Hahahaa – amazing! Can’t wait to hear what you two cook up! 🍳

😂😂😂. The reverb journey is real.

#popcornfart 😂🍿💨

Duder – this is so chill and so beautiful! Finally able to give it a proper listen (sorry for the delay).

2:44 – there’s a bass that comes in that I could hear louder. I know the REAL sub-bass comes in later, but that pre-bass-bass ..haha.. I’d love that to be a bigger moment.

And overall, it might be nice to have some stereo sauce on the…

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Jezzeeee! I’m so pumped to listen to this, and thanks for your patience 💜 – and thanks @-PT for chiming in here w/ the gems! It’s been an epic multi-artist, multi-session, long-hours week for me and I’m just coming back to life over here, lol. Gonna give this new track of yours a spin as soon as I’m back from a “walking donut tour of…

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Hey Bar! (and @sexton)! Wow, I love this – such beautiful playing and recording! And to @-PT‘s point, I agree — @JLew will totally dig this awesome instrumental 😊.

“Outlaw” lolol – perfect word for that wonderful feeling of “breaking the rules” with your equipment. Haha, love it! Whatever you’re doing to “abuse” that 6176 sounds GREAT -…

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My pleasure, man! Altiverb is amazing for lots of actual sampled living rooms and real spaces (and has tons of real halls and stadiums too). Waves IR reverb has this too but a less intuitive graphic interface. Logic may have its own Impulse Response reverb as well – not sure. But i find for realistic sounding rooms IR verbs are the way to go.…

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Hahaha u know it! 👴

Thanks brother!

PS – when we gonna get some new J-Beat jams?! 🙏💜

😂 You know I’m here for ALL the duckees! 🦆🦆🦆

The ducking you hear in the ad was applied by the broadcast mix team in their final rerecord mix session, and yeah – full bandwidth for sure! Haha. I feel like that’s the commercial and radio style that everyone’s used to hearing. And like you said, it really makes the VO the star of the show / lead singer, which is exactly what they…

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I actually was provided with a temp voiceover placed exactly where they wanted it and was able to compose and arrange the song so as not to interfere w the VO.

I also do my own VO ducking on my mixes when submitting things so that it sounds more finished when they’re evaluating submissions.

When submitting, I send 2 files: a :30 sec .mov file w…

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Haha – thanks, Sharon! (and sorry for the delayed response!)

Yay! Glad u got some good tips from it, @barrose!

A) You can actually drive the preamp input (1) and turn down the output (6) of the preamp independent of the compressor. You can, for example, bypass the compressor and use the Preamp Out (XLR on back of the unit) straight to the line input of your Apollo.

B) yep!- you can also link the Preamp…

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Thanks for uploading those files, @nategomoon, and for your sonic reference (sound coming from a person playing in a room, some distance away from the listener, plus Fleet Foxes vibes) – super helpful context and totally doable with your source tracks.

You might try bussing your vocal AND piano into a stereo aux “ROOM” track and apply a…

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Thanks, @dave!!

IT’S FINALLY OUT!! ⚡️

Wrote the music and lyrics and recorded/produced/mixed this whole thing in a day. The ad agency picked it from lots of submissions and had no notes, lol, which NEVER happens!

Thanks, amazing MP fam, for all your support and pozzy vibes – you surely tipped the cosmic needle toward bringing this gig home! 💜…

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Oh interesting re vocal sound! Is it the same mic and input chain you used for Born and Raised? If so, my next question is: are you applying the reverb as an insert or a send?

If your reverb plugin is inserted directly on the vocal track, that might be causing the sound I’m hearing… 🤷🏻‍♂️

Try using an aux send on the vocal track to send a…

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Soooo much better, Nate! Great work on both of these – they’ve really come a long way!!

My tiny thought on Born and Raised is perhaps the cello has a touch too much airy top-end on it, especially noticed in the cello intro. You could try dialing back whatever top eq you have on the cello and see if it warms up a touch. Or not! Sounds good…

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Hey @barrose! Love this question, and thanks for the thoughtful context!

You’re comparing a few solid options: your current UAD 6176 (which I also own and recommend often), your Apollo Solo, and the Neve 88M you’re considering. I know the 6176 is on loan or going away, so the core of your question is: Is the 88M a step forward or a step…

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Oh schnapp! Gonna listen in the studio tomorrow (fri) – thanks for sharing, man, lookin fwd to hearing your progress!

Heck yeah, homey! Look fwd to hearing what you’re cookin’ up! ⚡️

Awe, thank you, Paul! At some point I’ll have my web/tech act together enough to formalize certain features as part of a paid plan. But until then, I’m just trying to figure out the best, most useful way to share info and invite discussion. ☺️ And I find myself gravitating toward video cause sometimes it just feels easier to talk than to…

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Yay- So glad u enjoyed the vid, Nate! And wow, Yoed … what a gem. Incredible SoundBetter score right there! Thanks for sharing his link too ⚡️ gonna keep that handy. Feel free to fwd this link to him so he can enjoy the accolades and become a part of the community if he’d like (he’d just need to make an account to access…

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Can’t wait to hear your progress on these gems, Nate! It got too late for me to make a vid for the other song, but I think @-PT got ya sorted with some great suggestions, yay! Keep up the great work man!

Great insights AND stories as always, Paul – you rule! Also, I don’t know the presidential debate reference … was that a real quote? LOL – amazing. 😂

Thanks for your patience, @nategomoon – beautiful work, man! After making this vid I re-read your original post and realize now that the cello was (an excellent) SoundBetter hire. 💪 Hope my ramble-y thoughts are helpful! Great job! 👏

Wudup, @nategomoon! Ooh, can’t wait to dive into these hot fresh tracks – will listen tonight or tomorrow and circle back! 🤘 Thanks for sharing with us all!

Hey @nategomoon! Thanks so much, man, that means a lot! 🙏🏻😍

HAHAHA – thanks so much, homey!! It’ll start airing Sept 2 – can’t wait to share it here with yall!

Thanks, Nate!!! I gotta get your trumpeting on the next one! 🎺🙏😍

Thank u so much, @-PT, @barrose, and @dave!! 💜

Just found out this afternoon…. WE WON THE GIG!!! 🎉 🤯 🕺

Holy smokes! Thanks for all your sweet support here, MP family!!

I’ll share the ad here with you all once it starts airing! 📺

This exciting news today got me and @cmn feelin’ all “Frank the Tank” …

Thanks homey! 💜

Hahaha! Different company, but great guess!! Thanks so much, man!

Thanks, Bar!!! I hope we get it.. but we’ll see. These gigs are sooooo competative. Will keep y’all posted here!

Jezze! Thank u, Abuela! ❤️😘

Thanks David! Fingers crossed 🤞 🙏🥰

oh, and the glockenspiel is real! Charissa played that. 🙌

Hey friends!

Thought I’d share this fun lil’ retro soul jam I made for a car commercial this week (wish me luck – hope we get the gig!! 🤞)

It features me and @cmn on vocals. I played real saxophones for the horns (alto and tenor .. plus pitched down tenor as a fake ‘bari’ sax sound). Everything else I played is midi instruments using…

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Really great work, Bar, and always fun hearing what you’re cookin’ up! Thanks for sharing!