Keith Wilby

4 hours ago, Bill Pierce said:

we are all influenced by our hero's

Absolutely 🙂

Really enjoyed that. AC/DC meets Bad Co 👍

My latest 3 minute toe-tapper. I hope it makes you smile.

https://www.bandlab.com/post/3835eff4-ccb1-ed11-a8e0-000d3a3f8f45

Many thanks @sjoens and @Kevin Perry. I'll see if I can suss out the "hide" option. If it's easy to explain why we need two types then I'd be very interested.

Hi all, is there a way to delete items from the Browser window please? It's probably staring me in the face but I just don't see it.

I have two instances of AD2 (I moved the second one from the "Synth" folder) but the VST is installed only once.

Thanks.

EDIT: looking in the plug-in manager, there are actually two instances, one in "VST Instruments (VSTi)" and another in "VST3 Instruments (VST3i)" - have I inadvertently installed two instances?

2 hours ago, Jim Roseberry said:

Isolate each offending S (or sibilant) as a separate audio clip.

Thank Jim. Having had a play with Melodyne's functionality, I wholeheartedly agree.

13 hours ago, Paul Bush said:

reminds me a of early Alan Parsons Project

Which in turn reminds me of Dr Evil 🤣

I really must have a listen to some APP stuff. If you've seen the "Get Back" footage on Disney, that's him lurking in the background in the control room at Apple.

4 hours ago, daryl1968 said:

Thomas Dolby

Always liked his singles, would you recommend his albums?

13 hours ago, Lynn Wilson said:

I feel there's something under the surface after the first listen.

Thanks Lynn, I did enjoy using the phrase "creature comforts" in different contexts and I left it just a little bit vague overall so as to try and get the listener to paint a mental picture of their own rather than spell out a specification, if that makes sense.

Very nice indeed Mark. Well recorded and mixed. FWIW I can hear no sibilance issues.

"Revisited" because I'm fairly sure I've posted about this track before but probably a couple of years ago. Comments appreciated.

https://www.bandlab.com/post/ae368c96-07a2-ed11-994c-000d3a3f87df

16 hours ago, Jesse Screed said:

What is that instrument at 2:15?

Hi Jesse, do you mean the solo starting at 2:02?  That's from my 1990s vintage Yamaha SQ16 keyboard, "Hawaiian guitar".

I can hear your pain in this, I'm so very sorry for your loss.

Nothing to do with a garden but this is a song of mine, newly recorded, but from about 25 years ago. Partly based on what I was experiencing at the time and partly on a TV drama in the same period. Very stripped back arrangement but I think it's all it needs. My first dalliance with Melodyne's sibilance control.

I don't use profanities lightly in a song, but this contains one because I think it is appropriately descriptive. Fully understand if an admin chooses to take it down as a consequence but we're all grown-ups here so I hope it's not a problem.

Comments invited as always.

https://www.bandlab.com/post/d38fa443-229e-ed11-994c-000d3a3f87df

Hearing an ace production like this makes me realise how ill-qualified I am to comment on it. Very nice job indeed, well done 👏

On 1/17/2023 at 12:21 AM, Jesse Screed said:

my biggest problem is pretending to know what I'm talking about

I concur ... and it made me chuckle 🤭

Very nice indeed, well done 🙂

I too can hear the bass and the kick ... but only just. Great rock song and cool guitar sound though 👍

14 hours ago, fossile said:

use Melodyne to reduce some of the sibilance

I didn't even know that Melodyne did this, I have much to learn. Thank you.

44 minutes ago, Lord Tim said:

an angry computer

Thanks Tim. This made me smile 👍

I usually have buses for my lead vocals and backing vocals. Where best to put a de-essing plug-in, on each individual vocal track or is it possible to de-ess an entire bus to achieve the same effect?

Many thanks.

On 1/7/2023 at 11:55 AM, Bajan Blue said:

why not EZDrummer all the way through?

It's a "quiet" kit at the start and I couldn't find a way of including two instances of EZD without crashing CbB so I opted for AD for the "loud" kit. Of course, this is potentially now all up in the air as I consider all of these useful comments so far 👍

8 hours ago, KSband said:

What are you using for drums?

I'm using the EZ Drummer 3 "tight/small" room kit for the first bit (going for the Paul Simon "Fifty Ways" sound) and Addictive Drums 2 for the second bit.

7 hours ago, PhonoBrainer said:

Well, horses for courses, I believe the saying goes? the real question is, do you think it's worth it? That personal muse provides all the answers you should ever need.

I've heard a number of your tunes here, and liked them all. Does it matter what a bunch of tossers think? Likely, not really, no. But you did graciously invite some critiques so I'd say for me, I found the musical parts and the arrangement very interesting, lots of great instrumentation choices, a hooky melody, with a lot of potential for mixing, and I think there is room in this world for this wonderful music!

I also thought the music was much, much more interesting than the lyrics. Your inventive song structure could be used to say something a little off the well-beaten "love" path? Something more powerful or opaque? Just a thought, worth what? Probably not that much.

If it is speaking to you, never mind the background noise, go straight at it.

 

cheers!

-Tom

Thanks Tom 😄

You know, I was just thinking the same thing about the lyrics and maybe that's what's stopping me from liking it unreservedly. They don't make an awful lot of sense for a start but I've had the song in my head for so long ...

I'll put me thinking cap on.

1 hour ago, Paul Bush said:

I think the synth`s (sax as well)let it down and cheapens what is a great song and the midi drums are not very nice

That's food for thought Paul, thank you. I'd be interested to know what you don't like about the drums - do you mean when the "loud" drums come in?