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Hi Geno, this is some piece of work, excellent. Vocals and guitars are top notch and the composition is interesting till the very end, actually for me as a guitar player it gets even more interesting near the end, great solo and super tight playing.

Greetings, Rik

Very impressive Geno. Your guitar work is superb, as usual. Elements of many genres here. I detect Rush, Kansas, Jeff Beck(you can tell I'm old school, and these are some of my favorites). I like the arrangement and choice of sounds. You've cut some killer vox tracks and I would like to hear them a little hotter in the mix. You have a great ear.........excellent job......................Ron 

Those drums are superb!  :)  I agree with the others...this is just great and sounds pro to me.  I agree about raising the vox a tad. Great tune and seriously great guitar solo too.  Love your vox, as always.

Perfection

Excellent performace(s) there Geno.  Loved those high harmonies, and the guitar work was super.  So far as the mix goes, I think it sounded great overall, but it felt like it may have been a bit percussion heavy early on... not so much later.  There was some interesting synth work in the beginning and a guitar riff or two that I'd have liked to hear more of.  This could just be a taste thing for sure, because, on balance, the whole tune worked just fine.

Wow, that was quite an interesting composition. Really like that drum track, I guess most of the song is centered around that crazy track. Very well developed. Singing is great as is the guitar playing. Crazy guitar break! Great Stuff ....  Really Well Done.

Big difference with the SD2 drums, Geno. What a job you did programming them.

You at times sound a lot like that singer from Jellyfish, who also had a tremendous pure tone.

The Vai runs at ~2:30 were terrific.

The prog/metal throwback feel on this isn't my cuppa, but it was done with great skill and attention.

Excellent use of reverb at the last note. What did you use?

 This sounds Great!!!! You are a far better musician/singer/songwriter than I am no doubt about that. There is no way I could ever do something like this it's just beyond my capabilities, the timing on this is perfect and far beyond my ability.

This is spectacular, actually one of the best I've ever heard on here or anywhere for that matter. There's too many highlights for me to single out one thing, it all sounds awesome to me.

This sounds awesome!!!

GuitarBob

very original riff, captures the attention straightaway. of course i knew from your previous stuff this would be good - and it is. i have listened to BobOister, Twisted and now yours, and the standard on all of them is simply unbelievable. musically yours is probably the most my cup of cha, i love your guitarwork and the tone you get! at some point in the next few years, i am gonna get a really nice guitar and amp set-up and give you guys a run for your money!

awesome.

 Hi Geno, if you haven't worked hard on this arrangement and mix then you are far more talented than you sound here already! The arrangement itself was impeccable and all of the timing was right on. You have a voice that lends itself very well to the music and the guitar chops are amazing.

  I would have liked to have heard the vocals a little more to the forefront of the mix,although they were far from unintelligable. The mix was very hot in terms of volume on my computer I needed to run the volume almost all the way down or it would have hurt my ears. I suppose that's how a radio ready tune is mixed nowadays though.

  The cymbals seemed to be cut off short in a few places toward the beginning of the song. I'm not sure how this could be resolved though because you take all of the dynamics down at the same place.....the drums for the most part were believable as real drums except in the places where the cymbals are cut short and in a few of the faster runs I imagined a real drummer playing it and he would have needed to be super fast and world class to pull it off. Most drummers I have worked with could not have played some of that material.

  Overall though your song is way above par!!! I hope to hear more from you!!

mgh - thank you.  Looking forward to hearing your new guitar amp setup.

thepogue - thanks for the feedback and ideas about the snare and the ride.

Starise - Thanks for your critical ear.  Yeah - the cymbals are cut short in one spot in the beginning that I keep telling myself I'm going to fix.  The one thing I don't like about SuperiorDrummer2 is the cymbal chokes are done with an envelope - which are hard to sound realistic.  Addictive Drummer had true sampled cymbal chokes.  I don't know about the vocals - I've got them as good as I can, but I still need some help with that.  As for the arrangement - that's one aspect I think is very important.  I'm always trying to build the arrangement to create interest for the listener - so thank you for commenting on that.   My mixes are getting better as I have used some of Danny Danzi's song consultation and have learned a ton from him. As for the drums - I used to play in Fusion bands with unbeleivable drummers and have always loved drums (I played drums a little in my youth).

notnat - thanks for listening.

Geno - you are a very talented man!  Vox are excellent as always from you.  love the harmonies - is that you as well?

guitars are wonderful.  bass is really nice.  the mix is really well done!  nothing stands out that I can hear out of place.

fantastic guitar solo!  (love the cowbell!  )

ok, ONE little nit pick about the mix - the ride on the right is just a tad loud in the mix (listening on cans).  not bad, but maybe bring it down just a little.

fantastic ending - great vox!

Geno, this is really good - what a great piece of work. Love all of this - but really like your voice.

Nice.

Mark - thanks for your comments.

Beagle - Thank you!  Yeah that's me on the harmonies and everything else.  And thanks for the tip about the ride.  When I switched from AD to SUperiorDrummer2 the ride wasn't what I was used to, so I think I overdid the gain on it. 

Clean - Thanks!

Faust1587 - Porcupine Tree: I LOVE them.  He really knows how to write great hooks.  And Dream Theater - another one of my favs.

Sounds great,  superior performance.

Love the work on the drums, even with me not a fan of
programmed drums.   That's  "Good" stuff........:)


Tim