Mixing question on a gospel song

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I have a friend who records in Pro Tools and asked if I would mix them. He wrote a gospel song called Hold Me. On this tune he recorded an acoustic guitar with a mic and an acoustic guitar with a pick up. And he sang the song.

I don't feel sure about this one for whatever reasons. I used a little waves doubler on the guitars to fill out the sound a little. To be honest I don't know the best approach to this one, because it's so simple but I want to round it out. But maybe a more simple natural approach would have been better.

Just take a listen and give me some advice. Ignore some of the technical issues like chair and strap noises and the such. Thanks alot.

View attachment Hold Me.mp3
 
I am an Atheist so I don't believe this song exists.


ok...bad joke...sue me.


I would bring in more of the miced guitar sound into the mix and bring the guitar level up. I would also put a LP filter on the vox to get rid of some of the boxiness.
 
Not a lowpass on the vocal, a highpass. But you might do better to put a parametric on the vocal and cut a couple of dBs an octave wide or maybe an octave and a half somewhere around 300 Hz or 350 Hz. The way it is now, the vocal's too dark for that guitar. If you do that, the vocal will be a bit quieter, and then you can follow the advice of the man with the fire in his mouth and bring it down a touch in relation to the guitar. You might ease back on the verb on the vocal a bit and see what that sounds like. And brighten the verb a bit.
 
Yeah...an HP filter. Thanks dobro. A parametric should do the trick too.
 
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The sound's better, so now I can actually listen to the lyric and understand that he's saying his righteousness is a pain but he needs Jesus, which is the very sort of dualism that I imagine Jesus just smiled at. But at least the sound's good - I like listening to it.
 
"Ignore some of the technical issues like chair and strap noises and the such."
I am starting to think that is better, too. I eq a lot and always listen later and hear glitches, like high pitched interferences on the track. Two guitars hitting some notes at the same time causing the software to put on its very own alteration, more, abberation onto the track.

Basically your/his song is a love song.
Meh, recording quality is good.

I used to be a hippy, but I was so poor that I couldn't save any money and lived like a beggar. It was fun at the festivals but the city streets were mean.
'To surrender everything' means to literally go back to no possesions like the diciple. You completely rely, like the birds do in Jesus' parable, on God.
 
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