at least rob, you listened to half. I mean the difference listening to a flac or wav file at 96khz/24bit is easily distinguishable from the rechewed up soundcloud output.
the only song where voice and guitar are panned in 60/40 to each side is the first ,because it's only voice and guitar , it gave great separation....and well, my theory was that's what happens when you hear a singer and a guitar player live. Maybe it doesn't work?
Old friends is definitely geoshred swam cello. No harmonicas....but I like reed instruments.
That very odd harmonica on before the dawn...is a just a harmonica. Like in the kind you blow into jaja. It's supposed to add color, like sitting around a campfire. I don't play harmonica obviously, I just grabbed a couple in the right key.
Before there were walls...well we all live in our own universes. I think the rhythm is easily established by the clapping at the start. And there are just two separate individual rhythm guitar parts , one going right, one going left. They'resupposedto be playing offofeachother, or at least that was the goal when I played it. Maybe because I don't use drums? I'm always around 40-50bpm, so it's slow. I use a metronome on ipad called Pulse. My take on timing is...songs aren't supposed to be exact electonically timed . If you can't tell from my music, I hate modern electronic music. Timing should vary during the process, to add to the story. That's
ESP true for slow acoustic, but also for jazz...imho. Timing is essentially an emotional response.
The harmonicas are either mixcraft or some other vsts, or it could be geoshred swam cello...or thumbjam. Not sure what you mean by clicks? Are you talking about noise clicks? Or perhaps acoustic guitar sounds. Acoustic guitars are difficult to record, and when played, make some clicks. Pick noise, strum noise etc.
Processing was simple. No bus tracks. Each instrument and vocal track was usually compressed and eq'd. Then I used ozone to master, since I don't know diddley, nor have much interest in being a recording engineer. I spent alot of time comparing the options and differences and w/o much processing sounded better. I thought also that too many processing vst's make it worse. Like using both saturation and reverb on vocals tracks for instance.
Ok thanks rob I appreciate you listening. Really...I'm a duck and sometimes I learn from criticism , believe it or not. Not sure I agree with everything but I'll keep it in mind when I'm listening again. And the words are everything, but there's too much silence , if they're unaccompanied. I'll be the first to admit I'm not a great musician. Just wait for my piano compositions, and that'll be obvious. thanks again/k