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We remember this. Below are our comments to the original post as we still feel the same! And we enjoyed following the lyric vid. "You and Gabriela sound very good together! We like the vocal arrangement with the swapping off lead. You wrapped the nice band in a fine mix. And it sounds excellent on the monitors. Lately we can all relate to this line: “Where is rest? From the thunderous noise of the world” Enjoyed it! J&B"

Fun and different narrative indeed. That's an excellent group of BiaB session guys. Kudos to the sax player. And what matters to us is that this a fun production. Well done all around ... write, performance and mix. J&B

Vivid imagery that had us seeing the knight in shining armor updated to a knight in leather on his Harley. The lovely vocal arrangement made us feel the melancholy of the California dream being just a dream. This one again reminds us of Daniel Lanois productions. The song breathes so well. Love the baritone guitar and that pedal steel so well captures the narrative's vibe. The mix you wrapped it all in is excellent ... that bass cuts perfectly as does the snare. Also thanks for the production info. Terrific, J&B

Glad you found a solution. Hopefully it won't cost too much.

"I am playing the nylon string guitar and via my keyboard the Marimba" And a great job you did. Your description is easily visualized by the band choice. Really cool. And we always love your open, airy mixes. Feel like we are sitting dead center in the front row. Nice! J&B

For most of this year I've been researching mastering, which I have no experience of, as I really wanted my vocal songs to be of a much better quality, so I've done a lot of reading and watched many videos, but although I've now done many experiments in Audacity and also bought Rast Sounds' Soren AI mastering I totally failed to achieve the quality I wanted. Calling Soren "AI" is a bit of a stretch as one only has 10 genre selections, 4 style presets and 4 loudness presets and whatever variation I tried ended up with a result less good than the original. A very simple wave editor comes with my CyberLink video app and I had better results with just that, but even then I found nothing I tried sounded significantly better than the original. So although I've done a channel-swap and light remix of this song from a year ago, the quality is about the same, though somewhere along the lines I lowered the volume of the organ a bit too much. From last year's notes: "… I discovered Argentinean vocalist, Denisse Ferrara, on Fiverr, and she amazingly supplied 9 vocal tracks for this song. I went for a foreign accent vocal to give the song a 'world' flavour, but the downside of that is that some words become obscured due to accent. I'm nonetheless extremely pleased with the result of these vocals - Denisse has brought the song to life. … In the main vocal track I had to up the gain over some phrases and lower 2 or 3, making 24 changes in total, then in the 2nd vocal track I did the same 4 times. All in all it took me 2 weeks to get the balance of all 9 tracks as I wanted them." Last year I also posted the "[smooth]" version of the song with a different vocalist, but I had one failed attempt with the "[baroque]" with a Fiverr Indian vocalist, then 2 long lasting disastrous experiences with a foreign lady who misrepresented herself as English, then ditto with an American lady, both of the latter 100% failing to understand the exact same instructions which the 1st 3 clearly understood, but long story short I've ended up using the "[smooth]" version vocalist's stem files on the "[baroque]" and it's turned out to be the best version of the 3, so that I'll post after I later post the "[smooth]". Always leave the best until last! As this is a very long intro the full lyrics are on the YouTube post, so please click on 'watch on YouTube' if you're interested. Other than the title and end title images there's only one image in the video so as not to detract from the music and lyrics. Cast in order of appearance: Warm Pad & Strings: Enya44 - Soft Ev. Techno Orche ~ uncredited Kalimba: World Beat 2 South African Dance ~ uncredited Marimba ~ Key Island Groove Quartet ~ Todd London Vocals: real human being ~ Denisse Ferrara Bass: Country Rock Guitar Solo Pop Band ~ Tobin Frank Drums: Slow County Pop w/ Tenor Solo ~ Brian Fullen Organ: Country Rock Guitar Solo Pop Band ~ Gene Rabbai Piano: East Dock Latin Fusion Gtr Solo ~ Jeff Lorber Acoustic Guitar: 3 Guitar Country Rock ~ Tony King Guitar solo: Modern Groove Soloist, Brit Rock ~ Dave Cleveland 4/4 ~ C ~ 95 bpm ~ 156 bars ~ 6:24

I like the production of this song, the vocals work well and are clear, plus the instrumentation creates a very cool groove.

