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Hey Marty,

new user here, listening to what others have done. This song has a great feel to it, very well done.


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Thanks Robh. I used Sonar X1 Producer for awhile but went back to Reaper. IMO, I feel more comfortable with Reaper and it does not have the bulk of Sonar. I cannot comment on the midi aspect, because I rarely use any midi. Thanks for your comments and the listen.
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Thanks Fitzync. Welcome to BIAB and this forum.
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Hello Robh and occ.
Thanks for the thumbs up and taking out time to listen. Sometimes I wish I had a little gravel in my voice to add a touch more character, but alas! I have my studio down due to a revamp. I really miss writing and recording. I should be back up in the next couple of days.
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Radio Ready all the way.

Great lyrics, backing track and vocal. Super RT selection also. Plus it’s mastered like a pro would do IMHO.

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I have updated the link for this song. Does anyone know of a way to edit the original post?

Why Did We Let It Go This Far

http://www.soundclick.com/player/single_player.cfm?songid=11033925&q=hi&newref=1


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Hello Mario,
It is good to hear from you again. I have just did a remix and the link has changed. Thanks for the cudos and for listening.

http://www.soundclick.com/player/single_player.cfm?songid=11033925&q=hi&newref=1


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Hi Marty,

I've just had another listen. This new mix is absolutely brilliant. You've captured the soul of the song really, really well through the arrangement, your excellent singing, and your very skillful mastering. You should try and get this song in movies!

One small thing that I noticed on my sound system, and I'm passing it on for what it's worth, is that some of the ess sounds seemed a little over processed and were sounding more like "th" than "s".

One thing that I picked up from a seminar that I once went to with Stephen Webber (a grammy award winning producer and professor at Berklee College) was that he manually subtracts the "ess" sound using equalization. Steve's argument was that using a de-esser subtracts brilliance from the whole vocal line and he prefers not to do that.

For a while I used to do what Steve suggested but I discovered in Reaper that volume envelopes with the "sqaure" point shape do the job really well. What I now do in my mixes is to go through and manually adjust all the ess sounds; they're very easy to identify on the graphic display and it usually takes about 15 mins to adjust them. I then sometimes add a little touch of de-esser, although that's rare these days. Below is an image of how I de-ess.



If you're already aware of the above process, please forgive me for boring you!

All the best,
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Hi Noel.
Thanks for the tip. I will try the volume envelope trick on my future mixes. Thanks for your input and for listening.
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