PhonoBrainer

Ditto this. Great quality and super easy for those idiosyncratic 80's tom rolls and such.

Yeah sorry, not a very super specific or useful observation I made! Breathing, as in a bit more upper end eq boosts to add some natural higher frequencies. But it totally matters what snare you are starting with. Is it a live recorded snare? If so you may not have a lot of good upper frequencies to work with. In that case you can play around with adding a clap sample when each snare hits, adding mostly just the upper eq of the clap hit (season to taste). If it's a sample from some drum vst, you might be able to swap that sample out for another that has more sparkle up yonder. Of course if you dig the snare as is, that's easier! ? I was hearing a cool rockabilly/ska vibe and those songs can have some crack on the snare sometimes. Cool tune, looking forward to hearing where it goes . . .

I listened to both versions, and the song is catchy with a nifty hook on that palm mutey guitar line. The second version is really getting there but you might get that snare breathing a bit more somehow. I think it's wonderful how you are unburying this song and giving it new life. Very cool indeed. cheers, -Tom

He's now my favorite heretic and I hope he got paid. If he really really played that thing as only he could, the machine would be smoking in two minutes.

Look! It's Orange!!!

Ore some old guy actually trying to comprehend Battery 4

Glad I caught this. It's a great song and mixwise, it's unusual to hear such low-end clarity across bass, kick, and lower register guitar strings. Wonderful! It's kind of a crime not to have supporting bgv's on this. Really, really good!!! cheers, -Tom

2,000 samples per note. Again, 2,000 samples. Per note. Wtf? Even if that's across a few articulations, at a number of velocities, with a few round robins? Seems like overly deep. I dunno. Back to my cave.

OK, let's see. Love the lead voice, so calming, fits the lyrics, well done! And the visuals are eyebleach to anyone hunkered down in the north hemisphere, in which me and my PNW mates are feeling are feeling grey as hell if hell were grey. So thanks for those as well! The video found me trying to hear a guitar but I can't, so that's a bit wtf. But I still liked it! cheers, looking forward to hearing more from you! -Tom

I like the room sound, I don't know how much was live recorded but it sounds like all elements are nicely presented in the same space, and your vocal "yeah's" and scats and such are a nice touch! Bass is tre cool and the piano ain't half bad either! cheers, -Tom

Fleer, stay strong. Call a friend before you give in.

Hey I'm not trying to be a buzzkill here, and I always appreciate well-crafted videography! Just wondering if the Deals forum is the place. Or is there a better place on the forum? If not, maybe we could lobby to create one? thanks, -Tom

I have no dog in this fight, but since I've been using and abusing a 2013-era pentium i7 computer, I'm curious because I know an upgrade can't be too far off. So I looked up the price of your Mac flappy that you are waiting on. I found $3999. Please tell me it ain't so??? If that's the price, think of all the blockchain you'll have to mine in order to recoup that. I don't know if I said any of that right. Feeling for you, Fleer. Btw this weakens your gripe with paying WUP. Chump change ?

I hope you find this aspirational . . .

I can hear the fingers attacking the bass strings. The bass is so very well articulated and recorded. Well done there. Timing seems impeccable throughout the piece, great chops. Perhaps the drums could be a bit more present in the mix? That's about the only maybe crit I could offer. This is pretty stellar. cheers, -Tom

Well I was digging the James Bond retro vibe, really well done on that! I especially liked the very end, a bit of suspenseful upper string remnants that linger. Really great string sounds all the way through. Then I caught the "Bridge to Somewhere" from whomever "Emeraldsou"l was . . . Mark that was a fun project for sure, you completely took that to a new and much more listenable level - thanks for that project! cheers, -Tom

I've slowly warmed up to his presentation style and now find his work enjoyable. That one about Christopher Cross' guitar solo was fun.

Hope they make it more than 40% off

What a treat to hear this! Great job on a really cool song. Guitar tones are spot on, and the vocals turned out surprisingly well! Mixwise I could only add maybe less severe panning on the vocals, they are really out there on the edge and could do with a bit more blended focal point. Might be worth a check. Super cool job here, thanks!

I bailed on BFD about 7? years ago and went SD3. Don't regret it. But, I still think BFD cymbals >SD3 cymbals.

Heh! He said "pen is"

I liked the tranquility and the tones! As for the timing of your guitars sliding around a bit, it's only noticeable because you have the metronome of that percussion hit, sounds like a hi hat or cymbal, it's on the 2 and 4 most beats. You might get rid of that completely, and then your guitar meanderings will just seem rubato. Does this piece really need a metric timekeeper? I also had to turn it up, it's a pretty quiet mix but maybe that's what you were going for. Very dreamstate guitars with that chorus and mesmerizing arpeggio. Cool! cheers, -Tom

Nice, Gary, thanks so much! Do I use automation? Yes, on every. single. track. I'm always doing volume automation, pulling things forward, pushing them back down. You know how you can have a 160 bar song, and let's say a track of tambourine or whatever that only plays for eight bars? I always automate the volume of those tracks completely down to zero if there is no information coming from them. Something about a bunch of empty tracks adding whatever preamp noise into your mix - I don't know if it's a real thing but if I get rid of all "empty" volumes, I think the noise floor goes way down on the whole piece. Did that make any sense? Probably not, just a ramble then! I also mix directly into the "mastering" plugins on the main bus, so any adjustments in tracks can have the overall effect judged immediately at the master bus. I know that's a crime in the minds of better mixers than me! many thanks again, I sure appreciate the encouragement! cheers! and I hope you are receiving good news on the issue you shared recently . . .

very cool comments, yes I agree the horns down a tad, and that clav was a fun add for sure. I appreciate the listen and the thoughts, thanks! thanks, Makke! I did sweat the structure of this and it went through more than a few revisions - thanks!