Final Mix "Harvest Moon" (Neil Young cover)

[mark skinner]

Hello , just finished this one up. Any nit's , crit's or suggestions welcomed. Thanks .. mark

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Discover "Harvest Moon -Neil Young cover", an introspective Acoustic Guitar track by mark alan skinner. Running at 112 BPM, it brings a sound in the style of Indie and Experimental. Charted at #1! Available now on SoundClick.

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[Papanate]

Wow! The Steel/Slide guitar part is sublime - took me a second to realize the rhythm guitar part wasn’t distorting - but it's the drums are playing along with it - very cool - Vocal is really close in feel and tone to Youngs original - great job.

 

[BTStudio]

Yah nice Mark

 

[HumanPlanet]

It's pretty good as always, great playing.

Some of the symbol hits are late which may be intentional but I want to jump in and 'fix' it.

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The more I listen to it the more I like it, real nice.

 

[mark skinner]

@Papanate , Thanks for the kind words. I'm Really enjoying playing with the slide guitar lately. It's sure easy to fill in the bottom end with it.
@BTStudio , I sure appreciate the listen and comment.
@HumanPlanet , Yeah , about every other time I listen , I hear something funky in a few spots with the percussion. Can you give me a couple of specific spots you are hearing it ? It's changing locations for me. I actually haven't addded cymbols yet , so it must be one of the other instruments ?? Thanks .. mark

 

[mark skinner]

@HumanPlanet , Sorry.. my bad. There was a cymbol track I had mixed back. There were a few spots that didn't sound right. I moved them back to the 1 beat. Also having some timing issues with the main acoustic guitar. I'll be in editing mode for a while .. ms

 

[HumanPlanet]

The newer mix is better but I think there's more work to do...

I'd start by getting rid of the cymbals altogether now and see how it sounds as they don't seem to add anything and may indeed detract from the piece making it sound a bit messy.

The rest is really coming together nicely.

 

[mark skinner]

@HumanPlanet , Yes I'm still playing with the cymbols. The problem I'm having is that "unfreezing" my TTS synth , to remove or adjust the cymbols , causes an immediate crash and shutdown of my project. I bounced it to audio and am trying to tame them with Dynamic EQ. They are real close to the upper freq. range of the brushed snare taps. The link now reflects my first attempt at it , and probably uploaded after your responce. I'll keep working on it.
Thanks , I Really appreciate your attention to detail . ms BTW , Love your Giff

 

[mark skinner]

I'm calling this one surrendered. I made quite a few changes smoothing it out and am happy with it . I'm sure I'll make a few further adjustments but , won't bump it up.
Special Thanks to @HumanPlanet for keeping me grounded and digging deep into this mix.
Thanks to Everyone for the plays , comments and help getting another one to completion. mark

 

[TripleM]

A very pleasing mix. I like the guitar sounds. At first I thought the acoustic guitar on the left was muffled, but after a while I thought it worked well in the mix. And yeah I like that slide guitar.

Vocal tone and delivery are nice. One minor thing with the vocal is with the mic technique. Early on in the song, there were a couple of spots where it seemed you backed way off the mic for a word here and there. And those words get lost in the mix.

Levels of everything sound great. Like the use of reverb - worked well for the song.

 

[Bulls Hit]

Great version! Very sympathetic, I like it