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This is gentile. I really like your sound man, definately unique. I enjoy listening to your songs. The vocal is always really clear and you often have a different instrumnet or sound that gets me thinking, cool. Cheers.

Erland
 
dobro!!!

I'm listening now.......
You already know I'm a fan.
This is as good as anything else on the album.
I like the approach you used with the board to let us know, first that you were working on this project and then be so free to share with the clinic each song in it's entirety.
Personally I hope you can find a market for the album.
If that sort of thing interests you.
If not, do you do any public performing?
I may have asked you this before, if so please forgive me.
I played professionally thru most of the 80's(Had no other job.), so I always think in terms of getting payed for the effort.
Having said all that, I feel priviledged to have gotten a peek at your work before it goes to press if you will....

Thanks again Dobro

Dan
 
A market for the album? Sure, I'm interested in that. I'd like a Blue mic and a Grace pre and a gold headjoint for my flute, and I just don't have the readies for those items at the moment LOL.

Nah - I'm small fish. This clinic's my arena. I don't perform either. Unless you buy me a bottle of wine anyway. I don't do it for free you know LOL.
 
Very nice, and this actually sounds like an album closer (don't know if this is the last song on the album, or just the last song recorded for the album)

This is very good. Has a great sound to it, very nice vocal and great arrangement.

Can't wait to get this CD! :D
 
I really like the vocals, especially the harmonies, they work really really well. Very smooth.

The midi instruments I do not like. But, you've used the so extensively that I imagine it's part of your vision for the song...and you're vision is your vision!

Slackmaster 2000
 
nice one.. it's one of those tunes that sinks in fast.. the melody is familiar like a Christmas song.. love the way the backing vocals came out.. the strings are annoying little things in the right.. your using lots of strings lately, maybe you should get some better samples.. something warmer/darker.. I don't know.. maybe just another layer lower octave, on the other side.. this melody is great.. almost like hearing a song that you know, only forgot that you knew.. :confused:

the best one I've heard from you in awhile.. great melody.. I can live with the mix.. very nice tune..
 
I like the string patch. Reminds me a bit of my old ARP (RIP) :(

You could probably "warm it up" a bit by adding just a tad of tube amp style distortion, a subtle, slow chorus with about 10-15ms predelay, and low-passing at about 7-10K.

Then again, I've always preferred cabernet, & merlot. :D
 
Very nice. Has kind of a movie quality, if that makes any sense. I can see this in the "bittersweet flashback montage" section of some odd indie flick.

I don't have any mix gripes. I'm not a fan of the strings, but I've mentioned that on other songs.

Listening a second time, I'm thinking that the strings might work better for me if they were used more sparingly - if they kind of swelled in and out a little more gradually (the way strings usually do in songs). As it is, it sounds very much like the way someone would play a synth string part on a keyboard, rather than the way an actual string section would play.

Just little nitpicks. Overall a winner, dobro.

Chris
 
I LIKE, the splitting of the mix, strings at 1:00, and the other instrument at 7:00 ... and then the vox coming in dead center, and WAY OUT ON TOP ... best mix of your vox so far.

The harmonys and backups are STELLAR, they support your lead vox like well crafted wood. I see you are 'stacking' the back-vox, very, very well.

At 1:35 WOW ... clean, effective backVox stacking ! It's a dobro CHOIR ... and a good one.

At 2:00, this technique is 'living' ... very nice work. Your work with strings is constantly improving. I would consider putting a bit of string in the upper left also, mixed at a much lower level, just to draw our attention up there at times, to remind us there is 'something different' about the strings ... and what I mean is don't let the listener's attention dwell upon the sample.

This would be a perfect one for me to do the real strings on. Very straightforward strings here.

Cool tune ... cool, thanks for sharing YA NUT ! :D
 
The sound is very good, Dooberoonie!

A market for the album? Sure, I'm interested in that
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Hey, I won't compare you anymore....but I do think you should send a cd to Andy Partridge. He just started a record label you know? I would be very surprised if he wouldn't like your music. He isn't performing live himself either, so no worries there. And he loves the beauty of homerecording. Give it a shot man! (and if you don't do it, I do it myself....in that case you could expect a new order from me very soon of course ;) and a call from Andy...hopefully)
 
Interesting

Interesting choices on instrumetals! Solo vocals are very good. The backup vocals get muddy, perhaps too many voices.

