Critique of the vocals

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Hey guys I just cut this cover of Yesterday by the Beatles. I wanted to know what you guys think of it? Any ways to improve? Are the vocals sitting right? Is the eq on the vox good? the amount of reverb? on the whole is it sounding good?

http://soundcloud.com/adammishan/yesterday3
 
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I listened yesterday (NPI) and didn't reply because I didn't know how to word a response without sounding too critical.

It's nice. It's very nice.....I'l get that out first, but when I heard the guitar intro, I knew exactly how I wanted to hear the vocals, it just didn't happen.

It's hard to describe how or why though. How much use is that? :p


IDK. I'm aware of the effort and time you put into selecting the right mic, and although I was a proponent of just picking one and getting on with it, I kinda feel like the time spent might not have paid off?
I don't mean this to the extremes, but it sounds a little bit like vocal over a karaoke track. As if, the voice doesn't blend with the mix perfectly?
What mic did you go for, out of interest?

I'm thinking the vocals are compressed a little too much at points, and could come up in volume relative to the guitars, plus there's the odd bit that's a little pitchy; It's like, the amount you'd get away with, but fixing it wouldn't hurt.

Maybe that all it is?

Hope that's useful man.
 
I like it! But it needs to fade out at the end. It ends too abruptly.
 
jguitar_tm said:
I like it! But it needs to fade out at the end. It ends too abruptly.
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Lol! It ends exactly like the original. Maybe they would have sold a billion more copies if it faded out. :D

EDIT: Oh wait.....you mean the actual last chord? Yeah, you're right. I thought you were talking about the arrangement of the song.:)
 
RAMI said:
Lol! It ends exactly like the original. Maybe they would have sold a billion more copies if it faded out. :D
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Really? *listens to original again* So it does! Although, it probably just leads into the next song naturally on the original vinyl, so there was no need to fade. I haven't listened to the original album before, but I know they do that on Abbey Road.
 
I chose the ADK Vienna and right now actually I'm going to take a look at the Hamburg. So I can try to let off a little on compression and fix the pitch problems to start.

How do you think the microphone contributes to the vocal sitting on top of the track like a karaoke song?
 
And thanks for your comments I believe that is how this original ends.
 
highriser said:
How do you think the microphone contributes to the vocal sitting on top of the track like a karaoke song?
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It probably doesn't that much. It'd be more to do with your room or the way it's mixed.
Like, say you had no reverb, and didn't cut any bass at all, the vocal would just sit there separate from everything else.


Remember it's just one opinion though. ;)
 
Steenamaroo said:
It probably doesn't that much. It'd be more to do with your room or the way it's mixed.
Like, say you had no reverb, and didn't cut any bass at all, the vocal would just sit there separate from everything else.


Remember it's just one opinion though. ;)
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But wouldn't that be true about any vocal take if you don't have any effects on it, it will sit separate from all the instruments that are properly mixed
 
Yeah, of course.

Maybe there are crossed wires somewhere?

I'm just saying, for me the voice doesn't blend in the way I'd want it to.
 
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