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Thanks for posting the links! I guess my time playing reggae/dub bass around baltimore-dc with jamaican musicians is in there somewhere for you to make this connection ha. I wasn't around there anymore when they started up so I had not heard of them. Grateful for your posts !

Thanks Nigel, I enjoyed making that bottom quite a lot ! Glad the mix is working for other people, good to know. Appreciate your feedback.

Hi jwnicholson78, thanks for listening and your comment, I really like the bass too, bass was one of my first musical inclinations. Glad you enjoyed it and let me know !

Hi Larry T, thanks for listening and your positive feedback. I always appreciate when a comment refers to some group that it reminds the person of because then I get to learn about some new music. I really enjoyed making the bass and drums, I added an extra layer of kick maybe my first time doing that. My ancestry is european so who knows ha. Two comments about it sounding like spy music, works for me ! Thanks again

Thanks for listening garybrun and your feedback, I agree it could be a spy theme.

Great job as usual, really enjoyed the music and the energy and the messages. I though overall the mix sounded a bit dark over here, still great though, maybe just me today ha. Love your stuff

Had to check out the "it" and I wasn't expecting the real It ha. The sounds are real nice, and the piece is interesting, flowing along somewhere here then there, nice job !

Hi Lee, thanks for sharing this as you say very personal message. I hope you can get what you need when you need it. Sometimes the more you need help from a doctor, you learn how unhelpful they can be. I think the song is great ! really enjoyed it. The structure of the song is great, the vocals and guitar and all the parts actually are very well done. The mix sounds right on over here, so nothing at all I could say to improve anything ! great job. And Better Weather started playing and that one is great too ! You have your stuff worked out, be well and best wishes with your health, keep making music!

This is an older song of mine that I wanted to work on again. It has sounds from DPro, my Yamaha sy55, surge, and the guitar is from New Nation one called Blaque that I got in a bundle of theirs recently. I tried several other guitar vsts and they just would not fit right. It’s a bit on the dark side of ambient I think, never sure what to call stuff. Comments and feedback welcome ! Thanks

Yeah really, agree with the sentiment ! Good idea to cover this. I dont remember the original too well really but like what you did, especially enjoy your guitar playing. The art is good too. When I was listening, my attention was called to the percussion. I dont know if this is how percussion is handled, but I wonder if the percussion could be more tuned to match with the song? For me there was a little not matching at times, and I thought it might gel better if the percussion matched, but Im not too experienced with percussion. Enjoyed it and a few others on you soundcloud. Peace !

Ha but the side tracked is great! The stars will be there when you are

Great arrangement, playing and recording, sounds very "professional" , love the horns. Head bobbing along for sure. Steely Dan in there somewhere for me.

Lovely and very relaxing journey. I felt a few times that the strums or the plucked notes had timing just a hair off. I tend to fix those in my songs with melodyne, and maybe spend too much time doing that ha. Anyways, I didnt hear the original version but this one is nice.

Yeah you did it justice, well done! I agree with the comments to have louder drums and also to turn up your wonderful vocals. Enjoyed the guitar too.

I was told just nugen when i asked. Also i was told the value is 84 US dollars due to their discounts on nugen products.

Hi Bjorn, thanks for listening and your encouraging words. I will get back to it when I feel its the right time to revisit it, meanwhile I am going to work on an instrumental because I struggle to hit any notes these days ha, and do try to enhance my singing with layers of backup vocals and sometimes music notes. I hope to make a better mix soon !

Hi Steve, thanks for this and other listens ! Yes it needs more love and time and I will get back to it with fresh ears. I am curious to see how adding bass will be because its not something I had done, but will try it now based on the much needed feedback. I will also beef up the drums, probably change the kick. As for my vocals, as I have said before I am really struggling to sing since gaining pollen allergies, and with the juniper out and rising in amounts, I probably wont get a better take. I had to do this vocal attempt like 9am (and I am not a morning person at all !) before I went outside or opened doors. Honestly I don't even recall how many times I sang it at night (my usual music time) and tried to make it ok each time with tools but couldn't. Part of why I was working on this an extra long time and lost my objectivity about the mix. Anyways, I will get back to it sometime soon, thanks !

Hi Nigel, thank you for listening and your feedback and encouraging words. I will remix this using the objective feedback which I needed, and fresh ears!

Hi Mark, thanks for listening and your feedback. I will revisit the mix when I have fresh ears for it. I have 2 vocal tracks, one with nectar and a low amount of reverb in there, and on the 2nd vocal track low in the mix with some reverb too. I will play around with the volume vs amount of reverb issue you mention. I've had feedback before that my vocals are dry and not reverby so I am learning my way. The thought of a bass guitar didn't occur to me, but with 2 mentions of no bass in my feedback I will see how adding bass in the remix goes. With the bouncy stuff I think it would have to be sustaining vs another melody kinda bass like you say. Thanks again

Hi Tom, thanks, I will revisit this sometime when the song fatigue passes ha.

Hi Tim, thanks for listening and your comments, glad you enjoyed it ! When mixing I was using Izotope tonal balance control and it showed a lot of energy in the mids so you are probably right about that. I agree making music is a wonderful and fun thing to do !

Hi KurtS, thanks for listening and your comment. I usually don't plan a song, I just play around, and for some reason I did not think of including a bass, so sort of on purpose ? I suppose I was satisfied with the massive x kinda bouncy sound having lows, and the dpro strings have some lows, so guess bass hadn't come to mind. But I will think about that when I revisit this song since you and another commented on bass.

Thanks David, ha, I was working on this a long time and think I heard it too much. Grateful for the mix feedback and your kind words.

Thanks Douglas Kirby, appreciate the feedback. Yes more rhythm would be good !