Thanks for all the great feedback everyone.

@Karyn, I never thought of using a multiband compressor. I'll give that a try. Thanks. :)

Bub, this is beautiful. Lovely harmonies, and I really like the way you 'glide' around the melody, excellent. Very nice version indeed.

Hi Bub,

Great voice/harmonies and arrangement. I didn't hear the earlier version but this mix sounds fine to me.

Loved it Bub.

Bub, You sound like Marty Robbins, harmonies are really nice, good arrangement and production. One of my favorite Christmas songs. Regards

Even better Bub!

Very nice.  

I've learned over time that the best way to fix a vocal line, is just sing it until you get it right.  I sing some lines a bunch of times before I get it right.... of course by then you can sing it pretty well.

Again.. well done.

Daryl

really nice Bub!  I love the sound you have gotten on your vocals and the stereo separation on the harmonies! 

there are still some sibilance issues here and there, but I think it gives the song character.

I have to critique a little, tho.   the piano, tho, I'm not fond of the piano sound.  I think a better piano sound could be found.

there are a few places when the vox drop out that I can hear some noise - maybe mic noise or background noise while you were recording?  you can probably gate the vox - or a better way would be to use envelopes and drop the volume down to -inf during the times you're not singing.

just my 2cents.  loved this version!

Kind of an Elvis vibe here. One of my favorites, if not the favorite Christmas tune. I was singing it to a young lady just last weekend? Well the beginning of the chorus anyway?

Thanks again to all who keep listening and your kind words. :)

@Robby ... in your dreams pal. In your dreams! (Referring to you singing this last weekend.)

@Beagle: Sibilance! Sibilance!! Grr. I struggle with it so. :) I could get it out even more, but when I do, it's apparent that the volume is dipping so I took it out the best I could without it being obvious there was something going on if that makes any kind of sense. :) I tried Karyn's suggestion about the multi-band compressor but I was not very successful. Surprisingly, the 64 Mulit-Band Comp worked a thousand times better than the Sonitus Multi-Band Comp. I didn't have to touch anything other than the threshold. It worked right out of the chute.

True Piano that comes with X1 Producer sounds really bad if you try to EQ it too much. I think that's the noise you were hearing because I manually went in and removed every bit of silence between singing parts. I have dozens of clips in this. I always do that on vocals because V-vocal seems to work better on smaller clips and I find it easier to work with envelopes to fix volume and sibilance on small clips. The other thing you might be hearing is the drive on the mic pre amp. I really had the tube warmed up on this one.

If I didn't take out the bottom on the True Piano, it was too boomy sounding and overpowering, even at a lower volume. Unfortunately, it's all I have. I don't care for the ones in Dim Pro or TTS1 and it's so rare that I do a piece with the piano this prominent that I can't justify purchasing a better quality one. I should try the piano patch on my Korg X5. It is excellent.

Thank you for the critique! :) It was getting expensive paying everyone off to say all that nice stuff. ;)