Hey John, cheers for your honesty.
"I'm not sure I'm hearing the same thing everyone else is. The guitar sounds shrill to me. It sounds like an electric-acoustic plugged into a mic'd amp, which should pretty much never be done (edit: in recording, I mean). Always just mic up the acoustic"
I played my electro acou through a mixing desk into my PC.
I think it needs a warm guitar with a nice first chord strum. It sounds weird, mainly because the chords I play are weirder than any I've ever seen. (On the strumming guitar.) They're hard to record. That's for sure.
"Then, around 0:40 (and to a lesser degree 1:45, and similarly at 0:09), it's like it just cuts out and jumps to another part of the song. It's a very unnatural splicing of separate recordings. The first part should fade into the new guitar, rather than cutting out like that."
That's an opinion. Both guitars are one take. I simply used silence, and I mean complete silence and an additional guitar riff to join the verse and chorus, I love it, my brother hates it. Musical marmite I suppose.
"The electric at the end is way too far left panned. It sounds fine once the right comes in, but since it starts out over there, consider bringing it in. I don't think it needs more than 30-40% left, and then bring in the right a bit. On headphones, this part makes me uncomfortable, like the left side of my head is heavier."
Thanks a lot for that, as you can prob tell from earlier posts, I have a tendancy to get panning happy. I'll definately try bringing it in.
Cheers
Rich
I will say, the vocals are top notch and make me jealous! <-------