanks for listening, I think I needed the extra distortion to fill in the gaps since I'm a slow hand.

On 2/21/2022 at 9:49 AM, PhonoBrainer said:

I can hear the fingers attacking the bass strings. The bass is so very well articulated and recorded. Well done there.  Timing seems impeccable throughout the piece, great chops. Perhaps the drums could be a bit more present in the mix? That's about the only maybe crit I could offer. This is pretty stellar.

cheers,

-Tom

Thanks for commenting Tom! 

3 hours ago, steve@baselines.com said:

Nice laid back vibe.  Cool.

Appreciate it man.

4 hours ago, Kevin Walsh said:

Man, I wish I could get my bass to sound that good. The guitar tones are just perfect. I hear the Steely Dan influence in there too, and that's always a good thing.  Teensy, tiny nits:  my ear wanted to hear the song break out into a more riding groove with a sizzling solo but it's still nice the way it is, and some more variation in the drum parts and some additional fills to lift things up in later verses would imho take this to the next level. 

But really, it's quite awesome as it is.

Nice work, Kurt!

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.