Borrow some ears for a song? New version June 24

Fine song Dean, this is great stuff. The only possible nit I have is the sound of the strummed guitar in the right channel (comes in on the second verse I think), it sounds very brittle and thin. It really is a nit though, 'cos this sounds fantastic to me. Lovely vocal sound, tasty guitar break, great dynamics, neat little details like the xylophone/marimba..it's all good.

This is so fine Dean... really, a wonderful arrangement... I 'd love to hear more of an intro and ending though... and maby a few subtle reverb tails on the stops... Great work... Vocals are outstanding...

Hi folks,
Thanks for the ears. Good to know I haven't gone way off the deep end with this one. 

jamesg1213 and Foxwolfen - you're spot on with the acoustic guitar. It was tracked in a room with some problems so I'm fighting that a bit, but I need to go back and see if I can fatten it out some. I think the other thing going on with that part leads right into Foxwolfens comment about the mix being cold. Since there are so many things going on in this piece my goal was to keep things clean and separated and I wonder if in doing that I haven't made things too sterile. I'm probably going to try and liven up the bass guitar sound a bit and try and fix the acoustic guitar and then maybe play with UAD's FATSO or Studer to make things a bit more chunky. Hmmm...might just try to run the entire mix through a couple channels of the Sebatron tube pre to see what that does as well...

Frank, thanks for the listen and the kind words. We actually left out any sort of intro on purpose. Music directors are frequently "get to the point and get there fast or I'm moving on to the next song" kind of guys, so we wanted to grab them fast. Might play with the 'verb tails a bit though. Now if I could just get that super-cool gooey warmth you have on all your stuff. You're not gonna be in SLC any time soon, are you? :)

Lynn, thanks for listening. I've always appreciated your comments both on my work and on others.

In any case, I might bug ya'all with one more version.

Thanks again
Dean

Don't over think it Dean. It seems like a very simple eq tweak on the master would be all it needs. You are 95% there IMO.

Hi folks,

californiamusic - Yep it's a bit brittle. It's funny, I had a look at the master bus found an instance of UAD Precision EQ strapped across it that was boosting 3.25 by 3db. Once I pulled that down it made a ton of difference. Re: VST's and such, Synth's are mostly Absynth, the bass guitar is Scarbee Pre-bass. Synth drums are Battery, Acoustic drums are Sup Drummer. Guitars are a mix of Guitar Rig and a Bogner amp and some mics :) Various fx plugs are in there as well...mostly UAD and T-Racks. Vox was all tracked with a U87 through Great River pre's and an 1176.

Foxwolfen - Yeah...I think that EQ that I had forgotten about will likely solve most of it. Should have a new version shortly.

Voxbox - Thank you, glad you enjoyed it. I think you're spot on with the brittleness...hopefully the EQ work that I'm doing will solve it. Thanks for the listen.

Dean

Dean, I just listened to the remix, and you got it right.  It was great before, but now it's better.  This  is one of my all time forum favorites.  That's why I keep coming here, for gems like this.

This is great. Love the composition and textures. I thought the vocal seemed a little buried on the first couple of lines and a little too forward on the lines just after where it breaks about 2/3 of the way through after the sustained violin note - sorry can't give you the timing as this comes up as quick time player for me and there is no timer on it.

Outstanding.

I almost missed this. So glad I jammed on the brakes to give this a listen.
Very well done. I really like the song, and have no comments to give about the mix.
Bravo!!!

Excellent Dean, great arrangement!!