Long Black Veil:
Hits:
Instrumentation,
Drums,
levels, but the vox get quiet at first "someone was killed"
the tone you get from the guitars,
harmony vocals,
"wailing" effect towards the end of the tune: it avoids being cheesy-- well done.
reverb. Why does my reverb always suck? What do you use?
The recording reminded me of Robert Earl Keen, which is a big plus. He's one of my favorite artists...
Misses:
Biggest problem in the mix is the emptiness of the right (harmonica) channel. There's nothing there except a few harmonica ornamentations unti :51 or so. And then it goes back to being empty excepting the vox (which resolve very clearly to center in my V4's)
Fade+Ritard at end. Maybe it could work, one way might be to have the words night. wind. wail. be separated by a space, with each one quieter in the delivery, not the fader. I dunno.
Some clashing in the guitar parts here and there, but I like them overall.
The tempo felt a little off to me somehow in places, but I think if the vocal delivery relaxed a little and the singer maybe allowed himself to go off the click track, it would hang together just right.
IMO....
