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I really like this one. A little repititious, but really a great mood piece. I can feel the summer in it. Reminds me of Steve Miller's Texas Surf from the late 60's....with updated electronics. Very sweet guitfiddlin'....melodic, authoratative. Nice groove. 2:25 ...the minor 3rd in the...

Yeah...not so sure about the cello, either. First recording I've done with it....wanted to break it in. It kinda fits the storyboard idea...the sad part. And nothing's sadder than a cello...sadly played! But, yeah: Maybe something wrong with it....too unusual.

No prob: I'm happy for the opportunity to critique others' tunage....I can never hear myself as others might hear me....which is why I put stuff here, too. And I learn a lot doing musical autopsies. I'm inclined to believe that arrangement strength is just as, or mo' important than, the last...

Trump's post made me take a second listen...switching between stereo and mono. I found a decent spread image in the mix. Were you set to mono, Trump?? It might be a little middley, but the verb reflections in the wings were prominent. I found no fault with the panning and ambience...that...

Golly, TX! Funny, BS: I had to learn the lesson again: don't f*ck with the tracks. After EQ-ing the bass, BD, slide solo, and snare, I posted the master here earlier today. Then I went back to the first version and discovered how shitty I'd made it. So I went back to the original...

I started listening, thinking it was a snoozer. But I hopped and skipped through, and discovered that you have some good instincts...about building and maintaining interest. That's BIG. I could imagine the song as a movie track...drawn-out length. Compress the arrangement, and it'd be a...

Ummmm... That's a real Ludwig kit with real mics. What it needs is a real drummer playing them, someone un-me! Only I could make a real kit sound fake!!:D

Fantastic master. Were you looking over the pro's shoulder, taking notes? Share?? :^) The onliest thang that tweaked me...in accordance with The Gospel according to Gerg.....was that the snare wasn't punching evenly with the BD. Really great clarity and separation of parts.

SoundClick artist: Jeff Maher - page with MP3 music downloads OK. Here's the final. Worked on the snare sound...mostly cutting back on the bottom head mic. Added a little HF to the BD. Added cello, reggae guitar in part two to fill a groove gap. A little editing. A little panning, and...

Hey! That was nice! I like the way you end your phrases on the blues licks...reminds me of a certain guy, Gatemouth? who used to do those quick flourishes and down slide like that. Don't hear it often. Y' got a nifty, rare 'voice' there. Anyway, I liked it.

There are a few guys around here that have a studio ready drum setup and are decent players and might want to get in on something like this Yeah...that occurred to me lots of times. But I just decided to keep at it...no pain, no gain, etc. I's nice to just be able to do stuff... and the only...

Trainwreck? That's bad, right? :^) I'll keep workin' it, friend. TX

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Welp, I used a Peavey Bandit amp, and miked the bottom, enclosed speaker with a Shure PG52 bass drum mic to try to get some chunk and boom in the otherwise whiney transistor amp's usual screechy sound. There are two guitars used: the 79 Strat with whammy, and a short-scale Ibanez humbucked...

That's authentic headbang, man!

I don't remember hearing this one before, but I gotta say...again...you gots great comp and arranging instincts. Love the modulation after the intro; the change in texture from verse to chorus; the progression in the bridge. Very good.

I think it's a really good sounding track...a floor for a short film featuring robots and evil clowns...or something. But there's not much 'poetry' in it that I can find. As I was listening, I commented to myself that, since you took this tack, that you're now letting the technology drive the...

Something in the works. Slung the guitar low, on 11. First try at this. Still workin' out the drum thing. I was supposed to have a real drummer tear this up. No show. So I did it myself. Sub par, fer sherrr. Anyway, the eq is wonky...but it's all raw, except for some limiting on the BD...

WOOHOOOO!!!! You ramble and rock!

Nice vocal qualities, but it sounds like the singer was still trying to make the melody and phrasing up as the tune was recorded...lots of uncertainty. Another textbook case, I reckon, of a melody made up to fit sub-par wordsmithing and phrasing....thus, a very weak vocal melody. And very...