"Better"

[Tom22]

Haha! I live in Burbank (818). It's not so bad, but I get your point.

Yeah.. there are all sorts of INSPIRING things about what people are doing in Burbank.. There are a few dozen days a year when you have that incredible vista of the San Bernadino Mountains.... well.. you get it.. it is an urban area with people who tend to give their all to what they do (LA is a very career orientated city in my opinion.. something counter to the California "laid back" image--- laid back as in "informal" or perhaps "quite willing to jump on something new rather than be hemmed in by tradition" but "what you do" comes up far quicker in LA than almost anywhere else I've lived.

So, it wasn't entirely a smog joke... also a big city joke --

But --
I've sort of changed my mind again and I do think it could be 818 which "I can breath" might mean "I can get in the studio and do what I love without some schedule every minute of the day on tour in indonesia etc"

and.. having something that comes off the tongue well and rhymes sometimes trumps and precise meaning... the sound or the symetry or just the idea of an area code that alludes to home even if it isn't your home means something.

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That might be the same recording on the video but it has been mixed differently since then if it is.

...I believe that one suffers from the problems the expert outlined about "loudness" and compression

Comment elsewhere from 2011 about SoundCloud:

You can remix, convert the files to .MP3 yourself and have everything sounding excellent - but Soundlcoud has its own unique way of f*(1ng up your tracks and it is pretty much unavoidable. Even Youtube sounds better than Soundcloud.

http://www.gearslutz.com/board/moan-zone...-song.html

Haha .. well that would explain something.

About the other stufff .. wind screen etc.

ALL I know is that whatever good luck in where you were standing (maybe some big guy in a hat dampened and echo for all I know lol!) and whatever buttons you pushed till it worked....

This sound in that video of "Better" sounds GREAT. Mission successful.. thumbs up ! : ) No IFs about it!

(I"ve never mentioned it.. but the picture part is also fantastic! ... she looks wonderful.. she's so confident on stage.. the lights and the smoke make me feel like I"m there.. very very good Tusk and I haven't mentioned it because you clearly have skills there and made tricky adjustments beyond what I can even notice)

I also know that , even if you're being bashful about it.. all of you videographers have developed a lot of skill to achieve in tricky circumstances without any help from the venues and make whatever falls your way as good as it can be.

.... stuff like this has a lot trial and error... I'm certain that the experts go back and forth a good deal themselves... and its so great that you guys are mixing and matching and experimenting and listening critically with your own ears etc... I SO love to hear Haley at her best that I know I'm a bit forward giving unsolicited feedback about what I hear in a performance as recorded. I wouldn't say anything at all if I didn't think the feedback had any small, incremental, chance of helping tilt what people shared towards where they can hear Haley at her best.