It’s a bit messy indeed. After the umpteenth crash I wanted to upload only the stems of what I had at the moment, but even that didn’t work. And when I eventually got the project going again I decided to finish it as a remix. Maybe I should have stuck with the stems-only plan. But to make up for that I will upload those later on (maybe even today).

Wouldn’t necessarily call it messy and wouldn’t have wanted to miss the full remix with em’s voice.
Its more a choice of octave wich makes it crowded in the intro there are four main sounds in the same region wich can be hard to follow. I would dropped 1 or 2 one octave and would have lowered the dulchimers volume a touch (or the feedback of it’s delay).
Do you eq your reverbs and delays?? Because I also have the idea the your reverb on the drums is mudding the the track.

Nonetheless I’m listening for the 6th (four in a row) time now and still getting the chills.

First of all, thanks for the ed pick. A bit unexpected, to be honest.

Dropping one or two of the tracks an octave would have cleared things up a bit, but would also give those tracks a different sound. Lowering the volume of the dulcimer a tad has been on my mind though. I guess I got a bit lazy towards the end.

Sometimes I do eq my reverbs and delays, but then they have to be on a (seperate) send channel, which is not always the case, like here. The reverb on the drums are the natural ambience of the room in which they were recorded. It is on a seperate channel in the plug-in, but was routed to one and the same stereo output channel. And ofcourse for the intro I applied a multi-effect, which gives it a heavily processed sound, but is therefore also hard to control.

Anyway, thanks for the tips. Something to keep in mind for potential future remixes.

happy to see the Ed Pick from Feddo. very well deserved — this piece is like a beautiful painting that deserves to be hung in the Met or Louvre!

Thanks. Originally I was aiming for an epic prog rock piece, but alas…

I´d say you haven´t failed!

And thank you for your kind words.

You’re welcome. It’s always a pleasure working with your voice. Thanks for listening and commenting.

That’s a very big compliment, especially coming from one of the most talented mixters around.

Me neither. ;-) Thanks for the nice comment.

It’s actually a heavily processed bowed guitar. At least, that’s what it says on the tin.

I also used the melody of your solo for the synth lead part later on and elaborated on that.

Thank you for uploading such very fine samples. The recording quality is pretty good and I liked that you uploaded them in different keys.

Thank you very kindly, Sir Duckett. I have been enjoying your (then) latest remix very much this morning.

Quote: duckettI usually avoid using this word, but…
EPIC!

Please ditto that expression from me!

Thanks, Anchor.

Thank you very much, Ivan.

Funny to see how my own perception differs from that of other people. I guess that when you have been working on something for that long, with all the technical problems that have accompanied this remix, it is hard to judge it independent from all the trials and tribulations. This reception makes it worthwhile though.

Thank you. It was a bit unexpected, but much appreciated nonetheless.

Thank you, Kara. That’s quite the comment. Very much appreciated.

Thanks, Deb!

Thanks, Geert.

Yeah, once a Cubase project gets instable (for whatever reason) it remains instable and then it might crash on you at any time. I believe that the sheer frustration has cost me a couple of years of my life. ;-)