Simple Days

My favorite Starise tune.  I haven't heard Zaphon yet so we'll see.  Tim,,this has a very nice old time folk/rock vibe.  I felt very comfortable listening to it.  Don't make someone late to work!!

Starise,
 
Really well done...Good song and excellent acoustic performance.   Your use of space is perfect for this genre.
 
Regards

Great work, Tim.  Nicely done.   Aside from a little timing issue here and there, not much to add to the mix suggestions above....    I pretty much found myself just listening to the song.  
 

Nice Tim very nice I like the way you captured this a very natural sound.  Few timing tweaks maybe but no I like this.

This was very good. Mix sounded balanced.
kakku

Thanks Warren! Sometimes it's nice to be late to work, know what I mean ;)
 
Thanks Lynn, The jury is still out on if I'll make this more complicated. I had thought about adding a solo in the middle to break it up between the parts where I talk about " a laugh a drink or two". Appreciate you listening!
 
Mark,  A big thanks!...Dan thanks for your comments. I have lowered the drums in places. I hope they no longer are as overbearing in this mix.
 
Steve, Thanks . So when are we getting together to work on something? You're only right down the road from me ;)
 
Thanks Freddy, I appreciate!!!
 
Wookie thanks for chiming in here. Your comments are very much appreciated.
 
Mark, Thanks! All the best your way!
 
Kakku , thank you much!
 
Herb, Thanks! I have been thinking about doing just that. As always I appreciate your views . I guess I felt as if I might be making the song too sparse, but in hindsight maybe not. Honestly I'm not happy with my voice totally and the harmonies are marginal at best IMO...kind of like seeing a pic of myself...yuck :) I feel better that others aren't quite as critical of that. I think I'll do as you recommend and come back with something else. I'm also wondering if it shouldn't be a bit louder. Since it is an acoustic tune I didn't want to get carried away, but it doesn't seem quite as present as some other acoustic mixes I've heard. I had to pull my volume slider up more to really hear it. What do you think? I haven't done any scientific test on it to see exactly where it sits. I think I'm in the neighborhood of -3db at my highest volume on it...very little in the way of compression.
 
 
 
 

I would tune those vox a bit, also, it felt like the high violin part could have used some more diversity, good job though. 
 
H-

Once again Great work Tim. really nice :)

"H"- Thank you for your comments. I have tuned the vox in places since you listened and have also removed some of the vox where it seemed to be too much. I also changed the violin here and there...nothing radical though just small stuff:)
 
Daren-  Thanks man! Being compared top REM can't be bad thing :) Minimalist...yes. I guess it doesn't get much more minimalist than this..almost a total 1+1. 
 
Gus- Thanks!!
 
Bat- Thanks for your comments! I actually hated the last version of this I did because I couldn't seem to get those timing errors eliminated. I guess I'm not good enough at auto snap yet. The problem arose from me adding those additional guitar interludes later on after the main recording was already made....which I have since removed. I like this version much better. I had some thump on the guitars in the 200mhz region ..so I did some surgery there,maybe too much .This never had much going on below that..Hmmm..maybe I'll look at adding some bass from the guitar below that range to give it more low end without it being annoying. 
 
When I took those guitar interludes the second time I had a tough time duplicating the tones from the first take...so I just scraped those parts. This mix is pretty much my original takes. No overdubs. Thanks!