"Pura Vida" soft acoustic rock ballad

Now that I've heard a number of songs from you, I have to applaud your versatility.  You always surprise even though your style and voice always are consistently great.  This time I could hear some Jon Anderson in your voice.  You got it!

Post something that sucks once in awhile... unlike this one.

Nice tone!  A bit of Steven Stills vibe.

Daryl

LYNN
versatility, i guess that comes from all the years i spent on the road doing cover gigs....
covered a lot of ground, it was a great learning experience, that's for sure.

jon anderson, you know, that comment keeps coming up pretty consistently......
i personally don't hear it, but so many people have said that, i can only guess that the timbre of our voices must be similar.
i love old Yes, but have never learned any jon anderson tunes, so i can't hold it as an influence.

interesting perception, tho, i wonder if i could pull off an old Yes cover?!
heheh
thanks again



warren
yes, this one had a story behind it, it's a pretty simple love story.
blah blah and they lived happily ever after.
LOL
still writing that story.....
 
 

daryl
you want a sucky song?!
LOL
believe me, i have plenty of those too...... i just don't post em.

heheh, steven stills, i dig his stuff, i can hear that  angle, yeah.
thanks for listening
  

 
foxwolfen
another anderson comparison.....
what i really should do, is dub several old Yes tunes into sonar, then learn them and track my voice along with it (karoake style) and listen and compare.
that'd be a neat experiment...
meanwhile, i'll just roll with it.
i really cant do it any other way than the way i do anyways, so there's no point in trying to change it!
thanks for the comments

Perfect and craftsman like example of "how it's done"

Really nice Bats. I got a CSNY vibe a little. Love the production and performances.

Marvellous. The tracks you post always have such a great production value.

Nice to hear you kicking back and chilling a bit on this track.

Cheers,
Terry.

Now that was beautiful and I loved those little harmonics you had going on in there. The vocals were just awesome in this song and the congos/drums were working just wonderful toward the end. An overall great production on this. Peace be with you. Blessings, John

5 Star piece of work!

Fantastic track Bats, lovely sound top to bottom.

Skillzzzz; really good. I love the acoustic work too. I agree with Cian's comments, you've definitely got an ear for acoustic treatments.

Beautiful song, great listen. Vocally reminds me of Stephen Stills. Wonderful guitar playing....kudos. Lee

Wow.  Great sounds and a wonderful tune. 
 
Just as a personal preference, I would have liked to hear the vocals just a little louder.  Not that they are lost in the arrangement, but I found that I had to turn the volume up quite a bit from my normal listening volume to get them to fit right.  Listening at lower volumes they could use a bit more volume to balance against the guitars.
 
Glen

hey guys, thanks for keeping this tune rolling! i thought it had drifted away completely, but i found it still had unanswered replies, my apologies for being so slow on the take....


ruralrocker
i really like recording acoustic stuff...
it's so pure, there's no programming, or tricks, it's just hit the red button and try to capture something.
thanks for listening

philz
thanks phil, glad you dig it


warrenlee
appreciate the kind words, stephen stills, i've always dug him.
 

gcolbert
thanks for the feedback on the vocal mix.
everybody like something different, i find...
and honestly, i guess i just have to take a stance for low volume versus high volume mixing...
i do both, and try to check, just like you said, for low volume playback clarity.
on my system, i have to trust what i hear, based on studying pro mixes...
and the vox volume seems fine to me, at low volume.

so, this really segues into a part of mixing that i find fascinating, and i hear it all the time...
how loud should vox be?

i take old classic rock tunes that i love, and it's all over the map.
some vox are just obviously WAAAAY TOO LOUD...... and i love it that way.
that was a great producer's call, i guess...

and other vox (a lot of early stones is this way) is just buried...
and i love it that way.

i don't know, sometimes, i just hate hearing a clear and upfront vox, when the performance on it's own, just doesn't warrant it...

or, sometimes i just want to hear the vox as another musical instrument, and let the whole thing come into focus together.
that's what i tried to do on this particular mix.....

i wanted it to have a sound that would draw you in.
i do not mix for the lazy casual listener!!
LOL

and i would guess, that a lot of pro mixes, mix exactly for that.
they say 'this is a singer, the song serves only the singer, so everything get behind that!'
heheh
and i'm more about trying to find an identifiable 'band sound', in as far as i can push the singer/songwriter/one-man-band concept.
thanks for listening and commenting glen!