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2013/10/24 14:23:55
theguitarplayer
Mark, Thanks for the listen and the nice comments, they are much appreciated. It went #1 on Christian Rock Charts today, so this arrangement is working to some degree, but still needs a tweak hear and there. I'll just let it play out for the time being and get to the tweaks latter.
 
Peace and Blessings, John
2013/10/24 14:34:28
theguitarplayer
Robbie, Thanks for listening and for commenting, they are both appreciated. I'll be working on this piece, after it plays out on Sound Click and then see what I can do with a couple of the transitions and a couple of other things I have in mind. But, thanks for the observation. As to doing something according to your suggestions, I will keep your thoughts in mind. As to how I do these mixes are by sheer inspiration, with no formula in mind, only to convey a message of a hire source other than myself. You know Him and He knows us all.
 
Peace and Blessings, John
2013/10/24 20:53:36
theguitarplayer
AT, Thanks for listening and for your comments, they are much appreciated. At 3:30, that does sound pretty good and so when I rework this piece, I may add some more to that piece of the arrangement.
 
Peace and Blessings, John
2013/10/24 21:02:25
theguitarplayer
Clint, Thanks for listening and for your comments, they are much appreciated. I be chrun'in!!
 
Peace and Blessings, John
2013/10/29 23:42:11
theguitarplayer
Walt, I was wondering if this sounds any better to you or are you hearing the same issues? Tried to work on it a bit and think the issues maybe fixed. There were some volume issues in those spots, so I adjusted them. Let me know. By the way this went to #1 on Sound Click Christian Rock and 29 in Rock and made Sound Click top 50. Not to bad for having only a couple of mistakes. Thanks for your help.
 
Peace and Blessings, John
2013/10/30 12:45:15
jamesg1213
I hear the 'warbling' Walt mentioned. it's quite evident on the acoustic guitar at 1:05. Overall the track sounds very compressed, had a quick look at the waveform and there are a lot of flattened off peaks. It's pretty loud, so I think you've plenty of room to back off on the compression/limiting John. Let 'er breathe
2013/10/30 18:12:47
Walt Collins
theguitarplayer
Walt, I was wondering if this sounds any better to you or are you hearing the same issues? Tried to work on it a bit and think the issues maybe fixed. There were some volume issues in those spots, so I adjusted them. Let me know. By the way this went to #1 on Sound Click Christian Rock and 29 in Rock and made Sound Click top 50. Not to bad for having only a couple of mistakes. Thanks for your help.
 
Peace and Blessings, John



Sorry John, I'm still definitely hearing the time stretch distortion.  I think the only way to fix those is to use a different converter, or just don't change the pitch/tempo as much from the original audio clips.
 
But the bottom line is that most soundclick listeners aren't audiophiles and it doesn't seem to matter to them, since the song is doing so well!
2013/10/30 21:51:06
theguitarplayer
Thanks Walt.
I will address this issue on my next song and start verifying my conversions. I am also going to pull out my original tracks from my projects files and see if there is any thing I did on the tracks that have caused this issue and see if I can fix it within the project.
Sometimes I mess up with either to much or to little crossover and that too can cause this type of issue to be heard. I just wanted to make sure you were still hearing the same thing or not before going deeper to find out what was done to cause this. Thanks again for your willingness to be so audiophiles sensitive and finding little issues like this, it is helpful and much appreciated.
 
Peace and Blessings, John
2013/10/31 01:39:07
theguitarplayer
Walt, This should be better, spent 2 hours on it. Hope you enjoy this better, plus added a couple of things.
 
Peace and Blessings, John
2013/10/31 09:01:36
Walt Collins
Sorry again John for not communicating effectively, and that you're spending so much time on this, probably chasing after something you're hearing, but it's not the same thing I'm talking about.
 
I've created a sample of a very short (8 seconds) acoustic guitar performance, and then copied it twice, then time stretched the 2nd copy by 25%.  I used what I consider to be a pretty good tool (SoundForge 10 Pro - Process - Time - Time Stretch), but perhaps not the best.  Hopefully this will isolate exactly what I'm talking about.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hwAENu-Hic
 
The 2nd copy shows exactly the audio distortion (flutter) that I'm hearing on the sample you used in your song at 1:05, and again later in the song.
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