Jeff - thats sounds great!  Especially in comparison with some of the other submissions that I checked out.  Love the "airy" sound of the percussion and the early reflections or whatever you're doing to get that sound.  Good luck with that!

Thanks to Geno and Danny for your kind words. Out of interest Geno there are no early reflections being used on the hand drums at the start. It is just the fact there are so many tracks all playing the one groove. About 20 or more in total. Although I actually played the parts very accurately to the click so there would be minimum flamming going on but there is always still just a hint of that going on. But that is what I wanted. The live hand drum groove changes that whole track big time!

I am using an external hardware reverb on the hand drums and that is an old Ibanez SDR1000 which was made by Sony apparently. An old reverb but still sounds excellent on many things. 

I am in the process of actually remixing it again mainly for the bottom end. The mixer the Kurzweil is feeding has a nice HPF switch on that channel and it has made a huge difference. Taking a lot of boom out of the bass sound. The other bass from the original stems I have also tamed a bit using a HPF and turned it down. It is all sounding better now. It is interesting that when you start turning bass down a bit how much more percussive and punchy your mix will sound! It is so easy to have the bass way too loud in any mix.

Both pads I have HPF a fair bit too. Another classic example of huge bottom end coming out of synth pads which are way too powerful for most mixes. Both the Wavestation and the JD800 can rumble the floor and rattle your trouser leg! I cannot believe still how much bottom end hardware synths still seem to have. Emulators are insane too! The JD is one of the most amazing sounding Roland synths I have ever heard. It is in a class of it's own.


There is a new link too due to me pulling down the first mix and putting up a new one:   

http://www.indabamusic.co...est/submissions/146994