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Very nice, Jerry. The synths go really well with the diverse orchestral palette. There's a tone of splendour and intrigue in your music - I like it!

Very nice, Douglas! Great performance as usual.

@Wookiee Thanks for the reply; no worries about the delay. Hope Ms W is ok (or at least as much as possible given the situation).

Certainly a toe-tapper - I enjoyed that! Great playing too. The mix is good, but I think the drums might improve with a tiny bit of EQing. Try a small boost around 7k on the snare, and also a boost somewhere between 10k-15k on the cymbals to help brighten them up a little. It's just a suggestion though - no need to adjust if it's not what you're after.

My suggestion about the bass was about how the bass line itself sounded quite quiet in the mix to me. Despite that, I could feel it (more than I could hear it), leading me to think there to be quite a lot of low end energy. You also mentioned how it didn't sound quite right in the truck - sound systems in cars/trucks tend to have a bass boost. It could be my listening environment isn't the best - do whatever works best for the mix!

Hi Tom Very creative video work! Cool tune - very diverse sonic palette, but well balanced. The mix sounds good to me.

Really cool classic rock vibe here - great song, Douglas!

Hi Steve Nice tune, and good playing! To my ears, the ride bell's a bit loud, compared to the hats. As you mentioned, the bass is a little strong - try pulling the EQ down a bit around 100-150Hz, and maybe try raising a bit around 400Hz. As you do have quite a bit of low end energy going, you might try putting a shelf on most of the other non-bass tracks and lowing a bit around 50-100Hz; don't go too strong, or use a cut like some tutorials say as I often find it leads to a thin mix. That's just a rough guide - if it sounds good, keep it; if it sounds bad, try something else.

You probably know about these already, but here are some uprights that you might like (or not): https://www.modartt.com/pianoteq (there's an upright instrument pack) https://www.fluffyaudio.com/shop/mypiano/

This is cool. I don't usually listen to this type of music, so this could be a naïve statement but - I find it strange that this is classified as lofi. The drums have been rounded off with a low pass, and there's some low level crackliness, but the instruments themselves are actually quite high-fi and pristine sounding; they have a mellow tone, but you can still hear all the highs.

Not even something like Diva?

Very cool Freddy. I love how the vocals are both free-flowing and yet keep to time at the same time. Kinda reminds me of Johnny Cash's One Piece At A Time

Very nice and atmospheric, Wookiee - successfully paints a picture if you ask me. How did you do the synth 'shimmers' at the beginning?

Very nice - great mix as usual. This one actually gave me more of a cowboy/western feel - sort of like Bon Jovi's Dead or Alive. Great playing!

There's that, but I'm glad for the extra sounds it's made available to me as well. Don't mean to OT this thread, but if you don't know about KLANG, do yourself a favour and check these out too: https://klang.cologne/klang21_free.php

@Kevin Perry Off the top of my head, I think add these to the exclusion list too (at least for their flagship plugins): Ample Sound (Chinese instrument series only) Heavyocity (flagship plugins) Krotos Liquid Sonics Slate Digital Sonnox For Eventide substitutes: have a look at Polyverse Comet, not quite a versatile, but very good nonetheless; Tritik Irid; and Valhalla's reverbs. For Exponential Audio, consider iZotope's Neoverb, and FabFilter's Pro-R.

This has some really nice pads/ambiences - here's a demo song I did a little while ago using only Desk Bell

Fair enough - didn't realise about the other ones. At the least, this should calm some fears about iZotope going 100% subscription - they still offer their best products for standalone purchase only.

Are you sure? It looks like they are the advanced versions from this (except for RX): https://www.izotope.com/en/memberships.html

Anyone remember zip disks and/or jazz drives?

Whatever they're doing, seems like they want to maximise their profits/get a massive cash injection - I'm guessing the group buy brought in quite a bit, and now they've removed the GC discounts. Preparing for an acquisition?

Next thing we know, they'll start expiring too?

KeepForest's libraries sound great, but Devastator Breakout is the perfect description of what would happen to my bank account if I were to pick them up.

Finally! A disk that I can install all of Toontrack's SDXs on and have a little space left over for something else ?

Studio One 5 Artist with every guitar sold too? That could actually be a huge business opportunity.