Keith Wilby

Absolutely love this, well done 👍

My latest dalliance. Comments invited 🙂 https://www.bandlab.com/post/230a7f65-46fc-ec11-b47a-281878315d59

Not sure if I should have started a new thread for this but here's a recently revamped version. It sill uses the same sounds but it's mixed and mastered using Bandlab. Gone are the static clicks and the tape hiss. https://www.bandlab.com/post/0afa6f2b-77f8-ec11-b47a-281878315d59

I think this is probably my final fix. https://www.bandlab.com/post/d50b03c9-40f8-ec11-b47a-281878315d59

Agreed, thanks John.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed 😄 https://www.bandlab.com/post/b5d18c8c-d6f6-ec11-b47a-281878315d59

I agree completely so I'll fix that. Thank you.

My take on those cheesy "soft" horror films where the protagonist is in bed and they think they can hear something downstairs 😁 https://www.bandlab.com/post/db1a3d9e-87f4-ec11-b47a-281878315d59 (turns out it was my rubbish mix that caused the mastering to fail at first)

Really nice piece that. The only change I'd make would be to make the "sonar pings" quieter, and maybe have them in a heavy yet subtle reverb that pans across the sound stage, if that makes sense, but that of course is a personal preference. I could certainly learn a thing or two from you about mixing! 👍

Thanks Philip, I'm working on the vocal. No de-esser, I think it's my dodgy diction 🤣 The descending notes in the intro/chorus might remind you of Please Please Me possibly?

Thanks Mark. I'm compelled to agree with you on the vocal (mainly because my wife said the same thing 🤣) so I'm revisiting that now. I used "Vocal Finalizer" on it, a plug-in that I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with, so it's time to try something else I think.

Hi CbB peeps. Here's my latest venture for your delectation 😄 Guide vocal a bit ropey here and there but comments on the arrangement welcomed. All of the sounds, apart from the drums which are Addictive Drums 2, are from my 90s vintage Yamaha SQ16. https://www.bandlab.com/post/0d8627f2-6ff1-ec11-b656-2818789a16d5

Yes it is. There are two drum kits in unison, one panned hard left, the other right. The left snare swamps the one on the right. I'm currently working on using Addictive Drums instead.

Drums dialled back and vocal brought forward. Also an extra vocal on the middle 8 if you listen hard enough 😄 https://www.bandlab.com/wilbyforce/itsmyturn-ebc71934?revId=b651aedd-55e2-ec11-b656-281878319acf

Love it 🤣

Unashamedly a soppy ballad. 🤭 https://www.bandlab.com/wilbyforce/itsmyturn-a2a97656?revId=111ad1d0-ade1-ec11-b656-281878319acf

Thanks for the comments guys. Will revisit the snare sound 🙂

Thanks Mark. It's in a bit of a high register for me to be honest and I was expecting someone to pick up on that. I'm not a fan of double-tracked vocals but I double-tracked this one to try and give it a bit more texture. I'm not sure that I succeeded. I tried transposing it down a bit but it didn't sound right in another key somehow. Maybe I'll get a guest vocalist in 😁

Not to be confused with the Genesis song of the same title. This one uses that strange technique of a sad lyric to a happy tune. It doesn't always work but I think this one does. Hope you enjoy it. It weighs in at 5 minutes but I think it's got enough going on to keep you from dozing off. https://www.bandlab.com/wilbyforce/holdonmyheart-59a6acf2?revId=736b5152-76d7-ec11-b656-2818783151a1

Yeah I usually quantize my keyboard parts. TBH I use piano roll view to check quite a lot of my dodgy playing 🤣

Yeah, not something I'd normally do 😄

Reminded me of 90125 by Yes and Foxtrot by Genesis. Great job, like it very much. Certainly can't fault it.

https://www.bandlab.com/wilbyforce/breezerevamp-d7f73ec8?revId=fcbb9d46-2bd0-ec11-997e-28187831e8a1 I've just revamped this instrumental that I originally did in the late 90s. It's an easy listening tune that I did for my mum. Ironically, by the time I'd finished it, her tinnitus had got so bad that she was pretty much deaf. This version uses my son's Epiphone electro acoustic guitar plugged into my compressor, as opposed to a my miked up EKO on the original, which is a horrible tinny thing by comparison. Also some modern strings on it. Sounds a lot better I think.

Fantastic, thank you so much 👍

Hi all, this one's baffling me, but it doesn't take much to do that. I'm going through the *.MID files that I created on my old Yamaha PSR-SQ16 synth/sequencer in the 90s. When I open them in CbB, in almost all of them I have the ability to assign a MIDI bank and patch, but in the occasional one or two I don't (see photos). Is there a setting I've missed somewhere? Many thanks.