Hungry Eyes (First tune with New mic.)

Nice job Daryl. I can hear an improvement with the new mic. (no, really, I can)..
I would lose the hyeena yelping on the GM percussion track.
Nice tune. Welcome to 2012.

The new mic is great. As is the song. Again! There really is something about your music and lyrics that every time just seems the perfect meld - my foot starts tapping even before the music starts! My introduction to your music was "Some place warm" - still one of my favourite tracks of all time - and they just keep getting better! Great song. Best Regards Malcolm

Daryl

I don't know what the old mic sounded like, but this song just blew me away. Smooth, professional production, beautiful fat guitar tone, and the drums are very effective too. Listening on headphones there's a lovely stereo spread.

Top drawer! 

Bill

Daryl,
 
Good stuff as always.   The percussion is really a nice addition.  The mike sounds really good too, as do the vocals going into it.  Reminds me a little bit of Chris Isaac.
 
Regards

That classic smooth operator DC signature sound. 

Well done. 

This is a really nice song with an impeccable mix. LOL, if I get me one of those mics will I sound like that?
Again, the mix is great, everything is spot on right where it needs to be. Cool guitar work. Nice harmonies. It's all here...
Great job, thanks a lot for sharing it.

BTW: What is that cool amp in your pic?

Sweetwater has a deal for 600 bux!

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/PM5mic/?utm_source=Google&utm_medium=PPC&utm_campaign=livesound&utm_term=miktek_condenser&gclid=CNvRzo_vta0CFQ9Y7AodB1z8lA

OH WAIT! That's not the same mic? Looks like they have yours for 900 as well;  http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/C7?gclid=CP3E5Ibwta0CFdKR7QodbBMelQ

I love gear man! I can't GAS anymore though? I'm all GASsed out... But I have nice stuff :-) So it's OK. But I know what it feels like to GAS!! Congrats, and enjoy it! 

This has that Daryl Crowley sound that I like so much.  Good job and a good tune.
 
I have to agree with Tim though about the dog sounds.  It sounds like you have a chiuahuah trained to bark in tempo.  I like the idea but I think you should try finding something like a sorrowful timber wolf cry (too cliche in itself) and overlaying it with a guitar bend that is in pitch with the wolf?  Just an idea.
 
Glen

Daryl,
Nice and smooth. I enjoyed the listen. The friction percussion instrument I thought sounded cool.
The new mic really does have a warm sound to it.

Glen - Thanks.  It seems some people are not attuned to the "barking dog" or as Frank pointed out the "Cucia".   I listen to a lot of contemporary jazz and bands that have a percussionist in addition to a drummer will use that sound in addition to all their other cool toys and I've come to like it. Like the wood block and other percussion insturments I find that they add a three-dimensional aspect to a tune.  As the song is spread out in the stereo field, wood blocks, or "barking dogs" add depth to the sound fields.  Instead of adding something  "musical" they tend to, at least to my ears, add depth to and fro as opposed to stereo adding depth from left to right.  At least that's how I hear it.  But so far here I've had two nays and everywhere else I've demoed it, poeple like it.  Including my adult/artist daughter who is very hard to please.   One of those personal "taste" things I guess.  Some people hate congas and I can't get enough of them.

Mark -  At the end I really thought I wanted to add a lead harmony (you and I are often prone to do that), but try as I might I couldn't get a lead harmony to really jive with this, and usually I have no problem with it.  I tried both higher and lower harmonies, 3rds, 5ths, but each actually took more away than it added, so in the end, I left it alone.  The harmony was easy enough, but none of them sounded right in this context.  I struggle getting delay to sound right the way you do?  What product do you use and what your settings?

Bruce - Thanks!  Another vote for the "barking dog",  although it usually is used in instrumentals, which is where I've used it in the past.  This is the first time I've put it in a vocal tune.

Lynn - No doubt the tube mic pre would be a subtle upgrade, but in recording it is the sum total of all the little things that make the difference.  Fortunately there are some good options, such as the UA single channel that can be had for under $1000, so it's very doable.  I have no doubt I will do it at some point because I have G.A.S. and once I start wanting something like that, I usually get it.

darylcrowley



Mark -  At the end I really thought I wanted to add a lead harmony (you and I are often prone to do that), but try as I might I couldn't get a lead harmony to really jive with this, and usually I have no problem with it.  I tried both higher and lower harmonies, 3rds, 5ths, but each actually took more away than it added, so in the end, I left it alone.  The harmony was easy enough, but none of them sounded right in this context.  I struggle getting delay to sound right the way you do?  What product do you use and what your settings?

Daryl, I use the Sonitus FX Delay.  Here are some general settings that would probably be a good starting point for you.

Set the BPM to match your project tempo setting.

Set the Left Delay Factor to 1 and the Right to 1/2 (or vice versa depending on what sounds good with the rest of the mix).

Set Feedback around 10.

Set Crossfeed around 10.

Set Mix around 14.

Then you just gotta play around with it to see what sits right in the mix.

Daryl, I don't use any reverb if I'm using the delay.

Lovely song Daryl. Beautiful guitars and your vocals are just excellent on this. Your stuff gets better and better.

+1 to Mark's Chris Issak comments.

One thing I don't like - whatever that is on the '2' and the '4', it sounds like someone tapping on a mic..


......chopped liver again...

Wow--this sounds so smooth.  That mic sounds great too.  I mean, it makes you sound great.  I mean, even greater than before.  :)  Lovely!  

Ed, I think your're right.  Thanks.

Tap - Thanks.  I appreciate it.

Janet - Thanks -  I wrote this song about you!  Just kidding.

Gary - You convinced me.  I'm going to YouTube now and watch some Chris Isaac.  Thanks on the mix.  I know I still have so much to learn but I feel like it's getting better.  Love your new tune!

Daryl