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haha Cheers, my YouTube get very little views but oddly a couple of songs had a few, the songs i don't like haha I spend much more time doing music than video and i don't do lives etc. I think you need to do live videos and chats like Mike at Creative Sauce to build a following. Maybe i should do some general music videos on production tips on my soapbox but id end up doing less music... Iv'e got to sort a email list out for when i release a song on Youtube but the mail list platforms charge silly money these days. i did a real old song called "silence is deafening" or it was the chorus i cant remember.

Thanx a lot Larry for the comment. Iv'e pretty much got mixing and mastering to a good level. I did work for ITV master control room doing pre-post sound production, so i have a good understanding. Yes, music is a personal preference, i try to do my own thing, sometimes I'm in a bombast mood and sometimes emotional feel, its all a learning experience. P

Nice fat bassline... with a few surprises

Yes Objeq delay and VX64 strip are the only two plugins i have audio dropouts and glitch's with. I know lots of people do so i just work round it. I don't use Objeq delay much and VX64 strip is ok if you don't have it on to many tracks

Youtube wouldn't let you comment ?

Yes i don't think there is anything going to be any better, seems i found a little gem there, it is just not sold at pluginboutique which is my account i use so probably a direct buy

Yes i was thinking of purchasing myself, but was looking at Izotope Nectar 3 and a few others or seeing what ive missed. I just want to make sure i am happy with something first and then its job done. Joe's vocal strip is best ive seen so far, a better all round flexible sounds and proper GUI more about using it than fancy knobs. Joe vocal clients are very impressive, so i am guessing he big in the industry and his expertise with analogue preamps etc seems more real than just another plugin company, which is swaying me. I am just undecided if to build my own vocal strip or go for something like this what Joe created. I currently build my own with cakewalk compressors on pro channel PC 4K and 76 are good enough to be honest, plus the built in Vocal presents FX Chain you can tweak for great results. So if i am spending money i think its better to buy a all in one instead of singles. i also use limiter No6 which is surprising good for free plugin along with cakewalk exciter or soft tube sat, so cakewalk you can get real pro quality end product for sure. The only paid comp i use autoformer as i like the preamp harmonics it gives with some saturation and i use Ozone 9 elements to tweak eq with cakewalk quad pro channel eq, i use them both sometimes to de-esser. i just think the Breverb in cakewalk is amazing so why buy one and the built in delays are enough to do any delay, so i think its better to just get a vocal strip. Ive looks at CLA which is very simple and the JJP Vocals even more basic both by waves. EZ mix is not my cup of tea, fact cakewalk does better job than any of those ive look at apart from Joe Vocal Strip seems to be miles better. What do you think of it should i spend some cash

Iv'e just been told Izotope Nectar 3, anyone used it?

Anyone used this Joe Chiccarelli Vocal Strip

Hi Guys Iv'e used the VX64 Cakewalk vocal strip, its a great plugin however can cause some dropout issues. Does anyone know of something along the same lines that's solid. I have developed my own Vocal strip FX chain but be nice just to use one plugin. cheers P

yes i got this Objeq delay in a deal and i love it but it does cause hangs and drop outs (popping) on Cakewalk. So i don't use on track or bus but directly on the audio clip and once i get the sound i want, i bounce down but its a pain. I also have similar problem with the cakewalk VX 64 vocal strip

Iv'e only got Melodyne 5 assistant and its £255 to upgrade to Studio so not sure i need it haha £85 to Editor. I do basic correction from time to time and don't use it for anything else however the precision-targeted de-esser function sounds good as i always haev sharp S's on my voice

Was intended, i think all call it the marmite effect, love or hate thing. It was a experiment

Cheers Freddy .... doing something a bit more simple next one , short but sweet P

Thanx John

i do say opening lyric "you can't please everyone" haha i decided to take it in that direction as friends kid was dancing to it or i would have kept it more like the beginning

yeh that's the first chorus where it start to go through the changes "Be Your Own Kind of Beautiful" is all in your individual taste's but i was messing with production technique's to see what work and what doesn't...

another season in PL woop woop

A little delicious mixture...... Be Your Own Kind of Beautiful.....

Here is a simple tips! 1: Make sure your bass is mono. 2: Amp sim or preamp sim or speaker cab or combination 3: If there's mud in your mix clean it up with boosting and carving out space. Lets say you boost bass at 70Hz you would cut other instruments at 70Hz that might be bleeding over and merging with the bass, the kick can also effect it depending playing on or off the kick. Therefore; 4: Side chain your kick can give your bass space or even side chain your bass if its a kinda hook bassline. 5: Depending how you want bass to sit in a mix you can add a tad of reverb to sit it at the back or bring further forward or give it width, if you want to glue it in a tad of saturation and compression. A tip for width or bass in general, n duplicate the bass track stick them on a bass room bus and use panning on the two tracks to sit them where you want in the mix and then go about adding your compression or filters or amp sims to the bus which you can further tweak the eq on tracks and bus. Drum and bass style music or even hiphop, its good to create a drum room bus and a bass room bus which you still can sidechain. NB: there is some fancy filters now which trigger compression on frequencies you want or don't want. Bass and kick frequently occur simultaneously which is usually where the problems are or otherwise some phase or blead from other instruments or even vocals. Hope at least one thing helps P

Fxxking love it

Yeh the intro took some decision of how to introduce the concept, so it sort of merges between instruments that then come together before vocal. Making decisions with direction can change the whole feel be adding or taking away 4bars. Im happy with the finished product, cheers P

Cheers Paul,

Mix and mastering getting lot better Jack. On the music side, take your time with your transitions where you go from one section to the next section , like going from a verse to a chorus, sometimes its good to do a clever transition or a pre-chorus which you nail at about 3:20 with a great run down but when you come back in to sing could have been more slick. I put that ride/crash repeat cymbal back more, out front to much when you start singing at the start which as the affect of swallowing your vocal in the verb at times, i probably would have done a subtle rim tap or cow bell instead of that cymbal. Only my opinion from a music POV is some changes could flow more, from where you go from one section to then a sudden change of sound to another section, sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. Maybe needed a key change or more of a progression with chords at times to get more range from your vocal. Sometimes its good to step back for couple of days and then go back with fresh ears, we can become entrenched with so much going on and not hear certain things because we sort of desensitise. Good work

Cheers Nio ... music is language haha