leveland

[Stratomaster]

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Here's a song an artist recorded here at my condo. It's a cover song called "Leveland" the original artist is James Mcmurtry. The drum sounds and the guitar solo are my areas of most concern-the drums being played on a cheap midi kit and the solo having a good performance but shit sound. The guy singing and playing acoustic guitar and drums is named Jason Marcum. Thanks for your time.

Strat

 

[dobro]

I'd probably try getting rid of that buzz. I'd probably cut some of the verb on the vox. I'd probably not worry about the drums like you're doing, but I'd be playing with distortion plugs on some of the parts of the kit in order to sex it up a bit - (that snare sound is pretty generic, yeah).

Yeah, the guitar solo sound. It sounds muffled. Doesn't make it. Can you reamp it? Can you MIDI-fy it and amp sim it? (I'm talking through my hat here - I've never done any of this stuff, but it's a good solo and if it can be salvaged, that'd be great.) If salvage isn't possible, can you redo it?

I like the vocal.

 

[TripleM]

i thought the vocal had a fairly strange sound. Hyped in the high mids and lots of low end rolled off. I didn't care for the type of reverb used.

Acoustic guitars are a little thin sounding too.

I thought the drums sounded decent.

Bass sounded OK, but kind of soft. Lead guitar could come up a bit too.

 

[rayc]

I rarely listen to covers but as I don't know this track you.ve got me.
Nice playing thought there's some noise.
The reverb is boosting a less than pleasant freq in your voice.
The buzz/sawing behind the solo isn't much chop.
A good start - keep at it.