A little rundown on how this came about... I was at rehearsal at my church and I had pulled this song for the group. It was new to some of them and one of the members recommended I do it as a "special number" to get people accustomed to a new song. I decided to take them up on that suggestion. The night before I was to play it I said to myself....might as well track it while I'm going through it. So I armed a track with the Sampletekk Old Lady piano and grabbed the nearest mic that worked and would fit in my stand. I tracked both the piano and my vocal in one pass. That only took about 10 minutes. Then later on I spent over 2 hours adding another vocal some string parts and wrote some automation.Added a bus for the FX reverb. I am open to any suggestions on it. I am using Valhallas 64 bit reverb plug-in .

https://soundcloud.com/st...aling-is-in-your-hands

Very nice... beautiful Vocal performance... maybe a little over compressed.. but very good...

 Thanks Notnat.

notnat
Very nice... beautiful Vocal performance... maybe a little over compressed.. but very good...

+1 on what he say.....

I tried to listen but , again, soundcloud did not play for me.  I just listened to one on soundcloud before I tried to listen to yours.  I don't know why soundcloud just works intermittently for me.  It requires a total reboot to get it to work once it won't play something.  I'll try that later.  Sorry.

This is absolutely beautiful. Love the song, love the message.

Nice job.
 
I'd drop the strings a few db. They seemed to be rally loud and overpowering.
 
Aside from that, I like it. Simple arrangement.

This is a very good song that would benefit from more dynamics and less reverb, though it does sound huge.  Other than that, well done!

 Bapu- Thanks for listening. I'll look at  reducing that compression.
 
 Pug- Thanks for the attempt . I had a lot of problems with soundcloud on IE.
 
 Mark- Thanks for dropping on by for a listen and for the kind comments!
 
Herb- I listened on a few different setups before I posted here and I guess because of the differences in systems the strings sounded loud on some and softer on others. Did you listen on your pro setup?  I must have an ugly peak in there somewhere. Thanks for pointing this out. I'll look into it further.Thanks for your critique and comments.
 
 Lynn- I appreciate your insight here. I think this lines up well with another comment regarding over compression. Thanks!
 
 
 
 
 
 

Well, I think it a beautiful song with a nice message.  I have to go along with the other mix comments.  However, understanding how you put this together, I think you did a good job.  I'm not sure how much you can work with it but some tweeks could help.  Again cudos to the songwriters and to you for your performances.