michaelhanson

Nigel, thank you much for listening and commenting. The places one can get feedback are rare these days. I truly appreciate this forum for that opportunity.

Thanks for the listen Kevin. I was able to isolate the issues with hiss that Wookie was hearing and eliminate most of that. There are still finger slide squeaks, foot tapping and maybe the odd chair squeak occasionally. I decided to leave some of those organic noises be. I want to especially thank you for the comments on the vocals. I’ve been vocally challenged my entire life. 😊. I’ve worked hard over the years to get better. The fact that this was originally tracked years ago, tells me that I maybe wasn’t as bad as I used to think. If you wish to hear more of my solo work, there are two other songs I’ve posted here lately as well. More to come as I remixsome older tunes. Several new writes in the oven.

I've added a link to my YouTube channel for this song. In general, I feel I am moving to this platform over Sound Cloud. I have hit my limited number of minutes in Sound Cloud and it just seems less attended than it used to be. So....new link. Hope you enjoy.

Added a new YouTube link.

Word, music and production by Michael Hanson Gravity Verse 1 I hear You whispering, Your voice is calling me. My head is filling with A massive energy. My mind is spinning and I feel Your hand on me. Something is pulling me Directly to my knees. Chorus Your gravity is pulling me, A magnet with a hold on me. Gravity is what I seek, Your gravity is pulling me—to You. Verse 2 I’ve tried to run away, Chasing endless dreams Fading memories. Are never what they seem. But still, You steady me, You bring me to my knees. You are the ground beneath, You light these shadow feet. Chorus Your gravity is pulling me, A magnet with a hold on me. Gravity is what I seek, Your gravity is pulling me—to You. Bridge When I’m in the dark, weightless and lost, You won’t let go of me, no matter what the cost. When I rise and when I fall, spinning through the blue— Every single step I take, just leads me back to You. Final Chorus Your gravity is pulling me, A magnet with a hold on me. You hold me through the rise and fall, Gravity is at the center of it all. Your gravity is pulling me—to You.

Very cool Ed. Interesting feedback. I had to checkout membership, it’s tempting.

Same exact thing happened to me two days ago. I was advised to email cakewalk support by another member. I haven’t had time to try that route yet. Cakewalk is a secondary DAW for me and I’m focused on projects and production at the moment.

I attempted to update my email at Command Center. A very old email was used for my original log on and I no longer have access to it. I got the response that it sent me an email to confirm, which I am never getting. Sadly, It seems that I can no longer access any of my Legacy Products. I was after Rapture. Such an excellent plug in.

The closest disaster that I’ve avoided was with my Rick bass a few years back. I set it carefully in its stand to take a break between sets. During the break, one of the board mixing engineers decided he was going to mess around with cables on stage and started pulling them around the stage. It flipped my Rick face forward out of the stand and skidded across the strange face down. I gasped and was literally afraid to pick it up. When I finally got the nerve, I was surprised to find zero damage on the face of the bass. However, there was a small dent on the backside of the neck. How, I still have no idea. I filled it a little with some super glue and smoothed everything out. You can still slightly feel it sometimes while sliding up and down the neck. As far as guitars go, I own both a Les Paul Traditional and an Eric Johnson Strat. I started playing Les Pauls in the early 80’s. I’ve owned at least 6 different Les Pauls over the years, all seeing live play. I’ve yet to break a headstock after 45 years.

Nice tune, well done by all! Typical excellent Bapu production. How do you guys get Sound Cloud to embed in the Cakewalk forum? It’s very easy on other sites, but I’ve tried everything here and can just not figure it out. I asked this on my tune as well, if it’s more appropriate to reply there.

By the way, does anyone know how you embed Sound Cloud on this forum? All other forums I belong to embed the song. 😐 OK, figured it out.

I am continuing to update some old songs with new plug ins, Superior Drummer 3, remixing and remastering. This is another song from over 12 years ago. Let me know what you think of this mix; hopefully I've grown over the years. Edit: I am adding a YouTube link to many of these songs. Moving to the YouTube platform over Sound Cloud.

