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#345497 04/16/16 11:06 AM
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Hello friends,

this time a new country music

FOR TWO KISSES

https://soundcloud.com/sergio-guarneri/for-two-kisses

real tracks used:

Style is M_STHRKJ.STY (SouthernRock w/ Piano )
PianoCustom Synth is Hi-Q 001 01 Piano, Acoustic, Grand SampleTank.tgs

RealTracks in style: ~539:Bass, Electric, Pop Sw 120
RealTracks in song: 1566:Piano, Acoustic, Rhythm SouthernRockJohn Sw 120
RealTracks in style: ~956:Guitar, Electric, Rhythm CountryBoogieGrittyA-B Sw 110
RealTracks in style: ~950:Guitar, Acoustic, Rhythm CountryBoogieA-B Sw 110
RealTracks in song: 1954:Sax, Alto, Soloist TexasBluesRockShuffleMark Sw 130
RealDrums in style: NashvilleSwing8^3-a:Snare, OpenHat , b:Snare, Ride

I hope you like it and thanks for comments.

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This is a great country tune Sergio ! Love it ! Perhaps a "smoother" intro would made it better...


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Hi Sergio,

What a great rhythm and beat! The saxophone at the beginning took me by surprise but, when I went back and listened to it, I could hear why you chose it smile This is a terrific listen.

In case this is valuable information for you, I don't know if it's my hearing or my system or Soundclound or intentional from you, but it sounds like there is a sound distortion sitting on top of the already distorted guitar. When you uploaded to Soundcloud, did you use the rendered WAV file or a compressed file? It might be that Soundcloud has introduced audio artifacts when compressing the uploaded file - especially if not enough audio-headroom was present in the sound file.

As I said, I mention the above in case it's useful. The bottom line is that I really enjoyed your music. It's happy, very well composed and very well played. I always like what you do.

All the best,
Noel


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Hi Sergio,

uplifting song and nice playing.
Enjoyable listen.

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Hi, Sergio !

I liked your tune
really much !:))
Smooth and relaxing !:))


Cheers
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Hi Sergio!

This is an enjoyable little tune! It's somewhat unexpected coming from Italy...Maybe Florence South Carolina!

One of the things I like about your instrumentals is that you generally make a point of playing a melody, and that is something that many people who post instrumentals don't do.

I get the impression from listening to your songs that you are really having a LOT OF FUN using Band in a Box to create your music! And that is what this forum is all about: showcasing the end products that grow out of our play time with BIAB! Thanks for taking time to share yours with all of us!

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Nice pickin', Sergio.

The sax sounds odd. Like it is out of tempo range for the RT.

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Well done. Groovy tune.

I like the melody, and the piano too.

And nice picking.

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Originally Posted By: Trygve Larsen
This is a great country tune Sergio ! Love it ! Perhaps a "smoother" intro would made it better...



Hello Trygve. I'm very happy for your comment.
I'll try to do better.

Sergio



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Originally Posted By: Noel96
Hi Sergio,

What a great rhythm and beat! The saxophone at the beginning took me by surprise but, when I went back and listened to it, I could hear why you chose it smile This is a terrific listen.

In case this is valuable information for you, I don't know if it's my hearing or my system or Soundclound or intentional from you, but it sounds like there is a sound distortion sitting on top of the already distorted guitar. When you uploaded to Soundcloud, did you use the rendered WAV file or a compressed file? It might be that Soundcloud has introduced audio artifacts when compressing the uploaded file - especially if not enough audio-headroom was present in the sound file.

As I said, I mention the above in case it's useful. The bottom line is that I really enjoyed your music. It's happy, very well composed and very well played. I always like what you do.

All the best,
Noel


Thanks Noel. Glad you like it.
About distortion, maybe I could have something wrong in the final mixing. I upload to Soundcloud always MP3 files
Sergio.



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Originally Posted By: boehm
Hi Sergio,

uplifting song and nice playing.
Enjoyable listen.

Guenter



Thanks for comment Guenter.
I'm happy you like my music.
Sergio



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dani48 #345884 04/18/16 10:32 AM
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Originally Posted By: dani48
Hi, Sergio !

I liked your tune
really much !:))
Smooth and relaxing !:))


Cheers
Dani


Hey Dani, thanks for your fine words.
Sergio



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Originally Posted By: Pat Marr
Hi Sergio!

This is an enjoyable little tune! It's somewhat unexpected coming from Italy...Maybe Florence South Carolina!

