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Cheers Tom, its been sent of to a lady that's doing the vocals, its something i wrote and produced. If she blows it out of the park we may do something but she is now wanting to do a EDM type track. I wanted her to do the verses with her personality and i join in the chorus, plans change

thanx, its been sent of to a lady that's doing the vocals, its something i wrote and produced and didn't want to waste time on unless she blows it out of the park but she is also wanting to do a EDM type track

Shxt is shxt, you polish and master shxt but its still shxt, gold can have shxt on it but its still gold they say..... Every time you add some processes (plugins) in mastering, the reality is each stage will add level, your stage gaining it louder at the end of the day, db here and a db there and you will squeeze out db by squashing the dynamics on the roof which can be over done if you don't get the mix right from experience. You don't want to be messing about reducing input gain or reducing output gain. Compare to the pre master, the master will always be lounder and our ears like lounder but it doesn't always mean the master is better. There is a metric AB plugin that you can compare pre master to master to match levels and quality, ive never used it but apparently all the pros use it, it is something i must try

It's funny you say knock on heavens door, the chords are broken but the same type of progression in places. I never play covers and it wasn't until my friend said, after i wrote the second verse i noticed that's where the melody was starting to go. I am waiting for the Female vocalist to send over her vocal's to she what she does, iv'e been testing gear and updating templates etc, so didn't spend enough time on it.

Its a demo for a lady singer, depending on her vocal will depend on what i do with it. I tend to no waste too much time unless i think its worth it. You can polish shxt but its still shxt, but gold is gold even with a bit of shxt on it...

Just a quick one guys, i guess it's open to personal preference. I always mix down to a pre master ready or mastering with approx 6db head room. Iv' heard a few people leave the master mix bus clean and add their compression etc at the mastering stage. Personal i would say you want your mix pretty much sounding how it should be and mastering is the finishing touch with equalization, compression, limiting and stereo enhancement to get the overall sound. My personal preference is to use a Drawer 1973 neutral or soft (Air setting on or off) on the mix bus or maybe the 76 with couple db reduction. I may then stick a initial clipper on the end for a bit of glue with positive or negative saturation or the soft tube but that's about it on my mix bus until mastering. Whats people take on the mix bus?

to muddy ?

She works with a small studio that a woman (Sax Player) which runs it. She as access to a large studio with drums, and a selection of musicians, some coudl session for anyone but they constantly lack ideas. She lives out in the sticks in Cornwall about 1hr from me in Devon (Plymouth) The young vocalist only works with my friend thats shes trying to influence and my friend got a totally different vibe to me with music. So when i sent her the track she didn't know what to do and i was their to say anything, its not really my style but she wanted a vampire vibe and that's what i did for a quick demo whilst testing some gear out. The problem is i don't know her vibe, spoken to her today for first time and she wants to go more EDM with a twist so that will be my next track. I only have a small home studio (Few Guitars, bass and keys) with a vocal booth i built but not really had chance to test stuff because mum is in hospital, so been run off my feet, so bang those vocals out in 30mins and probably better than 70% i do in that irony. i mainly just write, produce, just get creative and have fun. You know what its like, a good tune is a gold, no matter if the mix and mastering only 5 out of 10 gold is gold even with shxt on it. However, you can polish shxt 10 out of 10 mix and mastering but its still shxt if you know what i mean, so i try not to waste too much time these days. Yes we learn from doing complicated scales or key changes, clever progressions or think your being clever with run downs etc but unless necessary they don't make a good song, its normally simple. Play the first few bars of Billy Jean and you just vibe, that's gold on a pot and pan .

As always very well written and i like the bit of nasty edge with that vibe. i feeling a bit of inxs and Duran Duran, don't take it the wrong way, i love their stuff. You voice is so good, when you let it belt out its got so much controlled character.

Loving it Tim, we can only keep plugging away has we are always learning. In each song, try to learn something new is what i always do. Test something, like don't be scared to get that drum midi score open, and on that bass run down on each bass note hit a crash and a kick bang banb bang ... bbbang.. or on those big notes a big smash or little roll build up to that big note. Don't be scare to deleted 4 bars of drum or just take the kick and snare out but double up on cymbals or hihat, give it a try because it will then trigger you with more ideas, you will start to be more dynamic with the drums is what people are highlighting. Quantize is not always the best solution...

Rebel XD – “Record Breaker (World's Fastest Rap)” doing 683 syllables in 54.5 seconds To be honest i can't tell what the words are

Give it some C_verb haha the Chorus i went big on compression and verb about 30db and sunk back 24db in the verse so it open up in chorus. Just was testing a things. There is a female vocalist which with do the vocals and probably change the lyrics... However they like the chorus and might do a vocal collaboration, i just put the idea down for the vocalist to work with.... Funny thing is they had a copy without my vocal and did not listen to my vocal, so i didn't influence her writing. She actually had a different melody, very soft, sort of spoken with a bit more singing in chorus. She then listen to what i had in mind and now had a rethink. So i will see what happens. We are working at distance and i really need to get in the studio with her, she trying to hard to impress i think and over thinking. Sometimes it is so much better to be there and help

Can't beat a nice riff or hook ??

Make that a line for a song, it will work, chilli peppers make that work

Black Eyed Peas ? I'ma get get get get you drunk Get you love drunk off my hump My hump my hump my hump my hump my hump My hump my hump my hump my lovely little lumps."

Yes, the drums was pure intent to be that way.

I really had a scream in my vocal booth to really test it, this song was about testing, only spent a week on it, few hrs a day. I also had a play with XLN Audio addictive keys which i got free and its very good tone with lots of flexibility. First time i play my Jazz box for a couple of years, not really the right song for it, but it has a lovely tone.

Cheers Kevin, have a good new year

‘We got this king size to ourselves Don’t have to share with no one else Don’t keep your secrets to yourself It’s karma sutra show and tell Woah, there’s loving in your eyes That pulls me closer It’s so subtle, I’m in trouble But I’d love to be in trouble with you’ Marvin Gaye’ the dirty dog lol

Sting is in my top 10 songwriters

Yo, I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want! a decent vocal strip ?

Ive got both Synth master 2 and Synth master player. Appears this is were the confusion was after i updated them. New UPDATE is VST3 from VST2 which also messed with my presets, annoying. I manage my FX and Instrument layouts and did not update my Instrument layout duh. Yes I'm a idiot of the highest order... I updated them both and the bug seems to have gone. I deleted all the Synth master tracks and reset the global config to make sure, put them back in as VST3 and we are flying The new Synth master is lush....

If you look at top 10 songer writers Roger is not even in there, Mick Jagger / Keith Richards are number 6 WTF

I spoken to soon haha, i just noticed it. Better with balance off and the MMCSS enable for ASIO driver off. I have quite a large project of tracks and buses with quite a few plugins and VSTi synths ( it don't like the VSTi) I also need to freeze some midi tracks but still writing the structure, was my own fault as it looks like a caused a bottle neck with a couple of problem plugins. Iv'e notice it doesn't like a few plugins which are a bit load hungry. i should also not use the old cakewalk VX 64 vocal strip, i keep meaning to buy the Scheps Omni Channel to make my own vocal strip but i do love the old strip lol.

I have Multiprocessing Engine with Plug_in Load Balancing [ticked] and also Use MMCSS enable for ASIO driver My system does actually seem to run better with no drop outs. I am guessing i have this set right to ensure cakewalk is prioritized with access to CPU resources even though im using a 3.60 GHz AMD Ryzen 5 2500X Quad-Core Processor with 32GB RAM