Jennifer Levy - Stone Cold

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Hi and thank's for the comment Andy

It is true that there's a glitch in 2:23, my friend tried to mix this tune and he most likely forgot to take off an compressor
or limiter on the vocal track so i got that track and it is clipping, he will probably send me a new vocal rendering
and i will redo the whole mix from scratch, cause the strings is a bit bright and loud
also i am not satisfied with the piano, and the mix of the instruments, and maybe there's
a tad to much ( pre ) send delay on the vocal, even if the whole song is simple
there seems that's it is to much going on.. IMO.

I sat up all night, and got tired ears.. hard to be an amateur " mixing engineer ", ehhhh.

Instruments is all midi and VSTi's from within sonar, i need to do a better job here.
Yes Jennifer is a great singer, technically and in voice.

I got sonar platinum, i tried to fast bounce, but that gave me vocals first and then the instruments
came in all to late, like 6-8 seconds after or more.. playing fast... don't know if anyone has noticed this ?
so i rendered it without fast bounce, that worked. I always use the 64 bit rendering engine and
24 bit, 44.1 khz in my " project's ".

I did not have that issue with X3, maybe the audio engine need a tad more overhaul still ?
Also encountered more " crackles " in the sound to with it !
i have the latest version of Platinum, and updates.

 ( Note , i did reinstall the whole computer earlier and only have Sonar platinum installed now. ) so all should be good.

Please do critical comments , that will help me forward in mixing , thanks

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It is true that there's a glitch in 2:23

Thanks for confirming that Jan, and for the insight to your production 
 
It is indeed hard work LOL, when, for some of us, the art of mixing does not come naturally.
 
I'm listening again and I can see where Lynn is coming from regarding the piano sample. I'm wondering if perhaps a bit more time on examining each note played and seeing if minute velocity changes would help with that.
 

Lynn
I look forward to hearing it.

Same here, this is a strong song that warrants some attention 
 
cheers
 
andy

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so there will be a lot of work to " Humanize " it. 

Hi Jan,
 
I know there are a few discussions about this subject in one of the other forums, so it may be worth doing a search on that. When I decide I need to humanise something, I just get down to it and literally alter every note position and velocity...

Great singer and really good song.    Not sure if you fixed the piano sound in this mix currently posted but it seems a bit brittle yet.   That said, am a fan of NI's Alicia's Keys so typically baseline on that level of quality from a piano perspective;)  Never was a fan of True Pianos.      I would generally leave the piano panned to it's natural position in the stereo field, particularly when the piano is the main instrument under the vocal performance.   It seems you have the piano panned primarily to the left side.  Not a hard and fast rule but generally you will hear that layout on many Vocal/Piano songs as it has a more natural feel to it...
 
Nice overall arrangement and mix.   All these nits above are very minor as you have a real winner here as is.    I think you just need a better piano sample to take it over the top, along with some more dynamics in the MIDI piano performance. 
 
I might also consider putting a more prominent solo cello under part of the string sections, panned right down the middle.   You have an awesome start here, you could call it a day with the current mix but it sounds like you want to take it up a notch..Definitely worthwhile endeavor to push it a little more.   Stellar performance.
 
Regards