Danny - thanks for the listen I'm glad you enjoyed it. The drum sound was genuinely a choice - I was trying to make the whole rhythm section including tambourines and hand claps sound like it was all recorded at the same time with just a couple of mics. I ended up using 3 mics and very little compression - mainly eq.
Ah ok. Well, everything sounded good to me Daryl. :) I just thought the crashes seemed to swell in a bit instead of crash. You know, like when a crash hits, it sort of hits instantly....where your crashes seemed to almost sort of fade in? It's definitely a cool sound...probably the mic position as I've sort of gotten something like this before when mic'ing my cymbals.
Listening to it again...if it had a direct crash, it probably wouldn't work. I'm sort of used to that fade-in thing now. LOL! See what happens when you deliver a cool song....everything ends up being acceptable. :) Really love the vocals on this...had to mention it again. :)
-Danny