Breathe

You did a great job on this Micheal. The guitars and vocals are all very clean and well defined. Love this song.Thanks for sharing.

Starise,
Thanks for listening, bro.  Glad that you really like this song.  This one is a bit of a rewrite from many years ago.  I kept the original chord patterns, but the lyrics and chorus where completely redone.
 
Lynn,
Thank you as well.  I'm starting to get a small collection of songs that work.  Hopefully they will just keep coming.

I like this song a lot Michael.  It's very catchy and the lyrics are uplifting.  The production is great, I like the guitar solo, nice vocals.  Everything is in order!  The tempo drags a little sometimes but that gives it an interesting kind of old-school vibe to it.  I like it!!

+1 on the lead guitar tone and the lead.  I especially liked when the vocal harmony kicked in, that really amped up the energy in the song for me.  This is well mixed, well arranged, well performed.  Great job.

nice uplifting number ... got me ready to go out for my sunday afternoon walk with the dog ...
i thought you were singing i pray for you at first .. probably cos i saw the 'christian rock' part ... is it breath for you ?
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also .. im not a musician .. so please dont be annoyed if im being silly .. but are the drums supposed to do that at 54 seconds ?  ... like they skip out of time briefly
 
still hearing it as pray for you at times .. i think those words go well too :)
 
i think i should listen to some more christian rock music .. think am ready for it now
 
God Bless x

Leadfoot, 
Thank for listening man; glad you liked this one.  I have the same issue quite often, in that the only time I can find to listen is often on my iPhone when I can find a quite moment.
 
Ralph,
Glad you liked this one and thanks for the listen.  Hopefully...not to much of a drag.
 
Chasmcg,
Thanks for your comments on the Lead guitar tone.  I went back an forth on the amp choice and tone.  I am using an Amplitube Orange sim on this lead and it seems to come out fairly nice and convincing.
 
Oleman,
Thanks brother for listening.
 
Rebel,
Thanks for giving this one a listen.  Yes the snare has a bright punchy tone to it.  Hopefully it is not too much, but I wanted to kind of emphisise an acoustic "woody" sounding snare for this song. Incidentally, the preset for the AD drums had the snare even more pronounced than this and I toned it back a some.  The only effecs on the vocals are reverb, PC LA2A compression, and PC Quad EQ; everything else is just me.

Good song. It should be a nice gear change when set in with some of your other songs. I don't have any suggestions...It sounds fine to me.

Good work I thought, overall could have more bass frequencies in the mix? 

Clint, Bapu, Wayne & John,
 
Thank you very much for listening and commenting.  Sorry, I am just getting around to responding, but work has been eating my lunch lately.
 
Ed, I will get back into the drum midi files and do a little velocity randomizing.  It's tedious to do it by hand, but that seems to work best.  I am liking this song myself and think that the song is probably worth the effort to do what ever touch ups might be necessary.  I agree that the vocals need to be just slightly louder or more prominent.  I might try a couple of things there.  
 
Ed, I am not sure on the snare hits out of time if you are talking about some of them at the end of the song?  I will overall, check the midi hits again and see if anything looks drastically out of time.
 
Someone mentioned above about the timing at the :54 mark.  That is right where I have my first fill into the Chorus.  The fills in Addictive Drums seem a little strange to me.  Many of them start out with the drum sticks clicking together, almost to find the beat, and then proceed into the fill.  If I only have a 1/2 or 1/4 measure to fit a fill into, I am trimming them to fit at what seems to be an appropriate spot.  I am not sure that I am doing a very good job with that and it seems like sometimes, I am messing up some subtle timing when I do this.  I reworked that fill at :54 this morning and it sounded better, but ran out of time to do much more before work.
 
Hopefully, I can do a little more tweaking this weekend. 

Just listened.  Really nice vocal and song.  Arrangement sound very good.  I think overall mix is distorting.  Did you check your busses and master out to make sure it wasn't clipping?  I really like the presence and guitar playing.

Hey Guys,

Thanks for listening. Yes, I checked all tracks and master bus for clipping. I have a brick wall in the last position of the master bus as well. I'm actually doing very little Limiting on this song on the master bus; I am probably only lowering by 1.5 overall.

What has happened to me once before while using X3 is that I have suddenly had a stay track going direct out to the interface and by passing the master bus. I couldn't figure out on that occasion how it had happened. I didn't look for that on my final bounce, but will later this evening when I get home.

Edit: checked all tracks and busses, no clipping. When I started turning off FX's one by one, I discovered the problem. I had added Waves R Bass to the bass track and for some reason, it seems to mess with other tracks as well. I created a nice bass tone, but some how is leaking onto the main vocal track and distorting that. I am going to work on this with fresh ears in the morning.

Thanks Brothers! 
 
I uploaded a new version this morning.  I turned R Bass off and tweaked the bass settings a little.  I haven't had a chance to check this version on other systems, but not much has been adjusted.  Hope this one sounds clear and undistorted in the vocals. 

Thanks Mark.  It's  close.  The Bass might be just a little to loud now.  Sounded good on the monitors, but a little loud on other sources.  (I still need Arc 2).  

Voda,
 
Thank you for listening.  It actually means a lot to me that, even though this Genre is not your cup of tea, you think the music is good.  Yes, I always seem to have a little of that Petty thing going on.  I stopped fighting it and learned to roll with it.

Thanks for listening and commenting Freddy.  I know that I don't here any type of distortion on the wav. file that I have been listening too.  I'm not sure if I could be getting a bad file conversion uploading to Sound Cloud?  I am bouncing to a wav, then to a 320 mp3 and then into Sound Cloud.  Maybe too many conversions of the same file.  
 
I will try to listen to Sound Cloud with a good pair of head phones this weekend.