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Re: The Outcasts Ft....
04/04/26 05:09:33PM
1 Week: BUSTERT
A wonderful orchestral piece – a joy to listen to – absolutely top-notch! Fantastic collaboration.
04/04/26 05:09:33PM
1 Week: BUSTERT
A wonderful orchestral piece – a joy to listen to – absolutely top-notch! Fantastic collaboration.
Re: Red Bird At The...
04/04/26 05:03:37PM
1 Week: BUSTERT
I like the beautiful, chaotic beginning and what happens next!
04/04/26 05:03:37PM
1 Week: BUSTERT
I like the beautiful, chaotic beginning and what happens next!
Re: In My Garden
04/04/26 04:59:42PM
1 Week: BUSTERT
As always, a very unique production with lots of energy
04/04/26 04:59:42PM
1 Week: BUSTERT
As always, a very unique production with lots of energy
Re: And on that Note
04/04/26 04:57:24PM
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A beautiful, tranquil atmosphere – both ethereal and powerful, with good changes in pace...
04/04/26 04:57:24PM
1 Week: BUSTERT
A beautiful, tranquil atmosphere – both ethereal and powerful, with good changes in pace...
Re: The Covenant (The...
04/04/26 04:53:18PM
1 Week: BUSTERT
Beautiful dark construction - it opens up entirely different worlds...
04/04/26 04:53:18PM
1 Week: BUSTERT
Beautiful dark construction - it opens up entirely different worlds...
Re: Stars Gleaming
04/04/26 03:14:15PM
1 Week: Child Of Ida
Beautiful photo, please, did you mean diary?
Goddess is right, for all nice women.
Nice rappish, maybe you'll like my rappish.
Latino, lovely.
X
04/04/26 03:14:15PM
1 Week: Child Of Ida
Beautiful photo, please, did you mean diary?
Goddess is right, for all nice women.
Nice rappish, maybe you'll like my rappish.
Latino, lovely.
X
Re: It's still good...
04/04/26 03:12:20PM
1 Week: Child Of Ida
Is this Moe Quinn?
Maybe I'm wrong, more please
04/04/26 03:12:20PM
1 Week: Child Of Ida
Is this Moe Quinn?
Maybe I'm wrong, more please
Re: Fried Brains...
04/04/26 03:09:33PM
1 Week: Child Of Ida
Too much media addiction, too much lybidinism, good track, well said.
04/04/26 03:09:33PM
1 Week: Child Of Ida
Too much media addiction, too much lybidinism, good track, well said.
Re: Kingstorm - Got A...
04/04/26 03:01:29PM
1 Week: Child Of Ida
Listening to the album, heavy guitar, cool, wicked lyrics.
04/04/26 03:01:29PM
1 Week: Child Of Ida
Listening to the album, heavy guitar, cool, wicked lyrics.
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Thank you Toni! The lyrics from one of my favourite songs from 30 years ago - Deacon Blue's "Dignity" - have always made me feel a certain way, and I think it was in the back of my mind when I wrote this one. That and John Cougar Mellencamp's "Jack and Diane" from a few years before, I loved the interaction of the piano and guitar in that one, and that chorus line "life goes on long after the thrill of living is gone" I think I was maybe subconsciously trying to put the two together.
You have a masterful way of weaving a story through your songs that sets my mind on fire with empathy and compassion. I will have to include this in the Social Commentary show too.
Fabulous Chris!
Thanks so much Tricia. It's taken a little while to find the voice again after a few years away. Coming back now though, getting better, just need to keep at it...! First song for a long time where I've been confident enough in the first take not to resort to melodyne or whatever to fine-tune the vocals. Maybe I'll sing live again one day... who knows
Thanks Dace! I've always struggled with trying to get the sound I wanted when producing my songs - always tried layers and layers of effects to try and get things to sound right and ended up with a bit of a compromise every time. A couple of months ago I upgraded my Sonar DAW software to the Platinum version and suddenly all the things I found really hard to do became SO much easier. I also joined a user group on FB that's given me a load of tips and showed me how easy it can be. The biggest change is using a linear multiband compressor on the master, but also the level of Eq and compression on all the individual tracks makes a huge difference. This song has five instrumental tracks and one vocal, which is pretty minimal for me. No pads anywhere and only two FX busses. With what I was using before it would have sounded too empty to my ears, but with this new stuff it seems to make it wall-to-wall. I'm having a lot of fun at the moment!