Originally Posted By: Birchwood
Hi there Bass Thumper,

You made a descent nice song with nice instruments in it!
Haven't heard of a Korg, but perhaps it's because we call it something else in the Netherlands (I hope)
Didn't hear (too) many voices.

But I have some questions; was it deliberately that you had the band that soft?
And the other question is about the theme: 'prepared for the season'.
A nice title by the way, but when the song continues I didn't get a feeling about any season at all.
As I said at the start of my post, it's a nice decent song, but it doesn't have much excitement along the way.
Maybe that was just what you were aiming for, but maybe you could introduce a bridge/break in it to get some more surprise in it.

Having said that, that is what I would do when making a song, but you don't have to listen to it, of course...

Hans

Hey Hans, your evaluation is much appreciated. Thanks for the kind words.

Korg is the name of a musical instrument manufacturer similar to Yamaha or Casio. I believe they were founded in the 1960's. Here is their website:

https://www.korg.com/us/

Regarding the soft band, no, that was not intentional and I didn't notice that. When I play back that song on SoundCloud I get descent volume. Keep in mind my mixing skills are poor at best. Having said that,
1) I understand from a recent thread here that SoundCloud automatically adjusts/processes the audio file so that sufficient volume is reached upon playback. Maybe that is not working in all cases?
2) My process in Studio One prior to exporting the final Mixdown is to adjust the main volume slider so that I get just a tad of "clipping", maybe 0.5 to 1 dB. On past uploaded songs I have found that this has worked and has caused no complaints. This time however, I forgot to do that, so I will make that change and re-upload.

Regarding titles for instrumentals, I struggle all the time with this. Don't read too much into it. I was simply thinking about how thankful I am for being able to be prepared for the coming Winter when I built this song. I don't necessarily hear anything in this regarding Winter preparation either. Take for example, this instrumental by the Allman Brothers:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Jessica+Allman+brothers&t=h_&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DNRE3Bv1goyI

Why title this Jessica? Why not Melinda, or Lucy, or Salt on my Potatoes . . . ?

Good feedback, thanks.

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