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Great stuff, guys. This version sounds extremely professional, very commercial. The following comments should be taken with a very large pinch of salt, seeing as I am a complete amateur, but for what it's worth: I loved Chris' original harmonies on the intro - crawdad's arrangement is cool...

Very cool - definitely sci-fi soundtrack material - would fit nicely with Alien or Aliens. Interesting Cheers Alastair

shackrock - glad you like it. It's a fairly common chord progression, but it's not knowingly stolen from anything in particular. I adore the Pixies, and Oasis' debut album was excellent, so they're probably influences... wes - I think eric took down the version he did. The version I've...

Thanks to everyone for taking the time to listen and comment: modified dog - glad you like the tune. You're not alone in disliking my guitar tone! :( I've tamed it a lot since my first mix, but I can't bring my self to change it any more. I agree about the vocal sound, but I'm not good...

Fixed. Sorry, I'm an idiot. Cheers Alastair

New version with "real" drums I've posted the latest version of "Not The Only One", this time with a MIDI drum track originally played (live) by erichenryus - thanks eric, the drums sound excellent. I've also been mucking about with Ozone for "mastering", and changed some of the EQ and...

Sorry I can't offer any ideas to improve your tracks - you're well out of my league. But I just had to post and say that they are absolutely excellent. Let me know when the album is released. :) Cheers Alastair

Really, really good. A great improvement on the first mix. I miss the trumpet, though! All it really needs now are some soulful female "call and answer" harmony BVs in the choruses. And maybe a different sound for the string part, or some dissonant/resolving turns to spice it up a wee bit...

This is excellent. The vocal performance is very strong, and the song is cool too. Definite echoes of Robert Cray and Clapton, as others have pointed out. I can also hear Wildwood-era Paul Weller. I'm pretty new to all this, so feel free to ignore the following: Bass is too much - maybe too...

eric - thank you very much for going to the effort of posting your drums version. I love what you've done, and in particular the chorus drums are *much* better than mine. Also, all the fills are much more varied and "natural" sounding. And you're right - the kick is definitely the weakest...

In CE 2000 it's Transform-Amplitude-Amplify, then choose the "Centre Waveform" preset. It's probably similar in CEP 1.2 Cheers Alastair

Hi rats I've not yet listened carefully to the tunes themselves, but I have one immediate comment on the PollyEthelline track. That's one of the wierdest waveforms I've ever seen! It looks like the first section (from 0 to 2:35) has a large positive DC offset (i.e. the waveform up to that...

I didn't post previously, but I listened and liked it a lot. This is a definite improvement on the first mix. I'd bring the main vocals up a wee bit, and turn down the "You were really there" and "La la la" backing vocals slightly. I really like this though - a previous poster mentioned Kate...

fender - thank you very much. Glad you like it. Pete - don't worry, I didn't take offence - being compared to Ray Davies is the kind of insult I can live with! ;) Alastair

Very nice voice, excellent pitching, great tone. For my tastes, her vibrato is a little too deep. But she sounds like she's easily a good enough singer to change that if she wanted to! I wonder if you might push the vocal back a little with a touch of reverb? (Or a touch more reverb) I...

Pete - thank you so much for your kind words. I must buy some Kinks stuff - I only know a few of the singles. I'm intrigued that folk think I sound like Ray Davies. I'm pretty sure he's English and I'm Scottish - worlds apart, in terms of accent! ;) I'm really glad you like the song - thanks...

Your voice has a nice, warm tone to it. There are a couple of notes that aren't dead on, but nothing that a few extra takes and simple edits couldn't sort out. SONAR makes that kind of edit very straightforward. Powderfinger's advice to use compression and EQ, maybe a little reverb, and...

Hi Macle We've got a nice wee mutual appreciation society going here ;) I really appreciate your comments about my singing - it's the thing I'm least confident about, so it really means a lot to me. I started thinking that maybe the kick was a bit loud the last time I listened back to the...

Hi Macle I hope I didn't give you the wrong impression. I don't think the *sound* of the mix is fatiguing. It's just that some of the hard-panned sounds might be better brought a wee bit towards the centre. At the moment it feels like (apart from the voices) most of the action is happening...

What you need is to turn on input monitoring. There's lots of detail in the manual, pages 4-18 to 4-22. Basically, do the following: 1. Choose the Options-Audio menu, select the Input Monitoring tab, and highlight the sound card(s) you want to enable monitoring on. Click OK. 2. Make sure...