My Little Girl

[TAE]

Well it's the midnight hour and it's too late to do anything more to it... I might have a few more minutes so if there is a major nit pick hit me with it....aaaaaaaaaaaaa!

It is what it is and it's going to be the Father Daughter dance song tomorrow evening.... Woo Hoo my kid's getting hitched! Last one the pressure is off...

Originally written by my daughter Christi, as "Your little girl" for Fathers day a few years back..
We modified it for her wedding as the father Daughter dance song,,,adding Dad's lyrical perspective to it and keeping one of the original daughter verses.


MY LITTLE GIRL

 

[DM60]

If I had any comment, main vocals are a bit too loud, the female vocals don't sit in the same space, your vocals coming down would bring them back inline. Just enough difference I can hear it, but the general public probably would not.

I didn't hear anything that was a scretchhhhhhhhhhhhhh type of issue. If you do anything, just bring your vocals down a bit and should play just fine.

Good performance.

 

[rayc]

The intro notes are from Always.
"...Could never of dreamed."
Sounds wrong to me.
Strictly speaking you should pronounce it
"...Could never've dreamed." But I think it'd sound better as
"...Could never have dreamed."
Generally it's nice but the female vocal sounds thin & as if in a different room from the male in terms of reverb.
The general sentiment is nicely done but throwing in the ubiquitous and awful "...be there for you..." drags it down a little.
I'd strongly recommend rerecording the female vocal to make it sound as present and warm as your voice.

 

[TAE]

Oops double post....

 

[TAE]

The intro notes are from Always.
"...Could never of dreamed."
Sounds wrong to me.
Strictly speaking you should pronounce it
"...Could never've dreamed." But I think it'd sound better as
"...Could never have dreamed."
Generally it's nice but the female vocal sounds thin & as if in a different room from the male in terms of reverb.
The general sentiment is nicely done but throwing in the ubiquitous and awful "...be there for you..." drags it down a little.
I'd strongly recommend rerecording the female vocal to make it sound as present and warm as your voice.

Thanks Ray!

Yep the intro is from Always...It was Mom's favorite song and my daughter and her were way close...I threw it in as a touch from my Mom who would have given anything to be at this wedding...

I'm a noob at this vocal recording...I have the mic set up for my voice and she sang through the same mic, same room, same settings...she came across way louder and pronounced and then wanted me to lower her voice in the track...we really record quite differently vocally...need to learn how to get to that similar place and space. She has an extremely powerful voice.

I did redo the I will always be there for you..Man that was a rough take, I sounded like a billy goat....I approached in a different way in the fix..it sounded better.

Again a noob to multi track and I had several whoops in the process...Did use some automation...man that is cool stuff ...When I rendered at some point earlier this week after hours of messing with what we had..when I reopened Reaper the Time rate had changed and the whole recording was out of whack..I googled and tried a few fixes but in the end gave up and had to do a rushed re-recording of the tune... Ugh....

The link now links to the redone version with billy goat removed and hopefully the vocals a little better balanced...sadly ( and we aren't building a bridge here) it's far from perfect but the sentiment is there and we'll have a song that we worked on together to dance to tonight...and that my friends is WAY COOL!

Now it's time to get partying! MY LITTLE GIRL

 

[TAE]

If I had any comment, main vocals are a bit too loud, the female vocals don't sit in the same space, your vocals coming down would bring them back inline. Just enough difference I can hear it, but the general public probably would not.

I didn't hear anything that was a scretchhhhhhhhhhhhhh type of issue. If you do anything, just bring your vocals down a bit and should play just fine.

Good performance.

Forgot to say thanks...I did take your's and Rayc's advice...not perfect but we had em all balling at the wedding...Tempo was definitely too sloooooow.... Awesome night...she's off n hitched.

 

[rayc]

'tis better - still seems like diff rooms - your voice has nice resonance and hers seems thinner.
Still, it's improved & that's the point.