oh yeah baby! It’s the sound of summer!!! funky funky fawnky

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Hey fam!

I just wanted to share a fun video with you all…

I recorded this live onto a zoom recorder and processed it afterwards. The DI guitar felt a bit thin and then I remebered what our MP legend @-PT had done to an acoustic guitar track on a seperate thread on this platform to “warm” and “thicken” up the guitar. He duplicated the track…

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Hi Phoebe! This is so cool!

The vocal feels connected to the mix to my ear, i wasn’t hearing it as being particularly “plopped on top”. One thing that struck me when listening was that you may want to ride the lead vocal a bit when the band is really hitting. The section between 2-3min I was finding that the lead vocal could have been louder.…

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Yeah man! Dig it! SUPER fun!

Love the drumbeat, the overall party feeling, and the “graceland” style bass. Very cool

A couple of quick notes — not sure if they are helpful, but just some things I was thinking with my “critical” hat on.

(If it’s not the final vocal yet), perhaps the singer could be a little more “laid back”. Feels kinda on top…

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Yooooo!!! So great man! I love it! Beautiful song, I love the mix, and the video is so great!

now get that Tele out of that snow storm man! haha

Great work, Joe

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Jesse

Patrick – This song is so beautiful. It pulled me right in to your world – and took me on a journey. Your voice sounds amazing. I loved the guitar at the end! so cool! Beautiful work.

Jesse

This sounds insanely good. I love this entire thread…

Thanks so much, Staurt! I really appreciate you taking the time to listen and share your thoughts – and for your encouragement. I’m glad you liked the song!

It’s funny – I totally agree with you about the key of the song. In fact, I had already moved it up by a step because I wasn’t able to hit the low notes — but then problem that I ran into…

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Dang bro! I’m so happy you liked it! Receiving this encouraging message means the world to me. I’m so thankful for you — and this space — to learn and grow!

Love,

JLew

Dudski! I cannot believe I’m only seeing this response now. This is single-handedly the best description of how to dial in compression that I have ever read. The five steps that you laid out are explained brilliantly. It never occurred to me about how you can find your threshold based on the part of the note that you want to be able to hear…

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P Money!

Thanks so much for the encouragement and the suggestions. I shall see if the J-lettes are available for another session haha

Hope you are doing well my friend!

JB

Dear Friends,

I hope you are all doing well! I’m kindly requesting your ears for a new song I’m working on. With your encouragement I’ve tried my hand at singing again! My wife is playing the trombone parts! Could you please let me know your thoughts on this mix? Thanks so much MP Fam!

Love,

JLew

Joe – this is AWESOME man!!! ❤️❤️❤️

Best,

Jesse

Adding the video to this thread as well in case anybody wants to see what it all looked like…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgfaX_d8RKw

haha! Nice! That’s a whole lotta wild life you got in there!! I think I might have heard a UFO too…?

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JB

Yeah Papa Paul!

Sounds awesome man! It’s so refreshing to hear a band that sounds like a band too!! I could totally see them playing this at a club and it would sound just like it, like in a really good way! Way to go Arcane Grace!!! 🔥

ps – check out the “tag” on you post below! I’m guessing it has to be AI! Even @dana isn’t that visionary hahahaha

Hey Joe!

What a BEAUTIFUL song, man! SO Gorgeous — and so awesome to hear you sing, too! I think you got another hit on your hands!

I’ve listened a few times and wanted to offer a few thoughts in case they are helpful. Obviously, just some opinions and ideas – but maybe they’ll be helpful in someway…

The first thing that hit me was the guitar…

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Yo @-PT and @dana

Here’s my updated version:

I’m going to include what I did for revisions in case anybody finds it interesting…

DANA notes

1. Turn up the geese!!! More ambience.

I was able to find some birds “in the clear” from when I wasn’t playing the guitar and I layered them in, I think it helps!)

2. Guitar sounds kinda thin.

Agreed. I…

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Awesome! As soon as I finish up a couple things this week I’ll bounce those and DM you – I’ll probably send you a dropbox link!

Best,

JLew

Adding to this thread! Look what came across my release radar today! Happy release of the “The Rush” to @joerobinson

Congrats man! sounds SO GOOOOOD!

Give it a spin Fam!

https://open.spotify.com/track/1joCGU12JrtcVjcm52EnsQ?si=15aaaf3120444a5d

Yo Paul!

You’re blowin’ my mind ovah here!!! I’m not totally sure I fully understand what you’re getting at, but I think I’m following! You’re saying — somehow through AI technology you could apply the characteristics of my acoustic guitar to the electric guitar? Maybe I’m not following correctly? I’m more than happy to stem out any tracks…

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Thanks so much, Dana! I’ll get back on this and try to make these improvements!!!

Thanks again to you @shimmerisland and @-PT for lending me your ears on this one!

Love,

JLew

Thank you! SO COOL!

Yo Paul!

This is so incredibly helpful! Thanks for taking the time to explain it in such great detail! Very smart and cool!

JLew

Yo @-PT and @dana !!!

