A song I just uploaded at NWR.

[George Parler]

This is a song wriiten by our lead guitar player, Gerald Mitchell. The lead vocal is by Luke Hendrickson.

This was recorded on a Roland VS-880-EX, 8 track digital recorder. The vocal mic was a AT 3035, thru an ART MP Tube pre.

If you care to listen, the link is:

Heart of a Child

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[David]

I liked this George! The lead singer has a very "great country voice", I would of tried maybey a diffrent reverb on his voice but it sounds very good as is. What's your part in all this besides the recording..any insterments etc.? Good recording and song i enjoyed it much...David

p.s. Did your rig sustain much dammage thru the storm?

[powderfinger]

sounds good george.......i have to agree w/ david, the country voice is great. very clean recording...i don't have any real suggestions..........good job

[muzeman]

Real nice song George!
I liked the wrtiting,very well done.

Has a great country sound to it,your singer has a fine voice.

I would have liked to hear the keys a little louder though.
That guy is good!

Very enjoyable,thanks.

Pete

[chrisharris]

Very nice...well written, emotive. No complaints. I do agree that the keys could maybe come up a bit, especially in the vocal drop outs.

Again, good job.
Chris

[B.SABBATH]

very nice recording and song..

[Gidge]

great song!.....lyrics are touching and the music fit it well.....

i think the backing track is a little too pushed back....i know old country would put the vocal WAY out front, but these days the vocal is getting pushed back a bit......if that was what you are going for, disregard my stupidity.....

[George Parler]

David,
Thanks for listening. I played the keyboard and did one of the background vocals.

The rig I work on is okay. It is out of Sabine Pass, Texas. East of the storms track. I've rode out two storms on that rig already because they waited too late to try and evacuate. Thanks for asking.



powderfinger,
Thanks for taking the time to listen.



Pete,
It's sad to say but it seems that the keys (pianos) are getting phased out of main stream music these days, or at least shoved way back in the mix. But that's what happens when a guitar player owns the recorder.



Chris,
I appreciate you taking the time to listen.



B.SABBATH,
Thanks for the listen.

Gidge,
No man, your comments have never been stupid. You have always given useful feedback. Thanks.


And now for the rest of the story:
I posted this song here mainly because the majority of those that post feedback hear are pretty honest in their critiques.

We have had some people that have a small amount of success in the music business, that keep telling us that we need to redo our CD project using studio musicians. And that doing our own music and recording we were never going to get anywhere. I do understand that studio musicians are a better caliber than we are for the most part. But one thing I have never liked is buying a CD, liking what I hear, then go to a concert to hear them live and they don't even come close to sounding like the CD. Or vice-versa, you go hear them live, they sound great but the CD doesn’t, or it sounds totally different.

We released this song to over 1000 radio stations, through a compilation CD that play a Christian country format, in August. Buy the end of August it was at 95 in the top 100, by the first week of Sept it was at 71, a week later at 42, and now in the top 20 at number 17. (According to Power Source Magazine of CCMA) This has totally caught us off guard.

I know this is not the best quality recording or musicianship. But when you listen to the CD, it's the same as if you were hearing us live. We agreed never to record anything we could not reproduce live.

I wanted to get feedback from you guys, of what you thought about the playing and/or recording, before explaining the song.

Thanks for all of your comments. Does anybody have pro or cons concerning using studio musicians verses doing it yourself if you can?

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[SS454]

I don't have any constuctive critisism to offer. I think it's a really good song. Everything about it was appealing. Great vox!. Great recording.

[George Parler]

Originally posted by SS454
I don't have any constuctive critisism to offer. I think it's a really good song. Everything about it was appealing. Great vox!. Great recording.

SS454,
I appologize. I didn't mean to leave you hanging. I appreciate you taking the time to listen and reply. Thanks.

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[Buffalo Bob]

Great song, George. I really like the bridge. As for the people with "a small amount of success" in the music business, tell them thanks for the advice and then ignore it. People are sick of the slick Mutt Lange/overproduced junk that pervades the airwaves, and the chart success of the song speaks to that.

Bob

[participant]

nice clean recording, George! Amazed you got your VS-880 to sound that clean, esp. on the high end. Nice detail.

Would like a tad more more separation for the snare drum... would listen to this on monitors (Macintosh) with a download available (can only listen to the stream on the PC -- just mm speakers).

crawdad should love this to pieces... PM him and ask him to listen...(or, maybe I should do that for ya )


Chad

[George Parler]

Thanks Bob and Chad for your comments. I will enable the download of this song as soon as I finish this post. Thanks again.

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[Buffalo Bob]

Hey, George - I've got a new one up on Nowhere too- check it out (shameless self-promotion)!

http://www.nowhereradio.com/artists...id=1624&alid=-1