Entourage Paul Tucci
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Patrick,
I recall after your first posted piano piece and saying how I reacted. The unbridled joy just bubbling through your playing was contagious.
Now you’re back with an absolutely disarming, tender vocal performance. I’m not sure if this is a fatherly prayer for a kid (like @JLew ‘s recent offering) or perhaps, a dream visit from a deceased loved one. I don’t know, and I don’t care because the sentiment is palpable. You’re onto something here, young man.
You had asked if I produced, and if I did, I would suggest flipping the two movements. The more immediately-focused guitar outro, starting with Ruby calling your name, gets the listeners’ attention. It’s riveting, kinda shocking and I think makes for a great intro. Play the guit, sing the song, and then save the acoustic trip to the cosmos for the ending fade-out.
Am I onto something here?
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Joe,
This is a gorgeous gem of oh-so-tasty pickin’. I can’t believe I didn’t comment/praise it earlier.
Your song was stuck in my head yesterday as I took a Memorial Day ride on my scooter. It’s a good toe-tapping riding companion!
-@PT
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I extended the low end of the big drums the same way I did for @JLew ‘s acoustic guitar.
ie, send a duplicate channel low passed (100 Hz ish) to a pitch shifter down an octave and feed just that thunder back into the stereo buss with the original. Voila! You create bigger balls than that Bigger Balls DOGE kid.
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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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I’m glad it moved you too! Drums are powerful and primal.
I had a blast mixing the show at the time, revisiting the recording 20 years later and then doing some mild mastering voodoo. My peak Samurai sorcery, (TM @dana) took place in a different venue, post-event celebration.
The US Womens’ synchronized swimming team stopped by the club to celebrate a win and give the crowd a demonstration. I had to integrate their underwater speaker to my sound system. There’s a couple issues. The swimmers hear their music under the water. Sound travels quicker in water, (denser medium than air) than it does in air. Compound the situation because my PA was a short Elvis delay (100 feet) away from the pool. Pop your head out of the water and there goes synchronicity. I calculated the rough footage away from my speaker to the middle of the pool and add that amount of milliseconds of delay to the feed to the underwater speakers and “kichijutsu!” Their aural world is now re-aligned. Science.
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Yea, to me, some of the “octavized” bass sounded off and unneccesarily deep when the second-biggest drums were playing so I just deleted that in sections and held back the oomph for a more dramatic effect when the biggest drums re-entered.
…Commit the processed track to audio, then chop it out where it’s deemed illegal. I suppose automating the level is a more elegant approach. It’s good to be a king.
I have a couple more drum pieces from the event to dig into for some more moments of fun.
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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