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[Mckendrick]

Thanks for the reply Scott!

 

I have Music City, Custom & Vintage, Avatar, New York Studios, Evil Drums & Superior 3 Kits/
I New York vol 3 midi/Roots midi/Songwriters Drumpack midi/Ballads Midi/Monster Midi Pack/Eighties Pop Grooves/Acoustic Songwriter grooves/Americana Midi/Backbeats midi/
I have Nashville, Jazz, Latin Percussion, & Claustrophobic EZX Kits/

From all that, it still takes me a long time to find light grooves for intro and verses.

There usually is say 2-3 light or soft grooves and the rest is rock or heavy grooves (I’m only using 4/4).

For me it’s a lot easier to build on a groove, than editing a faster one.

Samplitude Pro X3 Suite, SD 3, Tascam UH7000

[Mckendrick]

Hi Jordan,
Yesterday I briefly scanned thru 4 of your songs to hear the drums and they sounded fine to me. I listened to the whole song of All Comes Down and Cold Touch and at that point I was concentrating on the vocals and guitar. Cold Touch was my favorite of the bunch. I’ve been tempted to buy Rock Foundry, but held off so far because of getting a sound I like with Music City. I use Samplitude’s EQ and UADs LA2A on the kick and snares. If you end up buying Music City let me know and I’ll send my settings which may be helpful as a starting point. For the kick I almost always use the same EQ settings.
As far as vocals, I don’t have power and when I try to push the volume it sounds awful, so most of the time I’m singing close to the mic at low volume. I also do double tracks which takes forever to get to a point where I’m ok with it (a lot of punch ins). So I don’t naturally have a good singing voice. On this song I used Soundtoys delay on the vocals and I like the results.

Thanks again for taking the time to listen and post!

Samplitude Pro X3 Suite, SD 3, Tascam UH7000

[Mckendrick]

Hi Jordan,
Thanks for the compliments! I listened to a few of your songs, really like “Cold Touch” and “All Comes Down”. You’re a lot better singer and light years ahead of me on guitar. Your drums sound fine to me! I have several kits, but seem to stick with Music City probably because I managed to find EQ & Compressor settings for the Kick and Snare that I like.

 

Paul

Samplitude Pro X3 Suite, SD 3, Tascam UH7000

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