Bill's new 2019 video Christmas Card showcases his signature melodically lavish & aurally ravishing guitar tones on this beautiful instrumental track and video by himself in his traditional yearly Christmas video card on his YouTube video channel... According to an email from Bill Nelson's Dreamsville <jon@nelsonica.com> titled "Clocks And Dials, and a Christmas Video Card...", "The video features a brand new instrumental track, the first recorded on Bill's new recording equipment that has been publicly released!"
However, the resolution is only 480 and starting at 6 sec and prominent in the quiet parts of the track are alot of what I can only guess are audio compression artifacts, perhaps a result of the YouTube upload or YouTubes own compression/playing process??? It's a shame because the music itself is so glorious, and the new studio seems inherently to pack a whallop of a sound, but perhaps it was too much to squeeze into a 480 YouTube post? I wondered if it is supposed to be a fire crackling but on repeated listenings I can only hear it as loud and obvious audio noise. Hopefully Bill or someone notices this and posts a fixed higher-rez version. This deserves to be heard in the audio perfection with which I am sure Bill created it!
I remember it. I didn't have any problems with it!
Hi Bill! Yeah, I noticed a reply to my comment on the YouTube page while I was on the phone away from the computer and listened on the phone YouTube App and it sounded great there. I have a new laptop where I noticed what I describe and I am baffled. I've not heard anything else like that with other media. It is a high power gaming machine, with sound by Harmon, I have 500Gb/s ethernet so it shouldn't be any sort of connection or physical audio problem, but I've not had alot of time to fine tune its sound. I am thinking I just need to adjust it somehow better specifically for music. I did notice it only has the standard RealTek audio driver, not the better HD one with bells N whistles, so I will install that. Hopefully that will take care of it on my end. APOLOGIES for the false alarm, and KEEP UP THE BRILLIANT WORK! I love you man :) <3
Just watched / played no problems, what a great piece sounded great through HomePod, thanks Bill, wishing you and yours a happy Christmas and a better 2020.
Just checked out the video on Facebook and I can't hear anything wrong with it at all, so I'm baffled as to what Steven is actually hearing. All I can think is that it may be a connection problem at his end?
I have listened to it a few times, on speakers and on headphones, and I can't hear what you are describing.
Within the "tick-tock" rhythm there are other, regular clicks which suggest to me a part of a clock mechanism. I assume that that's what Bill intended, and also that that's not what you are describing?
A big thank you to Bill, and it's great to hear that you are getting to grips with the new equipment! Wishing you and Emiko all the best for for Christmas and the New Year, and, of course, a special thought goes out to your Mum too.
That's very strange, Steven. It played fine on Emiko's iPad this afternoon and the file I sent to Jon to upload plays great too.