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Oh yeah, just listened, I hear the crackling. I've been having issues with Cakewalk crackling, never had it with a mix down.

2 hours ago, Wookiee said:

Ah! Then I am hearing crackling here. 

Is it on the sax parts? The mic picks up a spitty sound sometimes.

2 hours ago, Jesse Screed said:

Hey, very interested in how you use the fishman.  I do like the guitar parts a lot, nice playing.  It seems to have a nice dynamic range. The bass is great, did you play that too?

Digging on that guitar!

fishman is a midi pickup on a guitar, the Rodes keyboard you hear is that. Use it all the time, it can play any synth sound you want.

6 hours ago, Wookiee said:

Do you have some vinyl FX on this?

thanks. Do mean crackling? Not on purpose.

Just finished this one, been on the back burner for while until I could think of some melody parts for it. This  has my Fishman midi guitar,  cheapo strat and Gibson es135 with BiasFx2 , Ezdrummer3 , tenor and soprano sax, PJ bass with Amplitube4 SVX

Cool song, sounds good. I'm not in love with the drums, the super busy kick makes the timing sound off sometimes but other wise I like it.

2 hours ago, Bajan Blue said:

Cool track - love the sax, sounds great I think

Cheers

Nigel

 

Thanks for checking it out Nigel!

2 hours ago, Michael John Clare said:

Thank you.

Very impressive. Nice relaxed feel.  I take it the drums in particular are live? Is it all live. Makes such a difference. 

On the high end question: I bought a CD of Hunky Dory (years ago now) which I think was a remix. It sounded quite shrill to me. I have to wonder what it would sound like now. 

That's cool that it sounds live, I wish I had a drummer! EzDrummer3, is indeed easy to use and customize the track.

4 hours ago, steve@baselines.com said:

Very cool vibe music.  For my taste I would put a little more high end on the master, but to each his own - it just might be my aging ears - it sounds great anyway.  I love the snare sound you got and the panning of the toms.

I'll check that out, my ears are old too so I don't trust what I'm hearing on the high end.  I know some aging guitar players end up with a really shrill sound and I don't think they know it.

12 hours ago, mark skinner said:

 Great Chilly track. Sax is soo Soulful and you really bring out the soul and relaxed breathy notes . I always wished I could play one ..  I do own one that needs a really good mechanical tune up , but I honestly don't think even that would help with my honking .              Enjoyed the relaxed feel ..   mark

Thanks man. You should get it out. I've been playing since March, sax is easy to play but damn hard to sound good but I've been obsessed with it since I started, so fun.

On 12/27/2022 at 6:27 PM, Dream Art Scientists said:

Nice playing! Sounds great!

Appreciate the listen, thanks!

Very chill and interesting track, nice work.

Really like your song, great work! Lot's of tasty details in there.  Good hook too. 

Oh wow, that was brilliant! Really liked the song, so clever.

Sometimes after using cakewalk for a while it will get terrible static during play back.  Seems the only way to get it to stop is close the program and reopen it. I thought it might be the  buffer was too fast so I slowed it down but that didn't matter. I thought maybe I need more ram so I increased from 32 to 64gb - still does it.

Using my new used Sterling Audio ribbon mic on this one, it sounds great with sax I think, very nice quality mic and not expensive. Usual suspect here tenor sax, Fishman midi guitar, EzDrummer3, Jazz bass with Amplitube4 SVX

Good song, interesting details in there. I would bump the drums up just  a little.

Cool rocking song. The drums are very quiet and the bass is pretty low too, it takes some of the rocking punch out of it.

Another cool song Keith! For me the keyboard is a bit loud and drowns out the vocal. I would back off slightly on the guitar delay/reverb too. 

1 hour ago, whoisp said:

Cheer's, out of interests whats your favourite plugin you use or couldn't do without? 

There's so many that I use and like. BiasFx 2 for guitar has been great. Amplitube4 SVX bass amp for free is a go to.  MEQ and Mcompressor are free and good. Ezdrummer3 sounds great. Been using Xpand2 for synths but feel like I need something else in addition, a lot of the synths are so complicated, I like simple.

Very nice song, great job on the vocals too.

Great sounding track, nice work.

I really don't like watching a video unless it's a live performance, I feel like it influences my take on a song, that's just my problem. Really good song and production, sounds totally pro.

There is so much reverb/delay on the guitar that it's hard to tell what is happening with the mix. 

Cool stuff, you did some crazy playing on there.