Hi Lynn,

Really cool tune. Love the energy and all the little synth touches. Great job on the vocal, too.

Excellent!

This morning (12/9/12) I put up a new mix on Soundclick that addressed clicks and crackles caused by my guitar in previous versions.  The problem turned out to be an overloaded output of TH2, I hope?  Details can be found in my first post as well as the location of the mix.  The mix can also be found here: http://www.soundclick.com...hi&songID=12036664

Not my fav of yours ... production wise, Lynn.  Your last song or 2 were awesome as I remember.

Vox is incoherent to my ears ... maybe too much vox-mud ... too little hi-pass filter or something.

So all's I'm hearing is "I'm close to hell" and something about "forgive" and "live" ... my ears failed ... so I had to flip it.

But, I'm a neurotic for clarity.

Hi Lynn,

Unfortunately, I still hear the clicks. :( No change at all. Man, I wish we could find out what this is. I mean it's not bad or anything, but I definitely hear it every time even at a low volume. Maybe it's something in the way it's being rendered during export or something? Check it out again if you have the patience and see if you come up with anything else. Maybe a plugin clipping or something? Or, maybe a plug in your drum module? A few times, clients of mine sent me mixes to remix for them using Superior Drummer. The plugs within the module were giving us artifacts pretty bad...so if you have anything like that going on, look into it if you can. 

I didn't hear what Philip mentioned with your vox....and my ears (especially my high end freqs) are fried about now. Recorded loud guitars all night...so I'll listen again later. But everything sounded nice and clear on my end. Thanks for the "thank you" on the first post. Hopefully I'm not frustrating you more than helping you. We gotta figure this out. 

Philip is definitely a stickler for clarity. A few things I sent him that sounded good here didn't sound as clear on his end so he smacked me around a lil and I fixed them. And when I don't fix them, he does. Hahaha! :) When you pass his clarity test, you got it spot on. :)

-Danny

Hey Lynn,

Very interesting tune my friend!  But I think I'm going to have to agree with Phillip on this one.  I also am a clarity stickler to a large degree, and I'm not getting it on your mix.  It comes and goes for some reason.  The mix is very busy, and I'm sure you intended that... but for my ears it seems like you are singing over a jam session, and in a few places the vocal syllables are out of time with the toms.

With all that said, I DO like your selection of instruments a lot, and think they are a great match for this tune.  Good job on the panning too.  I am not hearing the clicking at all on my system, but maybe you have already fixed it.  I like the bass line quite a bit.  And fantastic job on playing all those instruments too!

Don't hate me brother.  :-)    I do admire the creativity that HAD to come out of you to arrange this piece!!

Merry Christmas to you and yours.

Philip, Danny, and Tony, I appreciate your observations, and I'm convinced that there's something there that eludes me.  Therefore, I'm going to take your suggestion, Danny, and get with you on this because I believe in this song.  I'm ready to learn from the best.  Talk to you soon.