Smoke, by Rik Frieling and me (now w/less reverb - 6/2)

I hope I haven't posted this before.  If I did, it's been a long time.  I think I'm finally happy with it now.  Rik's composition...I played along.  Crits welcome. And thank you!
 
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_songInfo.cfm?bandID=789731&songID=13137181
 
Reduced the reverb, evening of June 2.  Thank you all! 

Thanks so much for that.  I'll go back and see if I can fix that without screwing up anything else. :)  Sure do appreciate it!  

Another beautiful song, Janet.  I agree with Mesh on the reverb.  It diminishes the beautiful finger picking and blend of piano and string.  Keep the verb, just lower the mix a bit and you've got a gem.

He means lower the volume of the reverb Janet.
 
I really like what you both did. The playing is really good. 
The melodic structure is also very good. It carries a lot of emotion between the two of you.
I would pan the piano a bit more to the right so it helps the stereo image of it better. Guitar is perfect. 
Just backoff the reverb overall - this production does not need so much of it. 
Nice job.

Thank you so much, Rimshot.  Once I opened up Sonar, that made more sense, but your directions certainly helped!  
I panned them both a little more and brought the reverb down quite a bit.  Can't believe I didn't hear that before.  Well, I can (believe it). But I wish I would have.  
 
Thanks Billy.  Back in the day (a few years ago), I was that girl...did quite a few collabs around here.  Now it's all I can do to drag out a few old ones and try to polish them up.  Maybe some day...
 
Another question for anyone...does this seem compressed enough?  It's way 'wavier' than other files I see.  I use Ozone's 'loudness maximizer' and I guess that used to do the trick, but perhaps I'm not using it right.  I can use the Sonitus Compressor and that will do it but I often wonder if that's a good idea....(to use it in addition to Ozone).  
 
So...new mix up as of June 2, evening. Thanks again so much!  You guys are the best! 

And thanks to you too, Andy.  Really glad you liked it. :) 
 

I love this one Janet. I think you both did an excellent job on it! I didn't hear the earlier version, so I'm not sure how different it sounded before. I think the reverb is pretty good now. The only small nit I can hear is the underlying guitar part. Some might prefer the "cascading" effect on the guitar in the background...I think it sounds a bit busy to my ears..I would probably either slow it down to 1/8 notes or remove it all together since the guitar and piano sound so good together. The guitar cascade seems to make it too busy in the background in my opinion...and another reason possibly that getting the right reverb is difficult...when you have a part like that going through reverb it can be tough to make it sound clear with the notes moving so fast..one possible fix is simply to buss less reverb to that track.
 
Very nice!

Beautiful duet.  Sounds perfect on my headphones.