steve@baselines.com

Very original. I think some fx on the vocal would add to this. Walking walking in the rain style/

Sounds great!

I like the way you resolve the sustained chords. It is out of the ordinary.

Sounds really nice. I think just a touch of reverb on your vocal would add to this. You have a great smooth tone to your vocal.

Nice - somehow increasing the drive would be beneficial. I think it has to do with the bass part.

Sounds like a good start.

Hi Paul - hey thanks! I'm happy that you liked this song! Steve

Hi Lynn - I look back fondly on the 60s (and 70s) - While there were problems, they seem minor now compared to all the positive stuff that happened to advance us. Steve

I was happy I found a video of that that I could include in my video! I guess you can find just about everything on Youtube now.

Thanks for the nice comment Bruce, I really appreciate it! Steve

Hi Bjorn - yes! The first thing that was done in this song was the synth that sounds like that old Tornadoes song Telstar (Z3TA plugin with Cream Poly setting) - it reminded me of the tone they got - and things developed from there. I read up on that old song, and it was written by a guy named Joe Meek. Evidently, he went a bit crazy. His landlady used to bang on his ceiling when the music got too loud, and one day she came down to complain about it - he shot her and then he shot himself. Thanks for listening and leaving a comment! Steve

Thanks Mark - it took me a while to get the lyrics added to this one. Steve

Thank you for your comments!! Being compared to Utopia is probably about the coolest thing in the world!

Hi Kevin - thank you for listening.

Thanks Nigel. I wasn't sure that I had a good mix, but I worked on it for long enough and had to let it go. Steve

Thanks for listening Jack!

A brief look back at the craziness that was the 60s. Today I added a video to the song as well. It's available at the same link here: https://baselines.com/?p=7130

Yeah - I did this with iZotope Insight and tonal balance. I took my original master and loaded the mixea as a reference track then made some adjustments. The results I got are at the top of this thread. Still, even when getting them as close as I could, there was still something that made a difference. I only did the EQ type adjustments though, There probably something I could have done with the harmonic content. Maybe I'll try that someday.

See my other comment I just added. I still think it is good, but you really have to be careful when comparing. Steve

It is, but over the weeks I have revised my opinion a little bit. For the first song, it was great - but for the next few it added harshness even at the warm level. I think if my mix/master is deficient in a certain range it really works well. But you have to be careful! Make sure before you commit. I still think it is good, but I need to adjust my pre-master to take advantage of it. Steve

One thing I do to help it punch through is have a bass buss, an rbass buss and an all bass buss. bass guitar goes to the bass buss with maserati bass on it set for the top end boost, then a send from that to the rbass buss with renaissance bass for the bottom and the distortion. Both go to the All Bass buss. I send about 30-40% to the RBass and on rbass accentuate around 80hz. Then if necessary, put the all bass through an 1176

Hi - yes I can hear it - I can see where someone might say that though. I think maybe the acoustic guitars may be burying it a little.

Thanks Lynn!

Thanks for the information!

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