http://www.soundclick.com/player/single_player.cfm?songid=12782247&q=hi&newref=1
 
Note May 6 2014: 
Took advice from this thread and upped the vocals and lowered the reverb a notch.  I also switched to sound click, Sound cloud wouldn't let me update the song or edit song order. 
 
Wrote this about 2 years ago. Original version was live, just me and guitar. which I perform live.  I don't normally finger pick so this is a bit different than most of my stuff. We are working on a acoustic album featuring my originals and my partner Curt playing Banjo. This is the first off the assembly line, mostly because I'm going through the songs alphabetically. 
 
Tech details;  done on Sonar 8.5 and my Tascam interface. Acoustic guitar and mixed with x3 studio and Scarlett 6i6.
Mr Tramp my favorite keyboard is featured. Only MIDI sound. 
Curt on Banjo 
I play all the rest including a real snare drum with brushes ( can't do it with samples) 
Only Lexicon Rev, no other plug ins. 
Mastered in Goldwave 
 
I am away from studio so mixdown done on headphones... so if bass is too loud will fix later. 

Sounds good.  On these little-bitty computer speakers the bass sounded good - and they will usually tell if there is an unsightly bloom down there as long as it ain't too low down there.
 
Very tasteful, esp. the banjo (easy to overdue).  Love the extended metaphor.  Very nice arrangement and production - plenty of depth and space.
 
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cool tune and nice job on the song.

Thanks. I was thinking the mix would be close as I had already set the song to mixdown mode before I left home. It's a whole album project and we have 24 songs. I will narrow that down to 14- 16 . I am re doing some guitar tracks while staying at in laws. Mother in law 84, is very ill cancer,  so we are trying to be with her as much as possible. 
 
I've taken over their nice new HP desktop in the spare bedroom. A small road case, my A&L folk and my Yamaha bass and a SM 57. I do need some small monitors but not working much this month. So I only have headphones. I have to take a break every hour as I find headphones tire me out. Might get 2 more done today and will post. 
I really appreciate feedback. Be honest, I can take it. It will have to make it past the wife anyhow and she is brutal!

raise that vocal a bit and we got a sweet song Johnny

Would love to hear your voice up front with a bit more in-your-face compression. Pining for a kick, personally (or some kick-like percussion on the 1's).
 
Great tune though!  Keep it rollin', dude!  :-)
 
 

Hi john, fun tune. Vocals could be a bit louder. The acoustic guitar solo is hard to make out, raise it a bit.
 
Rik

Hey thanks, that's why I love this forum. Like I said I'm on headphones right now which is only one of five ways I normally critique. 
I use compression going in via my Yamaha 01v on all my vocals and bass parts. 
This song does not involve any "power" in my voice, more of a late night smokey blues style. 
But I will bring it up a few Db, 
The solos are understated on purpose but ya, need a little more I guess.We have played this live for over a year and I've done better. I am finger picking so it's not a technique I'm good at, I'll just re play it. After 12 takes I think I figured this is as good as it gets..:) 
Yes there is no Kick drum. I have a kick track and it actually sounded better to me with it right off. I opted for as little midi as possible on this one. 
I have been making rough mixes of the songs from the album and have about 6 or more posted now. 
What's the best way to present them here? Should I post a thread for each song or the whole batch? I'll try the whole batch thread approach I guess. 
The link I guess is always in my signature anyway. Soundcloud. 

Really well done.
Seems muddy?
I agree you made the banjo fit well. (Not my fav instrument)
I agree the vox could be closer with more highs?.

double post