Tom, the opening piano had me wondering about all that reverb. Not like your previous controlled mixes. But, as you explain, "baked in". I guess it can be lived with. Overall though, a fine song and production.

this is a great composition.    I was riveted for all 6'12" of it!  The mix only has problems to the extent that it can be improved upon.  Any presentation can always be improved upon.  What can't be improved upon is a bad song, and this isn't that.  Good job.

Great stuff Tom - I like it a lot. It was along time getting here but it was worth the wait.
Personally, I like the vocal.

daryl1968
Great stuff Tom - I like it a lot. It was along time getting here but it was worth the wait.
Personally, I like the vocal.

.......It was worth the wait from 2010.

nice piano tones at intro...
tho the verb is a bit heavy...
it does give the song a specific mood, so i say roll with it.
 
dig the bass line, it's simple but funky
 
some of the vox is shaky, but again, it gives it a mood......
you could identify those specific areas, and just double track a second vocal performance, 
and mix it in an out at will, just to smooth out those things..
 
i'd much rather hear a vox dealt with like that..
then hear an autotune.
ugh.
 
cool rhythm guitar stuff happening below....
what is that?
 
 

Well, I posted a nice longish response to folks, but the forum gremlins nuked it after it was posted. Are posts just disappearing these days?
 
Anyway,
 
Phil - thanks, particularly for remembering that other song "Do Not Listen/Apricot" ! I've always liked that one particularly. This song I'm a little more "meh" on 'cause it beats a dead horse a little. 
 
James - thanks much, yes Scotland definitely qualifies!
 
Dan - thanks and the vocals, I was going for "vulnerable" but I sang this probably ten years ago so who really knows! I hear a little digital crispiness/artifacts to those ep's, so that's for the upcoming remix. 
 
-Tom

Optimus - yes that reverb on the opening piano is not optimal, but that's a fork in the road in the past :) thanks for the listen.
 
Eph, thanks! Really glad you got the vibe there, PDX!  I agree, it's the song first.
 
Then, it's the gain matching, the eq, the mix levels, and the tricks like compression, reverb, delay, panning, and then it's limiting on the master bus and some glue compression, then it's mixdown to wav or mp3, whereupon you have to re-listen and find all the things you forgot to do, and then lather, rinse repeat. Cool, huh? What kind of moron would actually go through all of that?
 
Daryl, If I could ever get a mix to sound as utterly clean as yours, I'd be a happy man. Thanks for the listen.
 
Bats - thanks for the  listen and the comments! The vocal could use a little refinement, I'll get some more doubletracking going. I'm not sure what you were noticing with the "what is that" on the rhythm guitar? I played it on my strat (sounds like a keyboard player playing guitar, doesn't it) but I double tracked it, blended it, and it's going through S-Gear. I was hearing Nile Rodgers but instead it ended up like, well, Joe Walsh sober. ?
 
cheers, and many thanks again. 
our forum works much better when people take the time to comment 
on each other's stuff!
 
-Tom
 

the strat sounds good...
 
doubling the rhythm, is probably what i'm hearing..
don't know what 's-gear' is.

S-gear is an amp sim:
http://www.scuffhamamps.com/product/s-gear
 
you probably have a room full of real amps so you wouldn't need this!
 

Well...  I liked it!   Wasn't completely sure what to make of the intro, even though the verb kinda fit IMO, but the meat of the song was very cool.   Nice chord progression, ear candy coming in and out, and the breakdown section around 4:10 worked well.  Personally I thought the vocals + lyrics worked well.  Sure a little Melodyne in a few spots probably wouldn't be a bad idea (coming from someone who's intimately familiar with it) but the vibe they provide against the music is solid.