mark skinner

Thanks ! I got them. I'm sure I'll use them on something in the future. I normally don't like drums with such a "ring" in them , but they sounded Great in this type of genre. They cut through everything nicely . mark

Nice mix. I really like the guitar tone early on in the song. The drums sounded Amazing thru my headphones , especially the snare . What did you use for the drums , if it was a synth ? Enjoyed it .. mark

Congrats on the well deserved coverage of your song! It's Very energetic and I see why they chose to use it. The Megatrax site looked well laid out for this. Was the MLB specifically targed for this song ? Enjoyed it .. mark

Nice .. Love the synth bass and kick and the laid back feel of this song. It sounds like you did a Lot of vocal manipulating in this one. Cool harmonys and midi guitar as well. Enjoyed it .. mark

Brilliant ! For me .. you covered All the bases in this one. Very creative and well captured . Enjoyed it .. mark

Thanks guys. I do go thru both the off and online authorization about every 3 weeks without any issue. It's pretty cut and dry. The last time I used the the offline process though , I did pick up that countdown screen again about moving to the new Sonar . This time around , I never got the toast screen about needing to reauthorize within the next 13 days. It just de-authorized without any notice. Thus the reason for my OP about any changes in authorization. I would think at least "someone" from the beta team (or the bakers) would have a spare "offline" pc to test the results of using the new Sonar on it for an extended time. Then make the results public. Being offline is a PIDA but my studio building is just out of range for a cable. mark

Totally agree with jack c. All of your song cover art is quite impressive as well. enjoyed several tunes. mark

I guess everyone (including me) is Tired of hearing about this subject .. I'll just drop it. I would like to hear from someone "though" who uses the new Sonar Offline. Not going to upgrade until I find out if I'm going to have the same problems.. mark

My pc has been "offline" since my last monthly authorization. I've been expecting the toast screen to pop up any day now . This morning I started up in No save/export mode without ever getting the normal upcoming needed authorization screen. Has anything changed that I'm not aware of ? I failed to make note of the last time I re-authorized so .. I can't be sure of how long it's been. ms

After a windows update (shortly after going from win7 to 10 on a normally offline pc) I also lost the ability to use the "play" button or spacebar for transport. This was in All of my projects. I tried everything I could think of and also posted about it here (and did everything suggested). Never did figure it out. I finally gave up and did a "system restore" a few restore points back. Everything went back to "normal" and the next update didn't bring the problem back. May not be your issue . I had put my PC online to re-activate CbB (again) , and it updated windows during the process. ms

They are at 160 kbs now. At least it's a little better. ms

Cool , Headphone/laptop listen sounds good. On the fence about the vox volume. Some sections sound a little hot. Maybe just the high harmony ?? . I thought the bass sat pretty well. Out of curiostity , have to tried a test mix on Sound Click? I for one would like to hear your opinion. Only you know exactly what your material sounded like "before" the upload. I think it sounds better than SoundCloud. I know the streaming rate is higher. mark

Great immersive mix , (headphone/laptop listen). IReally like the bass guitar in this one. All of the low end sounds Great. Fantastic video as well. You captured the magic of being a child Nicely. I'm going to have to pick up the LP from Itunes to play in our car. Enjoyed it .. mark

SubVibe , Cool song and the structure was Very creative. I absolutely Loved the section with the chord change and horn solo. Nice jazz sound coming across. Enjoyed it .. mark

Great job Steve. That looked and sounded like quite a production ! I really enjoyed the visuals and I am for sure going to look up the old stop action original flic. I enjoyed the light and very Beatleish sound of this . Enjoyed it .. mark

Got this in my Email a while back. I recently had to refer to it for a screen that I needed while editing a vocal track. I thought it might be a Good one for this section of the forum . mark

@bjornpdx , @Old Joad , @Alper Karamahmutoglu , @Wookiee. Thanks guys for the listen and Great comments. I'm calling this one done and surrendered as I have no plans on officially releasing covers . This was done for my own pleasure and a learning experience. @steve@baselines.com , I appreciate your comment and will for sure keep it in mind the next time I use my Tak LTd in a song. I did keep grabbing the highs and cutting the lows in that track. I too wasn't very satisfied with it , and I had a hard time getting it to sit well in the mix. I had a "high strung" acoustic guitar on the right side . I was hoping the middle electric guitar even thing up a little. Anyway .. Thank You All.. mark

That was some Fantasic vocal control. Impressive how the vibrato was timed on different phrases. Great job on the instrument tracking as well. There were some spots that I thought the backing could have been brought up a little .. Enjoyed this Very impressive cover .. mark

Screen size and resolution is also worth conidering. I've got CbB on Asus with a fairly small screen. I just use it for playing around when I'm away from my DAW PC . (and for offline activation). Lots of the CbB controls can't be seen on it without messing around with the resolution controls. Then everything becomes hard to see because of small size of the visuals. ms

Wayne , Very cool and Creative song. I totally agree with @equality about the break. Very unusual but worked Great in this song. It kind of invoked a sense of confususion and mood swing . I thought the backing guitar tones were Steller and very well played. If I was mixing this , I think I would experiment a little more with the vocal FX 😁 Looking forward to the next version. mark

Thanks Guys for the listens and comments. I'm calling this one "done" and surrendering. Special thanks to @garybrun for offering to remaster it. I sent him seperate files of the instrument full mix and a seperate soloed mix of the vocals. I never really know how loud to process my own vocal tracks. It was nice to have a competant person make that decision for me. As usual I think he did another Great job on a mix/master. Thanks .. mark

Thanks @KSband , @freddy j , @DeeringAmps . Thanks guys for the Great comments. I've been tweeking things and the link now reflects my last changes. Guitars were narrowed in towards center. I widened the mix so much they were spread out a little too much. @noynekker helped with that decision. I carried it a little further in this mix. Reverbs were boosted a good bit. I think what helped most was moving most of my bass track a 1/4 bar downstream. It played better on the offbeat. I'm going to give it a rest , but there will be a new master coming before long. Thanks .. mark

Bruce , You've sure got some great energy flowing in this one. I Love the harmony in your chorus tracks and that changeup around the 2 min. and the 2:45 marks. Killer bass tack as well. No crits or suggestions from me .. I'll bet you enjoyed grabbing the faders instead of the mouse .. Loved it .. mark

David , I'm going thru the same problem with the kick/bass and low end on a song that I've already posted. I'm not much of a bass player.. I tend to play on the heavy hittting 1 beat. I just slid my bass and kick track next to each other and realized I've got Way too many spots competing with each other. I slid "most" of my bass track down stream a 1/4 beat to the downbeat. The problem was nearly 100% solved. Not sure if this is related "at all" to your song , but there were a few spots I've listened to in yours where I think it would help. I got Tired as well with fighting with EQ and plugins. best of luck .. ms

Killer song ! You did a Fantastic job on the vocals and acoustic guitar around the outro. I'm kinda on the fence about the intro EQ. Listening on laptop with somewhat hyped bass headphones. The low end does get a little confusing in some spots , but in the chorus(s) I thought the bass guitar came thru a lot better. I downloaded and will check it out further on my monitors in the morning. Mainly .. just to hear it again. I'm sure you've listened to this a thousand times. I normally have to get away from one for a while to get a grasp of what is bothering me about it. I recently found a proQ preset for bass that helps a lot for situations like you think you have. Loved the song .. mark