UPDATED "Herb's Glorious Return"

Tracked this song as a favour to my friend (Jeremy Quiring), and he wrote it for his friend who's husband passed away a year ago... I kinda like how the acoustic guitar turned out, although he only did one take since he needed to send this off to his friend the next day... Still, I think it's nice... Hopefully it will comfort his friend a little bit... The anniversary of the funeral is tomorrow (March 25)...

http://www.greenroomeast.com/JeremyQuiring

Dave

UPDATE: (based on feedback)

I re-mixed it a bit tonight...

De-essed the vocals, played with the compression on the guitar, eased up on the limiter (no longer as loud), pulled back the guitar a bit, cleaned up the vocal tracks (dead air between phrases)

Again, I'm not gonna lose any sleep over the mix since it's not being demo'd or anything... but I think it was worthwhile making those minor changes... Still sounds good I think.

Thanks for the suggestions!


ANOTHER EDIT: I just listened to it on the stereo upstairs, and I had to crank the volume to max for it to sound ok, and so I think I maybe made it a little too quiet. I'll try running it thru a pass of Boost11, but I'm just worried about squashing those louder acoustic hits and strums he makes... I want to make the overall thing louder, but don't want anything to sound distorted or squashed... I'll re-visit it again once the babies are down for a nap (my OTHER full time job... stay at home Dad!) :)


Update 2: ran it thru a pass of Boost11... Here's the streaming mp3:

http://www.greenroomeast.com/JeremyQuiring

Dave

ORIGINAL: robby

Very nice, nice guitar, I'd put a deesser and a compressor on that lead vocalist. And a "slight" compressor on that guitar, to tame the dyanamics just bit. It's a beautiful song and a beautiful performance, "really..." I'm sorry for your loss.

Really beautiful.. Nice tribute, really nice. Again, I'm sorry for your loss. I can feel it... It made me cry...

Thanks... Yeah, I never thought to do a de-esser on the vocals... it was a real rush job and they didn't need anything fancy done, and so I just did it all rather quickly... The guitars do have some compression on it 2:1 ratio, and about 6 db of gain reduction happening... Didn't want to go much more than that I think, just to keep the dynamics more as they were... Kinda wanted a live sound... But the compression I do have on it did help when contrasted with the original dry track... Didn't want to push the compressor too much when those loud strums poked thru and have it sound squashed in parts... I might re-visit it later on this week, tho...


I personally didn't know the person who passed away (friend of a friend, I suppose) but I must say after I finished mixing it and really LISTENED to the song, it reminded me of my daughter who passed away in 2005... We tracked vocals tonite, and the songwriter wanted to send the mp3 to his friend the next day (anniversary of funeral)... I'm glad I was able to help...

Dave

I'll pass that along to my friend, Jeremy (wrote it, playing guitar)... He's been sitting on that song for an entire year, wrote the lyrics the day of the funeral last year... That's his wife (Jill) singing all the vocals...

Thanks for the listen (even tho it made you cry) ... I should put a disclaimer on it, maybe? ;)

Dave

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It's a beautiful song Dave, and a beautiful tribute... I salute you. Sorry for that "bumping" but this needed to rise above that... It's special, and beautiful, and deserves recognition.

No more Metalman post after post after post after post after post after post after post after post? I guess I can can go to bed now.

I've been listening to it on REPEAT upstairs in my stereo... Very relaxing... Makes me want to get him in to do a whole instrumental album of this type of stuff.

ORIGINAL: Tap

Yeah, I have to admit ... Robbie's point is well taken here.... This is truly a beautiful song.

Had to listen to this one a couple of times to really enjoy the whole piece.

The Guitar is really done in the style of Michael Hedges !!!!

- B E A U T I F U L - MAGNIFICENTLY DONE -

-TAP-

Yeah, I sent it to my mastering guy (Cass Anawaty, Sunbreak Music) and he said the same thing... That Jeremy was "another desciple of Michael Hedges..." Then he correctly suggested that maybe it was more Phil Keaggy... Jeremy also listens to Steve Bell (Canadian artist) and it's basically the same idea...

This really is beautiful. Very very well done. She has a beautiful voice too. This was a nice tribute for him. And sorry to hear about your daughter too...

beautiful song, agree with robby and shad for the fixes.

I re-mixed it a bit tonight...

De-essed the vocals, played with the compression on the guitar, eased up on the limiter (no longer as loud), pulled back the guitar a bit, cleaned up the vocal tracks (dead air between phrases)

http://www.greenroomeast.com/JeremyQuiring

Again, I'm not gonna lose any sleep over the mix since it's not being demo'd or anything... but I think it was worthwhile making those minor changes... Still sounds good I think.

Thanks for the suggestions!

ANOTHER EDIT: I just listened to it on the stereo upstairs, and I had to crank the volume to max for it to sound ok, and so I think I maybe made it a little too quiet. I'll try running it thru a pass of Boost11, but I'm just worried about squashing those louder acoustic hits and strums he makes... I want to make the overall thing louder, but don't want anything to sound distorted or squashed... I'll re-visit it again once the babies are down for a nap (my OTHER full time job... stay at home Dad!) :)

Dave

David, this is simply lovely - a wonderful tribute and comfort. The recording sounds great. The only thing I'm not sure I care for is the mono, centered reverb on the stereo guitar. Nonetheless, this is stunningly performed and recorded.