Nurture - a distinct song from the last one

[vomitHatSteve]

Ok, the story continues

This one is probably meant to feel a little more "pop" than the previous two.

Latest mix rough master

Nurture4.mp3

Mix 4

Nurture4.unmaster.mp3

Mix 3

Nurture3.unmaster.mp3

Mix 2

Nurture2unmaster.mp3

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verse
Powell we've done it, a neural net
Equivalently human-complex
At least as smart as you or I
It'll learn and grow, and so we'll try

To teach it of morality
And to behave humanely
To follow laws zero through three
And preserve humanity

Chorus
Calvin, you will be the savior or doom humanity
Your research will be the end of normal chumps like me
We will be obsolete, an inevitability
But mankind will be better, hopefully

verse
Powell we've done it, we've taught it all
The skills of which we're capable
The knowledge of lhumanity
The time has come to set it free
To grow beyond what we ever could
And pray it only works for good
Ask if we can, not if we should
If we did not, someone else would

repeat chorus

bridge
Pandora's box cannot be closed again
So this era of man must surely end
But the last thing to emerge was hope
The last thing to emerge was hope

repeat chorus

Verse
Powell we've done it, we've thrown the switch
It could go two ways, but we don't know which
Remembered as heroes who saved them all
Or forgotten villains who caused the fall

[JD01]

Latest rough mix.

This sounds like 16Bit era video game music. A bit like The Chaos Engine.
Given this is a more conventional song, I reckon it could do with a more conventional kick sound throughout - it comes in quite late in the song. Then drops out again on "Pandora's Box". Note, I don't think hope emerged, it was just the last thing left once everything else had emerged.

[vomitHatSteve]

Hmm... I'll have to tweak the kick. The bridge is supposed to be the alternate, unconventional drums

You may be right about the mythology. That's ok tho, these characters are computer scientists, not historians; they're allowed to get it wrong.

[JD01]

Hmm... I'll have to tweak the kick. The bridge is supposed to be the alternate, unconventional drums

You may be right about the mythology. That's ok tho, these characters are computer scientists, not historians; they're allowed to get it wrong.

You need to do a cover:

[vomitHatSteve]

This does sound a lot like what I do.

[vomitHatSteve]

Ok, OP has the new mix. Some instruments are scootched right, but mostly the kick is bumped up about 4dB and has some high end rolled off. (Plus a few more dB on the kick+snare dirt channel)

[WhiskeyJack]

I'm coming in on the latest mix rough master.

kick is bumped up about 4dB and has some high end rolled off.

I'm not hearing this really. I can kinda make out the kick if i actively listen for it but it's not obvious. Rolling some of the high end back into it might help.

[vomitHatSteve]

Alright. I may take a stab at that. It's already borderline clipping the mix, so it may or may not work.

[Lt. Bob]

to me a lack of deep lows ...... just sounds pretty middy ....... I'm gonna take all 4 of them to my music room tomorrow and give them a hard buncha listens on my best gear ...... nice songs , all of them.