Larry T.

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 🎵 🎶

Sounds great. You've got the slide guitar groove happening perfectly through out the song. Vox sound great. Great work. Enjoyed very much 🎶 🎵

Thanks! 🎵 🎶

Thanks so much treesha 🎵 🎶

Thanks Nigel. Appreciate the kind words 🎵 🎶

Thanks steve. Cheers 🎶 🎵

Thanks Old Joad. The song was conceived and mostly written on a rhodes. It is there in the mix sometimes in parallel with a Juno and other synths. Appreciate the kind words 🎵 🎶

Thanks Bjorn. Good points. Having only 8GB's of memory severely limits what I can do. Freezing tracks is a huge help. Already optimized PC for Cakewalk DAW. Also, thanks for the Vangelis vibe observation 🎶 🎵

Hello All. This is The Truth Sayer. Observations welcomed. Cheers 🎶 🎵 link: https://larryterrano.bandcamp.com/track/the-truth-sayer 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, Arturia Augmented Mallets reference speakers: M-Audio BX3

Nice unique track. I'd mix certain vox parts down a bit and the guitar as well 🎶 🎵

Nice one Mikael. Good melodies that compliment each other well. Enjoyed it 🎵 🎶

Great Rock track. Nice transition section at 2:45. Lead guitar sounds really good. Great vox 🎶 🎵

Thanks! I wrote the piano parts while recording and playing as best I could. When I finally had some decent piano parts I edited what I played in piano roll to what's in the song.

Thanks Nigel!