PhonoBrainer

Can I wait until a developer "curates" it into a Kontakt instrument, pricing it at $599 only to have me buy it on BF for $29 with the coupon code #yourtaxdollarsatwork ?

I'm looking to buy a water heater. Since when did they go from $220 to $1200 ?

Feel free to focus on the left side of the screen while you find more quotes to cancel the guy on the right. Left side guy might have a good perspective.

Ah, the end times.

Let's not forget the severity of the lockdown was proportional to the utter lack of preparedness. And to the efficacy of our federal management. Same concept, shorter and more eloquent? Be well everyone!

that was simple and beautiful and well mixed and, I liked it! The instruments felt very up front yet pretty mellow, which is a hard trick to pull off. Well done and thanks for lowering the blood pressure! cheers, -Tom

If you are willing to exterminate several species of small furry animals grooving in a cave with a Pict.

Looks like we are all staying home, dropping gigs, so we don't end up at that Great Gig in the Sky.

Yeah, your songwriting style is killer. May I be the first to compliment you on the tuning of those very well-played guitars!!! Spot on methinks. The mix could open up a bit, I'd agree with the "boxy" comment, and if you bring the bass up I don't know that it will help. The lead guitar has a shartload of compression and flatness to it, and it sounds cool but it's about as 2-D as you can get a lead guitar to be. I love the rhythm guitar, that's such great tone with a killer riff. I think your mix might brighten and open if you focus on the drums. The snare, a little less compression there maybe? I think that snare wants to breathe. And if you listen to the kick all by itself, does it swamp out the low end, could it be controlled, maybe less sustain on the kick, any revb on the kick should get decreased? The toms feel like they punch 2-D in the fills, so less drum compression overall might be the trick. FWIW I listened four times. Great tune. Better finish it quick or else "trillionaire" will be the new standard. cheers, -Tom

Really cool to hear that time signature, and of course what you are doing with it! Very inventive, I like the different colors of the instruments and how they all have their little spotlight moments . . . Mix-wise, it tilts for me a little much toward the bass/low end. I'd vote for a nifty low mid dip around 250hz with a narrow q even a db or 2. I think you need a little more air up there, and there's lots of ways to get it, but sometimes backing off in the mud zone lets the higher ups breathe. Might be worth a try. My headphones are decent but I feel like the bass balance would have fair walloped my earbuds. Did you listen to your mix on headphones? Probably so, most people do, I wonder if it's worth playing with . . . my .02 kroners. great piece! cheers, -Tom

Do you need two headphone outs? I have the ufx II. Assuming the headphone amp is the same, I've found nothing to dislike about those amps, if you like just clean, which for monitoring I think is what you want. Prolly the headphones themselves have more impact on your listening experience than any advantage to a separate headphone amp? Enjoy, they are pretty darn good interfaces.

Other music stores may be essential, but GC? No.

That was awesome! All of the "essentials" ought to get a pay boost, instead of the feel-good corporate commercials. nice job Freddy! -Tom

Very nice! The instruments are mixed quite clearly and you have a voice that carries a lot of emotion! Well done. You might mix the vocal in a little louder when you move to falsetto or at the end of breaths, there's a bit of dropoff there sometimes. It's a great vocal perfomrance, for sure! cheers, -Tom

Do I recognize Virharmonic Bohemian Violin? Or??? This piece is really lovely and I like how it unfolds, evolves . .. the middle part around 1:27 gets a little choppy with the marcato? maybe a touch more reverb on those? I dunno. cool piece Starise! -Tom

Adaptiverb owner. The hi res is there. The tweakability is there. The complexity is, too. And it all makes your CPU say "Feed Me, Seymour!!!" I've used it mostly for sound design rather than regular mixing duties. The main trick up its sleeve is that it can tune your reverb tails into the notes of the sound source. You play a c triad, the reverb comes out strongly tuned c triad. Like it hides the overtones in the reverb tail. It also is good at feeding the reverb tail back into the original signal in weird ways. It's a pretty special tool but honestly I use the free Subspace ten times as much. Fwiw

