mark skinner

Sometimes a track "color" change can help , if you are editing certain tracks. I have the same problem on a melodyne screen. ms

Very smooth professional production , and the vocal added just what it needed. keep em coming .

Very nice. I thought the structure of the piano chords was great , I'd push the piano more to the front and have the synth lay under it. I also liked all the vocals. Enjoyed it very much . mark

Steve , I don't have a clue how I got on bandlab. I've never used it. I hope I'm pretty good .. mark

Look in all your Cakewalk project folders. I had one get misplaced once but found it in another folder.

As usual , another one Very well done. Great job on the keys and vocals. I think you really captured the feel of this classic.

Barry , I've also seen this happen when 2 clips get piled on top of each other (if you are working in a single lane) and using sound on sound mode. I have a friend that does this pretty often , he'll just forget to undo the last take before trying it again. I'll grab the clip and move it and find 1 or more clips under it.

I just use the magnifier tool , left click and hold (on the main page) and drag to the right. You can also drag up or down to stretch vertically.

Far out.. I liked the way you put the harmonys in this one. ms

Very cool vibe. It's a lot of fun playing with new stuff. I think main chorus hook was awsome. I found the low end a little overpowering. Couldn't turn it up much . I really liked this song and thought it sounded very progressive. mark

Thank Bill , the folder was hiding from me. I'm just now reading about how to use ir's but I'll give these a shot for now. I've been looking at hardware preamps for months but I may try the Mcloed route first. Thanks .. mark

Gary , Nothing special in the chain. Used an AT 3035 with low cut. Sonitus eq, Izotope vocal doubler , Sonitus reverb. Pro channel- comp, gloss eq(subtractive and notching)console emulator. At the end I used the style dial "grit" module . This made a Big difference trying to get the rough vocal sound I wanted. Still have some minor work to do on the opening vocal line. Part of this corrupt project was any vocal overdubs sounded like they were recorded on different planets. Thanks mark

@lapasoa where in the pro channel can you find the Gibson J200 presets. Are they listed in the pro channel section if you click on the fx chain first ? I havn't been able to locate anything obvious for this. Thanks .. mark

Tom , I know Nothing about working remotely , but if there is "anything" you think I could add to this project count me in. As a retired auto worker , and at a time when GM was acting like Gibson and bailing out on their employees and retirees (for their own benefit) Joe Biden "personally" stepped in. Feel free to pm me. mark

@User 905133Yes I'm referring to the arp in the track inspector column for a midi track. 1/32 rate and 4 octaves worked well for what I was doing. I don't think I could have gotten it done so easy using my controller. Mouse was easy. @Javadude54The measure long notes were a single drum hit with the duration dragged out a measure or however long I wanted it. The arp repeated it until the end of the measure. 2 of these long ones were going most of the time with different short ones added for accents. Easily done just in prv. ms

Sadicus , I'm done with the main body of the project but don't know yet what to do with it. As far as the tabla track , I built the entire 3.5 min. of it in about a half hour using a mouse in prv with the arp. It would have taken me forever any other way. Some of the drums were a measure long and other were real short hits. It was easy to edit without having much show up in prv. When I did a bounce to clips , the screen got so full I had a harder time editing further , but I could get more precise. Try is sometime , it could probably be done just using percussion instruments also. It was actually fun doing it. Good luck .. mark

Are you using the built in CbB arpeggiator ? I recently built a tabla drum track , and all the arp hits showed up in prv after bouncing to clips. I think I remember another post with the same problem until they used the CbB arp .. ms

Spy theme for sure. I thought the overall mix was Very good. In my opinion , I think the brass section could be tamed a little at the 2.06 mark. The melody here was fine but something thinned out the mix in this section. That was some excellent guitar work thru the entire song. You sound like a very polished jazz guitarist. That was a pleasure to listen to . mark

Well done ! I especially liked the change around the 4 mark. Could build an entire song around that section alone. I thought the drums were Fantastic. Sure must be nice not having to work with a drum synth. Enjoyed it. mark

I tamed the drums, the link now reflects the changes. Seems a lot smoother to me now. It sure is nice to have professional input and suggestions. You guy's are great! Thanks for all the help and great comments. Later .. mark

Thanks for the comments and suggestions so far. The snare drum has gotten on my nerves from the beginning. I keep turning it down but it keeps coming back up during mastering. I really hadn't considered deleting notes. Thanks @batsbrewfor that one. The busy off kilter drums are one of the main hooks in the original song but I guess everyone is in agreement I kinda missed it. I've done a lot to the drums already and sounding a lot better. Not done yet. To Tom @DeeringAmpsthanks again. I've done a handfull of covers mainly during my cassette days and a couple I sent to my brother , but this is really my first full blown cover project.. Thanks .. mark

I took a writing break and did my first cover song . Gary Clark Jr.'s Take me down south. I had a corrupt project that took me forever to finish. Any suggestions will be great. I'll remove the song afterwards. I did it just to keep for myself. Weapons - Godin Lapatrie , G&L asat , Homemade lap steel , old blues harp , SI drums . Thanks .. mark https://soundcloud.com/user-810058643/down-south-cover

If it's a vocal track your editing you can also use melodyne (if you have it) and just delete the noise blobs. I'll do that on minor stuff since I'm going to use melodyne anyway. If you don't have it , it's a great tool to get .. ms

Again .. Fantastic. Your acoustic talents and vocals make me want to hear more like this. This shure wasn't your basic strumming . A bigger fan now.. mark

Lee , this one had a great feel. Perfect choice for the vocal harmony's on the Great choruses . The lead break and organ were A1. It wasn't an abrupt ending but I think a longer fade out would be nicer. Enjoyed it .. mark