You mentioned that someone told you to take a different approach. Sometimes as
writers the last thing that we need is someone being the opposite of encouraging.
Many times another person doesn't share your enthusiasm in your works as you do.
Of course we would want everyone to like and encourage us in what we do but that
don't always happen. but sometimes even negative comments can help and shape
us to be better writers or get better sounding recordings/mixes.
To make matters worse a poor quality or sound of mix of a song doesn't help at all.
Sometimes a poor quality sound may come across to the listener as we are holding
back or a number of other things because that's what they hear. We may know what
we'd like for it to sound like and have our own values in the song such as what it
means to us so the challenge is to get that good recording/mix etc to a point
where it represents itself.
You've got some good things going on here in your song. Enough to show the
potential. It's just a point of doing the things needed to bring out the quality of
the writing and performance to a level where that it does it's best in "sounding
good".
The thing that I notice is the low mids on the vocals are strong enough to
dominate the tone of the vocals so the clarity in hearing the words isn't there.
Think of it as hearing someone speak to you and you hear the S's and the T's
clearly as opposed to them putting there hand over their mouth and speaking.
Call it a muffled sound.
That's what you have here. Then there is no apparent ambiance or reverb type
of sound on the vocs. That isn't needed to have a good sounding vocal but there
is usually "something" of the nature of "big room" or larger size that the vocals
sound like they're coming from that enhances the quality.
If you can visualize what a voice sounds like when hearing a person speaking
from say a small closet as opposed to hearing them speaking from a larger room
the larger room sound will be more "appealing".
It sounds like your vocs are recorded with you right at the mic which has that
"proximity" effect. You may already know what that is but if not do a search on the
net for what that is. All this that I'm speaking of is really just basic stuff and not
specific as far as "do this EQ" or do that reverb or whatever but I do so to
hopefully give an insight as to things to look for and think about.
Everyone here has given some good info on things. And I'd consider it a very
high compliment for
BUB want to take the time and help you out.
There are a lot of great people here on the forum with some great knowledge
just keep on doing what your doing and enjoy the fun of writing recording etc.
and finding new ways to polish things and do quality works.
post edited by jimmyman - 2011/02/11 03:06:20