Jimbo 88

I'm not  a geetar player, (but I occasional play one on TV).  I know and hang with lots'o  geetar players.  Everyone of them regrets selling there stuff.  Not one has said, "Oh, I'm so glad I sold that vintage, rare guitar I  use to have."  I hear this one all the time..."sure wish I held on to that thing"

Don't sell it...

Ok so i won't mention that during Covid our dishwasher broke down.  Since I was making a lot of money when I had it first installed, my wife and I purchased a fancy-schmancy dishwasher.  So fancy-schmancy that no one in the greater Chicago area  knew how to fix it and with Covid no one would come out to look at it. 

So we washed are own dishes for 2 years.  (oh the humanity of it all).  Finally got it replaced with a moderately priced machine...way less than what Bitflipper paid for his sink.  But the thing was, there are a couple of other plumbing issues that I worry about and got estimates on fixing those things.  The estimates where right in line with what Bit spoke of.  So I think I'll just live with those issues until I have too...maybe when I sell the house.

ohh how I can relate....glad your dishes are serenaded. 

well I found it, but not really much to see. 

17 hours ago, paulo said:

I'm not saying that there has been a video of it on a popular video sharing platform for a month or so now and I'm not suggesting that people could easily look for that if they're really so desperate to see what it looks like.

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24 minutes ago, Brian Walton said:

Thread will get locked for certain if such a thing was shared.

Just google it.  Took me 5 seconds to find it.

Could you possibly not say what to google?

So I sent in my application.  Anyone actually have the Beta Sonar yet?

+1!

I still do not really get how to use Discord.  I just do not get it.  I guess I'm officially old.

That does sound like the last lead singer we had...only these guys in the video  are in tune.

I thought the exact same thing that everyone has said.

This new version of Sonar must be some unbelievably great DAW with it taking this long.

I'm guessing AI has a lot to do with the wait.  AI can help the Bakers write code, help all of us mix better...so I'm kinda really excited to see what comes next with Sonar(pun intended!)... 

23 hours ago, dantarbill said:

iZotope RX!  (Standard is fine.  You don't need the uber expensive Advanced edition.)  It will seem like an expensive way to solve a limited problem, but after you have it, you'll wonder how you did without it.

Gates can work too...but there's a lot of work involved in getting it dialed in right...and it doesn't deal with the veil of noise under the signal.

+1 for this post. I use RX pretty frequently.  It can be a life saver.  Either that or give Peter Jackson a call, his MAL software can extract anything

On 11/4/2023 at 4:13 AM, Keith Wilby said:

I think they were right to cut that out. It seems a bit awkward and clanky to me and I think that the solo fits better. I do agree with @Shane_B. that there's too much compression. That said, I like it very much.

Yep I agree it was clanky,  but I think that John and Paul would have hashed out this section and it would have been a great part of the song.

I like the song and the more i listen to it the more i like it.  It does have that old Beatles vibe to it.  But I feel it's missing the tweaking that came from the back and forth between John and Paul.  I think the best Beatle songs where the ones Paul came up with and John threw his sarcasm, cynicism and dry wit into the mix.

Yes, I un-dock  both staff view and Piano roll View...look at staff view and edit in Piano Roll. It really helps if you multiple monitors.

23 hours ago, mark skinner said:

Jimbo , Too much for me to just to learn the audio side.  I envy you and everyone elses video skills ..      mark

Honestly, my video skills come from years an years of scoring to picture  and creating work prints (videos) that will work in Cakewalk.   Also, I have many really great video editors in my circle of friends.   I learned early on in the business to stay  close to the Video editors and Audio Mixers on projects.  They give me much better insight into how well I was doing a job...what producers were saying when I wasn't there.      

6 hours ago, mark skinner said:

I agree with Treesha ^^  Cool.  Awesome video and just the right length for a "pull you in" trailer.  I liked the way her lips moved with the vibrato.  Now you are up to 2.   Enjoyed it ..  mark

17 hours ago, treesha said:

cool

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Thanks guys

6 hours ago, Bajan Blue said:

Hi - yes cool video - which AI program did you use

Cheers

Nigel

 

Synth V is the vocal AI program.  I create the background in Kaiber.AI and overlay the faces using HeyGen to make everyone talk.  I'm using the free version of HeyGen so I get to create two :30 second talking photos a day.  So it takes a couple of days to create all the elements sometimes, if I don't make any mistakes.

This all just proves that this is the best forum ever!

Not gonna lie, I'm trying out this YouTube podcast thing and I'm fishing for subscribers.  I've got one so far.  Thanks Mom!

wrong forum...my bad.

Hey so I'm trying to build a podcast of me and my friends talking about music, the industry and experiences we've had as composers and performers.  I kinda think that people in this forum are the target market.  My question is this...Do I need to learn how to Tik Tok and Instragram?  The YouTube thing is not so hard and I understand and can do that.

I'm doing this for fun 'cause I'm over retirement age, the market for my music has migrated to LA and Hollywood and I didn't want to migrate with it for loads of reasons.

Do I need to take the time and get on those platforms? 

Thanks in advance.  This forum has always been a great source for me.

pay the mortgage

Hey so we should have an After Party right here...digitally.

We can post pictures of us walking down the red carpet all dressed up to celebrate Keni!

41 minutes ago, Sistine said:

The only difference with tapes was that you had almost no bugs and no software hassles (updates...). It was more straight forward.

Though I agree that it was really expensive and with less functionality! ?

Not to be mean or make fun , but you obviously never worked 24 track.  Old Man Rant' a-commin'....Bleed thru, drop out, wow and flutter, aliasing, noise....just the start of the issues or "bugs" recording on tape.  Ohhh...make sure you store your 2 in tape "tails-out".  Ask the assistant who stored Led Zepplin's "Whole Lot Of Love" heads-out.

So the trick the pros use to getting the vocals to sit right in the mix (I just saw this used by a great mixer) is what  Ross Smithe eluded to earlier.  That is what I think is needed to spruce up this mix.

But here is the "twist".  Use a multi-band side-chain compressor.  Send all your instruments to a bus before they go out to the master. Use your vocals to compress all frequencies  the instrument bus has in the vocal range (usually 1k-5k ish---use your ears for each project).   If you can't get your hands on one My friend said he use to accomplish this in the old days with a "De-esser" , programming it's automation to turn on and off during the vocals and instead of it set to the S frequencies, he lowered the settings to compress the actual vocal range(in all the instruments of course} . 

If you do this right , all the vocals sit way better.

Sonar gave this multi band compressor away along time ago.  If you have it try it.