Supa Reels

Cor blimey .. It's the Shadows ... it is! ......  great stuff! note perfect ... love the chord progression .. it is sixties !!

ALB

SupaReels

I think I'd like to see the words so I could follow it .. but interesting vibe ...good work

Steve

Great song guys. Knew it would be ... although I feel Tom has a point regarding he's comment :-  ( I'd put a vote in for either slightly increasing the volume of the lead vocal in the verses, or more likely dipping the volume of the fuzzed-out guitar a bit so the lead vocal can pop more )

ATB

Steve

I hear a Foreigner vibe here .. my goto band  excellent writing  ... as usual 

ALB

Steve

A BLOODY MASTER AT WORK  ... I won't hijack this song, but for me the heartbeat drum and ambience has a draw to me, like the smell of a freshly baked apple pie .. I'm irresistibly drawn to writing words for it .. or indeed eating a freshly baked home made apple pie ...

Well done it's hard to write something simple and so lovely 🖖

ALB

Steve

13 minutes ago, Hidden Symmetry said:

On laptop so can't comment on the mix but enjoyed the tune. Reminded me of Phil Collins..

Thanks mate, the wife calls this type of vocal ' a talking song' ...maybe it's something in the air ..I danno 🙄

Stay safe

Steve

8 hours ago, noynekker said:

Hi SupaReels . . . I can echo bjorn's comments here about the mix, and the quality of the vocal, but, the high end of the instruments simply overshadow the vocals . . . there's a good song here, just needs some further mix attention.

Many thanks for listening and the comment .. as said I have just added a Scarlett 18I20 and I think I found the problem that you and Bjorn picked up on, in that I used something called 'air' to some of the parts. Long one short it adds a additional higher band, I think this was what Bjorn may have heard .. so he's ears didn't betray him. I'm doing some vocal stuff at the moment for a friend but I will remix and see/hear if it sounds right .. more later and I send my thanks for your time

ATB

Steve

5 hours ago, bjornpdx said:

Hey Steve, very nice love song and your voice is just perfect for the genre. I thought the voc track needs to stand out bit more. Also I thought I was hearing something like static throughout the song and especially at the fade out, like aliasing noise or something. But I should mention I have some hearing issues so that might just be me. That's the reason I don't comment so much on audio engineering stuff 'cause I just don't trust my ears.

-Bjorn

18 hours ago, jack c. said:

wonderful job recording and sounds.line up the drums and bass guitar a bit more.on the strings intro cut some of highs.i like this song.jack c.

Thankyou for the comments ..must say it's not my best work I just needed something that had a lot of tracks so I could experiment with mastering a mix using different bit rates and samples. I am now using a Focusrite Scarlett 18/20 so I am on a learning curve, a bit different to my old UR44.  I will go back over this to deal with that static sound you mentioned Bjorn as, indeed, I trust your ears LOL ...... You raise an excellent point with your whole comment  Jack esp the strings thankyou.

Steve

LIAISONS IN THE DARK     PT1

She was sitting all alone on the bedroom chair

Whisky numbed the pain of those years gone by

She wondered through those playing cards that,we all know so well

But just came up empty and she began to cry

She never saw the truth in his words full of deception

He played her for a fool and the dots made no connection

And if it happened all again would she have known inside

And would he really ever cared for the many time she cried

Searching for a reason, but it doesn't come

You try so hard to fight it but you just felt numb

FEMAIL VOX

'Cause I have tried, tried and tried

Feel drained nothings the same coming home to somewhere else ….It's going to take this fight in the end …

M8

Now she's left that all behind her, she likes to be alone

She keeps her heart protected, a sweet smile made of stone

She doesn't need love no more, and reminds herself each day

That men will always break your and leave you anyway

And I guess it's true, I have to say

When I see her quite by chance,

She looked a million dollars but within a fleeting glance

I swear I saw an emptiness where love had always been

It was then I realised she was just a beauty queen

Forget all the timing  shyt and and tech... I really enjoyed this album so much, and rather than comment ...  I paid a poultry sum to own a great piece of work ! You are one great muso mate ...., as always said 👌

ALB

Steve

Love the clean vox and to these ears very 60 s .... You have great voice !

ATB

SM

I'm gonna get banned from this website for this but , I  think this is fkn fantastic and probably the best story told in song  ... bought tears to my old eyes and I've heard quite a few deep meaning songs ..I will be listening this for quite a few times it really hits a chord with me .. so thanks mate !

ATB

Steve

Nice work Wooks .. and the landing was very smooth

ATB

Steve

Hi mate, Really enjoyed the story and the funky rock .. if that's a thing, We just celebrated our 50th year of marage and my 70th  this week and I think 1951 was a good year to be born ! LOL ...keep 'em comin 😎

Steve

Been running C/b since the big fold of plat ... Great  bit of kit ( even with the dongle ) had no trouble ...ever ..really!  as indeed I didn't years ago with Atari /CB.   Platinum was ( IMHO) the best software for the bucks, but things move on .. and they overstretched ...then sank, Bandlab gave those of us that paid the cost of that DAW a way out .. Many thanks for that, but a little late for a few of us to try the fruits of DAW's elsewhere that wouldn't go bust . We run C/b 11 dot thingy and it's a far cry from those old days but although it's been a steep curve, to know that Yammy doesn't look like going the same way the time investment has been worth it. That said we still use Pro tools and plat for the plugs. So I got to agree with Bill  .. and the Eagles .. Get over it !

