Thanks to everyone for the feed back so far. Yes, this was done in Garageband, but I performed the strings, clav and much of the percussion. I’m trying to limit using straight-up samples and I am in the process of learning Logic 7.1 — hopefully this will help me improve production quality. I’ll also review more of everyone else’s music when I get a chance…this is an excellent resource!

actually it wasn’t the samples I recognzed so much as that ‘GB sound’ — teru called it overcompressed and that may be a hint as to what they are doing: squeezing the sound to make sure folks don’t easily clip when they are piling on sound clips (I’m talking out of my butt, can you tell?)

anyway, yea, making GB sound like anything but GB proved to be much work than I was willing invest (i.e. none) and I moved on. Too bad because the interface to the tool itself is pretty easy and fun.

you know what’s funny, my Don’t Stop was made in GB:

http://ccmixter.org/file/vi...

back to back it’s obvious ;)