One of the things I like about your instrumentals is that you generally make a point of playing a melody, and that is something that many people who post instrumentals don't do.

I get the impression from listening to your songs that you are really having a LOT OF FUN using Band in a Box to create your music! And that is what this forum is all about: showcasing the end products that grow out of our play time with BIAB! Thanks for taking time to share yours with all of us!


Hey Pat,
I have always liked country music and I got a good collection of country artists.
The problem is it is a bit difficult to play for me. I've bought some courses but really some guitar riffs are crazy. I'm waiting right now for a Chat Atkins's style course and I do not wait to start it.

As we talked in my previous post, because I don't sing, I have to do my guitar singing and so I try to make a melodic line. It's funny and thanks to BIAB you can get excellent results. One thing is real:
since I use BIAB I have really improved my guitar playing. So BIAB has an amusement facility but above all a function of music education.

Thanks for your kindly comment.
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Originally Posted By: floyd jane
Nice pickin', Sergio.

The sax sounds odd. Like it is out of tempo range for the RT.

fj



Hi Floyd,
thanks for comment.
May be I loaded the sax track and at a later time I changed manually the time selector.
But I don't remember...

Sergio



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Originally Posted By: gruverider
Well done. Groovy tune.

I like the melody, and the piano too.

And nice picking.



Hello, thanks for comment. glad you like it.
Sergio



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Nice tune, I like the feel too.


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Originally Posted By: Sergio Guarneri
Originally Posted By: Noel96
Hi Sergio,

What a great rhythm and beat! The saxophone at the beginning took me by surprise but, when I went back and listened to it, I could hear why you chose it smile This is a terrific listen.

In case this is valuable information for you, I don't know if it's my hearing or my system or Soundclound or intentional from you, but it sounds like there is a sound distortion sitting on top of the already distorted guitar. When you uploaded to Soundcloud, did you use the rendered WAV file or a compressed file? It might be that Soundcloud has introduced audio artifacts when compressing the uploaded file - especially if not enough audio-headroom was present in the sound file.

As I said, I mention the above in case it's useful. The bottom line is that I really enjoyed your music. It's happy, very well composed and very well played. I always like what you do.

All the best,
Noel


Thanks Noel. Glad you like it.
About distortion, maybe I could have something wrong in the final mixing. I upload to Soundcloud always MP3 files
Sergio.


Sergio,

Try uploading as a wav file. Soundcloud will compress it to mp3.

I've found that whatever file type I upload, Soundcloud compresses it. This means that if I upload an mp3, it gets compressed again. The net result is that the file goes through two compressions and this can sometimes create artifacts. Also, I always normalise the wav to somewhere between -0.6 and -0.3 dB so that Soundcloud has some audio headroom to do its conversion.

Hope this makes sense,
Noel


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Originally Posted By: Noel96
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Originally Posted By: Noel96
Hi Sergio,

What a great rhythm and beat! The saxophone at the beginning took me by surprise but, when I went back and listened to it, I could hear why you chose it smile This is a terrific listen.

In case this is valuable information for you, I don't know if it's my hearing or my system or Soundclound or intentional from you, but it sounds like there is a sound distortion sitting on top of the already distorted guitar. When you uploaded to Soundcloud, did you use the rendered WAV file or a compressed file? It might be that Soundcloud has introduced audio artifacts when compressing the uploaded file - especially if not enough audio-headroom was present in the sound file.

As I said, I mention the above in case it's useful. The bottom line is that I really enjoyed your music. It's happy, very well composed and very well played. I always like what you do.

All the best,
Noel


Thanks Noel. Glad you like it.
About distortion, maybe I could have something wrong in the final mixing. I upload to Soundcloud always MP3 files
Sergio.


Sergio,

Try uploading as a wav file. Soundcloud will compress it to mp3.

I've found that whatever file type I upload, Soundcloud compresses it. This means that if I upload an mp3, it gets compressed again. The net result is that the file goes through two compressions and this can sometimes create artifacts. Also, I always normalise the wav to somewhere between -0.6 and -0.3 dB so that Soundcloud has some audio headroom to do its conversion.

Hope this makes sense,
Noel



Thanks Noel, I'll try it next time. I didn't know what you've written. Surely I'll try.
Sergio



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Originally Posted By: dga
Nice tune, I like the feel too.



Thanks for comment.
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Nice to hear a cool mellow Sergio tune at the end of the day!

We enjoyed the listen,

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