You Dont Want to Miss This One.

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This track came together in about two hours from start to finish. So far I am very happy with the out-come. I want to start adding some more orchestration and detail, so I thought I'd turn to you guys for some brainstorming ideas. All it has now is bass, drums, piano, and vocal. Make sure you listen at least half-way through, b/c the whole thing totally switches at 1:48.

Oh yeah, and give me the usual feedback--songwriting, recording quality, mix levels, vocal performance, "mastering", etc...

An important thing for me is the drum quality. I have been knocked for my use of synth drums in this forum a few times, but I'm trying to sound more realistic. Let me know how you like the drum programming/sampling.

Thanks!

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which song do you mean? There's like 6 of them there.
 
I listened to I remember.

I hope that's the right song, cos there was a switch at 1:48

I LOVE the piano sound and the playing. Its totally nice.

The vocals are much improved. I suspect that you ditched the sonic foundry reverb, or used less of it.

The vocal problem I am hearing right now is that you boosted the highs too much, rendering the mids meatless. I also suspeckt there is too much 5 k in the vox

This song sounds like the breed of r and B I am hearing nowadays(B2K). I am not a fan of them, but with the right push, you can make money.
 
well....I listened to "I remember".

agreed..totally nice piano.
the vocals sound like it has a lot of the artifacts that you get when you overuse noise reduction....or some other track has it. kinda that swirly sound. I hear a hollowness in the other instruments, that this can be attributed to also....especially on the percussion at the 1:48 break. Vocals need to come up in places to. And..it seems the occasional kick drum was off in the beginning. As far as programmed drums go...they sound ok in this song format to me...except for the hollow sound I was talking about earlier.

the piano shines above the rest. Use that as the level to bring the other stuff up to.
nice tune.. I could enjoy this much over some of the other crap I hear nowadays. So...was it noise reduction???(that is the culprit)
 
I listened to the same track...a couple of times. I can't comment on the songwriting - this is a little out of my genre for that.

Drums - I don't use real drums either, so take this for what it's worth. I didn't really NOTICE the drums being canned until the breakdown in the middle- then it started doing a hi-hat thing that just stuck out at me as robotic...but I may have not even noticed it if you hadn't asked.

Piano - Sounds great to me

Vocals - Flat as a pancake starting at about 1:00. (first chorus). Both the backing vox and the lead shy away several times throughout the song. Particularly noticeable in the chorus when the bgvox and the lead vox were sharping and flatting at the same time. Pretty flat at @ :43 - "De LLLLIIIIII te." Also stuck out to me at 1:46.

For the time you've spent on this, it's pretty amazing. I'd retrack some of the vocals to clean it up. (God, I hope this isn't one you spent like 500 hrs on, b/c then I'd feel bad).

CONFIRM FOR US THAT WE'RE LISTENING TO THE RIGHT TUNE.

-thanx,
chris
 
Holy Sibilance Batman!!!!!!

I listened to I Remember... boy you have got some heavy EQ happening there, eh? Way too much....

And your mids are gone..........!

The piano, I agree, is nice........

However, the mix doesn't really work for me, though.... far too disjointed and the elements don't "flow".... the vocals need to mesh better...

Drums need to be smoother, and several times after the transitiion, the vocals were overshadowed by the rhythm beds....

There is a sense of overall ambience missing from the track completely... that piano should really be in an environment as opposed to simply being spread across the speakers!

You're on the right track but I'd re-examine your arrangement and your mix, if I were you..........

Good luck....!
 
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