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This is a bit of my Billy Joel/Elton John/Hall and Oates era influences poking through. I'm a piano player since before my own memory. Again - just anything that strikes you as "off" is what I'm seeking. I know I'm down to "sore thumb tom hits" level of detail - but all comments about something...

I THINK I've got it pretty well dialed in. Anything poke out at you? Thanks folks!

Recorded w/ my band in 2020 during covid, I do not sing on this - even though I wrote it. I remixed it a month ago w/ new tools and walked away to get fresh ears. I returned this morning to tweak the limiting. I was aiming for clarity and detail w/o it sounding like it was sonically shouting...

I'm really pulling back on the limiting in my new versions - trying to dial in just enough to glue things w/o hearing the limiter's impact. This was my recent band's recording of this tune. We were together from 2016 until Covid disbanded us in 2021. We used to play this live. At one point...

I think I have this pretty close. I'm merely looking for folks to mention anything that pokes out at them on a listen through. Thanks a bunch, folks!

I'm posthumously revisiting collaborations w/ Stu and I am attempting to keep clarity at the forefront and "the shouting" of limiters down. This is a delicate balance. There is a "shout" to compression - even at low volume - like shouting in a whisper. I'd liked the clarity of the previous...

This one wrecked me this morning. It's a song about looking back to one's youth. All the background vocals, guitar leads etc ... done by Stu. He nails it. I reached out to Tjarko, who had also worked w/ Stu frequently, and he contributed a bass part to add to the posthumous collaboration...

Stu Gort, who used to haunt these very pages w/ us years ago, passed on (I recently discovered). For those that knew him, he was an immensely talented fellow who had an exacting personality. It was his precise nature that made him an excellent guitarist - and guitar maker. It was his guitar...

I just swapped out the original drums - which were recorded w/ midi through a Roland TD9. At issue was the midi had a LOT of false data in it. I think the hi hat pedal was faulty. So I had to rebuild a lot of that part in fixing it to sound relatively natural. But I wanted a more acoustic kit...

As often happens, when this old dog learns new tricks, he goes back and remixes everything with the new knowledge. I have been recently exploring various setting on Ozone 11 and some of my output of late has been, to my ears, some of the best detail I've been able to achieve EVER. Oddly, it is...

This is a trilogy piece - which I wrote in one sitting. I recorded each part separately, and then placed each next to the other in a long string. Each is done on its own and then put in place. Do the seams show too clearly between the segments? Anything else strike you? Thanks in advance for...

For those who liked "Brown Haired Ordinary Looking Girl" (posted earlier), this is the same assembly of musicians working together. Some of these guys I've worked with since my teens - back in my college band. It's kind of wicked different what is available to us now that didn't exist in the...

I don't know if Chris Hargrove (handle: Mixmaster) comes and visits here anymore - but back in the day, he and I wandered off this weird side alley of working on this oddball piece together. I started it w/ just the piano and Chris took that file and ran with it. He added the percussion/drums -...

This one came about strangely. I sketched the piece out loosely on an out of tune 12 string guitar but Stu Gort liked what he heard anyways and jumped in to help. He then added most of what you hear here - begging me to please retrack the 12 string and tune the fucking thing right. So - I did...

Everything in this is fake. In that, I mean the bass is a synth. The drums are sampled midi. The bongos are a rhythm loop. The female vocals are Yamaha vocaloid synths. The chimes MIGHT be real, but the cymbal swells are samples. Thinking more closely, I think the chimes are samples too - though...

The bass in this has a curious history. It started as me doing midi. It was very lame. I then reached out to the boards (here and Recording project) and Wayne Glaser submitted a perfect part for it - which was fine (for the time) as it was, note for note, spot on. As I refined the sound of the...

Good Sunday Morning to you all! This quick two-fer is another quick listen to see if I got anything wrong w/ the limiting/mix on these pieces I just rolled out of production w/ new mastering tools. Both are piano based pieces - and I THINK I have them dialed in nice and clear. What I'm asking...

The question is simple: Which sounds better to you? The top one has more limiting on it. The 2nd has less - but mix adjustments needed to be made to bring certain parts up slightly to account for less limiting. But which appeals to folks ear more? I have an opinion ... but I'd like to see what...

ONE question: Is anyone hearing ever so slight crackling of what sounds like a driver crackling/breaking up? I can't tell if it is in the recording itself or is occurring on my system alone. It is really hard to hear, but if it is there, I know Trip will hear it. That's basically all I need...