Jimbo 88

Sounds sooooo good....A+

It's my 1/2 bday today now that you mention it....

Interesting piece.  Well mixed.  Avant garde works well in context, at least for me.  You should try to pair with a visual.

Very good...Hey was the Sure "Elvis"  mic used on your vocal?  Or was it in the video 'cause it looks so cool?   I have a similar one and I like to use it, but singers tend to give me a strange look when I pull it out.  Your vocal sounds great.

I'd love to hear thoughts on how to make the mix better.

So...with covid hanging over everyone, I recorded the Trumpet player in my garage (in the winter Ha!).  I pitched the song up to Bb to record the trumpet, then pitched everything down a 1/2 step to record the geetars, bass and vocals.  Can you tell the Trumpet has been pitched down a half step?  This is sung and written by Cary Drake.  I got to write the horn arrangement and produce the song.

Really nice job here.   You are really stepping up in mixing and mastering.

Joe Walsh is listening...and is jealous

So Cool!!   Really love this.

When is the JSG World Tour?   Did you ever think about performing your compositions live?   With backing tracks, you could have a small string ensemble, 3+3+3+1 and a couple of winds.   (You'd have to find the world's greatest oboe player to do this piece.)  How cool would that be.

Best!   ...and good luck with the tour

More fun just jamming...Original songs  Mine and other voices got printed, but I'm not going to try to remove them.  I love playing the Melodica. I have had one for a long time, but i just put a tube on it.  i went to the hardware store and cut one to size. Now I can see the keys.  Turns out the tubes are readily available Silly me.

You asked for help?

This is great...I would try a real drummer or a drum program that is a littler straighter, but this is an A+.

Try hitting or toggling thru "scroll lock" on your computer keyboard.

I really love this piece...I am not a fan of electronic drums, so tired of that sound (who am I kidding I hated them the 1st time I heard a 808), but these electronic drums feel great.  Great programing and mix. This is inspiring to me in that I feel maybe i could find a way to use them in my own work now.

Great mix, Great Job,

I love the images.  Especially how everything seems so still, yet the snow is motion all around.

19 hours ago, Ronman said:

I've been a software developer for 30 years so I'm very aware of the need for backup.  That being said, in the DAW world it's true I've gotten lazy about backups in the rush to finish an arrangement, which, as you know, is a never-ending quest.

Forgive my post, looks like you answered before I deleted it...I misread your post

On 1/21/2022 at 10:32 AM, DeeringAmps said:

I'd bring the acoustic guitar up a bit; think the vocal is fine.
 

You guys are good...OK the acoustic guitar is low because the bass player was playing the guitar and the performance was a little to be desired.  The normal guitar player I have was busy.  I'm a gonna try to get away with it as is.

On 1/21/2022 at 10:32 AM, DeeringAmps said:

On 1/22/2022 at 7:56 AM, Wookiee said:

As noted by T the Kick is a bit pronounced, it also sounds a little lifeless to be more like a box than a drum, it has no ring.

The rest of the mix sounds reasonable here on he Adam's, though it does sound a like nothing is really panned even stereo instrument's can be panned to give a better soundstage.

 

The kick is actually me banging my foot on a box, a wood box under my keyboard designed to keep my damper pedal in place and other gear...nice ears.  I'm going to tweak that and look at your panning suggestions.

I'm gonna remix based on your guys suggestions.  THANKS!!!!

10 hours ago, Ronman said:

Doesn't using ripple edit in this way destroy the original full-length version, as you said by cutting automation, if not other things.  I need the full version as-is, plus extracted from various parts shorter versions as well.  For example, a 15 sec cutdown might consist of 5 secs. from three different spots that fit together musically but are not contiguous in the full-length version, plus an automated reverb in the last fraction of a second to make the end not sound abrupt.

I have to admit sometimes this is an issue, so sometimes I have to add  a tempo(copy the last) node or automation on the reverb at the point of the cut.

