Hello everyone! I'm Gemi! I'm the new mentor for those in the membership group, and although I've had a chance to meet a decent number of you, I'd still love to get to know more of you in the community! So please! Tell me about yourself, you can literally share anything. Do you guys play instruments? Do you sing? How long have you been engineers? Did you have a really good breakfast and just need to tell someone about it?? haha do it here! 🤣 And if we've already met, How are you??😁 lets catch up!

I have composed 2-3 new songs, which require congas and bongos plus cowbell / agogo Latin percussion rhythms. Ideal would be to hire a session drummer, but I have no one in mind yet nor financing for it. Can you please recommend a VST plug-ins for Windows 64-bit with authentic sound? Vst plug- in could be better than samples, because I would need to change the tempo of the songs, if the sample files are in a bit of different one, but quality samples with many choices for a tempo of 123 to 150 bpm would be appreciated, thanks. The songs are like rocking ones, therefore that kind of tempo.

How do you get ideas for the lyrics? Sorry, if not so much related to mixing and mastering, but I can't help myself ask this question, sometimes the best song topics come by a random accident or a fact for me, lesser times with imaginary stories, I prefer ones based on a real life for example.

We're about to kick off our biggest Fix-The-Mix Challenge of the year! It starts at 9am PST / 12pm EST / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET today, November 3rd. RSVP for free here if you haven't already: https://courses.mastering.com/events/e/fix-the-mix-nov-2026?utm_source=Skool Here's why you should join us... - 3 days of mixing from scratch live on Zoom, talking through every step from first fader move to finished pro mix - Rock edition! We're mixing a song with live drums, guitars, bass, and male vocals - Guest Q&A with David Bottrill (Tool, King Crimson, Peter Gabriel, Muse) - Free copy of Ozone 12 Elements for everyone who attends the live event - Mixing competition with $1,300 worth of prizes - Nov 3-5 (Tues-Thurs this week), starts 9am Pacific / 12pm Eastern / 5pm UK time each day, 2-3 hours per session - Replays sent to all registrants in case you can't attend live - It's completely free I'll be personally mixing this time, and we'll also cover some hybrid mixing - it’s gonna be a ton of fun! Drop an emoji in the comments below if you're gonna be there live 🤘 See you there, Rob

I've been doing a LOT of deep thinking lately! I was noticing one morning that intrusive and negative thoughts were trying to creep into my mind, like a virus or a little demon, trying to color the way I thought about things. My rational self was battling with it, trying not to let them in. A word for these thoughts came to me as "backwards" or "upside down" as they seemed to be directly contradicting what my "rational mind" was trying to do which was to calm myself down and know that everything was ok. I tried to think of how to express that in a song and this is what I came up with. The mantra at the end of the song ,"You are ok" was going through my head constantly for weeks while I created it and it ended up being a great comfort to me. So my song "Backwards Thoughts" comes out on October 30th. I hope you enjoy it! I would be thrilled if you could pre-save it! Thank you and I hope your musical journeys are fruitful! https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/octoberture/backwards-thoughts?ref=release