love one

[dobro]

Bit of beside the campfire down by the swamp music. Voice and guitar. The crickets are real.

 

[rayc]

Loved One in the Evelyn Waugh sense?
NOT Buddy's band then?
'Catching a glimps & catch my breath' - to my mind the "ing" is for both or neither but I have a problem with the 'ing'ness of current contemprary spoken English - suggests an inpermanence we once eschewed for a definite thought as in I think I like yellow rather than I'm thinking I like yellow.
The crcikets are an inspired addition.
I like the song & performance though felt a little uncomfortable when you hit the lower register parts.
Another quirky but cool Dobro song.

 

[DM60]

Nice recording, mice performance. The guitar could have a little more upper end, just a bit, I agree with Ray, the part with when you hit the lower part could use another go to smooth it out.

Overall, nice little quiet tune.

 

[Mr Clean]

I liked the guitar and the vocal was good. I didn't mind the low vocals so much.

The background/cricket noise however, I found really distracting. (Possibly just a tone that doesn't work for my sensitive hearing.)

Good tune

 

[dobro]

I'll look at the low part again. Maybe an addition of some sort... As for the crickets, they were there when it was recorded. I can reduce or remove them either with some precise EQ (probably the best idea) or with Audition's kickass noise removal tools (it would remove sound from the guitar and voice also, so probably not the best option), but I'm kind of fond of them cuz they were singing along with me at the time. Backing vocals.

Ray: I'm fond of the -ing forms of things. I like the temporariness that it communicates. When I use it, that's why I use it. Also, I wrote this way before Mcdonald's came out with 'I'm loving it'. They copied me, not the other way round.

Thanks for listening, you guys. Thanks even more for taking the time to comment. I love the snapshot comments. I think they're the most useful usually.

 

[Bubba po]

I like quirky stuff and this is definitely quirky. I do like the crickets, I'd like you to keep them in. I'd reiterate what other people have said about the lower register singing; perhaps a little under-rehearsed? But the sound of the guitar and the playing of it are perfect to me, nice and mellow to suit the intimacy of the recording.

 

[Schwarzenyaeger]

I liked the cricket stuff at the beginning. The sound of crickets always triggers nostalgia for me. Still, it could have dropped down to more of a hum after a few seconds.

Your guitar sounds very nice. Warm.
The low stuff wasn't as musical as the rest of your singing. I think it added a bit of a weary humor to the bit, I didn't mind it.

 

[dobro]

I liked the cricket stuff at the beginning. The sound of crickets always triggers nostalgia for me. Still, it could have dropped down to more of a hum after a few seconds.

Damn, yeah. Why didn't I think of that? Cuz it takes a village to fuck up a child. Okay, you get a thank you.

 

[Schwarzenyaeger]

Cuz it takes a village to fuck up a child.

Is this an actual saying

 

[Anders Erisian]

Sweet little song. Leave the crickets in, i think the song would lose something without them. I live right next to a little dam, well sort of overhanging it, and there are hundreds of frogs and insects and birds, that can get pretty noisy, sometimes they thwart my attempts to record anything, but at times the bleed in has lent an ambience that i couldn't fabricate, and those frogs get some crazy rhythms going too.
The timing of the guitar sounded a bit hesitant in spots, but given there was no solid rhythm instrument, just the cricket drone, it didn't clash with anything. Could just have well been my sense of timing is out.
Was the vocal recorded outdoors while you were playing the guitar, or added later?

 

[dobro]

Vocal and guitar recorded indoors simulataneously, with the windows open and the crickets outside got into the act.

 

[Anders Erisian]

Ahhh, i see. My assumptions were all flawed. Thanks for that.

 

[robgreen]

That guitar intro with the crickets is really nice - I could have listened to that fleshed out into a longer ambient-ish piece on its own.

It's an interesting tune - other than the part with the lower voice, it sounds like you're taking on an old standard. The lower part adds a bit of quirk, so I'm good with it.

Maybe a touch more high pass filter, particularly in that lower part would smooth it out?

 

[dobro]

That guitar intro with the crickets is really nice - I could have listened to that fleshed out into a longer ambient-ish piece on its own.

It's an interesting tune - other than the part with the lower voice, it sounds like you're taking on an old standard.

Did it remind you of any tune in particular? I never copy anything consciously, but the mind does tricky stuff sometimes. Actually, the reason I dredged it up was because I heard a tune online that really reminded me of it and I wanted to compare them to see if someone had pinched it. It would be very ironic if it had been me doing the pinching originally.

Thanks for listening. Yeah, it seems the low part needs some attention.

 

[nave]

Here's another take on the crickets. I'd mess with bringing them up and down in the mix a couple or few times over the course of the track. Maybe up in the intro. Down in the verse. Up again in the guitar only part. Down again when the vocal comes back. Maybe end with crickets. But definitely would not remove them. I'm pro cricket.

 

[nave]

Did it remind you of any tune in particular?

Reminds me of gastr del sol.

Take this, for example:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xO16wgycIPI

 

[gecko zzed]

A great, original tune. The deep voice part kind of drifted around a bit . . . but maybe it's quirky enough to leave as it is.

Crickets: I reckon Nave's suggestion is great. Put an envelope over them and poke up here and there and take them down elsewhere. It would be neat to get them to a level where a person listening for the first time turns around and wonders where they are.

 

[dobro]

Here's another take on the crickets. I'd mess with bringing them up and down in the mix a couple or few times over the course of the track. Maybe up in the intro. Down in the verse. Up again in the guitar only part. Down again when the vocal comes back. Maybe end with crickets. But definitely would not remove them. I'm pro cricket.

Yeah, I'll try that. I don't know if it will work, cuz the crickets are actually part of the guitar and vocal tracks, so if I tweak the cricket sound, it'll have an impact on the music.

Nave, haven't seen you around much, in this forum anyway. Thanks for the listen and the idea.

 

[dobro]

Reminds me of gastr del sol.

Take this, for example:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xO16wgycIPI

The sound on that is so much better than the sound on my track. That's okay. Those guys are way more experimental than me. My main musical value is to keep trying something on every tune that I've never done - maybe the melody, maybe the chord sequence, maybe the lyrics, maybe the arrangement or something in the mix - it keeps taking me into new territory, but I don't do what these guys do, which is to locate myself in fringe territory intentionally.

Lovely sound on the Gastr del Sol tune. Thanks for the link. I enjoyed it.

 

[dobro]

A great, original tune. The deep voice part kind of drifted around a bit . . . but maybe it's quirky enough to leave as it is.

Crickets: I reckon Nave's suggestion is great. Put an envelope over them and poke up here and there and take them down elsewhere. It would be neat to get them to a level where a person listening for the first time turns around and wonders where they are.

Cricket? Crikey!

Thanks, GZed.