PhonoBrainer

Having heard some tunes here recently where the drums were a bit underwhelming, can I start by complimenting your drum kit, and programming if that applies? If those are live drums, as they sound, I'd say very good on those! Super tasteful. Oh, btw the guitar tone was friggin' fantastic. Your choices in the 2:50 area should be studied in an improv class. Wonderful! Love the smooth jazz genre, and thanks for sharing this! cheers, -Tom

I stopped watching the video so I could concentrate on the song (lovely) the vocal (amazingly clear) and the guitar work (beautiful). The mix of it all ain't too bad, I listened on my studio monitors. When the drums came in, they were just a bit of a letdown in their quality, it didn't quite match the level of your awesome voice and guitar. What did you use for drums? I dunno, that's a subjective thing. You might dig those drums! I really enjoyed your song (via Uriah Heep is it?) and the clarity of that mix was outstanding. For me, however, the video doesn't really authentically sell your song. I guess I would expect visuals, cutaways, scenes in a montage, etc. for this type of song. But to each their own. Those performance vids are a breed unto themselves and one needs to accept the limitations of a static shot, I reckon. You picked a great tune and did a great job of the rendition, and again, you have an amazing voice and guitar style. I look forward to hearing more of your stuff. cheers, -Tom

Songs are great, vocals are great. These two things never seem to vary when I hear your tunes. Awesome! It's an album already so mixing comments are less helpful I reckon. Your voice has a laid-back summer vacation quality to it. Just great! -Tom

I liked the bgv's a ton, and that flangey guitar noodle, and the elec piano has the wonderful warble chorus. Vocals in general were a highlight. I think your effort would shine even harder with more drum programming, for fills and variations. That's about it for crits! good one Paul! -Tom

Any interest in demoing it before announcing it DOA? ?

Sleep lightly, Daddy

MYOB! ?seriously I will eat anything. Even the Donners would have told me to go easy.

This was wonderful. Love the panning. And the touches of higher strings with little fills here and there. Whichever instrument is the bass, I'd bring that up just a hair. so 9.9 out of 10! cheers, -Tom

Super, ya? Of course Walter/Wendy leap to mind. Your version has those super clear vibraphone leads. I bet you had to play with the midi volumes a ton. Well done! cheers, -Tom

Wavestation lives. Long live Wavestation. It's 1993 again. The Korg Collective. Resistance is futile. No cowbell. Just Tinebell. nice job on a smooth composition. -Tom

Wow! Holy Cheezits, in the vid, that little thang starting around 2:13 was feckin' perfect. Really really cool! Great playing and the vid is legit. thanks for sharing that . . . where did you cut your jazz teeth at? -Tom

I'd cook that one just a little longer.

I'm in the "playyard"

Yes, or many other iterations, and let's not forget the roadie.

From personal experience, this is the one that eventually breaks the band up.

Yes I did, and I haven't installed it yet because of it. Yet!

I was gonna offer up a snarky "oh, first world problems!!!" . . . but actually that does look pretty effed up. My condolences.

Michelle Williams' desperate cry for help?

Well, here's a different view. This turn of events is just capitalists doing capitalism. Discovery built up its own music library, so they could save money and not have to shell out for unique, individualized music for their shows? It's a low blow to strip out the original, royalties required music, and replace it with stock library music. Its also pretty much the "vertical integration" from Rockefeller 101. The same capitalist system that required, for a while, that composers actually be paid. For a while. And then, apparently, shed like extra baggage jettisoned off a ship. Will the Discovery-watching public, in their dwindling numbers, ever organize angry boycotts because the bumper theme they heard in Cash Cab is noticed as identical to the ending credits of Battlebots: Resurrection ? for interesting reference, here's a link to all the show's the discovery channel is making. I gotta say, most of them look pretty awesome: https://go.discovery.com/tv-shows And as show music goes, a lot of the stuff I've heard on these shows us quite good indeed! I know that these composers have been counting on the royalties, in some cases, for their retirement income. So this latest development sucks for sure. Too bad music is so contractually ephemeral.

Just not vegan clowns.

Some lady singing next door?

It's wafer thin . . .

At last, a solution for all that extra virtual space. Merry Xmas and happy holiday to all of y'all!

France, I believe?

Cool, afflatus is quite the bargain basement at 749 or sumpin? Krazy!