Barry Seymour

There's just a touch in there. Too much and it would take away from the personal vibe I was striving for.

I am really proud of this one.

I just started a new project and am experimenting with Arranger. All was going well, it's pretty rudimentary at this point, but now I'm in a place where I try to Duplicate a section and Cakewalk crashes. It's pretty reliable. I'm a software developer, so I know how important it is to be able to reproduce a bug! If you can't do that, you can't find and fix it. So I have a ZIP file of my project if anyone at Bandlab wants to look at it. Right now it's super simple - a drum track and a rhythm guitar track. I wanted to attach it but it's larger than the forum will permit. I've been looking in vain for any place where I can report a bug; if anyone knows where I could do that, please forward this to them. Thanks!

Mull was primarily a musician in the 70s. Lots of great, funny stuff, and an AMAZING guitarist. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=martin+mull+music&disable_polymer=true

I used one of the built-in Drum machines - MTPowerDrumKit2. I donated $10 to get a key that eliminates the need to 'accept' the kit every time I use it. It includes a set of grooves, and fills along with a rudimentary composer tool that lets you assemble a groove with related fills. I don't need much, but this worked out really well for me.

Probably the pick. BOSS compression pedal can boost that.

That was the Strat in the picture. Bridge and Middle pickup, Boss compression pedal.

Here's a new one. I had me some fun with it. Thoughts?

Nice! Very ZZ Top.

Ding ding ding ding ding! ?

Very kind, thanks. (I use Sony MDR headphones myself, but then I do a test listen using the earphones that came with my Samsung Galaxy phone! ?)

Thanks. Any specific ideas or suggestions, please let me know! Fresh pair of ears and all that...

Fascinating. Nailed the BPM. These sound good. Any way I can outright steal these? LOL. I don't consider myself knowledgeable enough at this stage to put too much attention on the drums. This is my very first CWP, after all. But this is compelling.

New mix of "Background Roar." Added some drum fills, re-sang some bits, added a solo at the end and a proper fadeout, tweaked some EQ.

A very good point. I'm still pretty weak on drum composition, and new to home recording in general, so specific recommendations like yours are very helpful, thanks.

If EZD is 'Easy Drummer', then no. I just composed a simple pattern using the step sequencer.

It works! You may not consider yourself a singer, but the vocals work here. Cool animation. Where did it come from?

It's a Behringer Xeynyx 302USB. Now that you mention it, there are two buttons on that damn thing that I keep having to remember to get right, and I think they're related to how audio gets routed; at my work PC right now, will check it tonight. Thanks!

I just replaced the drum kit and boosted the volume on the snare. What is 'EZD?' Not sure what you mean when you say ' so "drop" a two or four bar kick and snare (don't "tap" it) in the search field, it'll kick back a bunch of "patterns".' And yeah, I was too lazy to re-record the bass ?, I just tweaked the EQ on that in the pro channel. Thanks for the input!

New guy here, bear with me. This is the first time I'm setting up a guitar to use effects in a VST. I create a new audio track, I set the track input to a channel on my USB mixer. Output is set to Master. Plug in my guitar. Turn on input monitoring and I hear reverb, or echo, or something. I can't figure out where it's getting that; I don't have reverb on the channel, nor is it on the master bus I created. If I add a guitar VST, it immediately starts feeding back in a loop. I'm using headphones, so it's not audio feedback. I think something is routing the song back through the input, or something. I can't even get to square one. Any thoughts, suggestions or guidance? Perhaps a link to a tutorial? I've found a few, but none of them address this. Thanks in advance.

Here's another pass. Better drums, more mixing and tweaking throughout. Suggestions and comments welcome.

Thanks for the kind words. I'm pretty sure there's away to just drop another kit in there while keeping the same part, but I'm not quite sure how yet. I'm also struggling with how to actually compose / modify drum parts. Learning curve...

More Dan-like goodness. Great vibe, stellar mixing.

Makes me think of "It's a Beautiful Day." Very arty, wonderfully sung. I like the energy on the violin.

Excellent tip, thanks!