Great work my friend .. just can't hide talent . . . and the smidgen of bass really adds to this piece 

On 2/18/2021 at 12:25 AM, Andrew Rhodes said:

 

 

@SupaReels Steve, if you read this, I've not spent much money on my set up, I looked at Stereo Imager ST2s, it's probably more than I would want to pay. However, I've downloaded and tried Isotope Ozone Imager V2, which I think seems to do a very similar thing (seems pretty good for free!)?  Would this be a reasonable replacement for the Nomad vst?

1st off it's a bloody good song so don't get too bugged down with black buttons and stuff ..it's all about the song and it's effect on the listener, you asked, originally what was felt about the mix and some things stood out to me that might help the mix you had ... but that's just me, you only have to listen to my stuff to realise I also have a great deal top learn ! But I love writing and some songs are so good on this site it amazes me their writers are still here ,.... and poor LOL .. Oh and BTW your thoughts about the Ozone Imager V2 Yep ! good one !! All power to the Lbow 😉

 .... and check these out ...blinding stuff ( And they work with any DAW )

Regards

Steve

On 2/12/2021 at 1:05 PM, Andrew Rhodes said:

Hi Steve (and everyone else! ) , thanks for the comments. Constructive criticism is what I need! With regard to the vocals,  I did originally have them louder but thought they needed pulling back a bit, looks like I was wrong! 

Steve, when you say the mix is off,  which parts in particular do you mean? Gain of parts within the song, EQing, panning?  Would be useful to know for future tracks. Thanks! 

OK .... that's a hard one to quantify, in that, we all hear and mix to our own idea of what the overall work should sound / convey like when mixing, we sometimes (well I do ) get too engrossed with the song and forget the nuances that inevitably will make our work stand out .. That's why the pro's use high end engineers ! But that said, Bandlab gives you a pretty good set of tools to do a pro job .. indeed there are still great engineers that use Sonar Platinum (Now owned by Bandlab .. thankfully ) due to the fact it's a fantastically great way to make your own music.... the future is yours mate and I wish you good luck, from here I hear a very polished songwriter! 

But for my bit, I would look into the 'Stereo  Imager st-2s' (NOMAD) for the main mix on a separate BUS  (No vox on this)  Then backing vox on another Bus (slightly higher in the mix ) and you vocal on another bus with a tad of 2s to make it 'settle in to the overall sound.

At 1.21 to 1.40 the bass drum ,echo? not sure ... but that's where I think the timing went adrift or sounds like it has  / at 1.44   I feel the snare could be reduced a tad.

Well that's my neck right out there for the butcher .. guys on this site don't take prisoners and I'm sure they'll blow this comment apart .. but that's just the vertical curve ..ain't it !

Great song and I've listened to it quite a few times now .. BTW always poke the quote if you wanna flag a question as I only see your comment by accident!

Keep writing and stay well

Steve

9 minutes ago, Wookiee said:

Nice song, well presented mix worked well here on my event 20/20's

Thanks Wooks ... Hope the paws are in good order 😉

Steve

My word David, where do you start with something as complicated as this !? I also had to look Tone Poem up ...on the 2nd listen I got the story .. at least  I think I did! Some bits making me sad or jump or laugh ... a journey indeed ! One of your real high end bits of work .. thankyou for the post and effort,

Steve

I'm liking the feel of this, the guitar work is very much Pink Floyd'ish in places ...  but it's got a kind of Santana 'feel .as well. Yep liking it a lot .. good jam😎

Steve

Great story,  Had to listen twice cause there's a lot going on ... left a comment on YT

Steve

Great song, great vocal work and your skill with the instruments is of a high standard .. But the mix is off and as you said the timing in parts needs to be really tightened up (play with the transients  not sure if that's gonna help in this example) ... Thing is I really like this song  and I think Nigel has a point regarding the vocal .. Overall for a first attempt, and bearing in mind the difficulties of this DAW I would say, for my pennyworth it's an excellent attempt, great songwriting !

Steve

Such a clean mix, unmistakably your stamp , lyrics fit perfectly but most all love the guitar  break .. really great song, really fits my life ..... LOL

Stay safe

Steve

On 1/30/2021 at 12:13 AM, emeraldsoul said:

Cool tune and cool vid.

 

Right click on your video, "Stats for nerds" - YouTube gave you the crappier avc codec.

You can force YouTube to give you the better vp9 codec (clearer, less blur, better resolution) if you feed YouTube a file with a format bigger that 1080p.

can your video exporter crank out a 1440p file? or a 2K file?  If so, try uploading that to YouTube, then check (after a half hour or so) the "stats for Nerds" and see if you got the vp9 codec.

 

Here's an annoying vid, there's lots of other ones -

 

cheers!

-Tom

Just a quickie .seems that YT have cottoned on , tried loads of uploading formats however it just would play ball 😟 ...but thanks anyway I'll keep trying (or another site ?!)

Al the best Tom