Comments Please!

[lennymac]

Hi folks - I've just recorded this slowed down version of Please Please Me after coming across a youtube clip (audio only) of Keith Richards playing a slow acoustic version. Anyway, I'm working on getting a decent acoustic sound with the limited equipment I've got - so I'm looking for feedback on guitar and vocal sounds (recorded in a small, cluttered and untreated bedroom, a matched pair of SE1A's about 6 inches from the guitar and a SE2200A taking in the room about 2 feet back, both straight into a tascam us-1800) and also any feedback on the general quality of mix etc will be appreciated. Thanks in advance folks!

 

[Chili]

Guitar was captured well. There are quite a few string squeaks, some are loud. But overall, nice tonal balance on the guitar.

Vocals sound good, a little pitchy but I don't think that's the kind of comments your asking for. I didn't hear any sibilance, lip smacks or other singing artifacts, so you did a good job recording and mixing.

Hope this helps.

 

[lennymac]

Thanks for the feedback Chili, appreciated. I'm not sure what you mean by pitchy? Are the vox out of tune? Re the string squeaks that's just my poor technique - I assume there's nothing you can do about these after recording!

 

[Kalando]

The vocal quality is not bad at all.. I'm no guitarist but it seems like some notes had a bit of a distortion effect.. like between 16 to 18 seconds. It would be great if that was fixed. Aside from that this is very solid. Just my 2 cents from a casual listener.

 

[heatmiser]

I think this is a cool idea to slow this song down 'cause the original is so peppy.

Yes, by pitchy he means not quite hitting all of the notes, but I don't think it's too bad...probably better than mine.

If it were me, I'd compress the hell out of those vocals and throw some verb on them. At times they were a bit boomy and at others indistinct. I thought the acoustic guitar sounded good. It just didn't seem like the vocals and guitar were in the same bedroom. I also thought the piano parts were a little rough rhythmically.

Don't mean to sound too negative. You did well and it's a challenging number to play as the melody is still ingrained in a lot of heads after all these years.

 

[lennymac]

That's great - thanks for the comments folks. I'll try compression on the vocals and put some verb on them too. Appreciate the time you've taken to give a bit feedback.