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Hey there Hans, welcome back! Really good mix and the guitars you used were great, the drums worked well in this as well.
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A cool lyric idea behind your rocking ballad, Hans! I like the way you developed the opening verse to bring in other luminaries.
The change from lush strings to the band worked well and your vocals, as always, have a distinct, edgy character.
Very good!
Robert
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Hello again, Hans. YES!! It sounds terrific --even better now. Just wanted to mention that the very night I gave you my first comment to this song our cat Stevie was seen (and great photo taken) by a neighbor. Our neighbors aren't so close --about a half mile away. We think she is living in an abandoned barn behind their house. And this song sounds so much better.
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We certainly hope things continue to go well for you, Hans, and you have been missed. Michelangelo, Rembrandt and Einstein ... how cool is that? Very. We enjoyed your passionate vocals and the very good dynamics in the song. And that is a LOT of tracks ... too many for me to mix  Well done! J&B PS. We hope your cat returns. PPS. We're getting adjusted to Ozone 10 Adv and have found a couple of the new modules to be very impressive.
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Hans,
You always post high quality work! And I always like everything you post! Your vocals are always emotive and delivered with power! This is a great sounding song and I enjoyed it!
Thanks, Torrey
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Hi Anne-Marie en Rob, OM, Scott and Janne, Thanks for your nice replies on the song. It took some time for me to reply, sorry for that. [*****] reasons... Really great song Hans. Very powerful and very well sung. Love the music too. Ik luisterde met oortjes in en dan zijn de instrumenten die links en rechts gepanned zijn iets te luid, want ze overstemmen je zang daar. Dit kan ik beter omschrijven in het Nederlands dan in het Engels  Groetjes, Anne-Marie PS ik stuur je nog een mailtje Hoi RnAM; (in Dutch) bedankt, ook voor je aanwijzingen. Ben er nog niet aan toegekomen het te wijzigen. Reden staat in eerste zin ;-) Heb je lieve mail beantwoord. really like the emotion in the vocals.
nice instrumental stops and guitar work.
also liked the synth work at the back of the song.
lovely guitar work closeing out the song at end.
i salute your talent mate.
best
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Hi Mo, you make me blush, and that on my age... Thanks a lot, Hopefully I can continue this winning streak :-) Good to hear for you Hans. Super strong song to come back with. Excellent vocal and powerful energy in the choruses. Really well done. Hello Scott, so nice to read your post. As I said to MO, I hope to continue receiving these compliments from you! Welcome back, Hans! And what a comeback, absolutely stunning work! Interesting subject on different kind of love given super treatment. Nice name dropping, although I'm not sure even Einstein could fly through time The chord progression in minor is perfect, straight to my heart. And the sad melody supports the story exactly. Good intro and a beautiful way to end. What an excellent arrangement, so much happening all the time, really like a painting with lots of details and beautiful emotional voices in the center. Those guitars are very well chosen, the nylon guitar takes back many centuries and then the baritone, you can always trust its power, then the blues solo guitar is perfect fit to give blues mood. Strings sound excellent - really lush. I bought also Ozone 10, I tried to use it on my recent song, but decided not to, because it sounded overcompressed.... well, maybe tweaking Maximizer might help. But you have done really good job with it, I didn't hear any compression issues. Very spacious mix, nicely panned. Janne Hi Janne, Wow, what nice words! And I was hesitating about Einstein too, but there was no one else to use in the song. I also had another Italian sculpter than Mischelangelo, but noone know that man. So what to do? Using my fantasy... But the sad story was dealing more and more with my lost cat. I loved that animal. Never heard of him since. With Ozone 10 I had the same experience as you described, but then did some adjustments on my volume (audio interface) and managed to get a far morte better sound. But I used very bad words before I solved the issue. I also used Ozone 9 as a stand alone, but that is gone now. Also used bad words for that! Thanks everyone for listening, advicing and commenting, Hans
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Hi Hans
Very cool song
Great melody
Brilliantly sung
Absolutely brilliant background track with great stereo effects
The strings are the icing on the cake
Great work Hans
Many greetings
Andi ;-)
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Hi Greg, Firesong, Ezekiel and Deej, Thanks a lot for commenting on the song in such nice words. Cool song!!!! Your vocals are always great, and this is no exception!! Very good arrangement/production!! Sorry to hear about your cat. My favorite cat (who was clueless outside the house) disappeared many years ago.....still miss him! Nice song!!! Take care. Greg Hi Greg, Nice comment on the vocals. They are becoming more of a concern to me as I get older. But my wife says they're good enough, like you said. That's reassuring (I think). And the cat and yours too. You have terrible cats, nice cats and cats you love. I think your missing cat was of the latter category. like mine. And missing is worse than dead. I just made a song about him... Hans...great track...well sung...very interesting and engaging song...really fine production! Hi Firesong, that a very nice comment, with a lot of dots too ;-) The mix and mastering sounds good. I am still using Ozone 9; I haven't sprung for the upgrade yet.
