FreeEarCandy

Sad to hear about your loss. I comes through in the guitar solo. May time ease you pain, Dave.

I think the vocals sound a bit boxed. Perhaps widen them a little and see what happens. It just may do the trick and sound louder as Tom suggested.

I think it sounds good. High energy. Plays well with the video (good video work). The only thing I was considering was if the kick is loud enough, but upon more consideration, its loud enough and I'm not struggling to hear it on my cans. However I wonder how this will sound with ear buds and smaller speakers, which I do not have. I like all the different elements that pop in and out to spice this up. Nice work so far as my ears can tell. Enjoyable.

I opened up an old project I created on my paid platinum version of CW before Bandlab. In this project I used guitar rig 4 le and a cakewalk amp sim. Upon opening the project I was informed that neither was available. I searched around in the CW platinum content files, which I still have on my computer, and could not locate either. However, my old CW account clearly shows that I purchased or acquired the guitar rig 4 le via and upgrade. I have the serial number, but I cannot find any down load option to restore it on my computer. As far as the CW amp sim I don't have a clue where I can locate it in my platinum content file. I did a search on my computer and still came up empty. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! FreeEarCandy P.S. This problem has been solved! See msmcleod (Mark) comment below for the solution. Thanks Mark!

Awe! Blues, thick or thin, always sounds good. Back in the day, when I was just a lad, car radios were mono and the reception was always bad. But that didn't stop the blues from grabbing ones attention. Much enjoyed! Dean.

Somehow I missed this one. Really nice tune! Personally I would have brought those vocals more forward or pushed the instrumentation back while the vocals are at play. Let the bass and drums carry most of it through, and then bring all that sugar to the front when the vocals are done. But all that aside very well done. Dean

All roads lead to Rome, unless you are already in Rome. Then its anyone's best guess. Very different, musically. This would work in a musical play. That's where it seems to fit in my mind.

Not familiar with the original tune, but his sounds good to me. I just can't make the connection between Lullaby and the spider theme. Nevertheless, cool video. I love watching spiders. I'd never touch one, but I do like watching them. The guitar solo was cool too. I also liked the drum track. Dean

Ha! 6ft grand? Just so happens I have one of those in my top pocket! I can even put Red Hot Chili Peppers on it to warm you up. Glad you liked the intro to nowhere, Tom, and thanks for the kind words. I did a quick look and I probably could push a little more around 200hz. Thanks! Dean. It has a place. I just couldn't find it. Thanks, t. The song I was trying to match this up with has some slide guitar. So, that was my first go to. I never considered that it sounds like "whales" calling, but it sort of does now that you made the connection. Cool interpretation. Thanks, Mark! Thanks for listening, markno999. Glad you had some good cans to take it in. Otherwise much will indeed be lost in a piece like this one-IMO. Thanks for listening and letting me know what you thought. Good or bad, always appreciated! Dean

That's fine, Phillip. At the end of the day you have to like it. But I think what's going on here is many of the elements you are using are in the same frequency range and that creates a bit of a problem called masking. For example, if you take 2 identical tracks, and change the phase of 1, and then play them together, you will not here anything. Well, masking is very similar. The strongest wave will prevail, but some of the energy of the winning wave will be lost, or "castrated". Now, you can deal with this in a few ways. One is panning. The other way is eq. I prefer panning and adjusting the width when I want all the elements to be equally heard. If you eq, then you are essentially lowering the volume in a particular frequency. Believe me, I know mixing can be a real pain in *****, and sometimes I just wish the process wasn't so time consuming. I don't think you are being snobby about it. You have an idea/feeling in your head and you are trying your best to get it on paper. I get that in spades. Some of the tunes I post I have been working on for a very very long time. I gave up counting versions. Some seem to come together like magic ( I love when that happens). Others, its like pulling teeth. I think its safe to say that everyone here has gone through this experience. IMHO, this has already come a long way from the first version. You have a very good concept to work with and its worth the time you put into it, but its always good to take a break and let your head clear. The fact that you are working on it must mean that the tune has not yet reached a satisfactory level in your mind. So try to sit back and listen to it and discover what it is about the tune that is troubling you, and then think of a way to solve it with the tools you have at hand. Someone said that a mix is never done. We simply surrender. I believe that is true. Dean.

Very creative, Steve. Vocal harmonies are right on. Has a British rock feel to it. I think its real good, and I enjoyed listening to it. Dean

This is very swampy and it got my bottom all soggy! Love it!

Thanks Nigel & Steve. I appreciate the comments and glad you enjoyed the head trip. Nigel. I've listened to a lot of Pink Floyd & Genesis, so I have no doubts they both have had a big influence on me. Steve. I think we both have the same problem.

This piece started with the intension of adding a short intro to another track titled "What we dream". As things progressed, I was having trouble making the transition, and every attempt I made to get the two tracks to blend together resulted in the intro becoming longer and longer, until I finally gave up and gave it its own title. I don't do many soundscapes, but I really had fun putting this together. Hope you enjoy it. “Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.” – Carl Jung

Thanks so much, Larry!

Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it.

Well done, Larry. Very nice.

Well done! The lyrics tell a story and the music backed it up appropriately. Very enjoyable.

Strange stuff. Truly out of the box.

Much better. Now I think you should perhaps work on levels a bit more. Let certain elements dominate occasionally rather than compete. The vocals are always priority. So when they are in play the other stuff should back off or move out of the way. As it is, it sounds like everything is coming at me all at once. Give everything their own space (pan), and consider their presence and width.

Sounds good.

My head went right to the Pulp Fiction dance scene. Defiantly this is as good as a $5 milk shake.

Awe, that was nice.

Its a very nice song, but this needs better management as many here have already suggested.

Thanks Tom! Glad you enjoyed the listen. I'm also happy to hear your critic. I took a look at the E guitar to see what was being rolled off. Looks like its your ears today, as both the E rhythm and E lead guitars are rolling off heavy @ 5k. @ 5k I'm barely pushing -12 and its hardly visible at 6-7k on the scale of 0 to -18 db. Most of the energy is sitting between 500 and 5K for the lead and 300 to 5k for the rhythm. The rhythm is panned wide and the lead is 20% to the right. I try to let the snare, kick and bass take center, and push the lead guitar slightly to the right of all that energy coming down the middle. While I understand that there seems to be some length rules concerning a song, I never quite understood why? Like you, I grew up in a time when we didn't give much consideration to the length of a song (Suppers Ready by Genesis). While this rule may have some value in the commercial end of things today, I'm not really striving to fit into the modern commercial side of things. I just want to go where the song takes me in my own head and leave it at that. I think perhaps Nigel felt that the acoustic guitar intro was unnecessary and should be cut. That's fair enough. However, I prefer to keep the length intact and not worry about trends. I just listened to some electronics tunes that are 8 min. Pink Floyd shine on you crazy diamond is 13 min +. Lyrics don't kick in until 5 or 6 min in. Would anyone want to suggest its too long? I don't think so. As far as the kick, you may have a good point. I generally don't push it that hard, but I was told that these new smart phone listeners need that extra energy in the low end, so I go there now. Seems these new devices and their ear buds are very popular. I feel a bit torn about it myself and I don't know how to accommodate everyone. Sorry if I hurt your ear drums, Tom. Not intentional. Anyway, thank you so much Tom. I really do appreciate hearing the way it comes across on your end, and much of the critic here has indeed helped. Dean