Rainy April is finally finished!

Very nice - good playing from all involved, and a clean, well defined and separated mix.

Light and airy, well titled, well played and mixed. You are all to be commended for pulling this together. A decade ago this would not have been possible.

KEv

Hi Randy:

Sounds good! Thanks for including me. A lot of improvements on this version. Steve and Ed sound great, as always, and I really like the piano on this.

BTW, I got your email last night, but I was wanting to get in some family time because I've been gone for a few days. Anyway, just wanted to let you know I wasn't ignoring you.

Very nice piece of music rgfors!! I really enjoyed it.

Sounds great, Randy. That new piano part is excellent.

I've added this to my list of Randy bootlegs. I really enjoy your music!

Curventicle, Thanks for taking the time to have a listen, we all appreciate it!

Hello Marco! (I owe you a chord chart, but have been out of town!) Thanks for listening my friend, and yes, this song has mautred quite nicely. (I still like your porno guitar part though..)

Hey Charley! You did a great job on this one man! It took awhile to get all the pieces together, but was definitely worth the wait!

Hello Gary, That piano intro riff is one measure consisting of 18 notes that took me 6 weeks to get right! I refuse to change it! Thanks for taking the time to listen and comment!

Hey Ed! Your bass brought the bottom end together on this, and wouldn't be near as good without you. I thank you again for your excellent playing and as always, its great !

Hello M.. I forgot to give Steve appropriate credit for mixing and mastering. I think he did a terrific job on this one! As far as the BPM, it has been the same since version 1.

Nice moody music, like always from you Randy. I like the changes.

Clean playing across the board, I'd be proud if I were one of you guys. That sax is really nice.

ORIGINAL: kiwisdontdrinktea

I loved the part where the Sax just took off and left everything hanging to be brought back down by the drums, real quick. Who's idea was that? Lovely!

Steve, I like how you moved the piano over to the right in the mix without losing too much of the body, how far over did you go, it sounds far, 70%? I tried that with some samples and it lost it's body, had to bring it back more to the center, wondering if you are applying some effect to give it that fullness I lost? Sounds like some reverb, if so, what setting?

Cheers, thx, great work.

The piano is a mix of a Sonic Reality Blues Daddy Grand through SampleTank2 and the direct out of a Kurzweil SP88X digital piano. Not totally in love with either one by itself... but the mix of the two is quite nice. The Blues Daddy Grand has wonderful stereo separation. Body of the instrument sits nicely in the middle with the high register moving toward the right. There is just a touch of UAD-1 Plate 140 reverb on the piano.

I started with a Smokey Alto preset on the UAD-1 Plate 140 reverb on Charley's sax and then modified almost everything to taste. There is also a Waves super tap delay in there with a setting to make the delay on the right slightly stronger and "closer". Both the verb and delay are applied through aux sends on the bus for the sax.

A real pleasure (and some pressure) mixing and mastering a project with so much talent.

Randy, Charley, Ed, and Glenn... gorgeous stuff... really.

Very sweet!...I don't think I've heard any of the other versions...always wanted to play the sax!

Production sounds excellent, arrangement is top notch.....what guitar are you using?

Hi Randy and Team,

Absolutely beatiful song well done can we have some more please.

Charley you are an amazing Sax Player, the moment the Sax came in it reminded me
so much about Dave Koz, that I put one of he's CD's on.

Thank you for the listen guys

Mike

Hello Melf,

Thanks for taking the time to listen and for all of your valuable information on the mastering. Steve will certainly investigate! (I've been standing in front of an amp too many years, and I don't have the ears for it..)

ORIGINAL: chaz

(I take it Chaz mixed?)

Not this one, Mark. I would have mixed it a bit differently, but Steve did do a good job on this one.

I'm honored Chaz. All the samples on your site sound excellent... so I appreciate the kind words.

Mark: No, I'm not too bummed out about the comparison to Kenny G. I actually liked his early stuff (when he was with Lorber and his first couple solo albums). It's true he is not an amazing sax player, but he made it listenable to the common person. Unfortunately, I can't stand the stuff he's doing now.

Peter: Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the sax.

Kiwis: If it was a good idea, it was probably mine. Just kidding. Steve's a great player who knows where to take things.

mwalter: Thanks for listening.

Shaun: Glad you liked it. Always wanted to play sax, eh? Well, it's probably one of the easier wind instruments to learn (and possibly one of the harder ones to make sound good!). Funny though - I always wanted to play guitar and sing.

Mike: I think Dave is one of the better "smooth jazz" guys out there. So, thanks for the compliment.