Beautiful song and fine lyrics. Halfway through mixin it I realised it were most familiar to a song I wrote some years ago so that made it an even more familiar mixin experience, also the bassolo and voice part reminds me of a recordin years where I played a guitar solo and the female singer wanted to add dodoos to it, and it fitted very well. In my mind thats how it were created here too.
For the mix it took some weeks as I have only little time being here in my music cave these days.
I dared listen to some fine mixes of this, Ollis for one and had to work hard to live up to that. The drums were hard to lvl, either too weak or too much rock, but I think they fit now.
Masterin it I realised there were some clicks and mouth noises on the leadvocal track so I cleand that as the last thing, and I am sorry and dont try this at home
The tracks sound beautiful on their own, just listen to Ollis version without eq, but I made some subtractive eq and a few slight boosts to separate things more and had especially the wurlitzer automated and added a little more comp to it, as it disturbed in places, though it sounds good. That also made me move a little fanfare it playes during solo, I moved it to the build up for the solo, and I think that works better for the song, nobodys louder than the country singer and noone play fills during solos, well, not this time :-)
My creative instinct told me the 2nd guitars beautiful line during middle 8 needed some reinforcement so I played a humble mellotronflute and left a little piece over in last verse.
You may hit me with critisism as I may deserve that, changin so much of the song, but to my defense I have to say I had fun doin so.
Almost forgot - also edited the basnote at 3.16
For the mix it took some weeks as I have only little time being here in my music cave these days.
I dared listen to some fine mixes of this, Ollis for one and had to work hard to live up to that. The drums were hard to lvl, either too weak or too much rock, but I think they fit now.
Masterin it I realised there were some clicks and mouth noises on the leadvocal track so I cleand that as the last thing, and I am sorry and dont try this at home
The tracks sound beautiful on their own, just listen to Ollis version without eq, but I made some subtractive eq and a few slight boosts to separate things more and had especially the wurlitzer automated and added a little more comp to it, as it disturbed in places, though it sounds good. That also made me move a little fanfare it playes during solo, I moved it to the build up for the solo, and I think that works better for the song, nobodys louder than the country singer and noone play fills during solos, well, not this time :-)
My creative instinct told me the 2nd guitars beautiful line during middle 8 needed some reinforcement so I played a humble mellotronflute and left a little piece over in last verse.
You may hit me with critisism as I may deserve that, changin so much of the song, but to my defense I have to say I had fun doin so.
Almost forgot - also edited the basnote at 3.16
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