His turn to sing. 
This was about my least favourite mix of the album - this or Gypsy #4 - I was conflicted with the song, because I'm not normally a "straight love song" guy, so it's not my favourite of Richard's tunes, but it sounds beautiful with the harmonies.
The other problem I had was, on the original, Richard doesn't play. And it's his tune. Essentially we play the same thing apart from the solo, and it should have sounded great with two different guys and two different guitars L and R playing the same thing - but it didn't work out that way.
I tracked Richard's "side" but didn't listen to it closely, and when it came to mixing I realised his execution wasn't as good as it could have been. It's pure fingerstyle - something I've been recording, with myself as the guitarist, for a very long time, so I know how to play it. When I listened to Richard's take, however, he was barely touching some of the strings, and with L and R it sounded very lopsided - it simply didn't work - and with regret it consigned his track to the cutting room floor and retracked another take of me - remembering that we simply had no time to do otherwise at this point.
I felt bad about doing it and he wasn't happy either, as the song clearly has some great meaning for him, but there was a CD to finish. In this version, I've resurrected his track and mixed it in on the L side, so I feel better about the final result of the new mix, at least.
As well, the drum quality on the original was pretty bad and so it was mixed very, very low. And I had a cheesy piano that was a MIDI piano that I'd somehow lost the MIDI file for, so I had to rework that again with Pianoteq, which was an absolute pain. Some general EQing and I ditched the de-esser plug I used and did it all manually. And there was a lot of it! Some tinkering with the solos. Not that much change, really.
Anyway, I'm much happier with this mix. Incidentally, the ending was my GF's idea - which I adopted, but told her it wasn't enough to get her a production credit on the cover, alas...
Made some adjustments based on various feedbacks and some re-listening of my own.
Updated based on JD's obs and some piano twerking...
Original...
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Will discuss with Richard when he gets back to me. Probably just give them away to anyone who wants them, as a replacement set of files for their device of choice.
