Kevin Walsh

Nice! A thoughtfully crafted pop rock love note with a huge mix. Great bit of work, Nigel, hope your wife is pleased. I wrote my wife a song and she didn't talk to me for days.

I'm a big fan of dirges and this is a good one. To be honest, it sounded less like a dirge than a somber movie score. Your technique sounds pretty darned good! Nice, clean notes and I don't think I heard a single clank in there. But overall, the mix was lovely and it is an engaging piece, mission accomplished!

Has anyone tried Sonar on MacOS/Parallels/Windows on ARM? I have a MacBook Pro M4 that I'd love to try Sonar ARM64 on.

My money is on the USB cable. They go bad all the time for no reason whatsoever. I'll be happily working along, and all of a sudden they start picking up my cell phone's chatter.

Lovely song, Michael! Your vocals are really nice and perfect for the song. I can hear a bit of noise hear and there and maybe some room noise just before the drums kick in, but I love the organic feel of the track too. Can't wait to here more of your solo work!

I think this is my new favorite Baselines tune! Such clever lyrics, I laughed out loud, both at the lyrics themselves and how you managed to make them fit like a glove into the melody. I also really enjoyed the musical interludes between verses and after the really excellent solo. I loved the chorus, really very clever, and the mix is so clean. I guess you can I really enjoyed this one, Steve!

I don't know what any of that means, but the jam sounds cool. 😬

I'm not the right guy to comment on the quality of string libraries. I did a song with the SI Strings virtual instrument and thought it sounded super. 😃 That said, an acoustic solo would sound great too.

I use the dark grey screen as well. Using it is not my job but I do like the new UI better. I hope you get to a point where it's usable for you.

Really nice, the mix is a treat, very smooth. Loved the percussion and the interplay between bass and drums. Excellent!

I really like this, lovely vocals with a sweet melody and a very cool rhythm. The autotune is more of a a style these days and you use it to good effect, never overdone. The mix is sublime. I thought the guitars, while relatively subtle, add so much texture that they almost push this track into another genre. Really stellar effort. And oh yeah, it needs a guitar solo. 😁

Love the lyrics, the mix was really clean and I love the way you captured that acoustic guitar. Also dug the string solo, I guess it's been the Beatles since I've heard one of those lol. More of these please!

This is great, Hawkwind came to my mind too. There are lots of layers and depth to this, but I agree with the bass/kick comments above. Super fun!

This is a killer track. I loved the flow and the dynamics. The ending is just fantastic. I loved the tone of the LP especially, but really, everything just shines in this one. I'm looking forward to the album!

Thanks, glad you like it! I used the Tonex VST plugin. Using the hardware is a more complicated proposition. I also used the Tonex plugin's tremolo effect for that guitar.

It's a got a nice groove and excellent instrument tones, and that goes a long way. I enjoyed your lead, it kept me interested, nice!

Thanks so much for your feedback, really glad you liked it!

Thank you for listening, glad you enjoyed it. It seems like blue notes are all I have, relisted or not! 😀

Great vibe, loved it. Brings back a lot of memories!

Thanks, Nigel!

Thanks for giving it a spin!

Thanks, Steve, I appreciate you listening. I very nearly cut that line out, glad I didn't. 😬 Have one on me!

Steve, I really like the T12, and it was pretty easy to build. The instructions are great and easy to follow. It has a very lovely warm sound to my ears, and it's the only really decent mic I own other than 57s and 58s. I use it for acoustic guitar and vocals, and yes, for a kit is a bit expensive but I think it punches pretty far above its weight class. Lately I have been reverting to using an old SM57 for vocals because as I get older my voice has been getting fuzzier and harder to set into the mix. The 57 helps a lot there. The plugins I use were all bought during sales during which I was able to pick up individual packages at steeply discounted prices. Keep your eyes open for sales, that's the only same way to buy software as far as I'm concerned.

I spent a day working with the latest drop, I haven't run across any issues. Of course I'm not as deep a user as many here, but I depend on the things I use and they all work flawlessly. Seems like a pretty solid effort, congrats Cakewalk!

Thanks for listening Steve, Beatles? Gosh, I love hearing your feedback. 😀 It's nice to hear your comments on the quality of my recordings, I consider myself a rank amateur compared to you and many others on this forum, notably Bats Brew, Devine, Baselines and Mark Skinner, so thank you for that. Yes, I do all of my own recording and mastering. My setup is prelatively simple, all in the box with no external hardware other than the interface. I have a few nice guitars, a Strat, an Eastman semihollow body and a good old p-bass. I use an an Audient ID22 interface and an SM57 mic and a Microphone Parts T12 mic I built from a kit . I use Tonex for all guitars and bass, mostly using Amalgam Audio profiles of Marshall, Vox, GK and Supro amps. I sometimes use a Waves maxxbass plug, and most always use izotope nectar for vocals, Valhalla supermassive for some reverbs and Izotope ozone for mastering. Addictive Drums and EZ Drummer for drums. For this song I used both, panned hard left and right playing. Any keys or synths use Dimension or Z3TA and since I don't play keys, I use PRV to create key and synth parts. I use Slate's VSX headphones for all mixing and mastering. I credit any goodness in my recordings to the Audient preamps for their warm, clean sound. It's hard to record something that sounds bad, even with my rudimentary guitar skills. Finally, I use the awesome Sonar for its ability to let me do take after take after take after take...