The lyrics are top notch, and your impassioned vocal carries the already good song. Hello Ezekiel, thanks for your nice comment. I'm starting to get used to OZ10 now, but still find it strange that the mastering is in the mix. I always had that separated. But it does save a lot of time! Hans,
So good to see you back on the board . . . and more importantly to hear something new from you. Creative write and that chorus is powerful, some beautiful harmonies accented by the strings . . . and then that rockier shift in the second verse. And, wow, love the delay/reverb in that third verse. Great arrangement, mix, and production. Terrific listen!
And sorry about your cat—I’ve got two and if one slipped away I’d be devastated. Maybe he’ll find his/her way back yet.
Impressive tune!
Stay well—
Deej Hi Deej, thank you for your words. I still have a grin on my face now that I'm answering you. And about the cat; I have a mother cat and two children. There was some big trouble at the birth of them. Mother went crazy, still not allright and the sweetest cat is gone. Presumably death. I just wrote a song about it (a bit of grief processing I think). So, like in your penultimate sentence; That's what I am. Wish you all a very pleasant day, Hans
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Hi Bob, thanks for your so nice comment on this song. You gave me a warm feeling... Hans,
This is truly an outstanding song... Love the vocal and arrangement. The song really builds and has some nice layers.
Much enjoyed!
Bob, that are nice compliments , thanks a lot man!
Bob Hey there Hans, welcome back! Really good mix and the guitars you used were great, the drums worked well in this as well. Robbert, I had to check what a edgy vocal is and it looked like a good thing... Thanks what you said about the build up of the song. It took me much more time to develop this song then I thought. A cool lyric idea behind your rocking ballad, Hans! I like the way you developed the opening verse to bring in other luminaries.
The change from lush strings to the band worked well and your vocals, as always, have a distinct, edgy character.
Very good!
Robert You didn't expect me to listen to you Marty??? I wouldn't dare. Beside that, you were right too ;-) Hello again, Hans. YES!! It sounds terrific --even better now. Just wanted to mention that the very night I gave you my first comment to this song our cat Stevie was seen (and great photo taken) by a neighbor. Our neighbors aren't so close --about a half mile away. We think she is living in an abandoned barn behind their house. And this song sounds so much better. I hope you all have a very nice day, Hans
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Hello, Janice, Bud, Torrey and Andy, You are the last but not the least I have to reply on this song. I quess... I'm sure everyday you looked if I answered yet, but just before you want to give up, here it is! Thank you so much for your so nice replies. We certainly hope things continue to go well for you, Hans, and you have been missed. Michelangelo, Rembrandt and Einstein ... how cool is that? Very. We enjoyed your passionate vocals and the very good dynamics in the song. And that is a LOT of tracks ... too many for me to mix Well done! J&B PS. We hope your cat returns. PPS. We're getting adjusted to Ozone 10 Adv and have found a couple of the new modules to be very impressive. Hi J&B, I'll start with the ps: No, he's gone. I expected to smell him, because he almost can't be alive by now, but nothing. I live in a fairly large city and my neighborhood contains many large houses. So he should have been found. Truly a cynical riddle. But I made a song on him now. Will be on the forum soon. The pps: Yes, I had the same experience. I only did mixing and mastering seperately and now it's all in one. Still have to get used to that. The lead reply: Well, I needed to travel through space and didn't know what figure couldd have been of nay use with that. At the same time my son had a date, but the girl said they had no 'click'. And she compaired it with Einsteins' formula E=MC2. In a short cut, that brought me to him. And about the quantity of the tracks... it weren't that many. You would have managed that with a finger in your nose (as we say). Hans,
You always post high quality work! And I always like everything you post! Your vocals are always emotive and delivered with power! This is a great sounding song and I enjoyed it!
Thanks, Torrey Hello Torrey, I must have learned some of the build up in my song(s) from you. I always like how you go from verse to chorus. But I believe the emotion was extra strong because of the cat story. I'm weak concerning a lot of animals (not snakes). Thanks a lot! Hi Hans
Very cool song
Great melody
Brilliantly sung
Absolutely brilliant background track with great stereo effects
The strings are the icing on the cake
Great work Hans
Many greetings
Andi ;-) Hi Andi, you were away for some time as well, I read somewhere. Was your cat gone too? Thanks for your very nice comment and so nice to see you mentioned the strings. On YouTube I learned something about handling the volumes of the strings during the track (a kind of peaks and valleys with concave or convex lines in between, if you understand what I mean). It worked out well here. I hope you have a nice day today, it's getting colder now here, Hans
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