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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.

Thanks freddy j,. markno999 not familiar with that plugin, looks interesting but not cheap.

Thanks for the thoughts Mark. I have felt the bass was kind of muddy and have played with EQ quite a bit but doesn't get much better. I think it might be my sloppy bass playing letting the notes ring out over each other.  Hadn't really thought about the piano tone, I usually use it as is, it's Addictive keys grand, maybe there is a better grand out there, I'll take a look at the options in there.

Thanks for checking it out Nigel.

Really good work and nice arrangement.

Good song and nice work on all the vocals. I think the vocal could be just a touch louder and the synth horn or whatever that is needs to come down, it's overpowering the vocal.

Nice track, very chill.

Let me know if this sounds good.

Thanks for the listen and comments guys. l agree the piano is not great. I did some work on it and will repost.

https://www.bandlab.com/studedude/brazilian-breeze-c26f0829?revId=2e084e64-db65-ed11-9f5e-000d3a980004

This is one I posted a couple years ago with piano but never loved it.  Reworked it with sax  and remix. Let me know how the mix sounds.