2 Acoustic Tunes

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"She'll Come By" and "Cabin Fever" at http://www.soundclick.com/felixandoscar

Just singing, guitar, cello etc. Laid back tunes. Some guitars are through my AKG Perception 120 and some through my SM-57, and vocals are all through the AKG. Cello is fake.

There's noise and long acoustic guitar string ends clanking around, and I had to time shift some of the vocals that I stupidly recorded 3bpm too fast (She'll Come By).

They really need to be re-recorded, at least the vocals because that's where all the noise is. They're older vocals takes and we recorded with the window open and lord knows we got about 10,000 great accidental recordings of outside noises like birds and rain along with my crappy recording of the vocals.

Nevertheless, let me know what you think, mix, master, and composition wise.

(P.S. Somehow I ended up with a really really loud master of "She'll Come By". I don't know what I was thinking at the time. Every time I learn something new about recording and mixing I realise how many stupid mistakes I made in the past and I want to go back one at a time and redo everything, but I know I'll just make more mistakes that I'll want to correct later. I do it anyway though.)
 
wow... both are very good, imo. the vocals in the first song are amazing, great voice, seems to always be right on key. although i'll have to say that i like the second song best, just a bit more catchy i think. you've really got something there. both songs very solid musically. i'm suprised im the first one to reply...vry well done. thx for posting it! :)
 
Thanks! Her vocals are always killer. She's a one take wonder too.

P.s. I accidentally uploaded a very old recording of "She'll Come By". I am re-uploading it now with the file I was supposed to put up. =) If you'd like to listen again give it a shot.
 
Steve-0 said:
Thanks!

P.s. I accidentally uploaded a very old recording of "She'll Come By". I am re-uploading it now with the file I was supposed to put up. =) If you'd like to listen again give it a shot.
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i will give it a listen, as long as you critique my song in the post below this one :). look forward to hearing it!
 
stringtheory said:
i will give it a listen, as long as you critique my song in the post below this one :). look forward to hearing it!
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Just did, haha. Beat you to it.

Edit: Crap man... I keep accidentally uploading wrong versions. I'm leaving this one though because the only problem is the last couple of seconds are chopped off, so you get the idea. I'll fix it in the morning. I bet it's like that on myspace too, I should probably check. Maybe it's an excuse to get it back into Wavelab and re-master it.
 
Steve-0 said:
Just did, haha. Beat you to it.

Edit: Crap man... I keep accidentally uploading wrong versions. I'm leaving this one though because the only problem is the last couple of seconds are chopped off, so you get the idea. I'll fix it in the morning. I bet it's like that on myspace too, I should probably check. Maybe it's an excuse to get it back into Wavelab and re-master it.
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:) just posted in that other post. great stuff though man, i look forward to hearing the final version of the first song that you posted. and, thx for listening to mine! :)
 
Yeah, the vocal tracks have a lot of noise and you can really hear the room. But for some reason, it doesn't bother me. I normally can't stand noise and too much room sound, but it almost seems to work with these songs.

I think this goes to show that when you get good songs and good performance, recording shortcomings suddenly become less annoying.

I like the way your eq'd the vocals. Sounds cool.
 
Hi,
Cabin Fever: Nice song, playing is great, vocals are awesome. Room noise? Who cares!!!
She'll come by: a bit slow, a little less interesting, but sounds nice.
So Ruthless: cool - K's Choice-like? Very nice playing...
-Rich
 
bozmillar said:
Yeah, the vocal tracks have a lot of noise and you can really hear the room. But for some reason, it doesn't bother me. I normally can't stand noise and too much room sound, but it almost seems to work with these songs.

I think this goes to show that when you get good songs and good performance, recording shortcomings suddenly become less annoying.

I like the way your eq'd the vocals. Sounds cool.
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That's our plan. We don't have all the important stuff like image consultants and music videos, or even VIP status in clubs, but we hope to scrape by with the more mundane things like good songwriting and performance.

Thanks for all the responses everyone, I really like the "Yeah, everythings noisy and all... but it's good anyway!" vibe.

A question: When mixing just acoustic and vocals there's not a lot to take up sonic space. It seems less like a full band mix where you have instruments battling for frequencies and where you have to cut spaces for everything.

Is it just a matter of deciding if they're interfering or not and then eq'ing if they are?
 
The two acoustic tunes sound great. The guitars come across nicely. Low end is there too. Great job. Alot of people will hpf the acoustic, but in this type of music, the acoustic is the bass and mids and you did a great job.
 
Yup, a nice natural sound to cabin fever. I agree with bushmaster about the tone of the guitars and love the expressive voice and the immediacy of the sound. Nice job :).

Hey, you got a comment from the "dopest sounds and I'm feeling your page" guy too...he really gets around!
 
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