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PhonoBrainer

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  1. That's a great vocal, mellow yet emotional. Good work on this one! For me, watching a bunch of millennials in photo-romantic torture got a bit samey if not downright ridiculous, but that is 100% my age showing. I also found the string plucks cool but occasionally I wondered if they were being doubled, or were not in sync all the time? Might be worth a check . . . The Peter Gabriel comparison is apt but you have your own thing going fer sure. cheers, -Tom
  2. I like the cadence/rhythm emphasis in this, and the sax was a nice add indeed! I do think there is a next level for this, maybe one idea is to get them all in the same room reverbically? Bass is super dry, piano a bit of room, and sax is very far away. Maybe less sax reverb? The ending was well done. You might also give the bass some, perhaps a solo section, a short one, where the piano drops out? cheers, -Tom
  3. Returning to the subject, LARRY!!! Happy birthday, grab it early and live long! And for your birthday, I got you an old Lang sign.
  4. No brainer. 100% useful, even if you can't control parameters like eq on the returns.
  5. Well my Oingo stories don't hold a candle to yours, except I saw them three times when they played at UCSD in 1981/82. They were just starting to blow up, touring off the Only a Lad debut album, which as you know kicks total musical dancing art rock *****. I danced so hard in the front of those three shows, with my friends, totally drenched in sweat at the end. The small venue had us only feet away from the players. Perhaps it was the college environment, but the dancing was frenetic, yet civilized. Like a mosh pit without the mosh. No one lost any teeth. Absolutely fantastic. Any band with a guy named Vatos, AND a 64 yr old trumpet player, can't be all bad.
  6. Internet rat-hole report: so I went looking for "Danny Elfman's wife" who it turns out has been Bridget Fonda since 2003. Which answers another long-posed question, why did she disappear from the movies? News comes slowly to these parts . . . very slowly.
  7. Is that a harmonizer going sub on your lead vocal? Sounds cool. Thanks for that light-hearted holiday romp! I liked your take on this classic. You could start metallizing 80's new wave and start a genre. Or a niche. Next up, maybe "Tainted Love?"
  8. I listened to the promo vid and got pretty excited to use this in my tunes! I could really see this catching on, it's infectious! . . . hey fever.
  9. Hey it's all personal preference of course and that's a good mix, and it grooves fer sure.
  10. Haunting in a way, evocative. One of my favorites from you.
  11. PhonoBrainer

    LUCY 303

    Kloon, welcome back! Seriously great mix of pads and bgv in the chorus. That's a mixing clinic right there. Yaz with a dude singing! Loved the drums, and just the whole mix really.
  12. Long live Superrabbit! Liked it very much, particularly the cool filtered drum loop. I found myself waiting for the big kick-***** live drums and bass guitar to come in, but that is a different song. I dug the reversed tones with the chimney synth up top. Perhaps the spoken word might be a bit louder in the mix? Definitely a nice vibe on this . . .
  13. So much goodness. Punchy kick! Melange of impeccably mixed guitars. Sollllllid bass! Your tunes challenge the listener to keep track of all the elements at once, which I like. On this one I could only suggest pulling the business of the drums back just a bit, to give more listeners a chance to hear onto the wonderful thicket of those funk guitar parts!!! And I thought I heard some additional bass guitar improv, up on the neck? Cool jam, and the fade at the end was a good choice.
  14. Nice to hear one from you, John! This one has the right stank in the groove, and I like the unusual and unexpected chord changes. A toe tapper! If we are voting on the bass, just me but I found the tone had a lot of upper end in it, like a proper Jazz bass does, but that upper midrange growly sparkle was also masking some other funky guitar elements at times.. I do like the bass tone soloed but it's more punk than funk. Great tune though, good luck with it! Awesome chops.
  15. Does KeepYeti make you authorize through a separate proprietary installer?
  16. Great! The arrangement and vocals, perfect match. The bass is subdued and unobtrusive, and its tone is spot-on for the era. Those string lines and what they are doing would make any session producer from 1955 proud. thanks for the refresh, it was a holiday treat.
  17. Oh completely Duh. Sorry I totally missed that. And I was thinking of Dry Relic! Time for a nice cuppa and a good sit.
  18. Any comparisons to NI's Picked Acoustic?
  19. Probably put two-sided tape up on the studio walls? Or Velcro receiver strips? That way, you can just hang them up. If you use nails or tacks, you'll have to through their skin, or feet, which could be a bloody mess. I still don't get how you will keep them from bleating out whilst you are in recording mode. That's hard to EQ out.
  20. Agreed, but they make you browse pretty hard to find any a la carte option, and there is none for Glory Days, sadly.
  21. I know some Minoan history and have always found the bull leaping particularly fascinating, and this soundtrack for that is really wonderful. There can be 5 or so elements going on at once, and I can hear them all cleanly in the mix. Plus the rhythm pulses along, infectious. I think you cleared the bull and stuck the landing.
  22. I bet your tips sucked because they didn't have any pockets. And that's as far as I'm going to go with that.
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