I like it very much, it's a listening adventure. In the beginning I kind of wanted the lead guitar noodling to either come up in volume, (it's often quieter than the hi hat), or prolly just a hair less reverb whist keeping it atmospheric. Somehow! I'm guessing, live drummer? Pretty impressive however it's played or programmed. I think the entire thing has a massive sense of vision. Mix-wisem I'd vote for a little more "air" up top, it's a bit focused on midrange, which is understandable given the instrumentation, but any kind of eq that cak do one of those 20khz air boosts or upper eq lift shelf might help it breathe a bit more. To be fair, I listened on headphones, decent phones, but that might be the "air" I'm missing. I dunno. Great track, great adventure. cheers, -Tom

I too have multiple trips of soul searching in this area. Ya gotta go! Let's just say, usually "social distancing" is not a problem there. Very cool track, Bjorn. Certainly evokes the feeling. Mix-wise, I think the whole piece could be longer, actually. I like the drums that come in, and if you are going to have drums then turn them up? . . . and at the very beginning you might insert a half a second of silence, it starts rather abruptly upon hitting play. Meet you at that one motel with the cabin-y looking sprawl at the base of the Vermillion Cliffs. cheers, -Tom

That was fun, and totally cool of you to share that visual time capsule. I kept looking for the bungee jumpers but not, maybe thirty years later? Nice singing! I'd vote for vocals up as well, just a smidge. cheers, -Tom p.s. extra credit for your Dad's argyle hiking socks!!! A bold choice!!!

Fwiw I bought it. Not reading the manual, I youtube some guy using just the eq, monkey copied those settings he was dialing in, on the master bus of a song in working on. Bass got immediately more sustain, yet tighter in focus. Glued the tracks nicely together. Sounded professional. More clarity as well. That was just the eq on the master bus ... No idea what's going on but in this application it sounded to me like an ssl compressor only it didn't really raise the noise floor. I did detect some mashed drum transients but I took another compressor off the drums and things calmed down. Ok, I know, who cares. Guess it's time to read the manual.

Lars I have a toe in the acustica waters. A user really has to get past a learning curve on those interfaces. I'll agree that there is a slight advantage in a three dimensional quality they can give to a sound, if you figure them out. I only have purple and gold, but I've tried a few others. Not taupe. On the downside, in my experience anyway, acustica plugins are more buggy. They don't always play nice. And there's that inherent lag between moving a gui knob, and hearing a result, because of how they have done their modelling. Do you have softube tape? I use that a lot, I'd be interested in a comparison. More downside? Ok, if you have a support issue, they seem to operate on something like a helpdesk ticket system which, at least a few years ago, was not very well run. If you have a nice fast computer, I don't think the extra CPU hit is going to be noticed. To be fair, I don't own their latest offerings . . . but there might be a reason for that. Perhaps later iterations have solved some of those downsides. Meanwhile I will dutifully download the taupe demo tonight. What the Hades. Thanks, Larry! By the way they are going to run out of colors soon.

I notice your desk is right flush on the wall, you might look into pulling it off th wall a bit, even a foot or two helps

How much is your foam budget? I don't think the window is a deal breaker. Are those Venetian blinds? Any window covering to help diffuse any snapback from that window will do fine. Does the sun set in that window. Is it westward facing? Mine is and I have to wear a hat to cut the afternoon glare as I look at the monitors in front of my windows. You might get away with some small foam patches at the mirror points. The ceiling has a wider mirror point I that you might think! Bass traps in the corners are also good. Hope your neighbors are cool! I think the more live recording of guitar amps and vocals you plan on doing, the more foam yet gonna need to deaden the reflections. Good luck and maybe share an after picture? Cheers, -Tom

That was mesmerizing, in a glass of wine looking out the window kind of way. Very well done. Lovely 3/4 rolling triplet feel. What did you use for the piano, it had a perfect dreamy ambience. cheers, -Tom