Member Dana Nielsen
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Yeah dude! Always pumped to peep a new Shimmer Island jam and this does not disappoint! I gotta listen on my real speakers before offering any mix/level feedback, but for a late-night laptop listen it’s sounding bumpin and beautiful. Love that 90s-esque shuffle beat!
Will circle back soon once I’ve listened in my studio, homey. Great stuff, as always! 🤘
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Jesse!!! This is so freaking cool! Amazing work, my man! Gonna circle back with some ideas soon…
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Ooh, what a ridonculous deal, @smoothygroove, thanks so much (as always) for the heads up!!! You da man!!
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Joe! Man – even tho I forgot to reply to this until just now, I did read it when you posted and added to my holiday queue and me and my fam listened to the whole album prob 5 or 6 times over the break via Spotify on our Sonos system while decorating and cooking. What a wonderful album, sonically and shredding-ly! And loved the youtube vid too, man! Thanks so much for sharing!
Re battery & solar, for the Endless Field album we used a Goal Zero battery with an additional solar panel that hooks up to the battery with a long cord, which allowed us to hide with our equipment in a least a little bit of shade while the solar panel cooked out in the direct sunlight. @jlew still has the battery and panel as far as I know and he and @horse continue to get use out of it I think!
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Love it, man! I know the lyric is supposed to be sad, but this puts a smile on my face. Hope your Christmas was very not-blue!
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Yeah, Paul!! Damn, sorry I’m so late getting to this glorious garage choir – you sound killer! I’m assuming that’s you sangin’ and self-harmonizing? Very cool. Feel like this would fit perfectly into a Cohen Brothers film. A distinctive, charming and memorable twist on a classic. Well done! And hope your holidays were “divine!”
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💜 Thanks, @joerobinson – been a devastating time for so many here in L.A. My home thankfully was not in danger, but so many dear friends here have been really affected and/or lost their entire homes and studios. Just heartbreaking. Thanks for your care and concern, brother.
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@jlew! Awe, I’m so glad, man – thank you!! Looking fwd to doing another Zoom like this soon…
Hit me with any specific topic ideas!
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Awe man, sorry about my misguided Spidey senses and poor choice of words!
Love that Skip is with us in spirit and (excellent) voice here on MP 🤍
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Woo-wooooo! 🎉 So glad to help, man!
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Heck yeah, man! Same to you, brother!
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Haha – You just haven’t heard this side of Jesse before! Check out this album he made back in 2008 that I mixed which reminds me of his new track “Blisters.”
@jlew – hearing this album again just now was so fun! It’s so good. And when I hear it I am instantly COLD 🥶 from the memories of being in that (amazing) vacant, mostly-unheated hanger of a studio in Oakland, CA during the winter.
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Haha – all good!
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Sick, man – great work!
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Hey, @nategomoon! Thanks man – holidays have been good; hope yours have been too!
The only reason for -2db or -1db true peak is to protect the sound quality once your master is transcoded to one of the shitty– err, I mean “lossy”– compression formats we all listen to most of the time. This is especially noticeable when listening on the free or ad-supported tiers of various DSPs, as well as all social media feeds.
Lemme explain… That super loud -0.01 dBTP master will sound awesome when played back in a lossless format like Wav or FLAC, and it’ll probably also sound pretty damn good as a high quality mp3 or Ogg Vorbis on the paid versions of Spotify and Youtube. But if you’re listening on a free tier (or on any social media platform) you ain’t gettin top shelf audio! They serve freeloaders the “well” spirits … a weak 2.5kbps shot of rum mixed with flat lukewarm Diet-Codec served in a Variable Bit Rate Dixie Cup… with no ice!
Suffice it to say, super loud mixes mastered to the the bleeding edge of -0.01dBTP often sound distorted once transcoded to lossy formats with lots of data compression.
One indispensable tool in my plug-in arsenal that helps me get ahead of this guessing game is ADPTR Streamliner. (And, wow– it’s on sale right now for $39! That’s a steal.) It’s a really cool plugin that let’s you hear in real-time what your song will sound like on ANY tier of ANY platform — it’s like hearing into the future!
It really is eye-opening (ear-opening?) to poke around, auditioning all the different codecs. And you can even click the “Artifacts” button to hear ONLY the residual artifacts. If you’re a fan of submerging your head underwater while crinkling aluminum foil as close to your eardrums as possible you are going to LOVE the Artifacts button! 🔊🥴
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