Entourage Paul Tucci
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JLew,
What a beautiful composition. And sentiment. That section you create (1:57) when the bass drops in, the horn line descends, and the choir of quasi-falsetto J-Lettes spread their wings and sing like angels is moving.
More J-Lettes! That’s my mix suggestion.
Maybe lose the guitar squeaks too??
She is you And you are she.
As you are me and we are all together.
Goo goo g’job!
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James,
Much better in stereo! I heard the Meetup replay and it was all glorious mono.
I like bold toms that jump out and yours certainly do that.
That last little bit of a cappella vocals is a nugget of goodness that I wanted to hear earlier somehow.
@-PT a 70-16 y/o
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I’m sorry I missed the meetup today. That looked like and sounded like much more fun than I was having at the time.
PT
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Dana,
I think I had subscribed earlier but knowing my eye doctor appt conflicted I put the meetup in the no-can-do-pile. The small group appeared to make the meetup more conversational.
PT
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Dana,
The Spectral Recovery module of iZotope RX11 Advanced is the culprit. The demonstration of it is uncanny. Put in a bandwidth limited telephone-like voice and it spits out upper and lower harmonics that make it sound beIievably naturaL The upgrade from the standard version is $400 ish. Kinda pricey.
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Awaiting the phone recorded AC guit to proceed with my Franken guitar experiment. My RX-11 doesn’t have the module I’m needing but I can can grab an advanced version free trial. I’ve heard it ake a bandwidth limited voice and recreate the undertones to make it full bodied. Should be perfect on your high passed beater gt.
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I like that you interpreted the splash as a UFO falling from the sky. I was going for the comedic moment and that was a royalty-free goose related sound effect I found. You wrote the ending better than I did. Gracias.
PT
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Yowza. that’s just gorgeous.
PT
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Jesse,
I ditched the AI and took another swing at your piece. This time it was all from inside my head.
PT
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Thanks fellas,
When Jesse made that observation that it sounds like a real band he nailed it. There’s no layering of other instruments going on, no tambo on the second chorus to lift the party mood as Dana will reply. Pretty basic stuff but a catchy little riff. He’s learning to think and hear beyond the now, as the band plays, into what the band might could arrange to add syncopation and more textures. … He called me this AM and wanted me to listen to a bongo part he added to the intro of the next release.
Jeremy. I hope you get that Daddy-daughter moment. I’ll cherish the moment my boy came off the stage after a set at the local record store / punk club. First gig playing music other than the high school orchestra stuff. He had bug eyes goin’ on, just radiated energy. He was bitten by the bug. I can recall when precisely i was bitten by that same bug, but in my case there were hallucinogenics involved.
I’ve got good stories. Most of them are true. (@patent pending)
PT
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Jeremy,
Cool. I am always happy when suggestions I conjure up get adopted. It’s good training to figure out what the writer’s intent seems to be and then support it with something fitting. Thanks for letting me in the sandbox.
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You’ve created a very vibey invocation of sorts. You effectively take the listener on a journey. The use of or amount of verb on the voice is immaterial. There’s a valid experience either way. Different rules apply, it’s not a pop song.
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I didn’t even listen to the new version before this reply to say that you just set a new standard in replying. I think the format you used, quoting the listeners’ comments and then addressing them one by one is superb.
PT
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Yes, it is mind expanding and free of the potential jail time.
I’m thinking I can impart the characteristics of the smooth jazzy electric guitar onto the bones of the acoustic. We lose the thinness that exist.
I could use wav files of the nice sounding electric, A stereo stem of whatever makes up that sound, including multiple mics and verb and subgroup processing, if any.
In addition, I want a raw version of iPhone recording of the acoustic. I’ll do the high passing and treat the geese humanely in the process.
I am super curious to explore this process. I won’t make your deadline but @dana can always replace the audio file if I pay dirt and you want to incorporate it after the fact.
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GesseBear,
Snowday would be the perfect song to utilize this guitar magic and push it even further.
Yes, the acoustic is thin sounding but in the context of the creation of your song, indispensable. I didn’t hear it as a big issue. Are my standards low? I don’t think so. Some men would look at a freckle-faced woman and say “splotchy face ginger.” Me, I tend to fall in love. To each his own.
What if… we could grab the iPhone recording and separate out the acoustic guitar from the critters flying around and your breath and then set it aside temporarily?
Then we take your current project and strip away the smooth electric guitar musings with the intent of using its characteristics to make the acoustic guitar sound similarly?
WTF? you may say.
Part of the AI capability allows imparting the audio characteristics of thing A to be imparted onto thing B. That’s the basic nut of AI mastering software. How does my hobbyist level recording compare to professionally-recorded and chart-topping songs of a similar genre?
What if… we applied that thinking / technique to a single track? The in-the-wild recording of your beater guitar might could shapeshift into some hybrid that sits invisibly amongst the others.
You down?