Gentlemen...thank you for the feedback.
Glad to hear comments about chilled-out, mellow, smoky, late-night Parisian cafés...these are among the things I aspire to, especially in this song.
Digger...it isn't that I'm unhappy with the mix...just that I've only got headphones and cheap pc speakers to monitor it, so I'm unsure of the quality. If it sounds good then i'm happy that my monitoring limitations aren't too bad and, even more so, that I'm getting better at doing this stuff. I have been studying the process more deeply than before.
The length of the songs is always going to be a problem 'cos I can't think what to chop. One possibility would be to go up 5bpm....that'd save about 15 seconds...I did mean to try this before I posted a final version but it slipped my mind.
Glad the bass sounds good to you Keith and Neil..it's the upright bass in the free kontakt player...I think it's good.
The sax i was a bit worried that my cut and paste from loops wasn't that special especially that the final sax line doesn't have quite the same sort of sound as the first bit...so I suppose I was trying to hide it a bit.
OK, I'm not the best singer in the world but don't know really what to do about it other than to get someone else to sing for me! If anybody has got any tips on getting the most out of a vocal I'd be interested to know. The song calls for quite an intimate vocal I thought, which exposes all my shortcomings more. I tried to get some warmth to it..maybe I'll experiment more though i may never get a silk purse...
Pleased you found it weatherbeaten Neil which suits the subject matter!
Nooms you're right.....I'll redo the ending. It's terrible. Glad you liked the bit before!
Thanks for listening and commenting all of you.