steve@baselines.com

Thanks Tom - and thanks also for taking the time to comment on Youtube. It's always nice to get notified that someone is out there! Steve

I love that comment about reverting! That's my sense of humor right there. Actually I thought about trying to do that at one time, but I kept thinking that sometimes (for me rarely) people have dreams in color, so it was like somebody going to sleep at that moment and switching into color. Plus it saved me some work not converting it. LOL Thanks for your input, I truly enjoy it.

I wrote some of this when I was but a young 20 year old, banging away on the piano. It laid dormant for years until I heard it on an old cassette a couple of years back. I started work on it, coming up with the acoustic guitar part that added a bunch of finger picking around the basic chords. I released it probably in 2016 time frame. After that, I kind of felt embarrassed a little bit, because I don’t write that kind of lyric very much, and it is the sentiment of a much younger man. I buried it, pulled it down off of Spotify and figured it would just languish on the garbage heap of my personal history. A few months ago, I thought about it again and figured that I liked the chord structure, so I should probably write a new lyric. I pulled it into Cakewalk Sonar and started reworking some of the tracks. I quite liked a lot of what was going on, and I made it better by redoing a few things. It got about time to rewrite the lyrics, and by that time I was thinking that I didn’t mind the current version that much and it was pretty cool as it was. So the Hell with it, I am going to release it again, and I am not going to be embarrassed by it, I think it is pretty cool for the genre that it is. And so what, I’m older now. So what! So WHAT! https://baselines.com/?p=7147

Hi Freddy - thank you for listening and for the great feedback! Steve

Thanks Mark - yes, that video from 1933 was really well done - I can't imagine how long it took to put together. Steve

Thank you for the nice comment Nigel!

Thank you for listening!

Another great song with engaging lyrics and a superb video accompaniment. Nice work Nigel.

You always get great guitar sounds. Very nice.

Hi Bjorn - I really liked it. Nice surprise chord change in there near the guitar break, and the lyrics are great.

The instrument mix sounds pretty good to me. The vocal I can hear, but I think it might benefit from some high end. Steve

Thanks Ross!

Thank you for listening!

Sometimes ya just gotta rock out hard and loud. I bet it felt great to put that one together!

The stability is really very good now. Very few crashes. I still see small anomalies (trying to add gain to two tracks at once removes the audio is one), but it's no big deal. It's still a great DAW and I see no reason to use anything else.

Interesting song. The vocalist is really good.

wow - very cool. Everything sounds just right.

You always have a surprising chord change somewhere - I like that. I think we all feel like that about the BS level. It is astounding what passes for leadership these days.

Really nice job on this song. I was going to say that the vocal could sit better in the mix if it were a touch lower, but that is nit-picking. Some harmonies might work well on the chorus.

You get a 'like' simply for the self loathing comment - funny and relatable. The song is really nice, but as you have stated, the bass is not really present (at least to my ears). I'm no expert, but the kick drum sounds too loud to me. If I was working on this, I would try to define the bass guitar a little more. Generally, I have the bass feed into a buss with something to accentuate the high end (I use Maserati Bass - Waves). Then I create a send to another buss with RBass on it, which adds the bottom and some of the distortion that warms it up. I send both busses to an 'ALL BASS' buss for final eq and compression. In this case, I would also do some work to make sure the kick and bass have their own space, and that other instruments were not interfering with the bass.

Nice tight interesting recording.

Nice job Bjorn!

Awesome. Quality work here.

This is really well done. The mix sounds great to me. The only thing I could add (and this is personal taste and may be wrong) - the first acoustic guitar might benefit from a little touch of high frequency lift....very minor adjustment.

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