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Hey, some of you on this forum must be making some music, crafting some beats, or rapping up a storm. I'd like to hear what you're up to.
To start, a Peter Green song from very early Fleetwood Mac.

@Simmy Not sure if you want in this conversation, I believe this is what you do for a living, so might be fun for you to help or listen to a hopeful artist in our community?
 
@Simmy Not sure if you want in this conversation, I believe this is what you do for a living, so might be fun for you to help or listen to a hopeful artist in our community?

Appreciate the heads-up, @Lee! Thanks for kicking off this thread, @bronko and yes, this is right up my alley.

Great cover - love the cadence in your voice. Do you mix this yourself, or outsourced? I only ask as I'm hearing a number of things in the mix that I would recommend trying to clean up. Look into TrackSpacer: https://www.wavesfactory.com/audio-plugins/trackspacer/. A sensational plugin that allows you to better allow your vocal to sit "nicely" in the mix with minimal frequency overlap. It's basically an advanced sidechain that allows for auto-sweeping -- has a nifty mid/side adjustment as well. You'll really hear your vocals "pop" after using this.

As far as the master, it sounds like the track could use a multiband compressor and some EQing around 300-400Hz and 1-2K Hz. I'd be happy to to have a play with this mix/any others if you wanted some assistance -- I know you didn't ask, but.. y'know :)

As for me, here's a little clip of my new home studio we built during COVID last year (I put together a little "video pack" based on a TV show down here in Australia):


Some fun hip-hop submitted to a couple of artists from Missouri a couple of weeks back:


Some scoring/orchestrating:


Studio sesh with one of my fav Australian artists:


Some "for me" portfolio stuff -- scoring to a piece of "unscored" animation from a recent Superman movie:

 
Appreciate the heads-up, @Lee! Thanks for kicking off this thread, @bronko and yes, this is right up my alley.

Great cover - love the cadence in your voice. Do you mix this yourself, or outsourced? I only ask as I'm hearing a number of things in the mix that I would recommend trying to clean up. Look into TrackSpacer: https://www.wavesfactory.com/audio-plugins/trackspacer/. A sensational plugin that allows you to better allow your vocal to sit "nicely" in the mix with minimal frequency overlap. It's basically an advanced sidechain that allows for auto-sweeping -- has a nifty mid/side adjustment as well. You'll really hear your vocals "pop" after using this.

As far as the master, it sounds like the track could use a multiband compressor and some EQing around 300-400Hz and 1-2K Hz. I'd be happy to to have a play with this mix/any others if you wanted some assistance -- I know you didn't ask, but.. y'know :)

As for me, here's a little clip of my new home studio we built during COVID last year (I put together a little "video pack" based on a TV show down here in Australia):


Some fun hip-hop submitted to a couple of artists from Missouri a couple of weeks back:


Some scoring/orchestrating:


Studio sesh with one of my fav Australian artists:


Some "for me" portfolio stuff -- scoring to a piece of "unscored" animation from a recent Superman movie:

I KNOW THAT AUDI!!!
 
Appreciate the heads-up, @Lee! Thanks for kicking off this thread, @bronko and yes, this is right up my alley.

Great cover - love the cadence in your voice. Do you mix this yourself, or outsourced? I only ask as I'm hearing a number of things in the mix that I would recommend trying to clean up. Look into TrackSpacer: https://www.wavesfactory.com/audio-plugins/trackspacer/. A sensational plugin that allows you to better allow your vocal to sit "nicely" in the mix with minimal frequency overlap. It's basically an advanced sidechain that allows for auto-sweeping -- has a nifty mid/side adjustment as well. You'll really hear your vocals "pop" after using this.

As far as the master, it sounds like the track could use a multiband compressor and some EQing around 300-400Hz and 1-2K Hz. I'd be happy to to have a play with this mix/any others if you wanted some assistance -- I know you didn't ask, but.. y'know :)

As for me, here's a little clip of my new home studio we built during COVID last year (I put together a little "video pack" based on a TV show down here in Australia):


Some fun hip-hop submitted to a couple of artists from Missouri a couple of weeks back:


Some scoring/orchestrating:


Studio sesh with one of my fav Australian artists:


Some "for me" portfolio stuff -- scoring to a piece of "unscored" animation from a recent Superman movie:

Holy shit, i barely know how to turn on a computer, lmao. I am always amazed by the talent in our community. I was going to make a joke to you to welcome you in as our new owner about forget the Mexico wall, we need a bigger wall between Australia and the US...but that was just too impressive, lmao.
 
@Simmy, thanks for listening. I'm an unschooled musician, picked up guitar in my thirties. I've spent a lot of time with my more serious pro musician buddies in home studios recording tunes for fun. Over the years, the mixes are improving. I run Presonus Studio One and recorded and mixed the Manalishi in my untreated home studio using mostly stock plugins. I've spent a lot of my retirement time trying to improve my musicianship and trying to improve my ear. I tried to use covid time to get some stuff together in the studio at home but looking fwd to some jams with friends as the situation and weather improves. Honestly, this past winter would have seemed much longer without online guitar lessons and home recording to throw a few hours a day at.
 
@Simmy, thanks for listening. I'm an unschooled musician, picked up guitar in my thirties. I've spent a lot of time with my more serious pro musician buddies in home studios recording tunes for fun. Over the years, the mixes are improving. I run Presonus Studio One and recorded and mixed the Manalishi in my untreated home studio using mostly stock plugins. I've spent a lot of my retirement time trying to improve my musicianship and trying to improve my ear. I tried to use covid time to get some stuff together in the studio at home but looking fwd to some jams with friends as the situation and weather improves. Honestly, this past winter would have seemed much longer without online guitar lessons and home recording to throw a few hours a day at.

No problem! It sounds great overall. Just a few things to tweak I'd say. Sounds look COVID really did have its silver-linings, particularly for both personal/home improvement projects. Got to look at the positives, I suppose.

Let me know if there's anything I can do to help moving forward.
 
Hey, some of you on this forum must be making some music, crafting some beats, or rapping up a storm. I'd like to hear what you're up to.
To start, a Peter Green song from very early Fleetwood Mac.

Hey. I had a quick play-around with your mix this morning. Check it out:

 
Thanks, Simmy. I just gave a quick listen through headphones and am impressed with the extra clarity you brought to the mix. The vocal sits much better, and overall I noticed added detail, particularly in the percussion. You certainly improved it, and to think you were just working from an mp3 is impressive. I am striving to improve my ear for detail, and while I'm better than I used to be, I still have a way to go. I'll give it a listen in the studio later today and try to see if I can pick out in detail more differences and try to understand how they worked. Thanks for the expertise, you obviously know your stuff.
Hey. I had a quick play-around with your mix this morning. Check it out:

 
Hi all. Put out a little YouTube video today and wanted to share. YouTube sucks and so I've shared the YouTube edit (to avoid copyright infingment) and the Vimeo edit:



Would greatly appreciate your feedback.
 

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