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Thanks Larry!

Thanks for the listen Tom. I think it was panned some , don't remember I'll take a look. I think I panned the rhythm guitar and the strings opposite each other. 

Thanks Bjorn!

2 hours ago, jack c. said:

is it a bari.all sounds right on.jack c.

It's a tenor. Those low notes do sound like a bari. 

11 hours ago, AndyB01 said:

The sax is the stand out - the classical guitar could maybe use a slight lift? I don't know, it sounds a little lost in the mix on my headphones - perhaps a touch of reverb would give it some more presence but these are very fine margins. An extremely well done piece - very enjoyable listen.

Andy

Thanks for listening.  I'll take another look at the guitar level. It does have reverb, I feel like I have overdone the reverb in the past so was trying to be more conservative.  

Thanks Gary!

Thanks David!

Thanks Nigel, Jack! Anything sound off in the mix?

https://www.bandlab.com/studedude/sun-and-the-sand-16e5160a?revId=6761241b-c9c1-ec11-997e-28187831e8a1

Utilizing my new tenor sax on this one, Yamaha classical and Glarry fretless bass. 

Nice song. Good guitar playing too.

I didn't find the wah very useful in Bias, I think I'm going to try a real wah in front of the focusrite at some point.

If you read above, yes. 

Catchy song and great playing as always.  On my system the mix sounds midrange heavy, the bass disappears a bit while the guitars are up front.

Very cool man. It's very different sounding from you usual stuff, in a good way. Really creative.

Sounds good.

Another cool  and busy groove, great playing on all the instruments. Like mentioned before,  a change up of some kind or solo section (with a key change?) would break it up nicely. Or call it done , that's cool too.

9 hours ago, Larry T. said:

nice work Kurt, especially with 8GB of ram (that's what i have to use as well)....consistant feel throughout the piece, nice sound on the fretless bass....very well constructed....are the drums live?? ????

Thanks Larry, the drums are not live they are Jamstix4. It's kind of a different drum program in that it uses AI to do a performance once you program the parts. I move some of the kicks around to align with the bass when needed, I spent quite a bit of time getting the drums how I like them on this. The congas were from EZdrummer2, Jamstix has percussion too but I don't like it and would not recommend that add on.

After your 8 gigabit comment I had to go look at my specs, that was the old computers ram I now have 32. I used have some latency problems, not anymore.

Yes the guitar track is just what's coming from BiasFx stereo output, nothing special there. This guitar has gibson classic 57's which make it easy to get nice distortion sounds.  Batsbrew gets some great sound from his Strymon Iridium, I have been tempted to get one but they aren't cheap (I am). 

I recommend getting a fretless, it's so fun to play. Not being a bass player I didn't think I could do it but with fret lines it's easy (I wouldn't try it without the fret lines). This is a 70 dollar Glarry that I pulled the frets out of, love it.

1 hour ago, mark skinner said:

Kurt , Loved the tone and reverb on the horn that comes in on the right side of the mix . The guitar tone was Awesome and I really liked the "bite" you got on the attacks.   I Really need some more tools for electric guitar processing. Thanks for the nice listen ..   mark

Have you tried any of the plugins out there? BiasFx2 is pretty nice and it has lots of choices of Fx pedals. Most plugins let you trial them. I've found that the selection of amps and Fx is not as important as the sound, they don't all get great distortion sounds.

Thanks for the listen and comments Andy and noynekker!

On 4/2/2022 at 5:49 PM, DeeringAmps said:

Some "tone" there with the 135; nice. Amp4 on that?
Love the "sexy" saxes.
The auto pan on the keys is just a bit distracting here on the  DT990's.
Its a "taste" thing and I get it. (for me, kind of like German Chocolate Cake, one bite to many; yew)

t

Thanks a lot! I'm using BiasFx2, pretty easy to get good sounds with it. I use Amplitube for the bass.

You guys sure do some ambitious music! Very impressive. Was this stuff you never released?

Omg, that sounds like a new Oingo Boingo song.  Cool, I liked those guys. Great hook there.

That's a catchy groove. 

Very nice. The guitar sounds really good.