Walt Collins

No gigs here except at church. It's hard to find an audience for the kinds of music I tend to create. As for the guitar, it's my new Epiphone SG Modern, playing through Overloud TH-U's "Tango Lead" patch.

nicely done gents. a rawker for sure!

liked this one a lot, thanks for sharing!

The speeding up actually triggers my inner alarm bells about staying ON TEMPO. I keep saying to myself "get back in the pocket!" Well done in any case. I love those fat tones and your creative playing. Glad you're still producing.

that was a fun listen, thanks for sharing.

Thanks guys. Glad you enjoyed!

it's an old beard now! Thanks.

Thanks much guys. Glad you enjoyed.

Hey John! I always love your use of the arturia vintage synths. I'm wondering why you used the jup v3 and v4 though? Was there a particular patch in the v3 that you couldn't replace?

Here's one that Tom helped me out in earlier this year. At this point I think this production is in the books, but I'm always interested in comments and appreciate the listens! Two overlapping drumkits in different time signatures, with a thick bass line, blues guitar, schmaltzy piano (thanks Tom!), spacy synths, and a few vintage movie voice clips for interest.

Thanks for the collab opportunity Tom. Looking forward to the next one.

Thanks for the detail @slartabartfast. Are there services that offer longer licenses? 1 year seems like an annoyance. I'd love a set-and-forget type of license if possible.

oops, my bad.

now this is a cool idea.

I still find myself inspired when I go back and listen to Dark Side, Animals, Wish You Were Here, Meddle, Atom Heart, Momentary Lapse. I'm not particularly inspired by The Wall though. Same with Final Cut. Too Waters-y, whiney. And some others are just curiosities to me, like the Barrett stuff and really early Gilmour. Ummagumma, Relics, More, Piper, Obscured. Some moments of intensity, but often just... weird. I don't listen to them much any more, but when I do I love them.

Thanks for your replies guys, and re-hi! Yeah, for now I just want to upload audio to soundcloud, and maybe distrokid and bandcamp as part of an album release at some point down the road. Not planning any videos. It looks like Songfile (part of the HFA website) wants $18 to license a 6 minute song for 200 streams. Seems okay to me.

Hi! Been a while since the old CW forums, but I finally made it over here to the new CW forums. Nice to see many of the same names I remember from years ago. Wow, I'm really getting old. Anyway... after recently installing the new CbB (I just found out that it's not the same as SONAR!), I found some old projects from 5+ years ago. One that caught my interest is a cover that I recorded of Black Sabbath's "Into The Void". I started noodling around and decided to clean up the guitar and drums a bit. Fortunately, I discovered my guitar chops are a bit better than they were 5 years ago. But before I spend too much time on it, I wanted to ask about licensing. I've never released a cover song, and generally have always avoided them because I'm worried about licensing issues. But cover songs can be fun! And I know some of you guys have recorded cover songs as well, so I figured I could maybe get some advice from my old friends here. So, is it really as simple as getting a $15 pre-paid Limited mechanical license from someplace like HFA or Tunecore or wherever, assuming I never sell more than 500 copies (which seems like a safe assumption)? Or is there some kind of ongoing yearly fee? Or other stuff to beware of? Thanks in advance.

I bought the 11 upgrade the day it came out. Really looking forward to MPE support (for my ASM Hydrasynth), comping (finally!!), tempo following, MIDI note randomness. I always feel bad talking about Ableton (which is like 99% of what I do with DAWs) on the Cakewalk forums.