Come By The Hills

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Sounds folky. It sounds like the vocals are uneven. They are quiet then get really loud. Try some volume automation. Compression seems like it will take the earthyness out of the vox
 
The flute sounds very nice and warm. I think the vocals could use just a touch of compression to even them out. This isn't a loud pounding rock song so it doesn't need a huge amount of compression. Just enough to even out the volume. Otherwise, good job. The mix has plenty of room to breathe and sounds open.
 
Musically speaking, very poetic and beautiful. (I'm not aware of any technical recording problems, don't know enough about it.)
 
Thanks guys.
It is folk and fluctuations in the vocals are well within the limits for the genre.
I'll listen again but I doubt that I will be compressing them.
Thanks again for listening.
 
Excellent vocal and ac guitar, performance and recording.

The intro is too long IMO. I'd shorten it to about the first 10 seconds, and have the ac guitar accompanying the flute there instead of the midi-ish sounding keyboard.
 
I agree about the intro it seems too long (for my limited attention span anyway thankyou Simpsons)
Nice vocal but it seems to fade backward and forward in the mix most noticably in the second and fourth verse where the squueze box thing comes in and has a tendancy to dominate a little bit

now I think a glass of scotch is in order
 
A glass of Scotch is always in order.
I'm not a fan of long intros myself, in fact, this is the first time I've ever done one. I'll give some thought to that and the piano.
Thanks.
 
Some have mentioned the dynamics of the vocal as being a problem. The softly-sung parts are quiet. The strongly-sung parts are loud. Like you're in the room here singing. :) What's better than that?

But if you want to level it out, use volume automation rather than compression.
 
But if you want to level it out, use volume automation rather than compression.
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I don't.
We're compressed to death already.

Thanks, XLR. :drunk:
 
I've cut the intro back to one line and am much happier with it.
Thanks all.
This has been a very worthwhile exercise. :)
 
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