Originally Posted By: BlueAttitude
I've been looking forward to hearing this complete, and Gene did a fine job for you. Rest of the band sounds great too.
The lyrics are absolutely perfect for the piece, I wish I had a fraction of your writing skills.
Put me down as #19 who wishes the vocal could be a tad louder in places wink
Long piece but doesn't seem long, held my attention all the way through.
BTW, there is a little known feature in youtube called stats for nerds, if you right click within the video you can bring it up. When I do that it shows that youtube thinks your audio is too loud and is turning it down by 2.6 db. I shoot for as close to zero as possible when I master for youtube, peaks -1, LUFS -14 usually gets you there. https://productionadvice.co.uk/stats-for-nerds/
Excellent, Ray, my new favorite from you.

I couldn't raise the vocal any further...the sheer shallowness and crunchy gravel showed up too clearly. It's at the safest/cleanest I could cope with.
Yes, you're right. The audio is mastered for CD and I was too lazy to run it through Reaper to reach the LUFs required.
I usually address the audio's final level inside the video editor but - clealy - didn't.
I'll try to remember - I'll leave a post it note on the screen.
THANKS.

Cheers
rayc
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