Reavis Beta2 Doing Well

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48F and sunny today. It was like summer the past week, in the high seventies to 80F, but now Alexa's telling me about a frost advisory for tomorrow.

Spring has really come along. I can see the green in the canopy from up here on 11. Everything's alive. Flowers and blossoms everywhere. Dandelions!

patrick_melody · 26-02-REAVIS-beta2-R

The Easter upload of Reavis Beta only got 125 plays in it's first 24 hours, and then flatlined to one play a day the rest of that week. So, over last weekend (the 18th & 19th) I reworked the mix.

I added waveshaper to the start of every track's chain for soft clipping to simulate analog circuitry. I added blood overdrive to the bass and the toms for even order harmonics (another analog effect), and I re-worked the guitar chain.

Sakura first, with no in-app effects, then waveshaper, the pickup EQs, then fast dist, chorus, delay, convolver and compressor. And it sounded way better this way, far less tinny and harsh.

The whole mix for Beta1 had felt thin, with to harsh of a high end.

The new mix, Beta2, sounded a lot better, as validated by the play numbers this past week.

Beta2 got around 125 plays on day one, then only 25 plays on day two, but on day three it got 150, day 4 got 210, and day 5 (yesterday) was 250.

The going total for the week at this moment, mid day 5, is 836, and if the trend continues, Beta2 will have broken one thousand plays by the one-week mark, this coming Monday morning.

These plays are coming from little pockets all around the globe, with several repeat plays. Last night I saw one person had played it seven times! Another five times. Many have played it two and three times.

The two biggest markets are consistently the US, and Indonesia, with the song also doing well all around the former Soviet Union.

A talent scout from Belarus provided this description, unprompted: "The production on this piece is an impressive display of complex syncopation and harmonic depth. From a technical perspective, the spectral separation between the intricate percussive layers and the shifting melodic foundations is exceptionally clean, ensuring the mix remains professional and engaging throughout the arrangement. The transient detail on the rhythmic elements provides a polished "snap" that anchors the track's evolving momentum, while the reverb mapping on the atmosphere adds a vast sense of "real" acoustic space. I also noticed the sophisticated use of spatial placement, which creates a constant sense of "realness" and immersive depth this kind of sonic environment serves as a perfect anchor for high-impact visual storytelling."

After a back and forth, she then added, "The "band in a room" approach really translates using the cabinet impulses and the SM58 gives the vocal a grounded, tactile quality that fits the "realness" editors are currently craving. It’s that calibration between raw performance and technical polish that makes a track sync-ready. The fact that you have 10 more tracks in that same workshop pipeline is great timing for our current scouting phase."

So that was some very valuable feedback! However, I stopped short of giving her my contact info, as I'm fairly certain the actual offer of "high-value brand and media placements," is probably a scam.

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All of this proves that SoundCloud's "first fans" algorithm, available with the Artist Pro account, actually works! It shows the song to listeners based on their interests and history, rather than on popularity, and then if it does well, it expands the exposure out to more fans... over a seven day period.

Then I think in the 2nd week if the track does well enough, the algorithm starts putting it on "buzz" playlists or something?

But the Beta1 --> Beta2 experiment on my end shows that the mix quality is also key. Beta2 has done much better, because it's more listenable.

And because I managed to crack the code, by incorporating waveshaper and blood overdrive, and by re-working the guitar chain... I'm ready to apply all that to Miss Fortune this weekend to get that beta-released, hopefully by late tomorrow night before bed!

I already spend some time on Wednesday and Thursday night getting everything wired up in Miss Fortune, so today will be about automating pickups, string blend, and distortion for the guitars.

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