PhonoBrainer

Loved it. Anything with birds. More birds. Birds are the new cowbell. I listen to SomaFm "Drone Zone" and this could fit well. Whatever the reverb on the flute was, worked a treat. Nice one, thanks for the tranquil moment! cheers -Tom

My good lord, amazing. Utterly ambitious yet fully realized. So well done. Apart from the uber-accurate instrumentation, its your vocals and how they capture the actual nuances of the original. Amazing especially if you are "experienced" in the original. Q - do you know where a quality streaming version of this movie is available? My wife hasn't seen it and its difficult to find these days. Holy cow, Ross, you nailed it. cheers, -Tom

I turned it up within 5 seconds. Great guitar groove, well supported by bass and drums. +1 to vocals up, and I'd drop the excellent guitars by at least .5 db during the vocals. Can't quite make the lyrics out as is. Feel free to hand automate the volume automation!! Great groove. cheers, -Tom

Such a good mix, clarity in the extreme. So good. Your tunes are usually well mixed. modern in the current style, only I think your songs themselves are more interesting than the popular ones. cheers, -Tom

The mix sparkles with clarity on the upper mids and highs, all the evolving textures are quite distinct and clear. A pleasure to listen to! I found to my ears the bass instrument (guitar? Synth?) much less discernible, and wanted to hear more bass in the groove. Ymmv. A very creditable job handling these synths. The melody was a bit scattershot. Curious, in this genre, which artists do you gravitate toward? A very cool listen and well handled with a lot of elements coming and going! cheers, -Tom

Shwaaaaaaaaaa-mp groove!! Give it up for Freddie, with 188 songs on his SoundCloud page! That's inspirational right there. I liked the greasy groove and tasty licks a lot. Well done sir. So sorry for your recent tribulations. Please keep those excellent guitars above the waterline! cheers, -Tom

So it asks a question . . . Why are the crows in pain? And it's a lot of pain. Why crows? Did the crooked people do something to the crows intentionally??? Or are the crows merely canaries in the coal mine, reacting incidentally with pain to the shenanigans of those crooked people? There are no answers. I love it. Your ambiguous lyrics have a Talking Heads attraction to "build your own story" while the music is definitely more metal. Id say the mix could use some bit of brightening, perhaps an eq lift in the extreme upper frequencies? There is a Maag4 "air" band that I think would do you well here. Check out this video from this search, maag eq4 air band https://share.google/ctiOZrFnViPYai8Cs Cool tune. cheers, -Tom

A Lil' is quite Enough

Ai vids seem to be a new divisive point, don't they? In this case, whatever misgivings one might have about the ai vid clips should be completely mitigated by the female tarantula smoking cigarette post-coitus. That brilliant moment is utterly unobtainable for the bedroom studio with anything else other than ai. Same with the cactii petting the coyotes. Very very imaginative! But as a result, to my mind, the song becomes unrememorable, as its the video I remember after viewing. Which is too bad because its a groovy song, too. In short, I liked it for reasons I don't necessarily like, which is awkward for me. But I would definitely show this to kids, its a fun one! Thanks for the interesting and thought-provoking post, and happy Halloween to ya!

Good monitors usually make it sound too good, so mixes don't translate perfectly. But damn things sure sound good in the studio!!! That's why meh monitors like NS-10 get the love. They are so average sounding. Pretty sure the best way for us to go, moving forward, would be just to sell our quality monitors and fancy headphone correction systems, and just mix into earbuds because that's 80% of the listenership.

Did they trot out the old chestnut "This is not your father's Omnisphere" ?

The usual suspects.

Thanks Larry! Let's mention the minimum spend for this to apply is $70. I tried to score a Pultec for four bucks, no dice. This Pultec trick didn't work.

I come not to praise the M1, but to bury it. I remember coming to a decision point on buying one, maybe 1988 or something, as my old performance keyboard had died. I tested it, evaluated, listen closely, read the ads, knew it was popular. But for me it just sounded cheeeesy. I went instead with a dummy Yamaha KX-88 controller, driving a Roland MT-32 module. Which had its own cheese issues, of course. So somewhere out there is the M1 I almost but didn't buy, and I hope it made someone very very happy!

No brainer, if you have the cpu.

My goal is to create more finished original songs than I have plugins. I have 327 plugins.

Any opinions on the telecaster? All the vids I find are from at least 5 years ago. Do the older guitars shine now with better strums now that they get the v4 overhaul?

I hope you are correct. Perhaps the music-human soul connection will remain viable, even fifty years from now, to kids not yet born. They will be able to watch grainy videos of concerts that happened long ago, like Stop Making Sense as an example. So they will know it used to be a thing. Whereas the human-accounting, human-information, human-photography, human-painting, and other human-? connections will be long abandoned.

I've been seeing a lot of these "where music is headed" vids these days, and this might be the most heady. What do you think?

Pepsi tasted better back then ???

Spread is great for making the bass more mono, and making the shimmery top things wider. Very easy to use, its a great gui design.

Zero plugins.

But at least they tried, becoming willing victims of their own career arc. I guess if you have an excellent retrospective documentary just dropping on Netflix, then you are through being cool.