Larry T.

Thanks Nigel. I noticed that too but left it as is hoping it would be an uplifting feeling, not jarring. Thank You for listening and comments! 🎶 🎵

Hello all. Hope you are all well. Here's The Long Hello, just a short little instrumental. Observations welcomed 🎶 🎵 link: https://larryterrano.bandcamp.com/track/the-long-hello DAW: Cakewalk by Bandlab pc: windows 10, i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40 GHz, 8GB ram, DI Bass, DI electric guitars, Mic'ed acoustic guitars. SI drums, arturia minilab mkII, arturia analog lab 5 lite, arturia augmented mallets reference speakers: M-Audio BX3

Agree with above observations. Great groove, guitar, mix. The arrangement works well also. 🎶 🎵

Great version. Vox is really good. Enjoyed very much 🎵 🎶

Sorry I missed this. A true musical piece of art. It sounds like you poured over every second to create a strong, beautiful and memorable work. We all are born. We all will die. After that, who knows? 🎶 🎵

The piece is uplifting, humorous and pretty sophisticated musically, kind of a cabaret feel 🎶 🎵 The video is pretty cool too 👍

Interesting work. Atmospheric, the juxtapositions of the voices with the etherealness of the music is at certain times wonderfully twisted, at other times potently observant 🎶 🎵

Great work. Your vox, guitar work, arrangement, flourishes...all excellent 🎶 🎵

Great work there. Great vox, production and mix. Your vox delivery works well with the wonderfully conceived music which I sense has a small touch of the musical modus operandi of Tom Waits 🎵 🎶

This comment is for the 4:30 version: That's some serious composing, recording, production and mixing. Love the girl's voicings. Overall I think this is fairly ahead of its time although I have a sense of Dead Can Dance and Steven Wilson in there. Keep it going. It's pretty coherent and the parts fit well enough at this point with maybe a bit more work to get the cohesiveness more realized and accessible 🎶 🎵

Great work. The percussion/bass groove is perfect. The other instrumentation is complementing it with some great, well thought out chords that enhance it all into one coherent piece 🎶 🎵

Very nice track. Great lyrical guitar solo at ~1:20. Great vox, production and mix 🎶 🎵

I don't have the Youlean plug in but will look into it 👍 Your comment about "clipping plugins" is Gold 👍 👍 I redid the mix and put it up in the original post. Thanks Wookiee and all of you very much 🎵 🎶

Thanks Wookiee. Appreciate the listen. Here's how I mastered this one: the loudest parts peaked around 02dB in the Yellow. No track or bus was in the red at all. I think I do have one synth a bit too loud, as mentioned above, and, imo, iZotope Ozone 11 Elements Mastering is creating the hot sounding audio. There is still tons of stuff about mastering I don't know yet 🎶 🎵

Thanks Bjorn. Your observations are correct! Start off fast, maintain stability and then slowly spin to a stop. The transition at 0:40 is two bass Drum beats. I mixed their volume up a bit but it is a busy, fast transition that I struggled with and used what I thought was the smoothest sounding one. Appreciate the listen and kind words 🎶 🎵