Thank you guys so much for your thoughtful notes. I agree w/ all of them and will get to work making revisions.

As for the reverb on the vocals at the end — I feel that too! I made it dry thinking about the video (I think the video is effective kind of coming back to the raw audio at the end, like bookends) but I’m…

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Hey MP Fam!

More new music! I’m hoping you could lend me your ears and let me know what improvements could be made to this mix.

A quick bit of background — I recorded most of this a couple weeks back in the middle of a snow storm here in NY on the banks of the Hudson river. I just kinda improvised on my guitar (an ol’ beater I can take into bad…

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Wow Paul! Such a glorious tone — Yes! Way more natural sounding than the last one in terms of the guitar DI.

So you had only one guitar stem to work with and then duplicated and delayed one? – how many guitar tracks in total am I hearing? 2 or 3? I can’t tell that anything has been pitch shifted down an octave. It’s incredible how natural…

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Hey Jeremy,

It’s such a great song man!

re: phase stuff — you’re in ableton, right? on the utility tool there is an option for widening the stereo field (it’s labeled “width”) If you turn that knob to the left all the way to 0% it will become fully mono and all the way to the right is 400% (crazy width). You could probably put that utility on…

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Hi Dana and MP geniuses!

After watching Dana’s amazing zoom video on compression I’m feeling more confident but I’m still struggling to understand a concept about using compression that seems like it should be easy to get, but it’s really tripping me up! Could somebody please help me understand?

Let’s take the specific case of wanting to make a…

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Thank you for the feedback! I will investigate all of your input, Jeremy!

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JLew

Hey brother!

I LOVE it man! Another Shimmer Island hit! You can’t miss!

I liked the ambient intro a lot (although I did notice when looking at my TC clarity M that the phase correlation dipped negative quite a few times so you might want to make sure that you don’t lose any of that sweet ambience if it ever gets listened to in mono!). Paul’s…

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Damn man! what a performance! Beautifully captured, Paul!

I love that final vocal run she did right at the end! now thems are some notes!!!

Finally got the time to watch this! Wonderful stuff! I learned so much! Thank you, Dana and fam!

Jesse

That was the best bro! I still can’t believe you flew up there for that! We were babies! What a special time! That studio was wiiiild hahaha

JLew

Hey Joe!

The battery that they are selling now that most closely resembles the one we used for Endless Field stuff is the Yeti 500, I believe. And we have a solar panel that attaches to it (it folds up and can be attached to a backpack) We used it in Utah and ran an 8 channel UA interface, laptop, etc off of it without any issues. I’ve used it…

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ps – i’ve had a lot of success w/ goal zero and actually have a smaller one that I’m using now. I can send details if you’re interested…

JLew

Joe! I LOVE this! Just watched the video and checking out the album now. Glorious!!! That Silent Night is breaking my heart man! The sounds you captured are exactly how an acoustic guitar should sound, imo! Your playing — NEXT LEVEL!!!

I’m two weeks late to this post- but will be rocking this hard next year for…

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Hey MP Fam!

I’ve taken this mix about as far as I can and am kindly requesting your feedback, particularly in the area of the sound and mix. This is a song that was inspired by geysers in Yellowstone national park (you can hear their sounds featured throughout the recording) I will create a video to go with the song as well showcasing the…

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As usual @-PT coming in hot with the vibes!!!I know I’m 2 weeks late to the party, but thanks for sharing this! Will have to include this on the holiday playlist for next year! Great vibe!

Happy New Year!

JBear

Hi Michael!

I really enjoyed that! Not much to add in terms of critique from me! Just wanted to chime in and say that I feel like that mix rocks so hard! I hope to be able to achieve the clarity in my mixes like that sometime in the future! The balance of the instruments and the frequencies and all the sounds you got are so great!

When the…

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Thank you Joe! I hope you had a wonderful holiday!

Best Wishes for a happy New Year!

Thanks, Paul!

I hadn’t thought about how important those frequencies are for speaking in a live sound situation. Very enlightening…

This stuff is all slowly coming together. Amen!

-JLew

Thank you Thank you Thank you! I just read it again! I know I had read that before but for some reason, I just wasn’t really ready to understand what you were fully trying to say! Especially the part about how you actually use them to mix with! I always sort of assumed you were just monitoring on them, but now I’m starting to understand that…

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Wow! this is amaazing! You know what they say — “The @detective don’t play!!!”

Hey MP Fam!

Recently, the YouTube algorithm gods have been serving me up a healthy dose on the subject of mid range! (probably because I was watching all those tutorials on that Voxengo Span plugin haha)

One video I watched recently suggested an interesting technique for mixing which had not occurred to me before. The engineer was basically…

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Hey MP Fam!

@joerobinson ‘s recent video playing SO BEAUTIFULLY by the river in the mountains inspired me to share one of my own music in the wilderness videos. This was recorded live in the desert of southern Utah, high up on a cliff, in a slot canyon. ***Of special note – The engineers were mix protege’s own @phillipbroussard and our…

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Stunning!!!