Layer your recordings like a pro! 

I hope so! Thank you so much for the support and love. It really means a lot.

​@@songsbyspencer Keep it up, man - the production values are there, the content is there.

13:58 is that a reference to The Beatles - She is leaving home?

It wasn't intentional but I can hear a similarity. Wouldn't be surprised if I channeled it subconsciously, seeing as the Beatles are probably my favorite band of all time.

Yeah? I'll have to give it a listen to see!

I appreciate the kudos and kind words! Thank you so much

Wow, thank you!

That is quite the compliment, thank you so much!!!

I appreciate that! And yes, Yellow Ledbetter has one of my favorite riffs ever. So beautiful, so Hendrix, so amazing!

Glad to help, and so glad to hear you enjoyed it!

Best of luck to you. Also reference tracks can help teach you.

Congrats on the new toy and starting school! I'm so glad to hear you dig the channel and I want you to know that the support means so much me. Keep on recording and chasing the dream, you can do it!

I take no offense! I'm not familiar with those bands but I'll have to give em a listen!

Thanks for watching and I'm glad you found it helpful!

I'm running Ventura. I also have some issues with Pod Farm. It runs just fine, but it'll say that it's unstable, and it has caused logic to crash a few times. I don't know what to do about it, hopefully they release an update.

I'm still hoping to release an album or double album later this year. I have some other plans that I'm working on to get my music onto a licensing platform. We shall see what happens!

Will do and thank you so much for the support! It makes all the hard work worth it.

It's taken quite a bit of practice, but as with everything you get better the more you do it. I'm by no means a master at any instrument, but I do take pride in being able to play relatively simple things very solid. So I appreciate the kudos!!

I appreciate that! I've been trying to be a bit more informative in my more recent videos, so reading this is satisfying!

It's true you lose volume in Mono when you pan 100% to the left and right, but I personally think it sounds better hard panned. To be fair though, I haven't really tried the 50-70 technique, so I'll have to give it a try and see if I like it. Making sure it sounds good in Mono seems somewhat silly to me, as virtually no-one listens to music in Mono these days. But I know professionals check their mixes in Mono, so there must be something to it that I don't understand. You've given me something to look into!

appreciate that!

This one was definitely took awhile but it was worth it!

I made sure to Google it!

Thanks, dude!

CAUSE I'M A CREEP!

Glad it was helpful!

Thank you so much for listening and I'm so glad to hear you dig the music. One of these days I hope to put together a band again, unfortunately I just don't have the time right now. It's crazy how you go from being a kid with all the time in the world, to an adult with not enough time in the day.

@@songsbyspencer Yes, life is running very fast. You look like you're in your early thirties, I've passed middle fourties. We have to think (and act) extremely fast if we don't want to find ourselves old and with nothing in our hands... Feels like yesterday when I was as old as you look. Years today feel like weeks in my childhood.

It'll happen sooner or later!

@@songsbyspencer Awesome!!

Oh you can do it now! Just one layer at a time.

Gotta make the most of every melody!

I love me a good bass line! It's one of my favorite things to play- but I also love a great guitar riff! I can't decide which is more fun I love it all!

@@songsbyspencer as a passionate guitarist, I can say it's the basslines.

I gotchu dude! Hollar at ya boy

Glad you like it!

Don't worry I won't stop! But I do hope to continue growing, and I really appreciate the kind words and support!

Appreciate it!!

That's always the goal! I want to inform but keep it fun and entertaining. So reading this means a lot.

My pleasure!

It's the ultimate Stratocaster Riff!

@@songsbyspencer No doubt!

Thanks, dude!!

Thank you so much for watching

And like Ogres!

Will do!

So glad to hear this!

Maybe one day I'll get back up on that stage with a band again! I'd like to do it, it's just hard to find the time with everything I've got going on. If I do, it'll be announced on the channel for sure!

Would ya want me any other way?!

So glad to hear this!! The support means everything.

Thanks for watching!

Love to hear this!

Appreciate that!!

Glad you enjoyed it!

Much appreciated!

In this song, I did not double the main vocal- which is unusual. Normally for a recording like this I would actually triple track the lead vocal during the Chorus (one center, one left, one right), but when I recorded it for this song I didn't like the way it sounded as much, so I left it out. As with everything, there are rules, but sometimes they don't work out. In regards to the strings being in there yet not being very audible, I find that's relatively common with this style of recording. It's not so much that you'll hear the strings clearly, it just adds another element to the "wall of sound" and helps blend it all together. I've found that organs can have the same effect when they're layered into a dense recording.

Thanks. That all makes a lot of sense.@@songsbyspencer

Thank you so much! The bridge was inspired by the song "Belinda Says" by Alvvays. They're one of my favorite modern bands and the bridge in that song dies down quite a bit, and I thought a minimal approach would give a nice breather to the denseness of the chorus!

@@songsbyspencer this was a very good decision. Thank you for the video and for your openness to the audience. I will definitely listen to both the song and the group

I appreciate the kind words. This song took awhile for me to write. I had to rewrite the chorus like 6 times before I was content with it. Now that I'm aware people are actually listening I put a lot more effort into the lyrics and flow of my songs. You guys make me better!