10 hours ago, Ronman said:

Doesn't using ripple edit in this way destroy the original full-length version, as you said by cutting automation, if not other things.  I need the full version as-is, plus extracted from various parts shorter versions as well.  For example, a 15 sec cutdown might consist of 5 secs. from three different spots that fit together musically but are not contiguous in the full-length version, plus an automated reverb in the last fraction of a second to make the end not sound abrupt.

Yes, so the very simple solution is to "save as" another file.  Have CbB versions of both. 

My advice to anyone working in any DAW is to save multiple versions of any project you are working on.  You have no idea when a file is going to become corrupt. Whether or not you are creating different versions. I only mention this because it sounds like you are not familiar with this concept and It is not a matter of will it happen, but when...in any DAW.

I modified this song from a Children's choir piece.  It's a song about graduation...

I'm going to echo what everyone said...great track!  I want to say less verb and raise the vocal also, but the more I listen I'm not sure you change anything.  Check it out and try it, but maybe it's good where everything sits as is.  I'm getting jealous of all the cool tracks on this forum.

Cake is great for this type of project...at least it is for me.  The ripple edit makes this easy.  The only issue i have had in the past doing this sort of thing is Tempo and other automation getting cut.  Like a volume will off because it was programed in the middle of what was just cut.  So keep that and mind and most of the time you can cut things down very quickly.  A feature I rarely hear about, but I use all the time is "Fit to Time".

Good luck!

On 1/13/2022 at 5:10 PM, DeeringAmps said:

I am liking the bass especially! Care to share?
Tasty guitar licks, fine vocal; what's not to like?

Who is the female voice?

 

Hey, Thanks for all the great comments (everyone).   I would have responded earlier, but Covid seems to striking all around me.  Not me personally, but all around me, including some of the people on this recording. Thankfully nothing too serious.

The bass player is a young guy who goes by the name: DubbyMac.  He went to school with my children and is a Berkeley School grad...

https://dubbymac.com/

The girl singer is my daughter, who was given the instruction to sing/mult with the crowd.   Thank God she never listens to me .

The Geetar player is an OLD friend of mine.  You can hear him on lots of recordings including "Halo" the game. Harry Hmura.

Rain on Us!

So a major hangup for me in Studio One is notation.  They just implemented it...but you can't print?

Really cool...I always felt, not in just this piece, but when i listen to any Irish music, that the individual instruments sound so cool and could benefit from allowing them to play solo for a little.  Adds more drama by adding and subtracting instruments.  Also I love when Irish instruments are allowed to go "free-time"

More Please!!

The last song I posted some thought was a little muddy.  So this new song I mastered it at Bandlab.  The mastering brightened everything up, add some compression making it a little louder. It did add a little noise on the intro.  Bandlab mastering has probably been discussed on the forums, but I've not read thru any of it.(forgive me)

Written 99% by a friend of mine,  I love playing this song in front of a live audience.  It's a blast!!!

Ok, Now I think I was pretty much right the 1st time.  So I have 2 versions of a song, one at 112 BPM sung by a choir.  Another at 104 BPM sung and performed by a vocalist and rock band.  Kinda always felt the 104 BPM was a little slow and the 112 was too fast after listening to them back to back.  So I mucked around and got the choir version to playback at 107 Bpm..fine.  I'm running into a bunch of artifacts and issues trying to speed up the slower rock band version.  This confirms my suspicions...It's dodgy in any DAW changing speeds.  It's not a guarantee  to work every time.

Ok I might have not understood, or misspoke, or just spoke from 5 years back.  I had in my head you where trying to change tempos within a song and had trouble. You can change tempos for complete songs in other DAWs, even if there are audio clips.  I just did it in Cubase, it took a little trickery.  I got little pieces of info from different sources and make it work.   Let me see if I can find a way to do this in Cake.  I have not had a reason to this, but I want to try.

I do love this forum.  Now, to go to work on the mixing.  I have to get into  "De-mudding" my mixes.   That's all on me.

Thanks everyone.