My 6.5 year project

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Man, it takes more than 1.5 hours to find my glasses in the morning... ;)

While you guys were doing that (and congrats - some VERY nice work), I was finishing up my first serious attempt to take a song I've written all the way through the process. Here's what I sent out to my church music lists this morning:

I've been working on this forever, it seems. Started writing the song (based on Psalm 18, hence the title) in 1996, picked it back up a few years later, adult choir sang it at St. Cornelius a few times, I rearranged it last year, we sang it at St. Malachy's with the teen choir, and I started building a studio version of it.

Here are two versions:

Lo-fi mono, about 2.4 meg

Hi-fi stereo, about 7.2.meg

For both recordings: Song copyright 1996, 2000, 2002, Jay Ricketts. Performance copyright 2002, 2003, Jay Ricketts and Caroline Muylaert. All rights reserved.

Thanks to my pal Caroline for the lead vocals (and, through the miracles of cutting and pasting, some of the backgrounds). What a voice!!!

Tracks were built using Acid 3.0, Cubase 5.1, and Sound Forge 6.0. Bass, drums, and guitar were from Sonic Foundry loops for Acid, but a fair amount of loop-wrangling was involved, especially on the bass lines. Keys were VST plugins mdaPiano and Steinberg JX-16 (played by me, natch). Caroline's lead was with a BLUE Baby Bottle mic, my backgrounds were with a Sennheiser 421.

Your comments would be appreciated - I've never done this type of studio work before. Please note - the songs are taking up a big chunk of my allowed space at Blogspot Plus, I'll probably have to take them down in a week or two.

Thanks, and have a great 2003!

Jay
 
Not bad at all. The vocal is low in the mix though. I'm not sure if it's an MP3 encoding thing or what but it has kind of a lo fi sound to it. Sort of veiled.
 
Caroline's vocals were beautiful, and clear and...

...just wouldn't sit in the mix right. And were too Karen Carpenter for the song. So I compressed, EQ'd, and dropped level.

The vox are really sitting where I want them in the mix now, but I agree she sounds a bit squashed. I'd like to give her another chance at it, get her to lose the choral phrasing and do the popstar thing.

Background vox are low ('til the end) because their general suckiness would be much more apparent if they were up any more. I sing like crap.

Thx for the feedback, Track. Anyone else?
 
Cool Tune.......

I would say.. Bring the vocals up a tad... lower the bass and get rid of the roomy reverb on the drums, and you'll have a killer song here....

If all those things I menioned are done intentionally, then my apologies... It's just what I noticed, and we all have different ears...


Great Song!!!!!

Joe
 
It does sound like a cool tune. She sounds like she has a nice voice. Just needs to loosen up a bit and bring her higher in the mix. The mix in total sounded a little muddy or bassy. I like the message. Nice work.
 
Sounds like a consensus: vocals up, ease up on the vocal compression, drop the bass some. I'll try drying up the drums, too, voxvendor, see what I think. The loop had some processing on it, but I added some room ambience to the mix.

I'll post back when it's ready.

Thanks for the input!
 
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