Vanessa Green

My daughter's guitar teacher came over the other day and we recorded a slow guitar + vocal tune of hers. I'm really looking for production critiques. I'm aware of the "sssshhhhhh" on the vocal and I'll turn the db down a tad next time on the vox input. She was looking for a Barney Kessel sound which was a bit difficult on her standard fender electric but this was what I came up with. Hope you enjoy it too.
 
Vanessa Green ---> http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=831749
 
P.S. I tried to get her to sing the backups on Mark's Pretender cover we did (also on the board), but somehow I couldn't entice her enough to do it!! I needed to shmoooooooze her more, but I dunno how shmoozing works. Haha!
Edit: Her pic is up there too. Isn't she so pretty???

I like the simple arrangement of this old classic.  I don't agree with GH - I like the tone and volume level of the guitar, and the vocal sits just right above the guitar.  Both voice and guitar have a nice, organic tone which plays well on my monitors.  I agree, though, that the vocal is a little quirky.  The vibrato sometimes is a little heavy in places, and it wavers out of pitch a bit, but not so much as to be distracting.  That's just my humble opinion.

I enjoyed that. Beautiful voice on a beautiful lady indeed. You can deal with the "ssss" with some filtering. Its not clipping so it is fixable. Vocals could be a bit louder. I was not distracted by the vibrato myself, it was natural and appropriate to me. Cheers Shad

Herb and Lynn, Two different critiques proves I always get contraindications! Haha! I do agree the guitar should be turned down in volume just a tad. But it sounded soooo good via iPhone!

Bapu, I don't know! I've got mental issues at 5:00 in the morning. I fixed it!

We're working on more, some are originals and we are bringing in more singers too. So excited!

I recently got Izotope's RX and "really" like it...

Ok it's about the song and the interpretation is gorgeous, just really emotional.  I got you coming through, which is what I want to hear when I listen to music.

Ok I'm being lazy and listening to it through my TV speakers but I can judge mixes off the TV speakers, est if it sounds good on the TV speakers it sounds good on most things.

2 things, yes there was a little boom on the guitar, up to you if you want to fix it and 2nd the conversion from wav to whatever soundclick use as a compressed file is obvious, there are some digital artifacts.

Are use converting before you upload???

But really sweet sounding job.

Neb

Hi Venus,
I liked this a ton...especially the vocals. Really really nice and (more importantly) interesting vocals. 

There is a bit of boom in it...I'd put an EQ on the guitar and cut at 140hz with a fairly narrow Q by about 3.5 or 4 db and it should fix it. 

Good luck and thanks for posting that. Kinda made my night :)

Dean

I like it exactly as it is. I hear what others are saying, but I kind of like the honesty of it if that's the right word. Depends what you're aiming for I guess, but it has the feel of just plugged in / one take / job done which I like a lot.