RISE ABOVE (with Lee Johnson) pro mix-master

[deantaylor]

We got a pro mixing and mastering job from Darren Stone. Darren will still tweak it if you hear something significant .. any mixing or mastering issues, clicks/pops, vocal pitch issues, etc.Tell us what you think of it. It's a film-tv song.http://www.mp3unsigned.com/showmp3.asp?mp3id=57944 click on lyric button to readThanks. And thanks for your past comments on this song. Dean and Lee

[jwebbinspired]

Sounds really good guys! I can tell you dropped the electric guitar a little, it sound just great. Not nits here guys, I'm playing it again. Who is this Darren Stone? Andy

[partyofone]

Hi! Music sounds nice and clear. Don't hear any issues here.

[davekershaw]

Yeah, nice work Dean.Love the guitar work!Dave.

[deantaylor]

Thanks guys. Yeah we dropped the eguits back a bit in the mix from earlier reviews, also added the harmonica for Billg. Darren is known as stonie on this board. He is an excellent composer, producer and sound engineer. He has mixed and mastered 3 co-writes of mine. Always does a great job. The other 2 songs are 'specialty' songs, hard to place in libraries, but even so .. I got a contract offer on one and eventually placed it's instrumental in another library. Darren did some great work calming fret noise in that song or it wouldnt' have been placed .. I'm sure of that. And you guys here in this forum are the ones who challenged that in his first master and prompted us to ask him to calm it!! So if you hear anything in this one, let us know.Thanks,Dean

[ideascapes]

Heard just a bit of noise right before the song starts--I'd trim that off. Otherwise sounds like a very balanced mix/master with great clarity. I'd probably ride the fader on the lead vocal a little more so it always stands out, but that's a real nit.Right after the break (2:16), I heard something a little distracting in the background. Could be harmony vocals that had a little tail on it or wasn't exactly in sync?Nice ending!Vince

[deantaylor]

Vince,Thanks. I think what you hear at 2:16 is the eguit coming back in .. we dropped everything but the acoustic after the bridge .. but I was a little distracted in that spot, too, until I got used to it .. so we'll take another look there.Dean

[cameron]

Just sounded to me like the some reverb was added to the mix at that point.The production and mix sound good to me.Cam

[deantaylor]

thanks Cam