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Re: Password to my heart
2016/12/17 10:09:46
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Pleasant tune. Singer is a little monotone, esp in the chorus. I always tell people to sing with a smile..it helps to project.
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Re: Password to my heart
2016/12/17 11:12:53
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Great song. Sounds like a hit to me.
I can hear the fixes on the vocal - they seem to really jump out.
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Re: Password to my heart
2016/12/18 12:30:35
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Nice airy mix, like Daryl some of the vocal fixes are a little to prominent, thanks for sharing.
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Re: Password to my heart
2016/12/20 18:41:12
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I'm not a fan of autotune so that soured me on the song. BUT, it is very well produced and instrumentally performed. The vocal artifacts are just par for the course these days.
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Re: Password to my heart
2016/12/20 20:33:03
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Believe me a non-autotuned version would sour you more. I was going for a disenchanted female indifferent girl next door sound so I plucked a 19 year old from our church to do it who demonstrated grand indifference in her natural voice during "Long Black Train" done more times then they should at church with her mom and sister. Before she could say "no way creep", I offered her 100.00 which is standard fair from me for vocal services rendered per song. I know her mom and family so after months they came over and we did three takes without coaching (pestering) her. When they left I reviewed the tracks and didn't remember her being so pitchy while recording. Like I would have demanded better anyway. So I went too wild on vibrato (v-vocal) and she sang "Wonder why" 3 times like she didn't get the modulation so I Melodyned it best I could and also cut off a vocal phrase a tad in the first verse. So, yeah. Thanks for listening. 
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Re: Password to my heart
2017/01/11 16:35:40
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Yeah, the vocals are a bit... artificial. However, is the music you? It all sounds really good here.
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Re: Password to my heart
2017/01/11 16:51:10
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Yeah, me myself and I + a hired singer.
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Re: Password to my heart
2017/01/11 17:02:20
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Indifference is the worst sin that wasn't included in *the book*. Indifference really tears at one's soul. Love me or hate me, but don't be indifferent!
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Re: Password to my heart
2017/01/11 17:34:59
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I would contest the notion that one sin is worse than another but we can't do that here.
So on we go. ;-)
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Re: Password to my heart
2017/01/11 20:02:10
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As for the vocals. I don't hear it (anymore) but my wife says they're is something so I'm going to run a few mixes by her so I can determine what is buggin y'all here and on gearslutz.
Someone said cut the vocorder - vocorder! - oh my I must be ear-blind to it.
Thanks for pointing this out.
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Re: Password to my heart
2017/01/11 22:16:14
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I've heard worse. I think you did a good job slathering the spackle and the bondo on this. Kudos for the backing instrumentation, sounds pretty pro and it keeps up the driving energy. I'd be curious how you got that bass tone, what was your chain like?
It wasn't too bad at all!
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Re: Password to my heart
2017/01/11 23:36:57
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Bass chain is Fender Squire 5 Bass -> Line 6 Bass Pod (Stadium preset) with the Bass Pod compression pretty heavy -> SONAR carve @ 300 hz to remove the woof -> stardust free vst w/ phase rotator on -> Free MJUC JR VariMU Compressor a few dbs.
Snuck under that is the Anderton octave down tip. where you take a copy of the bass track and using melodyne drag it all down -12 steps and sneak it under your bass track. Without this it's thick and rich but I tried Anderton's tip and it also became chocolatey.
However, the bass sound is the Bass POD Stadium preset mostly - it's why I bought it. I was off to get the country bass that you can play an acoustic alone over and it sounds like power like you hear on country radio. Before this I used a SANSAMP Bass DI that would have sufficed for rock but went Bass when I wanted BAAASSSS!
I had a pod 2 and tried out the bass pod when I hit upon the stadium preset I knew I had it and bought it right then. This was years ago. When I tracked bands here I would DI them to the stadium preset and they all wet off giddy.
The phase rotator in the free Stardust plug is cool it is used for radio dialog to keep the guy on the mic coming at you relentlessly - works a treat on bass.
It's been a journey but bass is not the struggle it once was I just do it this way and fuss about the rest.
And a lot of car testing to set the level.
Btw, the other older 3 songs on the reverbnation site are the sansamp bass DI
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