Story of Lies (demo)

[icystorm]

Well, this has been burned onto my cd so I can listen to it in the car as I journey to work this morning.
I can sing along "..torn and faded ... beneath your darkness ... betrayed in shadow ... in your story of lies."

Thanks very much, my friend. This song has always been for those who have lost a loved one in a relationship that went bad.

The sibilance on the song is excessive in spots and it's compressed too much at the expense of better dynamics. This is definitely one of the tracks I am looking forward to re-recording with a friend who sometimes lends a hand with mastering. It needs more that de-essing. I need to record the vox and remix it. It can and will be much better someday.

I have a collection of about 17 original songs I am satisfied with, and my plan is to pick the best 13 and re-record all of them, substituting my own rhythm guitar work for the Jamstudio rhythm guitar (I'm slowly getting better and faster). Everytime I get ready to stop writing and begin re-recording, I get the yen to write just one more! "One more, one more!"

Oh, and the one line is actually "...betrayed and shattered", but your interpretation is cool too.

Cheers,
Joseph

 

[Whatmysay]

What sort of control do you have over automation of the volume? Sound on Sound do a remix section and a couple of months ago they talked about 'micro-automation' of volume vs a lot of compression colouring the vocals.

I tried it on my ver of Mississippi - which I belt out in places (actually you can still hear a couple of nasty peaks) and then applied a much lighter compression than I normally would - more for presence in the mix than to control dynamics.

I don't get to bothered by sibilance when the vocals are less processed but hard compression and reverb will highlight it every time. But I think reducing it at source (mic and mic technique - I heard once f taping a pencil to the middle of the mic can help? Never tried it though) is a step in the right direction - then you have reater freedom to process as you want to with no cost to quality.

 

[mrdellano]

wasn't expecting the song to sound like that, but i totally dig the vox on this track.

you should make a straight up acoustic guitar + vocals version. i think it would work really well dry and upfront like that. less reverb and all that.

the drums, keys and bassline kind of gave it a churchy vibe.