Oops. I forgot that apt rule. Of course at 80 in a few months there's a lot of that forgetting thing happening. At this stage in the game my best option is to keep my mouth shut! Bud

Cool, relaxing groove and good to hear marimba as a melody instrument.

Mario, Love the carefree and breezy feel of this one. The guitar and marimba sound great. Awesome mix! Bob

Really nice use of RT instruementation, Tom.

Good is good. Great is very good. Perfect is way, way generously good. Thanks! J&B

Looks and sounds to me like that is indeed an Audio RT playing Guitar on that soloed track. Why do you feel it is midi?

Just trying to understand. Is it the melody that is in the wrong position?

The sole reason for this is so that I could somehow use a favorite arcane phrase "Mox Nix"! (I wanted to sneak in "the Schneid", but that will have to wait for another project!) ------------------------------------------------------- Mox Nix, Chickie When you told me that you had to leave me,  It didn't knock me out...I guess I Always understood the kind of girl you were, And I can do without you. ​I figure: What's to lose? No regret! Do I care? I do not! It's no sweat off my back; Go! I'll soon forget; MOX NIX, there are lots of chicks. I'm not gonna make believe I'm hurt because I'm not So don't applaud yourself; You're not that  Beautiful or sexy or so rare-- You didn't spring the snare. I tell you, Nothing's lost, no regret! Do I care? I do not! It's no sweat off my back; Girl, already back on track; MOX NIX, there are lots of chicks! ===================================== Style: _ELECTAM.STY RD: RockHardLA RT388: Bass, Electric, Metal Ev 120 RT697: Guitar, Electric, Rhythm ElecRockDirty Ev 120 2356 Bari Sax 2688: Guitar, Elec, Solo 1726: Piano, Acoustic, HonkyTonk Midi..Piano Vocal: Liam, Synth V

Hi, Jona. Simply put: it sounds great!

Marty...another brilliant write...great title (hook)...you're the "punniest" writer I've ever heard...your vocal reminded me of Roger Miller also a very clever writer...I love the piano part...the breaks...never met anyone who could write great music from the situational stories that are roaming around in your noggin...they're never boring , sometimes weird and always entertaining!

Hi, Dave. Everything here works. The vocals are great, and the guitar hooky and memorable.

Hi, Mario. I hear Mr. MIDI-isn't-dead is at it again! Nice mood setter!

Hi, J&B. Big production, clear sound (because of Bud, of course), everyone sounds great. Janice and Peter emote like no one else. Sounds like the guitar was always supposed to be there. I'd mention floyd, but he does such a good job blending in that I wouldn't have noticed, which is what BGVs are supposed to do, right? The only thing that has me puzzled is why Bud gets credit for the photo, but Janice gets no credit for being in the photo?

Yoo hoo! Enjoy

UPDATE: After checking the local Cellular data providers, the ONLY option was to upgrade my cellphone plan to the highest level and I have a Hotspot that is useable for wi-fi connection. So.... until I get the hardwired internet back restored or upgraded, I have a relatively fast connection. 30mbps down 1.7mbps up faster than my DSL

My experience has been that 14 LUFS is very quiet for SoudCloud. They are apparently one of the few platforms that make no adjustments to what you upload. I'm a big fan of loundnesspenalty.com - free and no signup required and very fast. It only takes a few seconds to see how and if your song will be altered by the platforms. I use this as a basis for all my mastering. A LOT of the forum songs would require huge changes by the platforms as many are very loud. And the changes made my the platforms can introduce artifacts IMHO. You can check it out here at this safe link. https://www.loudnesspenalty.com Here's what our current forum song looks like: Bud

And we are 100% happy that you liked it. J&B

Rum On The Beach While sitting in your lounge chair on a Caribbean beach, listening to a local band while drinking a rum and coke you say this is paradise. BiaB style - Festejo- All MIDI Latin Pop Tempo - 85 BPM Bass - Amplebass - Upright Piano - Lounge Lizard - tine - Studio Tine Guitar - Kontakt - Picked Nylon - Melody Drums - SSD-5 - Deluxe Raggae Percussion - Kontakt - various presets I am playing the nylon string guitar and via my keyboard the Marimba - Kontakt - PSI Marimba. As always all comments are welcomed.