Hi, Herb.

Originally Posted by Guitarhacker
That has a cool Seals & Croft kind of sound.
Thanks! smile

Like it or not, I think 70's is my wheelhouse.

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That is a really cool bass track.
Glad you could hear it in the mix. As a basic piano player, so I'll typically look at a chart and see if there's something interesting I can do with the bass line to make it more interesting. That typically means figuring out nice stepwise movement. That carries over to songwriting, since it's an easy way make something sound more interesting without having to work out complicated chords.

And the bass player has some nice bits that come through the mix. I was tempted to boost them so the were more obvious, but it wasn't necessary. smile

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The vocals could have stood to be a bit more front and center. ( A few dB louder )
I'll give it some thought. I tend to make vocals a bit too hot, so I'm trying to be conservative.

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I really enjoyed reading your long version explanation of the details.
I'm glad you liked it.

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And yes... Suno as well as others will give a fairly nice cover version as well as the vocal track you give it.
I've got mixed feelings about Suno, but there's no denying that the output can be very good.

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I'm curious how in the world you managed to get Floyd Jane to work on an AI song with you. As badly as he likes to talk s*** about AI and bots, who'd-a-thunk-it! Kudos on however you did it. He might get pulled into the dark side yet. Nahhh, probably not.
There's no chance that he'll go to the dark side.

You're right - the AI vocals do grate on him. There are little "tells" that once you hear, you can't un-hear. Suno's modern country vocals are starting to effect me that way: overly compressed and glassy with something I can't quite put my finger on. They've very good, but they're so slick that my brain stops listening.

The real question is, what will AI eventually do to this forum? Time will tell.

Also note that these aren't really "AI" vocals in the sense that most people mean it. It's really a neural network trained on concatenative synthesis data. Suno is a different animal entirely.

But it's still hard on floyd jane's ears, so I'm glad he was able to look past it.

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Good song. And a lot of work.
Thanks! I appreciate you stopping to listen and comment! smile

-- David Cuny

My virtual singer development blog
Vocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?

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