Curse of the troll w/ guest guitarist Joop Wolters!!!

That was highly enjoyable.  Excellent guitar playing all the way around.

Yowza! Nice stuff

Wow, smokin in every way,

That was great!
Excellent guitar and production!

Dan

Thanks Dan & Janet!! Had a great time mixing and producing it!!

My speakers are smoking from that   Seriously well played.

Awesome playing and congrats on the track.

Just got the word that Joop is playing the Jason Becker Benefit concert in Europe with Guthrie Govan, Mattias Eklundh, Kiko Loureiro, Daniele Gottardo, Stu Hamm, Atma Anur!!! What a line up!!!

We are blessed to have had him play on our song!!

thanks to all that listened to our tune!!! We have more collabs in the future with amazing shred masters coming up!!

Peace!!

Wookiee

This is very pleasant and presents very nice.  The opening groove is very engaging reminds me a little of Ozric Tentacles.

My only mix observation is the snare is a little forward and too wide in some parts, but that is probably just me.

Twice.

Thanks for sharing.

thanks for the listen!! I will re-examine the snare being out front. Being a drummer, I hate drums buried in the mix which seems to happen a lot...LOL! Might just be me though too!!

Peace brother!!

Well, you cats certainly can lay down the tracks.

The mix was weird for me. There were times it sounded spot on, other times it sounds really narrow (other than that snare). I would get some sort of widener on the guitars to give them a bit more separation and present their goodness across the sound field better.

Ok interesting, I kinda like it but it vears a little too close to the 80's.  The mix, well for the drums are they parallel compressed, they need a bit more punch for this sort of music, or you could turn the guitar down and the drums up.  Another thing you could try for the drums to get punch and I do this all the time is use the tape sat effect, I think it is still included with Sonar.  Put this on the kick and snare and toms.

I just looked at your last post and you said you lowered the reverb, you could also try putting a compressor over the reverb setting it to around 10:1 ratio and just open up the attack and release time, this will give the verb punch and the drums punch and really giving it that big 80's reverb sound.  Also try using the HP and LP filters setting the to around 80hz and 4000khz respectivly, this will clear up any lingering tail.

some sweet playing, the youtube mp3 player doesn't help but there were a few issues for me, wasn't overly enamoured with Joop's tone, and the rhythm guitars were a bit naff. but the ambient bit were very good and airy, it's a hard ask to get that super-compressed hi-gain lead sound to mix with the other bits...but worth it for the track!