Johnbee58

Great sax work! I take it those are real horns. I'm kind of a sax connoisseur so if it's OK to ask you, what brand(s) are they? ?John B.

Freddy, your music always makes me smile! ?John B.

Jazzy & bluesy. Using EZ Drummer 3 Bright kit for the drums and Garritan Jazz & Big Band for the brass. Hope you enjoy. https://www.soundclick.com/music/songInfo.cfm?songID=14468875 ?John B

I like this style with the nylons string guitar and a rock rhythm background. Second mix is an improvement sound-wise over the first but both are performed and mixed well. Nice tune. ?John B

Breathtakingly beautiful scenery and the music fits just right. ?John B

I've pondered that myself. Thanks for your feedback. ?John B

@AndyB01 & @Bajan Blue Thanks so much, Andy and Nigel! ?John B

@Bajan Blue Mr. Nigel, thank you so much!! ?John B

@mark skinner, @KSband, & @antler-Thank you all for listening and your kind words.? @STEVE POOLE, Thanks, Steve. She loved it. ? Thanks, @hockeyjx? ?John B

Wrote this back in February for my wife as a Valentine's Day present. https://www.soundclick.com/music/songInfo.cfm?songID=14456752 Enjoy! ?John B

@jwnicholson78 & @Jesse Screed Thanks so much for listening, guys.? ?JB

Amazing, the sounds that Metalheads can get out of their guitars!!? Sounds pretty good on my cheapo ear buds too. ? ?John B

Dreamy and soothing but at the same time, kind of mysterious. ?John B

This is very effective and a beautiful background to this type of footage. The whole production is top notch professional grade. Documentary type. ?John B

@mgustavo & @DeeringAmps Thank you both so very much! ?John B

@Old JoadHey Joad! How've ya been? Thanks for listening! ?JB Also, Thanks @mgustavo

@AndyB01Thanks for the link. Very informative. ?JB

Thanks for giving it a listen, @Douglas Kirby ?John B

Last year I bought a new PC for my music. The main reason I chose this was the solid state hard drive because of the faster loading speeds. My projects do load much faster than with the old HDD, but my big concern is something I didn't know about until after I ordered it and that is the fact that SSDs have a limited amount of write cycles where disc drives are indefinite. In my research I found that there are ways to find out your current write cycles and how many you have left but in the process of creating a song I do a lot of deleting and re writing audio because I always convert MIDI to audio before mixing, but I do keep MIDI data just in case I want to change something later. My drive is 1 terabyte total and in a recent check I found I was almost half way through the capacity and my tech say you can't add a slave drive to it and SSDs are still pricey so I looked through my files and found that I could re claim about 20 gigs by deleting all of the install files I had. I backed them up on a fairly large external drive (just to play it safe) and re claimed that space but I'm wondering if files like install and configuration files constitute write cycles when you download them from the vendors onto your drive. Thanks John B

I'm in the process of re organizing my Plugins and I came upon one called Pentagon I. It doesn't work. It says it may not be installed properly. I've never used it so it doesn't matter much and it's not in the menu where I would move it from. Should I just delete it? Is it a relic from the past that is obsolute? Thanks ?John B

Nice 60s vibe. Very Jagger/Stones-ish. ?John B

@noynekkerThanks, noy! ? Most of that vocal was recorded wayyyy early in the morning. My studio is situated to allow me to record at all hours without disturbing anybody else's sleep in the house. Most of it was recorded between 6 & 7 AM. The pollen around here has been disturbing my vocal cords of late. That's audible here, but I didn't want to have to wait until the Fall to lay this down. I like your suggestion on the synth bass between the verses. Something I'll consider playing around with. Thanks. The protagonist is wondering if spending the rest of his days in jail would be worse than hanging and "just getting it over with". Thanks again! ?John B

Thanks for listening and you kind comment @AndyB01. And I hope you're right about EZK2. That would be nice. ?John B

Love the song. I'd bring the horns in the chorus down just a bit. I like the arrangement but they're a bit overpowering in the mix. ?John B

Man, this is NICE! The strings and lyrics almost had me in tears. You really know how to write a tear jerker. One small suggestion. Do some automation on your vocal track (lead) and ride the fader on some of the words. A few tend to get lost in the orchestration. ?John B