Plug-ins? What are those?  I seldom use them. I have been more lately however. But I've yet to hear a plug-in that sounded as good as even my cheapest outboard effects. I've heard all the arguments about how they should be the same etc., but the outboard stuff just sounds better to me.
 
Dig the tune---especially the drums! They're a little overpowering though in my opinion. I would take some of the top off the guitars and boost the volume on them quite a bit. Then it'll be awesome!
 
Bill

daryl1968
sounds nice Glennbo
I would also like to compliment you the percussion - very nice.

Thanks Daryl!  I had a lot of fun playing this one.  :)

Freddy J
What a fun song Glenn!  You did a good job playing all instruments but your drumming sounded great!!! Nice one!!

Thanks Freddy. Drums is my main axe, and really the only instrument I could go out and play a gig with.
 
Hehe, unless the band is only going to be playing my songs.  ;)

Wayfarer
Plug-ins? What are those?  I seldom use them. I have been more lately however. But I've yet to hear a plug-in that sounded as good as even my cheapest outboard effects. I've heard all the arguments about how they should be the same etc., but the outboard stuff just sounds better to me.

 
The virtualization factor that makes them impervious to RF and other noise is enough for me to to be a member. That and the fact that when I owned a real hardware based DBX160 I could only use on one thing at a time, where my Waves plugin version which has DBX's official seal of approval, can be placed on every track if I want to do it, and it costs me no more than only using it on only one track. Four DBX160s for my four drum tracks would be expensive and consume far too much space for me. Having owned the real deal and using it on acoustic drums, I'm real familiar with what one should do, and the Waves version is pretty true. They even recorded the background noise from a real one and give you a level control for it if you really want to be authentic.  ;)
 

Dig the tune---especially the drums! They're a little overpowering though in my opinion. I would take some of the top off the guitars and boost the volume on them quite a bit. Then it'll be awesome!
 

Thanks Bill!  I just put a remix up with a bit of the shrill edge taken off the guitars, and a little less drums in the mix.

I have a 160 and love it to death. Best comp there is on vocals. Unfortunately mine has a bad ground and is picking up truckers and police radios, so I haven't been able to use it for a long time. The thing about compressors though is that they just work so much better on channel inserts than trying to apply them after the tracks are already recorded. I think that's the complaint most people have about compression plug-ins. But you seem to make them work for you, and that's all that matters.
 
I have a cheap old 16-bit Alesis Microverb that in my opinion sounds better than any 24-bit reverb plug-in I've ever come across. But I've mostly been recording solo acoustic guitar the past few years and find plug-in reverbs a little easier, and they sound good enough. I'm really not that picky these days. Some of my favorite records are bootleg live recordings that sound horrible, but the music is great, so who cares? 
 
Bill

I still have one of the original Alesis MidiVerbs. The very first verb model they ever produced, and one that I used with my old 1" Ampex studio recorder, but it hasn't been hooked up for more than twenty years. I'm currently experimenting with a native Linux verb called "Dragonfly" which is based on some of the Freeverb code. I have a couple quick tests that follow this song up right now for the developer to listen to. My favorite reverbs though are convolution verbs using impulses of real spaces. Nothing like a nice medium sized room impulse on the master fader to warm up a mix and put all the tracks in the same space.

Sounds logical. Personally, I work with presets 99% of the time and just worry about how much of an effect I want to mix in. I don't want to spend too much time adjusting parameters when I could spend that time practicing, writing, and arranging. If I was primarily a recording engineer who was recording for other people, it would be different.
 
Have a good one bud.
 
Bill