@Bob: Thanks for the compliment on the guitar work!
@Mike: Thanks for the suggestions about genre.
...I can see a lazy river in my mind listening to that. Very atmospheric.
@John: The Kish is a "lazy" river. I'm glad the tune brought this to mind. I was picturing the river at sunrise / sunset while composing.
It reminds me of Pink Floyd. Very nice. I like all the tasteful use of the effects, I've just starting investigating some VSTplugins that I have, so that caught my attention.
@Patrick: My wife also said it sounded like Pink Floyd.
I did use Dimension Pro for the piano. Otherwise all the effects used were stock Sonar effects. Reverb, eq, and compression. There was also delay on the piano. The eq was used mostly to roll of the bass frequencies of the synth and guitars (high pass).
Most of the "effects" you are hearing came from my Alesis 6.1. I have had the same board since 1998.
Very nice, Rob. The acoustic is very well recorded. And the little touches of piano are tasteful - what is the piano?
@ Floyd: The piano is the only soft-synth in the mix. It is a Dimension-Pro preset. I played it using my Alesis a controller.
@Charlie: Thanks for the listen!
Very nice, the acoustic guitar is very well recorded. What microphone did you use?
This is something that would fit well in a movie or documentary.
@R&AM: Thank you. The guitar was recorded using a pencil condenser (MXL 603s). I'm always impressed by its sound as it came free with the purchase of a entry-level large diaphragm condenser (MXL 2001).
Funny you should mention the "movie" as I am currently putting together a video of the river using this as the sound-bed.
IMHO, the drums...especially the snare is just a tad too hot and sticks up and out of the mix.
@Guitarhacker: You know, on one of the speaker systems I listened to it on (my car), I was thinking the same thing. I'll have to go back and revisit the mix. I'll update the post when I do.
@Tom: Thanks for the listen and the kudos!
