Rick,

I think the arrangement of this is quite lovely and I would not add anything additional.

However, if you want my two cents on the mixing I will give you my thoughts. These are not criticisms, just things you might want to consider for future development.

1.) The drums. If you add drums to a mix they become the most important part of the song next to the vocals. So, you need to spend a lot of time looking at all your options and for mixing and eq'ing drums. The EZ drummer drums sound a bit thin and high end in this mix. You might try making a board for drums only, and try different eqs on each track and fiddle with the faders (using multiple copies of the drums track, I use at least 8) until you find a drum sound that you love. The drums need to have a thud without being muddy. You have to build you own virtual drummer, in other words--and create a custom sound you can live with for most other drum tracks. Also, you might try mixing Real drums with EZ drums triggered by Real drum midi files. (You find a Real drum that has notation and save one version of the file as midi get the drums track as midi or ask Real Band to generate a real chart for that drum track.)

It takes a long time to get a methodology that allows you to get a great drum sound, but if you use drums, the true sign of a pro is a great drum sound.

2.) Vocals. You might want to have a separate board just for vocals, and duplicate tracks (I use up to 10) and put different effects on each tracks, mixing stuff as a blend until it sounds PERFECT to you. Then export that as a single mixed stereo wave for input into your master board.

This also takes a LOT of time.

3.) After that the bed is pretty easy, and less is always more. Use the absolute bare minimum you need to get your point across. That is what makes a song age well. Stuff that is over produced never ages well.

This, however, is a great use of tracks and simplicity. I really like it.

But the next level, so to speak, is hours and hours and hours just listening to the drums and vocals. Then the bass....

Then everything else....

smile

Great job on this.

David Snyder
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