Member Dana Nielsen
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Jesse!! Boy, you really riled up those birds at the end with your stunning performance! 😂
Soooo beautiful, man. I love it!! Giving me some Pat Metheny Charlie Haden “beyond the missouri sky” vibes, which I’m a huge fan of.
As Jeremy mentioned, the guitar squeaks caught my ear. Personally I’d keep the top end the way you have it and would use izotope RX to reduce the volume of the fret noise. I typically do this manually using the attenuate or replace tabs within the “spectral repair” tool – however, there is also a “guitar de-noise” module which does a pretty good job automatically.
And dude … the low end on the guitar is massive!! I love it mucho!!
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Yeah Paul!! So great to hear this, and as others have mentioned, really sorry for your loss.
I totally “ditto” Jesse’s great ideas, and Jeremy’s too – they’ve really brought up all the same big picture thoughts that came to my mind too.
On the technical side (even tho it wasn’t asked for haha), I would bail the flanger on the distorted guitars and also try a more vintage amp sim with some nice spacious reverb decay. The solo guitar, you could try keeping the original tone and even keeping it dry if u like, to contrast the big wide non-flangy vintage verbed electric guitars.
Also for the acoustics, I’d love to hear more body on ’em. If I were mixing this song, I’d start by muting everything except the vocal, acoustics and bgvs, and make the best sounding record I could using just those elements. Like … I would mix as if those were the only 3 things in the song. Then once I love that version, I’d one-by-one add in the other elements to see how they fit in the the record as “support”
I do also – like jesse – feel the midi stuff is a bit jarring and I might experiment with different sounds or textures in those b-sections. Like, the marimba feels out of place for the vibe of the song for example. But the part is cool. Know what I mean?
Love the song and performance!! And am looking fwd to hearing how this progresses, man!
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Ooh, sick – thanks, Jesse!! I can’t wait to hear what new sounds and shredding synth lines you come up with using this new technology!
Dropping a link here as well if anyone wants to dive deeper:
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I will definitely defer to @-PT on this one, but from my experience:
- FOH should absolutely give you both L/R channels of your laptop (NOT just arbitrarily pick one). If FOH is running your monitor via console Aux Send 1 for example, they would send equal amounts of Left and Right to Aux 1 so that you’re getting both sides summed to mono in your wedge.
- You could always touch base w the FOH engineer and say something respectful like, “I’m sure you’re already doing this, but is it possible to get both sides of my laptop into this mono wedge? You rule – thank you!”
- Or, as part of your baller rider, you could require 2 stage wedges for stereo monitoring 🤑
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Love these new piano pieces, Patrick! Thanks so much for sharing. I’m traveling this week so am only listening on my laptop. I can weigh in once I’m back in the studio next week with any specific sonic ideas. Meantime it’s sounding cool! Such a fun vibe that piano has. And, as Paul mentioned, you have a great spirit in your playing and writing!
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YEAH JESSE!!!! This turned out amazing. And love that this video production was a family affair!
Keep ’em comin’, brother!! ⚡️
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@Dave and @smoothygroove thank you guys so much!! You, and the crew at large here, are just the coolest n’ sweetest!
Thanks so much for the kind words, and for checkin out the Zoom (live or replay) – that was so fun!
PS – also, sorry for the 3min of me doing nothing at the beginning of the video hahahaha. Didn’t realize that was there when I posted it. In hindsight it makes sense as Zoom started recording the moment I initiated the Zoom meeting rather than when I admitted the first guest. Anywho — anyone else watching the replay, skip ahead 3 minutes to avoid watching me silently looking at a computer monitor 😂🤦🏻♂️
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Ooh, good idea for a video! Hearing and identifying mid-side issues is one of those tricky things to wrap your ears around, much like “hearing” compression or identifying phase anomalies.
I’ll add that to my video list!
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Hahahah – brilliant post and excellent insights, Paul!
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Ooh, this sounds nice, Paul! Thanks for the screenshot too. And for the use of the word “slovenly.” 🏆👏
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Paul! Thanks for the great comments and ideas!
Would you mind re-uploading your EQ image when you have a chance? Looks like for some reason it’s not showing on my end. 🎛️
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Hahaha
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wow, incredible pix, Paul!
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Dall-E (via ChatGPT) wasn’t understanding my “sandworm from Dune” descriptions (nor example images I uploaded) even after many revision attempts, haha. But here’s as close as I could get it with my limited image prompt experience – makes me laugh.
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Holy goose-bumps, Batman!!! 🦸 Wow, @Nate – absolutely amazing, man. As stunning sonically as it is musically ⚡️⚡️. I can’t get enough of that powerful upward horn/synth glissando motif and the cascading suspensions it creates against the changing chords as it’s lush reverb tail lingers. Super emotional. This beautiful score you’ve created makes me feel like I’m sprinting through the woods in Last of The Mohicans while boss battling the sand snake from Dune. BRAVO!!!!!
