Larry T.

Yes, this arrangement/mix is better. Her and your vox are clearer (although your vox could be turned up a wee bit in a few places). Loved the instrumental section from 2:55 to 3:25????

Hi Lynn. Excellent blues rock song. Well arranged, played and great vocals. It sounds really good despite what I've found to be a noticeable YouTube processing degradation. I'm guessing the keyboards (especially around 1:15) were a lot clearer prior to the YT upload., I may be off on this but it always happened to me when I used to upload songs to YT but since I've changed to Bandcamp the processing degradations are minimal. I'd say the processing didn't effect your lead vocal much at all but the bg vox and keyboards could be clearer and a touch louder, again I don't think it was your ears when doing the mix but the YT processing. Good stuff????

Thanks Jeff. Yes, if the way the song is going doesn't hold my interest I'll write a different part until something worth keeping appears????

Thank You for the listen and kind words Eric????

Thanks Jesse. Appreciate the kind words and listen. This one was written, rewritten, rewritten again, changed, changed again....just constantly reworked until I can listen and say to myself "this is as good as I can afford to get it"????

Very nice piece. Lots of changes. Excellent mix, all instruments clear and well balanced. Agree with the message of the lyrics, gotta shine through a whole lot of uselessness that is thrown at us in life????

Thanks Steve. I'm still using a 10 year old pc with 8GB of ram to do the songs. So keeping the instruments working is a constant consideration. The SI-Drums are ram friendly as are direct injected guitars and basses. Kontact is too big to run on 8gigs of ram and so is Addictive Drums, Izotrope and all the other stuff I'll get pretty soon????

Thanks Bruce. Yes, the SI drums are actual recordings not synthesized renderings, so they do sound real. I've found that by using auxiliary sends and then adjusting each individual sends eq I can get some halfway decent sounds. Using eq adjustments for volume control also. And, our cat's name was Charly. Boom Boom popped into my head when I heard the bass drum in the song. Cheers????

Exotic soundscape that totally works. Great writing, production, playing, mix as usual. Enjoyed very much????

Good stuff. Love the chord voicings/choices, arrangements are hot, great work????

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Cool, as usual. Arrangement has variety, moves right along, lots of creativity????

Enjoyed the gradual build up, resolution and coda. Writing, arrangement, playing all very nicely done????

I was able to hear the first wo pieces. Agree, great writing/improvising and playing. Your musical ideas are solid, engaging, cerebrally stimulating and relaxing. I'd have taken the fuzz guitar down a decibel or two but that's just me????

Excellent. I'm hearing dance music with intelligence. An avalanche of rhythms and melodies. The production is great. The instruments are balanced perfectly. The mix sounds really, really good, you may want to think about having a professional audio engineer whose work you respect have a go at it. The only element I found somewhat lacking was the vocal towards the end. I think the idea is great, but the timber and execution of said vocal is the weakest element of this strong piece. I can't tell if it's Melodyne or an AI or something else entirely. I'm impressed with your command of getting the delays in time with the beats, something I'm just starting to explore. Good Luck????

Thanks Andy. Appreciate the listen ? ? ? ?

Thanks so much Tom. I really appreciate the listen and the links. The drums are from Cakewalk SI Drums loops via edits i made. They are compressed via the SI Drums VST setting and you have excellent audio perception? The next area I need to learn is compression as I don't do it at all via a dedicated plug in and I know the mixes I'm doing now seem to be ok but I have a long, long way to go compared to some of you masters here. Also will research A to B comparison more????

Thanks Bjorn. If you mean some of the slide-y sounding guitar parts I spent days trying to determine the best audio balance of them. In the end I kept them in what I heard as in the middle of the audio image at the beginning of the song, not loud, as they aren't the focus like the harmonica's. They are louder after the drum break as that was the Big Ending I was trying to move the song in the direction of. If this isn't the quiet parts you meant please let me know. Cheers????

Thanks so much John. The kitty in the picture is from Wikipedia Commons photos but is exactly what our kitty looked like. I tried to keep it moving and interesting. The drum break happened first and then the guitar, piano and synth inserts. The harmonica's are the result of numerous retakes. Thanks again????

Thank You jack. This tune is basically based on drum, guitar, piano and bass riffs with the melodies being handled by the harmonica's and synth. I thought of adding more synth melodies but the ram meter was almost in the red so decided to let it be. Cheers????

Thanks so much Nigel. Tried to keep it simple yet interesting. My usual "try to get more with less" production approach ????

Thank You for the kind words. I've been learning the harmonica for about a year. Most of this tune called for a key of A harp but I think I used a D in one or two sections ????

Hey Hi. Here's Boom Boom the Cat. Nits and crits welcomed???? link: https://larryterrano.bandcamp.com/track/boom-boom-the-cat DAW: Cakewalk by Bandlab pc: windows 10, i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40 GHz, 8GB ram, acoustic and electric guitars, DI Yamaha bass, harmonica, focusrite scarlett solo, arturia minilab mkII, arturia analog lab 5 lite, CbB effects reference speakers: M-Audio BX3

Enjoyed very much????

Nice work. Concise, high energy, great vox, great lead guitar????