Nice piece, but its a little monotaneous in levels. Nothing exciting, It's a style thing. If it works for you then it's fine.
 
I gave this a full listen through first. And I first want to say this song was just beautiful. You have your own musical "voice" (I don't mean just vocals), and you seem to be getting more and more expressive as we go. More free. Less concerned. More enabled.

I like the rhythmic pulse of this one a lot. The beat is gentle, inviting.

What I'm wondering is how much better would the synth pad on the right sound if it was played an octave lower and balanced out in the stereo field. Right now I'm kinda cold on it. I really think it might be taking away from the intimacy. But I'll also throw a disclaimer out there and warn you that my taste for synths is starting to fade, or at least getting fussier. I think something a little softer is what I'm looking for. I've nothing against a synth, but this patch sounds a bit digital for the music to me.
Now if you do decide to spread the pad evenly across the field, you might want something to balance out the stuff you've got going on in the left channel. Not sure what sound it is you've got there, but you probably know what I'm talking about.

There may be some of that low mid buildup happening. Solo the bass with the vocals and listen for conflicts. I think that's where it is...could be wrong.

OK, man I'm starting to grow tired of thinking like that. I really probably should take a healthy break from the clinic so I can lay off the analyzing for a while. But then I'll miss good music like this, so I'll seek a balance. :)

Very very nice song, Paul. I'm looking forward to that new disc. Your progress is obvious IMO.

Tom
 
no clutter

unique and drives farward well. I like your style. Bizare sounds working perfectly together.

Bird
 
Really Pretty!

Great vocals and harmonies. I like the miimalist approach - everything clear and simple. The strings are an issue with me and I think the only reason is their lack of movement. Downward scale hamonizations with appropriate crescendo and decrescendo swells would be my approach. (5th holding on top with 1st and 3rd harmonized in motion.) With your nicely spaced harmonies I think a wide spread on the strings would get in the way of the voices. Just my opinion - as it stands there's nothing annoying to me.

It'll make a great closer - let me know when the CD's available, please.

Very, very nice!!
Milan
 
Very pretty song. Real nice to listen to. I loved the melody line. Everything sounds real clean.

When the harmonies come in for the first time, is there some pitchiness in them (beginning with the word "heart" at about :35)? They don't seem as smooth that first time and I'm wondering if there's a part in there that's just a little off. All the harmonies after that sound right on.

Real nice song.
 
Downloaded this yesterday. Just now catching up on the comments. When I first listened I was not sure I was enjoying this one as much as some of your others...



...then the melody was stuck in my head for about an hour, and not in that annoying way. :)


Listened again today and loved it. My only complaint as others have mentioned is the keyboard strings. I do agree with Tom in lowering the octave may help the feel of them, take off the keyboard tinnyness so to speak. Make it more of a cello sound. Of course you could get Studio to whip something up for you! :)

Nice work per usual. Always love your voice. It has character.
 
dobro,

I enjoyed the track!

You have a very unique sound and this track really shows off your musicianship skills nicely and very much shows your singing talents as well. The harmony work was spot on perfect.

My only mix complaint is that much of the dominant instruments seemed swayed over to the left and the right side of the mix sound weaker. Perhaps some instruments could be panned over a bit, closer to the center as the vocals were.

Otherwise, a very fine mix overall. The levels and eq sounded smooth at all levels.

Nice stuff! :)
 
Definitely a good album closer............the strings did sound sort of fake and I would either EQ them differently or drop them an octave as others have said. I think I'd prefer them where they are if you could EQ them so they weren't so synthy sounding.

I didn't care for the background voices that much......they were all right i suppose, but they were too operatic sounding to me. I would have preferred a simpler background.......maybe even just one part.....a duo sort of thing.

Nice tune......I'm looking forward to hearing it in the context of a complete album.
Tom is right......you"ve become one of the few that really have a 'signature' sound. That's very cool.
 
I thought this was very good Dobro. I liked the melody very much, I don't remember who mentioned it but yes this had an almost holiday feel to it for me. Congratulations on the completion of the album.

The sparse arrangement worked really well here, a good strength of this track.
 
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