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Larry,

This is an excellent piece, very nice, great vibe and motion in the acoustic guitar parts. Synth parts are very complementary and appropriately subtle. A slight nit pick on the mix: the guitar lead work around 2:40 seems a bit bright or hyped in the high end to me (headphones). Man I really like this progression and the feeling you captured here. Good work on all the instruments. Well done.

Bill

Great tune! i'm glad you didnt put the keyboard away; the keys sound fantastic on this, very creative and great contrast to the guitar work, which is also top notch.

Larry, cool tune. Guitar and bass line are very interesting. Some of the synth elements are a bit distracting, though; I think used a bit less frequently an judicious balancing with the acoustic guitar should do it.

Hey Larry. Nice tune and nice playing on this. Definitely keep the keyboard going too.

Jeff

Best so far. I love this track, the way it moves and the balance you have here. You tamed the top end on that guitar too, it all sounds really nice.
One day , one of those days when your fingers can do no wrong, you should retake the lead as this piece really is worth the extra effort.

Not a bad tune Larry. I think it would add another dimension to things if you'd come in with two acoustic guitars strumming with force where the melody picks back up at 1:22 until 1:55.

Thanks for the tribute man. That reminds me, I have to pick up my cape and tights from the cleaners.

I like that. I agree with the others that this is one that it would be worth the effort to go back and really polish until it's all the way there. I don't know if you are like me, and get the post-partem depression after you get one to this point and it's really hard to face going back and really re-working it. I find it hard to do. One of the problems is that, despite saying I won't do any processing or mixing until I have all the parts in the can and as completely right as I can forsee the need for, I never do it. And once I get a reasonable mix done, so much has gone into it that I'm loath step back and punt.

One thing I've been forcing myself to do is develop my editing and punch-in techniques. You can really do a lot with what's there without having to competely re-work it. You can select a note that's bad, cut it out and punch another in. You can select a chord that's off in timing, cut it out to a separate clip and nudge it to the right place, then bounce it back the to clip. There are various tools to do pitch correction if you have one or two flubbed notes in an otherwise good section.

All kinds of stuff can be done if you have a piece that's 90% there, and you don't want to lose what is often a kind of spontaneity that seems never to be there on the subsequent re-do.

Sheesh Larry, that is some awesome acoustic picking there. Really just a great instrumental piece. Nice subtle keys. This has a real emotional vibe to it. Nice work.

Randy

Hey, that's good. Love the complexity and feel. May I recommend a little dryer...not much...just a little? Also, some of the "electro-tom" hits later in the piece, for me, take a way a bit. What do you think???

Nice composition and work so far!

Best,

Mark

I would definitely recommend getting something better than the keyboard for doing drums (if that's what you are using for the drums.) I have a pretty inexpensive M-Audio Trigger Finger and it is hugely better for drumming than a keyboard. The keyboard keys have way too much travel to be good for percussive stuff. It really made a big difference in my drum tracks to move to a dedicated input surface for that kind of stuff. You can be so much more accurate and get so much better control over dynamics.

Very nice effort. Has a nice feel to it and keeps your attention. Backgrounds have a spacy feel and keeps you wondering. Gret acoustical jam. Praise the Lord. Amen!

like ed i wasn't into the synth bits - i can see them worked in lightly but the vox sound is a little much for me. i would go for more of an ambient strings but i'm a strings kind of guy. =) the guitar work was really good. i have only one comment on the lead section: during the beginning of the lead the main guitar itself is a little swamped by the delay, and rather than widening the sound it makes it sound smaller. later on though it sounds fine.

the 80's synth drum machine (+ vox hits?) was totally out of place for me, but i'm not an 80's fan =) overall i liked it.

Nice song. The acoustic came out very crisp in my PC speakers. There was a part with some synth panning at around 1:15 going from L to R that was a bit too distracting. Perhaps make the pan less pronounced. Very nice layering of the underlying picking progression. It has a very nice ebb and flow to it. The spacey synths in the background fill out the piece very well.

Very nice work. Great title too! - Matthew

Matthew,
Thanks for listening and the advice on the mix. I've made up my mind to remix this piece soon. I need to slow down and rethink and LISTEN to the parts a little more carefully. Sometimes I get a little too excited or have flooded my ears with a song so much, that the details go unnoticed by me. I need to be a bit more disciplined in listening to my stuff a day or 2 later after the project is done. That way my ears are fresh and I can hear the tonal, panning, instrumentation, etc. in a different way.