Good song and great singing.
I like the vocal sound as it is. Very upfront. I wish I could say the same for the bass sound. The part itself is great but in my opinion the basssound is too raw for this type of music ( did you eq or compress it at all?) and it seems to muddy the mix and cloud the drum part. Maybe that's what Mag meant as well with "smoother".
Thanks for the comments Martin. I did go back and listen to the sounds again several times, as I wanted to hear what you were hearing. I would agree that the bass in general is a bit aggressive (but that is mostly my style, especially on the fretless). I did do slight hardware compression during recording the bass and a bit in the mix, so I don't think that would be it.
I think it may have something to do with the conversion to MP3 format. I flipped back and forth between the original and the MP3 and noticed a definite shift in the tonal quality and muddiness. This is part of the reason that I kind of dislike the whole MP3 thing, as I find people these days are satisfied with far poorer sound quality than was even available on CD 15 years ago (can't even imagine paying 0.99 to download an MP3).
Anyway it looks like I have to do some more experimenting with the CD to MP3 coverting process (as I usually just do a basic conversion from the WAV file), as I have read that this can be tweaked and fiddled with.
Thanks for the great comments...this gives me something new to read up on and try to learn
