Next rough mix: Toys for guns

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Insane Genious!
A political song, no less! :-)



And as usual: yes, I know I can't sing. This time the sound of the vocals suck too, not just the vocals themselves. Thats what you get for trying out your SM57. :-) Anyhoo, the vocals will not be kept, a person who can sing will arrive shortly. :-)

But any type of comments on anything else than the sound and pitch of the vocals are welcome.
 
I find the vocal sound and pitch....

Swinging 6! or 3, depending.

Turn the bass up!

The song is very good. Depressing, but that's the stuff I like most.

On to the vocals:

I don't find any pitch problems. You must realize that your vocal character makes up a very large percentage of the sound and style of your music. Take that away and the song style and mood would change considerably. Maybe better, maybe for worse.

Who do you want to sing it? Britney Spears?

:)

Cool tune.
 
interesting song............i like it............the twinkling type sound (don't know how else to refer to it) during the chorus seems a little loud........i don't think you need someone else to sing it........i would suggest using something beside the sm57 for the vocal..........they seem just a tad too muffled, but not a huge problem.........i suggest that you work with what you've got before you run out to and get another singer
 
Thanks for the support guys, but nope, I still don't like my voice, and *I* can hear the pitch problems. :-)
 
hey regebro,

I like your Scandi-accent on stuff like "rocket" ship :)

On these comp speakers, during the verse, it sounds as if the 4k octave is missing, because 8k seems hyped (the unmistakeable "Sears-boombox-tone-knob-on-10" sound ;))

I'll have a listen on monitors, now:

Mmm... more than just 4k is missing... from about 1.5k-6k actually... lots of mids missing....

Level is a bit low during the verses... even if you're going for a more "dynamic" mix... sounds like you peak no higher than about -4db and your RMS is somewhere around -8db.

During the verse on the snare, I'd definitely remove any cuts in the mids (from 2k-4k), or re-track it until you get rid of the 8k cheese :) (or lessen it). During the chorus, snare could use some more presence.

Also during the verse, it might sound good to bring up that low synth and roll off everything on vox at 500Hz... would give the track a more "floaty" feel (seems like you were going for that anyway).

Kick drum during the chorus sounds a tad loud.

A suggestion: maybe some weird backward-vocal "pre-verb" or something during the chorus would sound cool... just at the beginning of each line.

Interesting tune, would sound better with more "present" drums
(esp. snare). Thanks for letting us listen! :)


Chad
 
Chad (who never cleans out his in-box :) ) has given you a good bunch of suggestions for cleaning up the sound so I won't try to add to that. It's a good song and you're singing is appropriate for the tune. I hear the pitch issues you're talking about but they don't detract very much. Few of even the best singers sing dead-on pitch all the time. Character in a voice is far more important.
 
Very dark. I love it. And I dig the accenttoo. Which brings me to a question. It seems most folks who live in other countries do their lyrics in English rather than their native language (which is perfectly fine with me as I can understand them). I wonder why that is?
 
Well, that is why, I guess.
besides, Swedish sounds stupid. It's extremely hard to write good Swedish lyrics.
 
I agree with Lt. Bob... character is very important, and more interesting than perfection. This was a good listen for Tuesday morning, put me in a nicely-depressed mood to start the week (Monday was a holiday, I was much too happy!)
Seriously, this is a fine song, and I like your singing/writing.
 
Hey Regebro... This is a real mood piece.. Not too bad for a folkpartist... ;)

You're not out of key often.. but you could compress the vox a bit more.. And the SM57 doesn't sound bad at all..

Some very nice melodies in there.

Good work
 
An interesting song. I can hear a couple pitch issues. I notice that at the end of phrases your voice drops off in volume too (I know you didnt ask for this kind of advice, I just thought I throw it in :D). I'd be interested in hearing the version with the other singer you have in mind.

The thing that otherwise stuck out the most was something that participant alluded to. The volume difference between the verses and choruses is pretty substantial. I could barely hear the keyboard during the verses. I would try to bring up the overall levels during the verses.

Keep it up. And let us in on the final version...
 
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