stawberry fiels forever cover

Ok you have taken on one of the biggest songs ever, kudo's to you.

Ok I like it but the mix is not good, your vocals are too low in the mix.

Also the arangement is ruining what could be an excellent cover.  You need to understand the dynamics of the track, so when you go into the verse pair back the guitar some how.  And when you do the Strawberry Fields forever refrain, also pair that back.

This song is all about dynamics, you have an excellent voice.  Try a less distorted guitar or another instrument, just to break up the heaviness of the track.

On saying that I could imagine Lennon likeing this, because he always wanted the track to have a heavy vibe.

Peace Ben 

You have discovered one of the fun things about having your own studio..... anything, anytime,,,,, and it's all fun. 

I'll reserve my comments at this time. 

Thanks everyone for listening as well as for your critique, it's the reason I post stuff on here, you guys are doing this as much as I'm, and have great insight on what's good and what needs work. So it's the next morning and I listen to it again and I agree what your saying about the guitar and the overall dynamics of the song. Mind you all the tracks are straight up the middle due to the fact that Sonar wouldn't let me pan anything. I've had this issue before and I think it's a template glitch. It was already late and I just wanted to post the song and get some feed back. I'm going to go back and do the necessary panning and gain staging to give it a more dynamic feel as well as add some more instrumentation as the song goes along. Build it up verse by verse chorus by chorus, add horns, keys, strings and a psychedelic guitar solo on the outro. I'm thinking about doing a harmony on the last chorus too, well see...stay tuned and thanks again for your comments

Mr Fox, thanks for the input. Just looking at the wav file on Sound Cloud you can see that the track was limited to the max. As I stated in my previous post, it was already late and I just wanted to get it out here. So what I did was slap on a loud T-RackS Deluxe master template just so you can hear it if your listing to it on laptop speakers or a cell ph. But yeah, I know it needs work and I know that it's over compressed. Not sure if we have a policy on here that says we're not allowed to put unfinished ideas on the forum. If that's the case then my apologies.

Here is version 2 - still needs horns, strings, harmony on ch4 and lead guitar at the end, but I think the arrangement parts are starting to come together http://soundcloud.com/mtg...berry-fields-forever-1

I like this much better, now.  Can't wait to hear the next step in the evolution of this song.