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Hi there... thanks for playing along. I'll look out for your song, certainly. ?

OK - came back today wondering if anyone would be interested and was gratified to see that a few were, so I'll continue. Song #2 - Listen To The Timber So there's a government funded TV station in Australia called SBS - Special Broadcasting Service - which aims at a niche market -...

Right then. Song #1 - Fabulous Wonderful So I'll say at the outside that I record all the music for each song before I have ANY idea at all about what the lyrics will be - and I then have to write lyrics that fit in with however the song ended up. And the first step there is that I'm...

Ok - now about the album, just for context. It's called Isn't This Just Fabulous? and it's meant to be a deeply sarcastic title but you won't know that looking at the cover art, which is of a sunset I took a few years back somewhere... so there's a bit of counterpoint there already. It looks...

I'm talking lyrical ideas here. So I'm shit at marketing. And I'd really rather not mention to people in my day to day life that, yes I'm a musician, no I don't play anywhere but I actually record, and yes, I'm serious about it and have some skill, but I don't really care whether you like what...

I've been subtly trying the various things suggested above - I'm just not putting another mix up - you all have to be a bit sick of it by now. :)

Hi DM - long time, etc.. :giggle: Thanks for listening - I've hopefully addressed your concerns via a new mix in the original post. Cheers...

Thanks for listening - I've hopefully addressed some of your concerns in the new mix up in the original post. I've removed all the old mixes to avoid confusing people... (y)

Hey Trip! Haven't seen you over at the other place for a while... :) Done some work along the lines of your comments and reposted in the original thread if you feel up for checking whether it's an improvement. Thanks for the listen. (y)

I've given the guitars a bit of a rough up via a preamp plug which might make them have a bit more heft... and various other adjustments mentioned by others. Thanks for listening, new mix up top if you want to hear it again. (y)

Thanks for listening. I'm not sure heft is what I'm after with the guitars, being a pair of Telecasters. I agree the bass needs something, however. Cheers.

Thanks @dobro - yeah the tom hits were annoying people over at the other place so I've toned them down a bit in the new mix. I've done some de-booming and various other nips and tucks. I'm sure I'd looked it up before, because I always look up words I don't know the meanings of, but like you...

One of those pretentious words I've seen for years but didn't really know the meaning of, until I looked it up. Seemed like a good metaphor for a song, seeing it was only ever used metaphorically by those wielding it... :-) To save you the trouble, it's from ye olden times when things were...

Steven Slate Drums v4 - so yes, VSTi

Thanks Porterhouse It's basically stacked, relatively clean, no effect guitars played as tightly as I could. First guitar is a Duesenberg Starplayer TV, second is a newish Tele - one track of each hard L and one track of each hard R. In the second half of the verse where the octave low voice...

Here you go - the special TAE Edition of Fabulous Wonderful. Couldn't do you a ripping lead break as I didn't want to make it any longer, but I did put a little something into the chorus - and I redid the bit at the beginning so it's a bit less generic blues lick and a bit more what I'd normally...

Cheers TAE - I've actually redone the opening lead guitar motif on the grounds, as someone else pointed out, I don't actually play things like that... :unsure: :LOL: They are right, but I'm not sure what I've now done is better. I've taken the opportunity to put a little 4 note descending...

Thank you kind sir. (y)

New mix for those interested. Have worked on EQing and smoothing out the vocal generally, and a few other minor tweaks.

Cheers, thanks. I always struggle with the vox level, not because I'm shy about it but because my brain knows it all so well I think it's filling it out a bit and makes me think it's louder than it actually is. I'll have a listen again today. (y)