Kevin Walsh

Sabby, thanks for your feedback. Give the new mix a listen and let me know if I'm in the sweet spot yet. Your not a fan until you have the T-Shirt.

Thank you, Daryl, that's great praise given the work you do. I'm grateful for your time and your ears.

Thanks, Jesse, I'm glad you took the time to give it a listen. Thanks for the kind words! I've done a new mix, hopefully the vocals are where they need to be. Thank you!

Very nice work. Lots of cool sounds over an E-Z groove, yeah!

Slick, sophisticated, clever and skillfully rendered. As always! The thing I love about your music is the variety of things that beep, squonk and whistle in the spaces of the melody, and I often wonder how you made those sounds. You have talent and skill and it's on full display here.

I had a lot of fun doing this one. This is one of those songs that pop into your head in a nearly complete form. Thanks, Muse! More like that please! As always, your feedback on mix, song or whatever you want to comment about is very much appreciated! Update: A new mix is now available. There was some reverb plugin doing something really weird to the panning and just destroying any vocal clarity. Let me know if I'm getting there. Updated update: After a few more comments on the vocals I decided to take off the headphones and do a mix with the speakers. I think it's much improved, so if you guys want to waste a bit more time on this, please let me know how it sounds. Thanks for all your feedback, much appreciated!

Thank you for giving it a spin!

Thanks for listening, Paul, Wookie. Your feedback is always welcome!

Fun tune, great gnarly guitar! Drums sound fantastic, I wish I could make mine sound that good. There are some really nice runs in there, I had to give it a couple of listens to get my ears around them.

Thanks, David, I had to look that one up, ha! That guitar is a Telecaster Performer with a humbucker in the neck position (satin surf green!) played into S-Gear's Fast Leslie preset, which gangs two flangers to simulate a leslie sound. I love that sound and I tend to over-use it. I'm a fan of presets, I am much too impatient to spend my precious music time fiddling about to find a sound so I stand on the shoulders of giants! Thank you for listening!

+1 on the alternate version for me too. This is a great track, gotta put this on in the rotation for some intensive listening. Thank you for this!

Awesome! The sound is really nice too, thanks for doing this!

Killer sound to this track, great playing, lovely chord progression. Now you need to get Donald Fagan to do a vocal track.

Always loved this tune, you did a fine job on it. I agree with the raise the vocals above the bass comment but that bass tone is mwah!

This one's been in the woodshed for much too long a time. It's time to stop monkeying with it and get some other ears on it. Your critical feedback on all aspects of this recording are welcome! Updated with the final mix, thank you all!

Thanks for chiming in, scook, I knew you'd know something, and thank you for the link So the dotted line indicates that there is no automation data present along the dotted segment, and the parameter that the envelope is bound to is not changed by a dotted line, I get that. I don't see why the distinction between a solid automation line and a dotted one is important to me when I'm working on a track. Is there some intrinsic value to me in choosing to do a jump rather than say, having just inserting a vertical set of nodes on a solid automation line?

Well, I already threw my hat in the ring for the Audient ID-22, which I dearly love. Audient has definitely nailed the preamp thing, the difference between my old MOTU 8pre and the Focusrite Solo v2 I bought on a whim at GC several years ago is quite noticeable to my battered old ears. As for the latency, the best thing I can say is that I no longer futz with the settings the way I used to. It just works and works well. But then I don't really need 5ms roundtrip speeds in my workflow either. I'd say get them both and ship back the one you don't want but that wouldn't be ethical, would it?

I've been testing the next early release (and wow, it's nice) and I found a small defect that's triggered by the unexpected presence of a segment of dotted-line automation. The developers were all over it but it got me to thinking about these things. I've been seeing these dotted line automation envelope things for a long time and never really understood what their purpose is or how they get created. They seem to breed like bunnies. So I spent a bit of time this morning trying to find information on automation envelopes and these mysterious dotted-line segments, but I couldn't find any real discussion about the circumstances under which they are created and what purpose they serve. Can anybody point me to some documentation, or maybe have some insider knowledge?

When you created the section, how did you insure that it was from 1:01:000 to 5:01:000?

I don't know if this issue is unique to the early adopter release, but here it is anyway. I'm trying to increase the gain of a clip in a small area, but after applying the new gain automation, the waveform view shows the wrong area being increased. If I bounce it to a clip it becomes apparent that the correct area of the clip was modified and that the waveform view was incorrect. Here's a video of the draw edit. You'll have to take my word for it that the gain is actually increased in the correct place. gain.mp4

Love these tunes, I studied Mississippi John Hurt quite a few years ago now. I might still be able to play Spikedriver Blues if I give myself a few days of plunking on it. The sound is great as is the playing! I do hear some distortion on the bass notes on the first track. I don't know if it's my listening set up or the recording, but it's something you might want to check in a few different contexts (assuming you haven't already done that.) Love this stuff!

I sent it to msmcleod and I've just now invited you to the conversation, my bad.

Noel, do I need to zip up the entire project folder or is the project file sufficient? I would think the former but just want to be sure. Update: PM sent with an upload location for the project

When it happens, it happens like this: 1. Select a section in the Arranger inspector 2. Right-mouse click on the section 3. Select "Rename" 4. In the text box that appears type in the new name 5. Try to dismiss the dialog either with the return key, tabbing out or clicking elsewhere to change focus. At this point, no matter where you click on the UI, the textbox retains focus and you get the familiar "ding" sound notification from windows letting you know that you're doing something wrong. Again, this doesn't happen often, but once it does, you have to restart the app.

You sound pretty tech-savvy, so I apologize in advance if I'm telling you stuff you already know. If good DAW performance was determined by your CPU's speed and processing power and by the amount of system memory you have, none of us would have DPC latency problems. Most PC's are not built for audio production, nor are they tuned to optimize audio processing in the system. I'll bet your PC absolutely screams at web browsing, watching videos, reading email and using Microsoft Office, though, because odds are that's what it's built to be best at. If you want to get great performance as a DAW, changes in hardware and software configurations will help you get there. The built-in sound card in PC's is designed primarily for audio playback. You can find amazingly decent audio interfaces with quality ASIO drivers (that completely bypass the Windows audio driver stack) for reasonably low prices these days, many with MIDI interfaces and XLR mic and instrument inputs included. You're in a much better position to achieve the kind of audio performance you need with an audio device built for the kind of work you're doing. And I think it bears repeating, some NVidia graphics cards, particularly ones of the GTX lineage (according to net lore and my own personal experience) are often reported to be not terribly DAW friendly when it comes to DPC. I pulled my GTX960 from my system and installed a Radeon RX 580 graphics card and very nearly burst into tears when I ran Latency Mon. Seriously. I still get the sniffles when I think about it. I do hope that you find the performance you're looking for with the set up you have.