Rainbows, collab with Rik, new mix 9/13

Another Janet/Rik duo.  In my mind, this was just for piano and guitar but Rik said it needed more, so the last half has a string section.  Danny helped me with the mix, then I had to tweak THAT to make Rik happy.  Sheesh...I thought I had enough trouble keeping one man happy!  Well, anyway, here you go.  Thanks a ton, Danny...that was a great help!  :) Comments welcome, as always. 
 
 
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Nice music

Thanks Jim.  Can you explain what you mean by top heavy?  And eq issue, or something else?

Thanks Herb.

Well thank you, Malcolm. That made my day.  :)

Boy, you guys are really knocking out those collab projects, and they just keep getting better.  Very nice work here by both of you.

Janet/Rik,

Very nice! Great playing and really nice job on the strings, tympani, cymbals...etc.

OIC what you mean, Jim. Thanks.  That should be a fairly easy fix.  I hear it now too.  :)

Thank you, Phil.  They just seem to keep coming together.  :)

Thanks for those thoughts, Mark.  The only way I know to widen the piano is to put channel tools on it and that makes the piano sound terrible IMO.  So, not quite sure what to do here.  I imagine there will be a few more mixes coming, so hopefully we'll figure it out.  :)

Thank you Gary!

Thanks Max.  I'll definitely look at those cymbals.  I appreciate the idea. 

Hey Janet and Rik, this turned out really good! Nice job as always. :) Cymbals are a bit loud...I forgot about them and they scared me to death. LOL! Guitar spread is a bit wide...it may have been my fault for confusing you. Those settings I shared were to show you how to it would spread to the extreme. I should have mentioned that was just a starting point...but also figured since you said Rik was taking care of the guitar stuff that he would have handled it. Just a bit wide on the guitars which in a sense, makes things conflict a bit in the stereo field...but it's way better than when I first heard it. :) Awesome job...and you had this man happy the day you sent the file and asked me to take a listen to it. :)

mgh: nah I really didn't do anything on this one bro. Janet and Rik did it all. Janet sent me a mix to check out and the one thing I noticed was we had this huge piano engulfing the stereo field and this little guitar (well-played I might add) sounding very mono and down the middle. I tried to teach her how to expand it a bit so it didn't sound so small and mono...that was all I did in this one. :)

So yeah Janet, if you wanted to fix this mix up a bit, I'd tighten the guitars a little...do what James said on the low end, but I'd personally not add any lows to the piano...that sounded perfect to me all across the board. I'd just hit the guitars with a little low...lower the cymbals and low pass them a bit so they aren't so ssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh sounding when they fully open up and you should be good to go. I'm proud of ya! :)

-Danny

Hi All thanks for listening, glad you all seem to like this piece, I sure do. We're still working on how to combine the piano and guitar sounds. Thanks Danny , for taking the time to help.

Rik

On my speakers this one carries plenty of bottom end. In fact, I remarked to myself that Janet's left hand sounded particularly authoritative at points. In any event, the piano and classical guitar sound great together. Good job.

Beautiful music, great job guys.  I would of liked the end to linger around sustained a smidgen longer

Hi Janet, this sounds epic, almost to epic for my little speakers, think you forgot the reverb tail while exporting, it stops a bit abrupt. Fun stuff this remixing, isn't it 

Hi Janet,  I like this one, a lot. But then again ,  I liked number 8, shows what I know, eh. : D.

Rik

very nice work you two!!

Absolutely beautiful tune.  Love it!  Excellect performances both of you! 

How did I miss this one??  Beautiful song and great performance and collab.,
 
Freddy J