The Eternal Loch

Nice piece Tim. My thoughts would be on separation (panning) of the instruments and widening the piece a bit. Seems you have lots of room to work with. Then you can bring the volume controls to their proper points for instrumentation clarity. Once you get it closer to final mix, then you could use your final mix software. I use Izotope Ozone 6 with my custom presets. Very lovely piece so far.
 
Peace and Blessings, John

Hi Tim,
 
This is a nice composition, which I come to expect from you now that I've listened to a lot of your work. The mix is pretty full, to my ears. I'm listening on cans, so the bass may be okay, although I could take more on my KRK's. I wanted to hear more of the hand percussion, as I am sure I can hear some in there (bongos perhaps?), it's hard to tell... Might even be slapping the guitar body, but it's too low to tell for sure. So, perhaps bring that up a bit in the mix.
 
(Sounds funny me providing mix advice to any of you guys LOL)
 
cheers
 
andy

Warm, rich, certainly mature. Wonderful.

Hi tim , nice relaxing tune with lots going on.
 
Rik

Tim, this is a very well constructed tune and mix.  I wouldn't mind the percussion coming up a bit.  I like the bassline.  It fits well.

Nice tune Tim but it does not quite create the image I have from the title, for me it has a too enclosed sound, I would expect an airy sound with space to breath.
 
Good start and knowing how hard you work on your music I think this has the potential to be one of your master pieces.
 
Thanks for sharing.

 Awesome tune Tim, I really enjoyed. You must have a museum filled with rare stringed instruments. 

Tim- what a journey. love the ukulele tuned in 5ths 
reminds me of REM's Green album, which is one of my favs of theirs!
loved this bro- 
 
- Daren 

at first i thought some timing issues but now just think you're pushing the beat a little? anyway, love how this builds up, good change of instrumentation to keep the dynamics altering. good mix too!

Hi guys I really appreciate the great feedback I've gotten on this track! I'll respond individually...
 
Rik- Many thanks to you sir! I hope this finds you feeling better!
 
synkrotron- Coming from a synth guy I really appreciate your take on it! 
 
Mark- Glad to see you back again Mark long time no see! Thank you for your advice!
 
Billy- Welcome to the song area! Nice to meet you! ...and thanks for listening and commenting on this track!
 
Wookie- I appreciate you honesty here...I'll go back and re evaluate this!
 
Ben- When I listen to your mixes I usually hear a great mix...so I'm listening...I did pan the parts. I'm not even sure which panning law I used. I do usually try and use panning to my advantage.Maybe I need to look at it more in depth this time and try to hear what you are hearing.
On my last track I heard that it was too loud by one listener out of like 20 comments....but people are accustomed to listen louder, so he may have been onto something, and the genre should be taken into consideration I think. When I compare my track to other similar tracks in my genre, I had found the volume to be too soft and so I did take some measures to make it louder and to my ears it still doesn't quite measure up to pro mastered material, but I don't doubt you Ben...so PLEASE if anyone else is hearing this please tell me so I can look more at my staging...on my system it seems to be ok with my volume set to 50%...maybe even a bit low. I am loud using K-14 but I fall into a comfortable range at the typical db scale. Thanks for your detailed comments Ben!
 
ohgrant- Thanks man! Well I have a small room filled with stringed instruments...and I am planning to add at least a few more...old world maybe but not really old :)
 
James- Thanks for your comments.Unforunately until I can get a little better preamp setup my guitar doesn't really capture the way I'd like it to. It seems to work for me sometimes in that guitars can be too much especially in the high mids...the flip side is a guitar track that lacks a lot of mojo...and my bodhran is only 12"...I'm going to be getting a big one soon.
 
Daren- Thanks man! If your interested there's a guy stringing ukes up in GDAD. He uses two nylon and two steel strings.. The steel strings are the low strings and the nylon are the higher ones. They are heck to keep in tune though.As an addition to other stringed parts i think it works great.
 
Tom- Thanks! I'm glad you think my current setup is working ok...I had wondered about the bass since I can hear some string noise. This is probably what you're referring to.
 
mgh- Thank you!
 
Dan- Thanks Dan good to hear from you!...a female..light and airy you say? I'm not sure how much I should devulge here...I thought I had a female vocalist..she agreed to work on future things with me and then she simply disappeared. I sent an idea, she said she would get back to me and ....nothing in over a month. I'm a little disappointed. I think she wanted to work on her own material...putz around with reason and get kudos by herself ..I don't really know because  she dropped off the radar which I think was more than a little immature ( especially for a 40 year old). I had my hopes up but she was pretty good at sticking a hole in my balloon.....I'm starting to get really tired of attempting to work with women...sorry but that's just how I feel right now. I seen a real potential to combine our abilities...but well...screw it....so I guess maybe you can tell I'm a little bitter. I have shevannai and that works ok for some things, but I'm really trying to be more independent in my creations because it seems I have to be.

really enjoyed this tune..and no I dont think the bass is too busy.
 
I think you've got loads of good mixing advice so I'll just add it does need some air and things need to come up front a bit more...
 
i love the feel...

Dan- I wish I couldn't agree with you but from everything I have seen I can't deny it...maybe some time I'll be peasantly surprised. I'm not saying all women are evil lol!...but I haven't found the right combination yet. When they think they're good they start to distance themselves from us mere mortals. And they might not really even be that good...all they need to do is think they are :)
 
thepogue- Thanks man! Yeah...now all I need to do is go back and try to correct some of those things !
 
Walt- Thanks! Maybe one of these day I'll bump into you seeeing as how you don't live very far away!
 
Note- Just a heads up. I won't be able to get to a computer for awhile after today....so if I missed commenting on a song you did I sincerely apologize and I would ask that you post me a link in a PM...I'll do my best when I can to listen to it...not that my comments are anything spectacular, but I don't intentionally miss anyone if I can help it and I'm sure you realize there are only so many hours in the day and I just run out of time.
 
All The Best
 
Tim 

I dunno since I'm a luddite to this kind of music and any crits would be (IMO) just personal taste.
 
I liked it all. I did not find any jarring or glaring errors in mix levels or performances on one listen.