Hi Mike,

Thanks for taking interest in the song. Very nice of you. At some point my hope is to get all sorts of JPF artists to do their own versions of it in many styles and genres. (Harold did a very reggae version of it that really worked for me for example). It clearly pops a lot more than the original file and demonstrates what's possible with what you do. The only thing I didn't like as much was the organ levels which overwhelmed the vocal about 2/3rds of the way through it. If those were turned back in the mix I think it might sound a lot better. That's not to say I am not appreciative of your effort. I think when Harold and Alan remixed it, they were dealing with all sorts of tech problems to get it to the point they were at and they only had a couple hours total to fix it. They had to change the key and tempo significantly of the background vocals and that took most of the time alone. The original backgrounds were HUGE.. we had a 40+ person choir of award nominees in a high end studio singing.. but the key and tempo change (and the second background part was WAY out of timing and they somehow even fixed that.. not even sure how they did it) was so severe that they had to pull it all way back in the mix. Normally this song runs over 4 minutes and there are some huge vocal vamps from the chorus going on, but they cut all that to keep it under 3 minutes. Your boosting of the percussion etc. clearly helps the recording. Can you back off the organ a little in the mix?

Thanks again, nice gesture on your part,

Brian

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