Professional Mix of my song - Please Wait Up

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My good friend, John Marsden, liked this song and offered to play Hammond Organ (a real one with a Leslie) and mix the song. I have posted a number of my mixes so this will be an interesting contrast. I am pleased as all get out with the result. John's mixes are all about the vocal and supporting it without distracting the listener with a super busy mix.

John works out of his home in Orlando, FL and mixed this ITB. He does music for TV, commercials, corporate gigs, and produces several artists. I sent him tracks that I recorded in my home studio and drum tracks that Charlie Morgan recorded in his studio in Nashville. None of us were ever in a room together as we put this song together.

Enjoy!

https://soundcloud.com/tom-paul-2/please-wait-up
 
Tom Paul said:
My good friend, John Marsden, liked this song and offered to play Hammond Organ (a real one with a Leslie) and mix the song. I have posted a number of my mixes so this will be an interesting contrast. I am pleased as all get out with the result. John's mixes are all about the vocal and supporting it without distracting the listener with a super busy mix.

John works out of his home in Orlando, FL and mixed this ITB. He does music for TV, commercials, corporate gigs, and produces several artists. I sent him tracks that I recorded in my home studio and drum tracks that Charlie Morgan recorded in his studio in Nashville. None of us were ever in a room together as we put this song together.

Enjoy!

https://soundcloud.com/tom-paul-2/please-wait-up
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I thought it sounded great. I would have loved to hear about 15 more seconds of that solo that started @ 2:33. What kind of guitar is that (the Gretsch in the picture)?
 
All of the electric parts are a tele through a Vox AC-4 and some tube screamer. The solo was using the neck pick up. Thanks for listening, Chuck.
 
The hammond is nicely done.
It's all very nicely put together.
Interesting vocal style.
Cool song & nice mix - sounds like a bought one!
 
I like the song. I'd prefer the vocals to be a slight be lower, but that's personal taste. To me it sounds like the singer has a cold or something. I'm wondering if adding a little more lower freqs to the vocal track would help.

All else sounds great.

I like Tanner Road, too.
 
That's just the way I sing... John Hiatt is a hero because he has a voice that, while great for his material, it is definitely not mainstream.
Thanks for the kind words.

I have done a rewrite of Tanner Road focusing on the chorus with more interesting chord changes. I am getting drums tracked to the new version. Maybe I can get John Marsden to mix it.

Tom
 
Tom Paul said:
All of the electric parts are a tele through a Vox AC-4 and some tube screamer. The solo was using the neck pick up. Thanks for listening, Chuck.
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Wow - A Tele ... I would not have guessed that. Sounds great man. Me and my buddies do that long distance collab stuff a lot. I love it.

Chuck
 
Yup, can hear the Hiatt influence. He's one of mine too. Love the bridge! i'm a sucker for a little complexity here and there.

I think with a voice like that, I would put a little more effects on it, like more compression and some short reverb. Slapback delay maybe. Like Hiatt usually does. It's not about hiding the voice, but making it's uniqueness even more, well, unique.
 
Nice instrumentation! I like the subtle organ a lot, sits nicely in the mix. The voice is Tom Petty'ish but sometimes wavers a bit (both in tempo and in tune). It also seems to be too loud in some places.
 
Tom....

Really sweet tune....Great feel to the tune and the mix has everything in order.

All Genres have different mixing criteria.....In Country Music it is all about the song & all Instruments & BGV's are meant to support the Vocalist...never the other way around. It is just not done.....

Lead Vocal & BGV's are exactly where they are supposed to be on a Country Tune.....The Vocal and Lyric are King....
 
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