TragikRemix said:
sounds ok.
actually, the vocalist could use a little work as far as pitch and dynamics go i think.
some notes just don't sound right. did you autotune/melodyne it at all?
drums sound nice. are they real or no?
strings add a nice touch.
maybe get her to practice a bit more and then re track it.
she's a good singer, but shes missing the touches that seperate good from great. maybe a vocal lesson or two with an excellent teacher would get her to really hit it dead on the nose.
in the end, i would make the guitar solo just a little louder and the vocals just a little lower.
nice production overall.
You work with what you have.
She has a wonderful raw voice, but zero formal training to help her harness her instrument the best ways posible. I've talked to her about it, but you know how that sometims goes.
I touched up a few tiny bits with Autotune, but it's a blunt, crude litle tool. Truth be told, the vocal pass is constructed from best parts of two takes for most of the tune, and the outro is six different dingle pass snippets; her meter needed some, uh, minor tweaking. She ran out of budget, or I'd try to have her re-track it.
The drums are my trusty Roland V-Stage kit; glad they sound real enough to merit the question. They record great; but I'd like em more if that had individual instrument outputs...
On the guitar solo, I had to place it there because the descending line he played batled with the held tonic in the vocal, and they are in he same octave; so that's the only way it didn't really get fuzzy. ON the 3rd one, where the guitar gets busier, I did just that; I slid it up a bit and dropped the vox into fade out territory...
I love doing string arranging. I love the few bars leading into the transition into the last verse especially... (starting at 1:31, "if you noticed; my heart hold nothing...") I had that one bar at about 1:40 to really gloss it up, so I had fun with it.
Nice song and arrangement. Good vocal tone also. Hot gtr at the end. It's got a lot of distortion for the song style but it's good. Hot bass line throughout, and that's what draws my ear the most on the track.
Thanks Tim!! People always tell me that I have too much distortion on ballads, I got that on my first CD too; on a song called Sunday Morn'. But I am just in love with that really compressed, smooth, L.A style distortion. I try it with more loosey-goosey blues style or mild tube overdrive, and it just never sounds right to me ya know?
Thanks on the bass, everyone seems to agree that as far as my playing goes "That's what Tiggers do best"... I do enjoy playing a melodic and sometimes chordal bass, but one that is unobtrusive...