Larry T.

Thanks Steve. Appreciate your observations and kind review of the tune 🎵 🎶

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Thanks treesha. Appreciate the listen and kind comments 🎵 🎶

Important to a lot of us question: Will the new free tier Sonar run ok on Windows 10 with 8GB of RAM? It's what I'm now using until I can get a new Windows 11 pc with at least 64GB of RAM. TIA.

Thanks Nigel. I noticed that too but left it as is hoping it would be an uplifting feeling, not jarring. Thank You for listening and comments! 🎶 🎵

Hello all. Hope you are all well. Here's The Long Hello, just a short little instrumental. Observations welcomed 🎶 🎵 link: https://larryterrano.bandcamp.com/track/the-long-hello DAW: Cakewalk by Bandlab pc: windows 10, i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40 GHz, 8GB ram, DI Bass, DI electric guitars, Mic'ed acoustic guitars. SI drums, arturia minilab mkII, arturia analog lab 5 lite, arturia augmented mallets reference speakers: M-Audio BX3

Agree with above observations. Great groove, guitar, mix. The arrangement works well also. 🎶 🎵

Great version. Vox is really good. Enjoyed very much 🎵 🎶

Sorry I missed this. A true musical piece of art. It sounds like you poured over every second to create a strong, beautiful and memorable work. We all are born. We all will die. After that, who knows? 🎶 🎵

The piece is uplifting, humorous and pretty sophisticated musically, kind of a cabaret feel 🎶 🎵 The video is pretty cool too 👍

Interesting work. Atmospheric, the juxtapositions of the voices with the etherealness of the music is at certain times wonderfully twisted, at other times potently observant 🎶 🎵

Great work. Your vox, guitar work, arrangement, flourishes...all excellent 🎶 🎵

Great work there. Great vox, production and mix. Your vox delivery works well with the wonderfully conceived music which I sense has a small touch of the musical modus operandi of Tom Waits 🎵 🎶

This comment is for the 4:30 version: That's some serious composing, recording, production and mixing. Love the girl's voicings. Overall I think this is fairly ahead of its time although I have a sense of Dead Can Dance and Steven Wilson in there. Keep it going. It's pretty coherent and the parts fit well enough at this point with maybe a bit more work to get the cohesiveness more realized and accessible 🎶 🎵

Great work. The percussion/bass groove is perfect. The other instrumentation is complementing it with some great, well thought out chords that enhance it all into one coherent piece 🎶 🎵

Very nice track. Great lyrical guitar solo at ~1:20. Great vox, production and mix 🎶 🎵

I don't have the Youlean plug in but will look into it 👍 Your comment about "clipping plugins" is Gold 👍 👍 I redid the mix and put it up in the original post. Thanks Wookiee and all of you very much 🎵 🎶

Thanks Wookiee. Appreciate the listen. Here's how I mastered this one: the loudest parts peaked around 02dB in the Yellow. No track or bus was in the red at all. I think I do have one synth a bit too loud, as mentioned above, and, imo, iZotope Ozone 11 Elements Mastering is creating the hot sounding audio. There is still tons of stuff about mastering I don't know yet 🎶 🎵

Thanks Bjorn. Your observations are correct! Start off fast, maintain stability and then slowly spin to a stop. The transition at 0:40 is two bass Drum beats. I mixed their volume up a bit but it is a busy, fast transition that I struggled with and used what I thought was the smoothest sounding one. Appreciate the listen and kind words 🎶 🎵

Thanks treesha. The fast picked electric guitar solos on the first part of the song were improvised and luckily fit in ok with some editing. Appreciate the listen and kind words 🎵 🎶

Thanks jw. Appreciate the listen and kind words 🎶🎵

Thanks Nigel. I usually boost the bass on almost everything i listen to, so those highs can sound a bit strong if you don't. Appreciate the listen and kind words 🎵🎶

Update May 21, 2025: Thank You All very much for listening and great comments. Here is a new mix with louder bass and lower highs courtesy of my ears and iZotope Ozone 11 Elements AI mastering: https://larryterrano.bandcamp.com/track/the-life-of-a-gyroscope ******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** Hi everybody. Hope you all are well. This is The Life of a Gyroscope. Observations welcomed 🎵 🎶 DAW: Cakewalk by Bandlab pc: windows 10, i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40 GHz, 8GB ram, DI Bass, DI electric guitars, SI drums, arturia minilab mkII, arturia analog lab 5 lite reference speakers: M-Audio BX3

Great stuff. Agree with all the good observations above. Your vocals really hold this piece together well 🎵 🎶

Very nice indeed. Interesting combination of consonance and dissonance, stability and tension. Good stuff 🎵 🎶