"Soft truths." he mixed it again... X2 mix 9/26

New original, it’s called “Soft truths.” I didn’t set out to write it? I am the vessel, and songs come to me, I’m just glad they’re still coming!

Mr. Markno999 collaborated with me on this gem.  I wrote it, and recorded it and then sent it to him for his opinion and to add a lead?

Well, he produced it, redid the drums (everyone likes his drums better) added some rhythm guitar, added some orchestration, did the solo, recommended the dobro in the beginning (which I added) and Mark did the mix.

He is the Seals to my Croft, he is the Garfunkel to my Simon, and I am proud to have him as a colab partner.

Submitted for your approval, I think it’s a monster hit?
At the top, “Soft truths.”

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I believe we all have and live with "Soft truths..." Sometimes from us personally? And sometimes from others close to us. 


I'm playing the Goodall 6, a Taylor 12, and a Warwick fretless. the bro is my Goldtone. Good mics and pre-amps, I know Mark's stuff is the shizzy as well. I did the piano in Ivory, and my strings were EWQL Gold, He redid the drums (I think with Superior?) I'm really pleased with how it turned out, but also very interested in feedback from the mix-masters :-)

Thanks Ed :-) This is the one I said "came to me?" When I was working on Gary's tune? It came on in and said "WRITE ME!! RECORD ME!?" And Mark is a freaking genius... Seriously. I wrote it? But he perfected it... Not saying it's perfect? But you know what I mean. Thanks again! We've worked hard on it :-)

nice job on this track. calls to mind a bit of Lynyrd Skynyrd and Bob Seger, which is always a great thing :) 
guitar solo is tasty and reminds me of classic arena rock done the way it should be.  i think the slide guitar in the beginning can come up a db or two so we can enjoy it all the more.

good stuff. 


-Daren 

Robby, I always enjoy your distinctive voice, and this is no exception.  Very fine songwriting and production makes this a winner.  This deserves a wide audience, and I hope you find it.

Bravo guys. This is wonderful.
nits:
I agree with Herb on the vocs.
I also thought the guit solo was a little busy for the tune.

Really liked this.

great song, Rob, and I can deffo hear Mark's touch on this.  I enjoyed it's harkening back to the 70s...got a little "Tiny Dancer" off of it here and there before the chorus.

Some crits (as always, take them as they come):
-vocals are buried a bit, as per Herb and Tim. I think the reverb you are using needs a huge cut from the bottom end (maybe 500hz or higher)
-the placement of the dobro (?) in the intro could be moved off to the side so it doesn't clash with the acoustics (which are too loud the entire tune and require more HPFing)
-the swells at :35 are terrific
-there is a snare hit at 1:28 that sounds completely different from the rest of the hits and kinda interrupts the feel
-the string things at :50-53 are a great idea but they are too crisp: I would cut the highs pretty significantly to give them some distance
-the string riff at 1:19 sounds keyboard-y
-snare has little presence...it kinda comes and goes...needs more compression and some reverb to de-mono-ize it
-agree there is too much going on in the lead portion...I would get rid of some elements or do some drastic eq cuts if you want to leave them all in, and/or do some hard panning to make room for the lead
-the cymbals are too loud and in your face...I would do a lot of HPF on them to just make them fit

All in all, a stellar outing.

Nice song, however, I did not care for any of the drums. Sounded muffled to me and yes the cymbals were no low end or not really there just sizzle in high frequencies to me. Of course every playback system is different so I mention what was in my opinion a determent to the song with the drum sounds.

I listened... but I'll have to comment later...
right now I'm watching the Dem Convention...

more to come...

Mark is tweaking the mix quite a bit based on the feedback (thank you mix masters!) I'll put a new mix up Thurs evening hopefully. Thanks again, with specifics to follow. Unless you're really really good at it? You can't really do it without input/feedback? Mark is really good at it, but others here are also, so we appreciate all of your opinions. 

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Scotty, I'm sorry :-( I know you're busy, it just moved on through the process after a couple of weeks and just happened. Would have been nice with fiddles? Because it has a pop country vibe to me? And that's what I was hearing in my head when I wrote it. But I didn't want to push, it's just a different flavor. Chocolate is good? Butter Pecan is good too. No offence was intended, please forgive me. Darn, I'm missing the dem convention? I wanted to see BJ (Bill Jefferson) Clinton!

Please don't be angry with me, it makes me physically ill "literally" when people are angry with me... My music is sad enough already.

Apology accepted. 

As a side note, my son who's 9? Listened tonight (it's a Daddy Weekend) and I was watching the windoze media visualizer as the song played, we both had phones on.

When it finished, I looked over and he was sitting there crying his eyes out! I pulled the phones of and said what is it son? Are you OK? And he looked at me, red face, big tears coming down and said "it's just so sad!" 

An amazing coincidence? And I do mean "amazing!?" I gave a bum a dollar at a light this evening? And he said EXACTLY the same thing! More dobro! Well? It could have been "More dough bro!" Still? Weird...

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An amazing coincidence? And I do mean "amazing!?" I gave a bum a dollar at a light this evening? And he said EXACTLY the same thing! More dobro! Well? It could have been "More dough bro!" Still? Weird...

That was me... and yeah, I meant more Dobro... cheap-skate...
 

Great stuff Robby and Mark! 

Best thing I've heard from you Robby, and that's saying something..wonderful lyrics, sublime melody, perfect instrumentation, beautiful delivery. Top stuff man.