My First Acoustic Song

[zero00]

Hello to all, i just uploaded a new song called "What We Call Love", is completely different to every other song that i ever made . I think it could be a pop/rock ballad hahaha...

Hope you like it.

Please feel free to tear me apart if you like by the mix or the song.

Thanks and waiting for comments.

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[airsculptor]

Hello
first thoughts, the guitar and voice are competing for the same frequecies mid/low mid) The guitar doesnt sound too bad and the doubling and panning work well. To seperate it from the the vocal, I would lower the guitar voume, add quite a bit of top end to the voice and compress it more.
For the strumming style of the song, I would use a lighter steel strung acoustic rather than the nylon string that it sounds like.
If you were to retrack the vocals I would use a dynamic sm58 type and get one really close up for bass proximity effect and another far back with more treble/reverb. Im thinking 'wish you wete here' pink floyd sound.
Drums and bass come in well, build the song well and some nice sounding classical guitar. In fact I would have like to have heard more twiddly guitar.
Like the ending.
Song wise, listened to some of your others on soundclick and can see it is a bit of a departure from what you have done. Im not sure it was intended to sound as dark as it does, the melody becomes a bit draggy. maybe some other instrumentation (piano? electric guitar?, flute?, violin) might help the vocals along which are doing all the work at the moment
hope this helps

 

[zero00]

Hello, ¿hope this help? man, it helps a lot... I'm going to try to retrack the vocals and maybe the guitars... unfortunately i don't have a steel string acoustic guitar, so i'll keep using the nylon one... the thing is that i agree with you, i prefer the steel string acoustic guitar. I'll try what you said about to compress the vocals and check the frequencies.

I didn't try to sound dark hahaha, my bad, well, like i said, is my first acoustic song so... with your help i'll improve it.

Thanks man, thanks for the comments.

 

[zero00]

Just added a new version of the song... With a little more compression, Eq and Reverb to the voice...

Improve? same? worse?

 

[Monkey Allen]

I like the tone pretty much of your strummed acoustic but I thought your voice would benefit from a fraction more reverb. I like the nylon string mellowness. The drums are a little quiet. Also, I think(and I'm listening in headphones, so the effect is probably more pronounced)...but I think there's a little bit too much delay between left and right on the strummed guitar. The lead vocal is ok, what accent have you got? The backup vocals sounded nice. Maybe you could get them more involved.

 

[guitar zero]

Hello
first thoughts, the guitar and voice are competing for the same frequecies mid/low mid)

Agree. The other thing that works for this is to just scoop out the guitar in the vocal range. A wide EQ cut of the guitars from about 2k-4k Hz will bring the vocals forward, and the guitars will still sound fine. Don't have to cut much. Just a few dB will do.

 

[zero00]

but I think there's a little bit too much delay between left and right on the strummed guitar.

I Agree, i just uploaded a new version, i retrack the guitars and now sound a lot better for my ears.

A wide EQ cut of the guitars from about 2k-4k Hz will bring the vocals forward, and the guitars will still sound fine. Don't have to cut much. Just a few dB will do.

I always fail on that, I really think that i need new monitors, and good ones, anyway i did what you said, and added more reverb too. For my ears sound better, hope you like it.

 

[guitar zero]

I Agree, i just uploaded a new version, i retrack the guitars and now sound a lot better for my ears.



I always fail on that, I really think that i need new monitors, and good ones, anyway i did what you said, and added more reverb too. For my ears sound better, hope you like it.

Nice job. Sounds much, much better!

 

[guitar zero]

I Agree, i just uploaded a new version, i retrack the guitars and now sound a lot better for my ears.



I always fail on that, I really think that i need new monitors, and good ones, anyway i did what you said, and added more reverb too. For my ears sound better, hope you like it.

Nice job. Sounds much, much better! Much more balanced and blended.