woah thanks everyone. that was really helpful and positive. especially about the voice
. i've never put anything out there like that, so its good to get positive feedback.
i took a number of your suggestions and remixed it. it sounds somewhat better but im beginning to agree that what's really needed is indeed some retracking. that will have to wait, though, because there are some (at least one) other songs i want to record first. This time I'll spend a lot of time on the drums and get something much more solid.
i eqed the guitar to cut muddy freqs and boosted mids and highs a bit, which got it off the vox some. i also added a little reverb and panned it slightly to the left (it pans more to the left when the second guitar comes in around the solo-esque part.)
i cut some of the lows on the vocals as per your suggestions.
i really need to improve my ear for these things... it sounds like these errors were glaringly obvious to all of you but, though i knew it didnt sound right, i was completely oblivious there was no midrange. i suppose i'll have to learn to make use of those analytic tools and develop a sense for these things.
concerning the title:
the song's lyrics are about sex with motion as a motif. ("our bodies moving, swaying, turning, come," etc.) the song's structure is supposed to accentuate this.. it revolves around a couple basic chords but there's never a repeated section and it gets louder, and so on.. i think you understand what i mean.
the 'president' part is a little more vague of a connection which i wont get into.
thus, the title, which started as a joke, stuck because the 'president' is 'in the car' denoting transportation / motion and there's a 'dead hooker' - conjuring sexual themes - 'in the trunk' which plays on the president and so on.. its complicated. ill write the lyrics out sometime if you're interested.
anyhow thanks a lot.. any other criticisms / suggestions concerning where to go from here (short of retracking, which will have to wait) would again be appreciated.
i dont use autotune =P
cstockdale, what do you mean, exactly, about gain staging?
I'll keep all of this advice in mind with my next recording and hopefully it'll turn out better from the start.