PhonoBrainer

OK, first off I hear the excellence and the work you did. Great vocals, I liked the flangey treatment. One listen and I think I know what could be looked at. Is that the cajon primarily on or around beat 3 of most measures? Going " whoom - whooomp"? Try only popping in with that for flavor in certain sections of your song? And lowering the volume of it? I think it kills the groove dead when it woom woomps. If it were me I'd try muting it all the way through, to see if the song starts to get your head bobbing more. love your stuff, so great to see you back!!! cheers, -Tom

Well this kicks *****. Piano, honky tonkish? Jerry Lee Lewisish? You mention piano in your post, but I heard no piano. Those guitars are really freaking well recorded, played, and with awwwwwwwwe-summmm tone. loved it. cheers, -Tom

cool picture . . . Nevada? cool tune! Can you imagine Neil Young singing over it? I can! It's a bit rubato in the timing, so you must have intended those rhythm inconsistencies, and there are no drums anyway so who cares. It's all a back porch guitars feel, pretty cool. Nice panning on the guitars! cheers, -Tom

Any song with a 70's Joe Walsh vibe, I'm in. I'd check bass and kickdrum, solo them together as a pair, might be some timing issues worth looking into. Cool tune! cheers, -Tom

Thanks, Peter, appreciate it! That makes me feel Warm, and Toasty!

@Peter Woods thanks for the video link, that's the one that announced the product, it has like five or six presets on offer. Was hoping for the whole preset enchilada video . . . All of the other OTS libraries have like 25 different presets at least. Will stay tuned! Anyone have this, and would like to comment on the depth/variety of presets? We all know some libraries have a hundred presets with 98 fluff and two useable. thanks!

I've been waiting for some sort of "all the presets" video to emerge, but none so far. Any owners care to give a thumbnail review of the flexibilitty of the presets? ? thanks!

Ooops, forgot that one. Ooops, also forgot Supertramp Breakfast in America, and Boston's first album. Yeah, impossible. Looks like we're going to need a bigger desert island.

Ooops, forgot that one.

Mine: Abbey Road Can't decide, Dark Side or The Wall. Just one of these. Talking Heads Speaking in Tongues Level 42 World Machine Dire Straits Love Over Gold Roxy Music Avalon Van Morrison Poetic Champions Compose Oingo Boingo Only A Lad crap only two left uh, Thomas Dolby Astronauts and Heretics and finally Stereo MC's Connected Wait! No jazz, no country? No western swing? No downtempo electronic chill? Forget it. I quit. A pointless exercise. ?

I'm not so shure about this.

The GUI update, does it make the presets easy to scroll through? As opposed to menu madness?

Does the milk taste roasted and salty?

Anyone mess around with BassMint?

Yep. I have it and use it to degrade pristine audio into quirky and idiosyncratic shades of raspy fractallized decay. It's as if Jeff Goldblum were a plug-in.

Anyone else record an album in the early 2000's using a demo of Absynth, which would generously let you record up to 25 seconds of audio? Creating endless cool clips to use? Just me? I milked that free demo horse to death. I purchased it later on so I could sleep at night. And still use it.

Good time to mention that HoRNet is having a 50% BOGO Labor Day Moonlight late summer sale. I didn't look it up, I just figured. Miss you Lars. Glad you have a life.

I'm guessing it's mostly just triggering pre-recorded drum loops with a single key press?

"open up my mouth only to change my feet" loved the inventive and quirky arrangement of your song but that lyric is next-level stuff. Well done! cheers, -Tom

Wowsa! You are very worthy!!! Congrats, you overnight sensation!

Care to divulge the culture? Got a set list you could share?

That was a good one! And similar, stylistically, to this:

Just heard both mixes, second mix is better by half, and I'd post that second mix confidently as a link at the top of your first post in this thread. Why is the second mix better? Less vocal reverb, I think you did add some predelay? And the bgv's are a must have for this song, I'd get them louder in their spots. Your second mix solved a lot of problems that I heard, so well done. I'd say one area might remain to be addressed, and that is your snare is masking the vocal a bit when the snare hits. I don't know if you have already, but I like the snare's sound - just volume automate by hand a little dip in snare volume whenever it happens to beat down on a lyric. That should only take you another 10,000 hours, but well worth it. Of course it's also doable with fancier ducking setups but that's like mowing a lawn with a riding lawnmower - it's faster but doesn't do as nice a job. Lyrics are great. As for your hyper self-awareness of the vocalists' age, hey if your going to mention James Taylor and Dire Straits then we expect a seasoned vocalist. I think it works a treat. And if you listen at lower volume, the vocal tends to sink into the mix a bit - I'd be tempted to add just a .25 db at least to the vocal volume so it is out front where it belongs. OK, so you aren't 38, but this is Special! cheers, -Tom p.s. your wife is right about Bruce, now I finally get it about that dude!

I have it from when it first came out and have sung its praises before, very high quality electro drums in a decent to use interface. But to say its evolved in any way is crap. It came out years ago, has never had any version revision, is only capable of midi pattern export intermittently. I still love it even though on certain days it is quirky and unstable. Instead of fixing, the devs move on to their next "evolutionary" drum machine, and dump this into the Vstbuzz world with the rest of the failing genetic mutations. Fairer marketing would point out how it's at the end of an evolutionary development branch, and when using it, it requires some adaptation. Which is all to say, if you need quality electro drums, at this price, it's low-hanging fruit.

I was in Canada recently, in a decently nice hotel restaurant, and noticed the background music in the place was a nice 80s r n b mix, Patti Labelle, some Bonnie Raitt, so all good. Until I became VERY AWARE that the muzak service was cutting out a beat of the songs every 15 seconds or so, the song skipping ahead in time, like a CD player skipping. So annoying! I thought it might be a Canadian muzak thing. Came home to USA, was just in a grocery store, and same thing. "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" with sliced beats removed, becoming "The eck of the Edmund Fitzerald" Is this fresh new auditory hell an attempt to avoid copyright issues? Whatever it is, it must stop now. The innocent nonmusician public may not notice the beatectomy, but for a musician it's a horrorshow. Anyone else noticing this?