The End Of Days - Acoustic Rock (mastered it)

I wrote this today - figured I'd lay it down as a scratch track. How does it feel? Is the hook there? Does it have "that thing"??

MGH...you should like this vocal...

http://soundcloud.com/joshua-barnes/end-of-days 
http://soundcloud.com/joshua-barnes/end-of-days-mastered

Can you give me some suggestions for "more-bigger'er"? Basically it's a single track of everything. Panned and bussed to chorus and reverb.

It is pretty highly compressed, but that's because there's such a differential in the verse and chorus volume. Let me know what you think.

Hey Lynn,

How's about we get together and we can share secrets? I'll tell you, I do alright as far as my peers go, but I would love to look over some one elses shoulder.  Shoot, even a webcam session on skype... what do you think? You could even look at this mix.

Hey, Joshua,

It's great to see you back around on the forum!

This is really a great song with excellent potential!  I really love your vocals on this, but something definitely sounds wrong with your gain staging.  It seems to be super squashed and is barely audible without cranking the volume up way out of normal proportion.

Did you possibly make any recent changes to your setup?  I remember commenting on quite a few of your really cool older songs a while back, but they all seemed to be normal volume-wise back then.

Either way, you've got a killer good song here, nice writing and spirited performance.  Have a good one!
Bob

Nice stuff Joshua. I like your voice. Very strong. 
Some of the lyrics, that I caught, seemed very fresh. To me, the 'end of days' part should be half-time of the way you're singing it. JMO.

Jamesyoyo

Thanks for listening my man. I think the compressor setup is affecting the normal sugary goodness you'd expect... :)

Hey Josh you're right i love your vocals! this has a RHCP feel to it. the mix certainly needs some work as others have said. When you have a big differential in volume such as between the verse and chorus, it's much better to use volume automation to control levels, and have the compressor doing a little work (unless there's an effect you're going for, of course!) i don't know how you're panning things too, but i'd get the guitars pretty wide, and also widen the vocals just a smidge, you can use a little delay on one side, again to counter that narrowness factor. finally, mic'ing the guitar, it sounds a bit tinny at times, you may be able to use some eq to fix that or look at how and where you are mic'ing... but the key thing is, the coolness of the song and the singing!

OK - I learned a new trick with Vonexo SPAN, that you can hold control and sweep around till you find that frequency...oh my! Fixed!

Great performance! Volume still could come up a bit. KUDOS!

Kev

This mix sounds extremely thin.  You should be able to get a better sound than I got out of my pseudo-mastered version: http://www.audiorecordingandservices.com/End.wav

It sounds like it was recorded live in a small space.  Now that's not a bad thing.  It really is very cool sounding, kinda mysterious.  The vocal IS nicely done.  Throughout there is a couple rough guitar spots but I don't have to tell you where they are.  Basically they were a bit insignificant in the overall scheme.  I listened all the way through and enjoye the listen.

Thank you everyone. It's just a scratch pad so that I don't forget the song. My intent is to do the full band treatment and to actually minimize the acoustic guitar. Not sure what that will shape up to be or when... I really do appreciate the love!