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Horses for courses. The last few covers bands I was in used to concentrate on 90s and 00s stuff - it's what the 30-40 year olds used to hear in the student union bars when they were at uni and it went down well. Some of the songs are classic, if not classic rock. * The LL of one venue we played didn't like us because our music was too contemporary, despite the fact most of the set was 20 odd years old. That venue used to do a lot of 60s and 70s tribute bands and the audience were a bit anti anything "modern". If your audience is made up of Saga customers classic rock might go down better.

Some will, some won't. Let's not forget Wonderwall is from 1995 so has already lasted over 25 years, Blur's Parklife has been used on adverts for Chanel, Coke, Nike and Vitality Health Insurance. A lot of 90s tracks are finding their way into TV series and films. How many Deep Purple tracks get played on mainstream radio regularly? I suspect to some millenials many of the classic rock bands will be considered one hit wonders.

Mine will certainly be less "World" than the two so far. The inspiration has led me to something much closer to home, but not where I expected to end up.

I like Mr Brightside. Its a good bassline - although not very challenging, and punters love it when you play it. It's also a tricky song to play for the lead guitarist and its always worth watching them struggle with the chord changes.

I used to play this in a covers band - closer to this version than the Bob Seger version.

Well done. A class field this month.

Better known than Toyah I would think.

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Ѱ is for Psi

With lockdown TV being so very dull I ended up watching Baby Driver on one of the film channels t'other day, and was surprised by none other than Flea playing a bone fide walking and talking part. Where else have you seen a bass player pop up when you were least expecting it? Baby Driver is in no way recommended.

K is for Killers (or Kings of Leon) just to upset those who hate Brightside and Sex on Fire.

Is anyone taking bets on how long this thread will last?

H is for Happy Mondays

I don't really know (genuine reply)- just adjust eq and levels until it sounds OK I guess. I've never used refernce material to judge what I'm doing so far. You've heard the results so It's not for me ti judge whether its effective.

That seems sensible enough as an input to mixing But, my MP3 player is quite old and standard def. Mrs Ncko has a newer high def MP3 player and to be honest I can't tell the difference between the two listening back to back so I have little chance with comparing phones in this way against a reference track.😕

Looking at the "beginners guide..." thread there are some initial comments on page 1 about headphones and the suitability of them for a) monitoring and b) mixing. The links through to more detailed discussions have long since disappeared as far as I can see so can we have some BC wisdom on the subject? To be perfectly honest I rarely listen to my finished tracks through anything other than those headphones or my computer speakers so I probably don't realise how good or bad anything I've managed to record actually sounds to anyone else. I'm still using closed back cans that came with my interface. I hadn't considered whether these are suitable, whether I should be looking to upgrade them, whether I should invest in a set of studio monitors or indeed how I should listen to my finished tracks - I have some OK ish wireless speakers, some decent in ear headphones that I use for my MP3 player but haven't had a stereo hi fi for years. I suspect the best quality audio I have in my house is the TV.

In that case I think I would be looking to copy the bass track onto several audio channels, add different layers of effects to each channel until you get what you want. I think you'd have to start with envelope filters and octavers. What you add really depends on what virtual pedals you have available

An awesome set of entries this month. Going to be a difficult vote.

I took the plunge, installed Amplitube 5 and can report that all is well. The IK product manager is a royal pain - the version I had wouldn't upgrade so had to download from scratch. Of course once A5 is installed the windows installer restarts the computer and then you have to go back into product manager to authorise it - why oh why aren't the free bits downloadable without authorisation? All the stuff I had before seems to be there. My presets weren't worth keeping.

I think you nailed the TV theme idea. I had to Google the Kickstart theme though!

A pair of jockey trunks, keeps everything tight and the dots in the right place. Avoid anything with a skunk stripe.

This isn't the bad jokes thread y'know.

This track has now been modified. I've updated some of the guitar parts where the timing was iffy and pushed the vocals up in the mix as suggested by @lurksalot, although I'm not entirely sure I haven't made the vocals worse if that's possible, and in the end messing with my vocal is polishing the proverbial turd anyway.

From your description this might do the job https://plugins4free.com/plugin/2285/

OK so I've been playing around with some 80s synth pop this weekend and took 5 minutes out to have a go in Xpand!2. The first time around is a Jupiter Unison, slightly tweaked parameters, and the second is the same thickened up using the multitimbal function. The balance of the various elements could be tweaked a bit further.