garybrun

i have nothing to bump…. just being honest with you. maybe more would comment on yours if you did?

This may come across as not very nice... but.. Why don't you comment on other people posts and keep bumping up you own all the time. Your knowledge can help others too. Just a question ?

Make that 4

Long time no see ? You tell a good story.

Hi Tom. I missed this one. I always look forward to your productions as I learn a lot from them. Your use of panning, delay, and use of eq is amazing to my ears and I make note of the subtleties to add to my learning skills. Do you use automation? You just have a liveliness to your mixes. I'm experimenting with automation now.. but it gets pretty hot on the mix buss quickly.. so I drop the automation I have done about 10% and that puts it back in the ball park again. Thanks for sharing. Gary

Brilliant Mark: Love it.

Thanks mate.... The pedal steel is not reel!

Well done Mark...

After listening back again this morning I take back my comments about the drift. When listening again with fresh ears... I think its very good. I had been listening to other music.. which was very on time and the drift really stood out and thats all I could hear. Maybe that's because you mentioned it!! Also not knowing much about jazz either didn't give me really the authority to comment. I love the voice... really well done.

HI Mark I love your voice mate. Your one of the most talented musicians on here.. We all paint different pictures but myself I would drop the vocal a little in volume.. Not sure about the drift..

WOW... thanks Andy ?

This was mine.. with mtc timecode unit to stripe the tape so I could sync up with midi and my Atari ST. ?

Thanks Larry. On some forums I am a member off (mixing ones) the vocal is said to be too loud and should be around snare level. This is why I feel my way around asking for various opinions. Joe Meek said "If it sounds good it is good".. I am beginning to trust my own instincts except when its myself in the spotlight ?

Thank you Bjørn. But I dont do it for a career now. I used to be proff singer many moons ago but not big time.. just club and hotels. Music is my joy and mixing too. I dont think I could handle being famous... the temptation would be too much!!

It was a Michael Jolly Ribbon mic clone.. Preamp was as is on the apllox8p

sure... send it through

Lot of people use the term without understanding what it is.

Here is a version I did of Josh Turners "Your Man" I remixed it as my skills are improving. Would value your thoughts. Thanks in advance. Gary

@Douglas Kirby Hi Douglas. Thanks so much for taking the time to listen and comment.

@Lord Tim Brains are dumb... and so are we! LOL. I have been a Plapper for a few years now. My favourite teacher is Marc Daniel Neilson... WOW!!

Yes you get the original sessions and two more to work on.. pop and rock. I recommend it... you learn a lot.

I think that a lot of this is also because Cakewalk is free. You used to be able to read tutorials and other interesting items in the main magazines.. now its not even mentioned. Why is that when a product is for free and in some cases rivals those out there. I've been a cake walk user for nearly two decades and I can remember when it was one of the really big names. I even have the Sonar V Studio system which was a lot of money quite a while ago.

@Lord Tim thanks so much for taking the time to reply. brilliant.. I’m going to try some of those things. I always start with drum and bass and leave vocals to last.. Once again thanks pal.

@Larry T. HI Larry. Thanks for commenting. I am glad you find it informative etc. That's is why I have posted all the stages and struggles, hoping someone would find it helpful. I also always used to mix in the green... but when I discovered how saturation and clipping into emulated analogue gear etc has a huge effect.. it takes it too another level. You can create different colours and different effects give very different flavours when pushed. They used to push the old analogue tape to get certain sounds. I can mix clean.. I just want learn more about what does what and give myself more weapons to add too my arsenal. Now I have spent 4 days just building a mix template.. adding all compressors and other lovely nice analogue simulations. Check out ¨Billy Decker Template Mixing Hopefully now.. I am 70% there when I load all my tracks and stems into a project.

@Lord Tim Thanks so much for taking the time to listen and comment... really appreciated. Its amazing how everyone hears differently.... great advice thanks. I am building a new mix template on a coarse I'm on by Billy Decker.. country fella. Ill post his mix here.. Now my tastes are very different to his.. but look how much his mix is slammed and smacking you in the face. Everything is so forward.... I have added nothing to this track... this is the original. Watched this guy mix this in about 8mins from scratch with the template system. I can hardly hear his backing vocals and his guitars are right up front as you guitarist love!! ?