The Clown Cries, remixed

This turned out nice....

Sure... we need to collab on another tune.

Write something classic and we'll do it again....

The guitars are not missed on this at all...... good job.

Classic... as in superb... a super hit song.... fantastic..... beyond anything you've ever written before..... something that totally rocks....

Janet
Sure........no problem for you!!!!!.....
I mean I'm kind of thinking that you should be able to rip one in an hour or two..... : - ) ......unlike us mere mortals that struggle!!!!!!!!!! LOL
I think Herb is on to something there ...........between the two of you............. I think you'll make it all the way to a #1 soundclick chart position and then on to Millions........and I will have the chance to say I knew them when they were just starting out.................... LOL

Anyway...........very nice piece of music there Janet..........It was a great tune to work on and I was honored that you let me do this for you.............
and I also need to say thank you to both Dave and MArk with out whose help it would not have been possible........

Cliff

Janet your song is great, truly outstanding! Beautiful melodies, the vocal performance is very well done and with feeling, the strings and piano parts filled the gaps perfectly further enhancing the vocal melody.

Great arrangement and sounds, nice build ups here and there adds more greatness to the song!

The piano performance is excellent along with the other instruments.

Cliff, Dave and Mark who helped you on this song did a superb job! Great collaboration.

What mic setup/mic fx are you using? Pretty voice needs that certain "thing" to make it SHINE . . . but I can't talk because, I'm facing those same issues. When you get it right let me know.

Excellent song!

Cliff--thanks again. The only amazing pieces I've ever been able to pull off just came out of nowhere. And the only times I get close to #1 are when I collab with Robby (hmm.. I wonder why? LOL), so, well, don't hold your breath! :-)

Greg--well, thank you very much! This is the only song (with words) I ever wrote that I still like. (I've only finished 4 or 5 though. :-) ) Glad you like it and I appreciate the kind words.

Joseph--thanks so much!

DP (Venus)-- I'm using an MXL V63M mic and until someone mentioned it when I first posted this awhile ago, I had no idea she was singing into the BACK of the mic. Neither of us knew there WAS a front and back. So, I'm sure Cliff had to do all sorts of magic to this to make it even sound this good. Believe me--you should have heard it before! And unfortunately she moved away before I realized that, so we couldn't re-do it. Now I know, but I lost my singer. Anyway, thanks so much for listening and commenting. I'm glad you like it.

Thank you, John!

Very nice job, CLiff and Dave and Janet. It does sound even better than previous...more articulate, balanced, nice work.

its amazing how people hear and compose music differently. now as i listened to this, all i thought was this song belongs in a Disney movie ie: Toy Story! i think you have something here, you just have to get it to the right people. Keep doing ya thang mamabear! peace & blessings

i didnt mean this in a negative way. im my honest opinion you have a song that fits perfectly with alot of their movies. Toy story was the one that comes to mind. my daughters watches all of their movies and is to its reminds me of what i hear caoming from their room! i think theirs a ton of $$$ to be made if the rite person here's your work. that is what i was saying!

peace & blessings

Janet
Thanks for the compliment..........Mama always told me Pratice makes better.!!!!! LOL ( I need (and enjoy) a lot of pratice......)
Besides.......I appreciated the fact that you let me try.......
Thanks for the oppurtunity............I enjoyed it and would love to do it again for you anytime.....

Cliff

Hi Janet,

Real nice song you have here. I like the lyrics a lot, and the playing is sublime. I had a problem with the sound though, it sounds too compressed, but i guess thats a problem from Soundclicks end.

Overall, very, very nice.

Regards

Mark.

ed_mcg
mstodge
Thank you for the listening.........I wish you could of heard the first version of this tune...........the hollow sound you hear is the sound of the room that I could not remove.....you see, at recording time the signer was singing into the BACK of the mic......so the vox that is being picked up is the reflections off the back wall...my main concern was to remove as much of this room as I could and bring the vox up front and center.....(and Yes I am thankful to my mentor Dave (Mod Bod) for his help in this).... It sounded a LOT worse originally.......
that is also why I did not add a lot of reverb to this track and / or processing...i think that would have pushed this mix backwards in to the problems all over............and yes I copied / cloned the vocal track and then off set the second track by 10 mils.........at the end of mixing this tune and after exporting it (and yes I do check my work after exporting and before before posting as many times as need be) I did not hear any outstanding problems that could be fixed......(also confirmned by my mentor) so I gave Janet the very best track I could produce.

the rest of the track does contain reverb, EQ and some compression but I added them as light as I could get away with because I was trying to go for that very intament (sp???) sound......

again.thanks for the listen and the critique

Cliff

Cliff--you're welcome. There will probably be more. :-) Maybe without backwards vocals next time?

Ed--yep--read Jon's and Cliff's replies. I had no idea what I was doing when I recorded this. Soon after I figured it out, she moved, so we never got a chance to re-do it. Cliff had a HUGE job on his hands to make it sound THIS good!

Mark--thanks so much. The lyrics are sorta special to me, so I appreciate you noticing. The mix was/is all up to Cliff--he had a huge job on his hands getting it to sound this good, believe me!

Charlie--thanks. I appreciate that a lot. Yes, the first few times I heard her, I wasn't that impressed with her voice, but when we recorded two songs, I realized what a great voice she has and the ease and passion with which she sings. I'm sad she moved away--we could have done lots more songs...

Jon--yep, you're right--he did a miracle with this one! (I still liked your drums on this, and thank you so much for that!--but this version is quite nice too.)

Gary, you are exactly right about that...I would do this completely differently now. I don't think I'll redo it soon, esp. after all the work Cliff and co. put into it, but maybe some day.