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Engaging opening
Wonderful Rhumba Blues! Inspirational!
Love your panning choices and the entire mix
Super vocal lead and background (and love the whispers too)
great write, vivid, colorful, and seductive
much enjoyed!
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Wow, I'd have never thunk blues would sound so good with a rhumba beat  Love the slow, smooth groove to this. It has a smoky quality, and the vocals are top notch. Thanks for sharing! Blues with a rhumba beat has been around for a while, I didn't invent it unfortunately  What prompted me to do the song in the first place was a post in one of the other forums with someone asking for more blues styles, and one of the styles he was looking for was a rhumba style blues. It's true that pgmusic doesn't have a style specifically for rhumba style blues, but a "style" is just a collection of realtracks. So I thought it would be a fun exercise to make one, and I think it probably took me less than 10 minutes to come up with something that I thought sounded pretty good. In fact I liked it so much I thought I would develop it into a full blown song. If I have time I might do up a quick article for the tips and tricks forum about the workflow I used, it's basically what I use for all of our songs (I almost never use a "style" right out of the box (bad pun there :P) Thanks for the listen and comment, Deryk!
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Good song with a truly excellent feel, beautifully sung, with really nice guitar. Well mixed, mastered and presented. I reckon this is one of the better songs I’ve heard on the forums. But then, what would I expect? Well done, keep it up.
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Really COOL vibe and lyrics. So smooth and slinky fits the lyrics perfectly. Love the vocals. Thanks for the listen and comments, Donna!
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Very nice Dave! This totally works! Guitar is killer as always and what a vocal! There is some really catchy stuff going on in here! Thanks, Torrey
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Boy did this sound good on the headphones. What a cool mix. I am with Floyd what a cool rhythm to the song. Lovely vocal from Chris. She has quite a few different textures to her voice. Very cool.. Loved your guitar. Neat how you had it set a little bit to the right side. Gave the song a live feel to. Tone and touch was so good. Well done.. Thanks, Scott! As far as the guitar goes I almost always pan them to give the vocal center stage. Exception of course is if I’m doing an instrumental, but I don’t do too many of those these days.
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You two have resided on a high performance bar for a long time but... We gotta say this one pushes that bar into the stratosphere! We've always enjoyed the two Kings when they used this groove and, man, is it ever cool to hear y'all take it on. The groove is infectious, everything is mixed to perfection and that allows your performance on guitar and Chris's vocal to just smoke. Both are spectacular. And that write just won't leave you. Pro level any way you want to look at it and deserving of a wide audience! J&B Edit: We just listened more today and Janice said that during your sublime solo she could picture water flowing down a winding stream. Thanks very much, Bud! We had lots of fun working on this, and at the end of the day that's what matters. And thanks to Janice: "during your sublime solo she could picture water flowing down a winding stream" Yeah, I love that! 
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Yes this is a very familiar groove. I hear BB Kingtoo
I love the vocal too.
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Pro song, smooth all the way!
We are particularly impressed by the solo guitar work.
Rob and Anne-Marie
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Dave & Chris
Wonderful sultry blues. Beautiful vocal and an excellent lyric.
Loved the beat and Dave that guitar sounds superb. Great intro to the solo (need to borrow that one)
and great phrasing throughout.
As Bud & Janice said absolutely pro level.
Peter Hey, you can borrow my licks anytime! However that means I get to borrow some of yours Thanks, Peter! Rumba Blues! I love it
solid write, very nice vocals
guitar sounds great as usual
a cool song, I can sense the smoky atmosphere
Kenny Yeah, that's exactly what we were going for as far as the mood went. Thanks, Kenny!
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Dave,
First of all, super nice tune! I enjoyed it very much.
You mentioned you can go in details about mix. I hope you are still up for it.
Overall mix is great, I am ages from this sort of sound, but what I am interested is how is vocal routed & processed.
Specifically two questions, if you can.
1) Was any external hardware (except for interface) used, such as preamp or compressor for microphone or it is all software?
2) If it is not trade secret, what plugins were used specifically on vocals? Mostly I am wondering because you mentioned Waves and I am curious if you have used Vocal Rider on it?
Thank you,
Mike.
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Yeah Dave, This is really sultry and sexy. Tell Christine she did a great job! The mix is excellent as others have noted and that guitar is smokin' man.
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Oh wow Dave, outstanding playing, vocals and all around mix. Enjoyed it very much.
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Hey Dave Nice job. Love the guitar work. I might cop a few of those licks Thanks for posting this and opening up peoples ears that Blues is not just about 12 bar shuffles.!! Cheers Mark Hey Mark, Sure, you can cop any of my licks! Just so long as you give me credit for them when you get famous and are interviewed by Guitar Player Magazine Yeah, there is lots more to blues than shuffles, you are right about that! Cool vibe!! Steamy lyrics and vocals, and some very sweet, tasty guitar! Everything works for me. Great job guys!! Take care. Greg Thanks for the listen and comments, Greg!
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hi dave love this great mix everything perfect vocal spot on love the guitar thanks for sharing eric
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Dave / Chris,
This is really great! I love the overall slinky feel of this one. I hear some blues, some Albert, but also some Sade in the way that Chris delivers this song.
Absolutely great!
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Love the vibe on this—love the vocal on this, and particularly that killer lead guitar. Very easy on the ears. Well done!
All the best,
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Dave & Chris,
Very smooth and infectious rhythm and I agree with the plaudits already written- especially Floyd`s comment on your guitar sounding like a second vocalist.
And what a singer Chris is! Nice touches of harmony too.
Your vocal processing is flawless here.
The bridge lyrics gave me pause `til I read the note and then I understood what a cool write this is.
Top shelf in every way!
Robert Thanks very much, Robert! When it comes to lyrics the ones I write are quite predictable, I just don't have that special gift that people like Chris and you have. As far as the vocal processing goes, after a couple of years of experimenting I've come to the realization that less is more, at least for her voice. If it was me singing it would be just the opposite Dave and Chris
That was astounding the guitar playing, the vocals, the style, feel,
Through the headphones I swear I could hear it in my fingertips, this is pro stuff and what a mix. Thanks for the very kind words, appreciated! Hi, Dave & Christiane !
Absolutely superb tune and
performance ! I enjoyed it
very much ! Oh, that wonderful
voice !:))Could hardly get any better
than this !!!
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You use that new Vocal Doubler plugin on this one?
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Steve, no I didn't use a doubler on this. Chris doesn't like it when I add too much stuff on her vocals, I try and slip stuff in there from time to time but she always tells me to take it off Here is a cut and paste with a couple of modifications from a post I made over in the songwriting forum that gives the vocal effects chain I used on this song: 1) Neutron 2. I get the initial setup by running it's track assist function, that is great for finding the interesting EQ nodes and setting the initial parameters for the compressor. Then you can press ALT left mouse button and zoom over those nodes it has identified and hear exactly what is happening there and tweak if needed. For this mix I am only using the EQ portion and the first compressor, I disabled the other modules. 2) Waves De-Esser 3) Waves Vocal Rider. This is a great little plugin that saves lots of time drawing in volume automation to keep the levels more constant. Depending on the track sometimes it is all you need, and I see that on this track I didn't do any manual volume automation. Also I have two sends coming from this track, one is going to a dedicated reverb track, the other to a delay track. Reverb is set to 100% wet, and I adjust the volume of that track until I get the amount of reverb I want. I prefer having the reverb on a separate track because I find it's easier to control that way. The delay track is using a stereo delay (the one that came with reaper) with two different delay times. The one panned left is set to 100ms, the one panned right is set to 150ms. Subtle but effective.
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