I’m not sure if I could survive that long without ice cream. Thats brutal and sorry to hear this.

Well, it’s 13 hours later and we’ve yet to hear from T Boog. I recon he hates us all.

Thanks Steve. No I have not made any adjustments to the mix and your hearing the original post. I was waiting to her additional opinions on the overall mix and was going to just go back, hopefully once, to tweak. I’ve had several other mixes that I’ve been working on in the mean time.

Thanks Paul! All very valid points and things for me to consider.

Here is another song that I am reworking from the past. I did a complete update on plug ins, amp sims, drum software, attempting to bring a fresh version to a solo album compilation. Let me know what you think.

The feedback that I receive from this forum has always been invaluable. Thank you Wookie for pointing out the background noise in the recording. I was able to go into the Lead Vocal track and reduce much of the hiss. Still a touch there, but much better I think. Abbey Roads Chambers seemed to really be accentuating the hiss and pushing it forward in the track. Moving to a different reverb plug in, seems to have helped that a lot. If its still really noticeable, I guess it would take some repair software to clean up the track...or record a new vocal.

Hey Wookie, Thanks for listening, hope you've been doing well. Good suggestion on listening in mono; no I have not checked that. Real bummer on the background noise you are hearing. I thought I had done a better job masking the noise. This is obviously a really old recording done in more primitive times. Maybe 20 years ago in my early days of recording. I ran this one past Beagle (Reece) before posting and he didn't mention it, so I thought I had done a better job of hiding the noise. I guess I could investigate picking up RX 11 Elements or something and see if it can be cleaned up some more. There is always the option of retracking where there is noise, depends on which tracks I guess. I need some of the John Lennon AI cleaning software on this one. 🙃

Extremely well done. You captured the essence of McCartney’s vocals for sure. Love the instrumentation, very well done. This is up there as one of my McCartney favorites as well. Happy that you could post this as a cover. I’ve got a cover of Come Together that I’ve done, but I really never know what to do with it, as most of the internet music sites say, “no covers”.

This red one and the other blue one, made me beg my parents for my first guitar.

I haven't been around a lot lately. Many might remember me as MakeShift in the old Sonar days. When Cakewalk went the way of BandLab, I just changed to my name (Hanson). I had teamed up with several members here and we were writing and recording songs as a virtual band of songwriters, under the name Scandalous Grace. We put out 4 full albums of material. That band has kind of been disbanded, however...so I'm working on a solo project. I'm going back to songs that I wrote and recorded pre-SG and remixing and remastering; updating plug ins, the whole works. Here is the 1st that I've spit on an polished up a bit. Let me know your thoughts. Someday I Want To Fly Edit - I have added a YouTube connection to this song as well.

Cool song Clint! Nice to hear you back at it again. Love the guitar work, great tone and tastefully played as always. I hear nothing I would change about the mix.

I struggle with lyrics from time to time. I tried out a lyrics writing AI program to see what it would generate, to add to some lyrics I had already written. The results were interesting. Not all usable, often simple and cliche, but a few lines got my thinking process jump started. I suspect it will get better very quickly. I could easily find AI to be useful as a cowriter or something to bounce ideas off of. There are already near rhyming apps that I’ve used for years to help the writing process. I think it depends on who’s behind the wheel driving the car, who’s making the final decisions that matters. AI isn’t going away, so I’m trying to figure out how to embrace it as a tool.

My understanding has always been that theory was developed to explain why music works and sounds good. It’s kind of like what came first, the chicken or the egg. When theory is not followed, but something still sounds good, then it’s often written in theory as an exception. I think it’s good and OK to understand theory, but I do think that it sometimes keeps people from coloring outside of the lines. Some people can’t stand coloring outside of the lines and others find that to be interesting and creative. Similarly, blue is a primary color and that is a rule of design….but does the sky need to be painted blue.