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And also Jeff Beck!

Derek Trucks is a force of nature:

Yes, you have to take on account that recording techniques have changed a lot in the last thirty or forty years, and it is still changing. There are some people breaking the old established rules right now and creating new ones to achieve better results with the new technology. There are less and less people who record using analog equipment, most of the music now is done by lone "producers" at home with only a laptop and an audio interface so there is no point on keeping your recording/mixing/mastering process inside the borders of analog techniques (keeping your tracks under -18dB is an example). The whole negative thing about the loudness wars is that with old techniques the more you limit your master in order to achieve a louder sound the more you kill the song, in the end it sounds squashed, but with modern techniques you can achieve louder masters without sacrificing the song. The thing is, in order to get there you have to change your whole mixing/mastering process. This is a long video but worth watching if you want to learn what are the latest ways of achieving loudness without killing your music:

That is no longer an option for me I think for me making music is more of a necessity, I just can't stop, I love the creative process, love the mixing and the mastering too. I have so much music done that haven't seen the world yet. Having other people listening to my music is nice but it's not what drives me to keep making music, had to force myself to upload a couple of song last year.

VST Fx: 1. NoiseAsh Rule Tec: I also use Acustica Audio's Purple but NoiseAsh's Rule Tec is an excellent Pultec emulation and doesn't eat a lot of resources. 2. Fab Filter Pro Q4: Surgical Eq. 3. Sonible Smart EQ2: I also own the latest version EQ3 but I keep using EQ2 still. Just fast results, what's not to like? 4. Sonible Smart:Comp: I don't use it as a regular compressor though, I use it because of the sidechain ducking, far more accurate than Waves Factory's Track Spacer. 5. Overloud Modula: My go to modulation fx, makes everything sound better. VSTi: 1. UVI Falcon: You can find it everywhere in my projects, for synths, as a sampler, drum machine... I simply love it. I find it way, way, way better than Kontakt (which I also own but mostly because some libraries only exist for Kontakt). 2. Spectrasonics Trilian: I know, you can simply play bass yourself but Trilian is so convenient and sounds so good, with Trilian you can make changes anytime, it's a MIDI file! and playing it with Roger Linn's LinnStrument makes it sound much more alive and realistic. - I use Falcon so much that the following are synths that I like but doesn't use the whole time. 3. Arturia V-Collection: Not all of the emulations sound like the originals but all of them are useful. 4. u-he Repro: Yes, it eats a lot of resources but it sounds fat and real. 5. Synapse Audio Legend: I think it's the best Minimoog emulation on the market. Programs: 1. Bitwig: I use it 95% of the time, there's nothing like it, "the grid" is my playground. 2. iZotope Ozone: I used to do mastering in Ozone without third party plugins and it is good but now I'm using some stuff from Acustica Audio, Plugin Alliance, and others that allows me to achieve even better results. 3. MOTU Digital Performer: I use it mostly for Film scoring, love it. 4. Melodyne: I think there are no voices in modern productions that aren't edited with Melodyne. 5. AudioGridder: It's free! and allows you to run heavy plugins through ethernet on another computer! it's awesome!

I think that not only concept albums are lost nowadays, also the whole album idea is an anachronism, right now it seems to be just songs without any context, like releasing single after single. I'm more of an album person, even the filler tracks are part of an album mood.

I started doing that for a while and then just stopped, Spotify only applies normalization on their mobile app and even there the user can turn normalization off. Limiting the loudness of your music because of "rules" created by platforms that may not last for ever is not what I want to do, I rather make my songs sound the best they can.

I do use reference tracks but only for mastering, in order to get the song to sound in the ballpark of "the standard sound". I use iZotope's Ozone for mastering (with some added 3rd party plugins in the chain) and also from iZotope there's a very useful tool called Tonal Balance Control which allows you to create a frequency curve to use as a visual guide with your favorite reference track and even with a whole folder of reference tracks.

very nice!

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Teenage Wind - Frank Zappa In fact, Zappa wrote this tune as a reply to Christopher Cross: http://wiki.killuglyradio.com/wiki/Teen-age_Wind

Blue Veins - The Raconteurs

Bob Marley - Waiting in vain

Marvin Gaye - My love is waiting

Oh well, I'll let go uncle Frank for a while then... The year of the cat - Al Stewart