Leizer
Good work! Everything is sounding very professional. I'm losing the melody sometimes though, maybe doubling or more gain when the acoustic guitar is playing the melody. The intro is great!

Thanks for the comments. Have you listened to the updated mix on Bandcamp? I think it is clearer which instrument holds the melody during each part.
 
Regards,
Dan

dcumpianI tried telling a story with this one.

Yeah, spot on! Great track, sounds good, feels good, involves a listener into a imaginative journey.
I wonder if you used virtual instruments, and if you did, what particular VSTis are used in this track?

Well, to be honest this is one of if not the best effort I've yet heard on the good old Cakewalk forum. I'm a sucker for the Spaghetti genre, but you made it a little Celtic which is just friggin brilliant, Dan. 
 
There wasn't a moment that I found lacking in any way. Such a great mix, and a complicated one, too! Thanks for sharing this!
 
-Tom

jerrydf
Great work there - good mix, evocative, atmospheric

Thank you Jerry! I really appreciate it!
 
Regards,
Dan

ohgrant
Great tune Dan, I really enjoyed. I can certainly hear this in a Western movie.

Thanks Grant!
 
Regards,
Dan

 
 

Vilovilo
Hi Dan,

Sorry,sorry ,from where I am ,the previous mix with the acoustic guitar upfront was not that bad....
Now I know what this composition reminds me.( Though I am aware that sometimes we do not like to be linked to another artist.)
So .. The intro reminds me a tune played by Kelly Joe Phelps.( sorry I cannot remember the title but it is an album where Bill Frisel holds the guitar here and there.)
So tastes and Colors......everyone feels things one ´s own way.

All the best.

Olivier

Thanks for saying that. I do think the updated mix is better, and the acoustic is still right up front when it needs to be. I'll have to look up Kelly Joe Phelps. If you've heard my tracks in the past, you'll know that this one is way off my "normal" musical style. I had to locate instruments I never use, like Dobro and Harmonica, lol.
 
It was a load of fun to do though...
 
Regards,
Dan
 

Bert Guy
Dan,
 
Cinematic, expansive, and atmospheric instramental with a clear and bright mix. I like the clean and melodic guitar lines. 
 
Real good stuff,
 
Bert

Thanks Bert! Glad the vibe came through.
 
Regards,
Dan

sounds good .. Morricone might have dwelt a bit more on the moment of guitar bends, 0:09-0:10.   Not a lot, just an extra 3-5 seconds would be effective, imo.   It is stated, at least as I hear it, as an emotive figure ... so it needs time to sink in.   Repeat up a fifth maybe, or up a major third and then down a second ... something like that.

For my taste, at the effective texture change around 0:43, the hold over of the whistling stuff is wrong .. imo you should clear the atmosphere a bit.   At around 2:30 it got briefly boring (always imho ... )   and then around 3:00 you might get the regular guitar notes out of the way of the high melody .. the duplicates in a lower octave seemed to make the melody less effective.    As a piece of music, the ending from 3:30 on is probably fine, but it's hard to imagine it as effective in a film ... seems to be asking to be cut, or faded away. 

Dan, that was superb. Wow. Been thinking lately I might embark on some more instrumentals, but hearing this makes me think I'll leave that to you. What a brilliant piece of writing, arranging and production. Highly professional and very enjoyable.