Hi everyone. I've lurked around this message board for over a year and its been a great place to find tips, opinions and suggestions. Thanks a bunch! Anyway, I've been working on a mix and I've reached the burnout point. Wondering if you could give it a listen and offer your opinions.
http://www.innovationstudios.net/temp/youare.mp3

Peace,
Mike Ofca

Great song..I especially dug the accoustic drums coming in..keep it up.

Really well done.

Very minor subjective comments:

1. I'd try and round out the piano in the beginning (probably just with eq around 1-2.5K or so, but you might be able to find something else - tube ****, tape saturation, or some other effect?). It seems just a hair brighter than the voc and is therefore competitive.

2. This may or may not be an improvement, but I'd experiment with just a little bit of some kind of ambience program or dual hard-panned delays about 15 and 40ms on the voc. That may not sound good, or it could integrate it a little better.

3. Same with the piano in the beginning maybe; I'd also pan its melody notes away from the voc a little. And the bass end of the piano sounds like a different instrument, which you may or may not want.

These are very subtle points, though - great mix. It's not easy to build like that while keeping the level even they way you did. I'm just lending you my fresh Roman ears, certainly not saying I could do better for one minute.

Oh, and it's too late for this, but there's a little too much D major for me. I probably would have modulated by the third verse.

Great suggestions Nick. Thank you. And, good call on the piano. I tamed it down with some EQ and MIDI velocity in a couple of spots. Also EQ'd the kick a little deeper in the subs and turned the bass guitar down in the intro. If you 're interested in the new version,
http://www.innovationstudios.net/temp/youare2.mp3
Thanks again for your ears, and compliments.
Mike Ofca

this is why I don't usually reply to these type of posts...

What happened? Did I do something wrong?

Well, now I think you need to raise the backing tracks in the beginning.

Sorry if I helped make you mess it up!

Nick, no harm done. I'm happy, but more importantly, my client is happy. I definitely like the beginning a lot better than before. Constructive criticism is a good thing. Though I'm a little confused by Mista Ree's post.

Hay, what language is that?
Great tune.

It's English! Check out the New Testament.

Jim K.