Awesome!! Micheal, Reece, Sean, and....Animal? Hope that isn't his real name :)
 
Clear mix. Great guitars and vocals. Wonderful drums...the whole thing is well done IMO!

Very nice job on this guys! Mix sounds great! Love the lyrics too.

Starise, Herb, Leadfoot, H....

Thank you for listening and commenting. Animal, ha...I had the muppets character in mind when I was trying to figure out who to credit with the drums. I programmed them using EZD2.

Herb, to answer your questions, yes... Sean played the intro and solo, fuzzed/ wah leads. He asked if he could have a go at it. I described to him what I heard in my head. He nailed it. The first reaction that I had when I first heard the intro was...Holy Crap....that's absolutely perfect. He did two versions of the middle solo and I chose the second version. As you can probably tell by now, I was the mixer and producer.

I am becoming a huge fan of this virtual band stuff, we are starting to gel and compliment one another's skills. This song in particular, every ones parts were working well together. Even with both Sean and myself each taking an electric rhythm part, we played very well in sinc with each other.

Wookie, if I knew you already went by Animal, we might have recruited you to lay down the drums.
 
Thanks for the listen.  We are hoping the mix is sounding balanced to everyone. 

A very nice song.  Reece, I didn't know you were doing these collabs.  You guys really sound good together.  That vocal thing has taken off for you!  All of the players did a fine job.  I too like the leads.  I like the song too.  All around nice work.  

Pogue, I had another trusted friend suggest panning the BGVs slightly more, I will give that a try.

Evadianepug, this is our second song to collaborate on and we have several more in the works. Yes, I really like the mixture of vocal tones that we get as a group and it has been interesting to see of the different opportunities this has opened up for us musically to utilize each other's talents.

Lynn, thank you for listening brother. I love the way this song starts out as well by popping right into that blast of full band and into lead. Sent chills down my spine the first time I loaded up everyone's tracks.

I am not at home to verify Clint, but I think it is just the DW Kit set on the "original" preset. The only other one that I would have used is Rock!, but I don't think I used it on this one. I, of course, went through the different kit piece options and selected snares, kicks, and cymbals that compliment the song the best. I didn't switch out Tom, rom the basic kit.

Thanks for listening and commenting everyone!
 
Here's the breakdown of how we've been working together so far; the first song we did was purely collaborative effort from the ground up.  we started with a plan on the type of song it should be, threw some chords and melodies together and fine tuned it, then we started creating parts and placing them in a project template created by the producer/mixing engineer (I wore that hat on the first song).  that first song also included Herb in our collab, but the next ones he has decided to step out of, at least temporarily.
 
on this song and the next 2 songs, we are all helping out with songs which are actually written by each of us individually.  this particular song was written by Mike and he produced and mixed it. 
 
the next song we'll have out will be one which was written by Sean and Mike is also mixing and producing that one. 
 
we've learned a lot from each other and we're starting to settle into a really solid relationship.  that's not to say we don't have disagreements any more, but we're starting to get to know each other better anyway.
 
Warren - Mike is singing lead vocals on this, I'm only singing harmonies.  Sean sang the higher harmonies and I sang the lower ones.
 
thanks again for listening!  I'm glad you guys are enjoying Scandalous Grace!

What Steve said. Sounds pretty good to me as well.
 
Regards,
Dan
 

Thanks Steve!  we appreciate it very much!
 
thanks Dan!  Ditto to what I said to Steve! LOL!  j/k!!!
 
Thanks Janet!  glad you stopped by for a listen!  we miss you, too!

Great stuff guys, very catchy and the mix came through great on my system.  Nice performances all around!
 

Hey Tony!  thanks a lot for listening! 

Great playing guys, live and vibrant rocky feel - good job!

konradh - thanks for the listen and the comments.

In terms of getting a good tone, I've experienced trial and error as well. A few pointers that I hope will be helpful to you:
1) Make sure that your levels are good. If the input level is too small, it seems that it will sound more noisy and hissy. If your input or output levels are too high you will get unpleasant distorting.
2) Use your noise gate. I've had good results with the noise gate in TH2 (which is what I used on this recording). I also use Amplitube sometimes. It also has a noise gate, but I haven't had as good results with it.
3) Consider your pickups. I like the results I get from humbuckers when using an overdriven sound. Single coils are better for a clean sound IMO (though this may be a matter of taste). Single coils, though, do seem to do quite well with an "edgy," lower to medium gain sound. TH2 also has a setting for the type of pickups you are using.

If you want more details about the settings, effects and amp models I used in TH2 for this, I'd be happy to share. Just PM me.

thegaltierbrothers - thanks for the good words! I appreciate your taking time to listen.

- Sean