"You're All I Need" - My First Song

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This is my first song, I fully intend to rerecord it after Christmas (some nice gifts coming :)). Think of it as a rough draft. I don't have a guitar solo in the begining yet, which I intend to add. It's a Christian song.

Anyway, beat me down until you feel like it's over :).

I guess it's worth warning you that there are some high notes at the end that are pretty far outta my range, so get ready hehe.

Thanks,

Link - http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=1018913
 
Nice track. Im not much for critiques. I mean, music is so wide range and people have many opinions on how things should sound. But, mix wise here is what I would do. And its just my opinion. I would double the guitar track and pan them hard right and left. Two seperate takes would be ideal. But you could do a copy and paiste and delay the right track maybe 50 - 100ms. Or you can thow a Chorus effect on the single track. Either of those will widen the spread and make it more spacious. The bass track needs a HPF (high pass filter) on it, set to around 50 to 80hz. It has alot of low end rumble I would get rid off. Vocals can be doubled too or a soft chorus effect. Or you could leave them as is. Just play with different things and see how they sound. This kind of tune could be a big spacious stereo track full of double tracked sounds or it could be a mono track and work too. Keep plugging away
 
Bushmaster pretty much covered all the things I was thinking while listening.
Good songwriting - you definitely have the skills so keep up the good work.
It sounds a bit mono so some doubling and panning would help. Could use some effects on the vocals and guitars (reverb). The high vocal parts are not bad but you need to work on the levels - mic tecnique, compression, volume envelopes or a combo of all three. It's got the basics now you just need to work a little on the production.... I hope you'll repost when you get your Christmas presents!
 
Yeah, i'm sorry about the mono. The problem is that there isn't too much i can do for that right now. Right now i run an m-audio fast track ultra as my AD/DA, but it doesn't have a left and right output. So i have a XLR cable that splits the signal, but unforunitly i can't hear panning, which makes it fairly hard to pan. I'm also using audacity (cubase LE is one of those mentioned Christmas presents), which means i have a very limited range of effects to use. I did run the vocals through a compressor, although it was mainly to keep the peaks way out of clipping range, because those high parts are tricky for me, and i didn't have to have to do 30 copies of them. The night i recorded this i didn't have anyone helping me in the studio, which means that checking my levels involves running through 3 rooms to my "control room", and with it my computer monitor, all while singing through a large diaphram condensor. We can all see the problem there :)

As far as mic technique is concerned, during the parts that sound more squashed together, that is because i got really close to the mic to give a close feel. Most of the song was recorded 5 degrees to the right of the mic about 2 feet away, the mic pointed slightly down into the path of my voice, which was straight ahead. During the high parts, i guess E isn't really high, except for me, I took half a step back from the mic, whereas to not clip and kill everyone at the same time by peirced ears.

Thanks for the compliments on my talent for writing songs, that means a lot considering i don't consider myself as good of a writer as a singer :)

I got together with a girl that i'm working with to write an album, we have 2 full songs through the writing stages only to be recorded, and about 3 more in the pipelines, that just need some more vocals.

Anyway, keep commenting, thanks for the compliments and critisism, hopefully cubase will make it much more possible to work with compression, reverb, and the completion of my vocal booths will get rid of that mid range punch which i had to EQ out of everything.

PS - the bass sounds nasty bad because it is a bass i played on my keyboard :). I can't play the bass, although i'm going to learn when i get the money to buy one.

PS2 (haha) - what are "volume envelopes"? I don't think i've heard that term before.
 
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