Third revision of Come & Go.

This is the third, and hopefully the final revision of this song.  Thanks to all the great advice and patience of the people here..... maybe we got it this time..... I'd appreciate your comments before we wrap it up and send it off. 


Come & Go >>> http://www.soundclick.com...34&songID=11414196  updated version

In this version, the instrumentation was changed a bit. Drums and bass were changed out for a more rocking feel. Steel and fiddle as well as other things were removed or at least enveloped to certain limited parts. Piano was also tightly controlled. 

We decided to record the vocal tracks again. So on Monday evening, Cassie came in and we recorded a number of tracks. 3 keepers on the Rode and 2 keepers on the SM-58.  One of the Rode tracks was used as the main vox. The other 2 Rode tracks and the 58 tracks were mixed wide and low for some layering.



Main vox has: Cakewalk's  Studioverb2 reverb,  FX2 tape sim, POD farm delay, in the track..... Slight compression and EQ and very low SV2 in the vocal buss where the other dry vocal tracks come together too.  The layering is very subtle....and easier to hear with the vox buss soloed. 

Singing without a pop filter didn't work well. But it was fun. 



As always, feel free to comment on anything about this song. 


The original version was very country and dated sounding. It did however, win #1 in the January 2012 Houston Songwriter's Association song contest. The original is here>>> http://www.soundclick.com...34&songID=11124487

Thank you.

OK - Cassie either needs more energy/feeling/passion or to be backed down in the mix. I don't believe her...sounds like she's just singing during the verses. 

Ask her, I bet she likes singing the chorus better than the versus. She needs to make the those words drip...

"the world came between us" make me believe that!

But seriously dude, this is a great track, I hope to hear it on the radio or tv.

This sounds pretty polished to me.  The mix is full and balanced, although I would have liked to heard the bass guitar at least as loud as the drums.  I liked her vocal performance personally, but it's like icing on the cake.  It's always a good idea to  memorize the lyrics.  Very well done.

Sounds very clear and clean on my system Herb! I agreed with James about the mid boost. Good job!

Lynn... hey thanks for listening 

James.... I have been working on this so long.... I'll have a look at the EQ tomorrow.

Bill.... thanks.... ditto.... I'll check on warning it up a bit.

Radio..... we have plans to record some more.... but we gotta write some stuff first. That's in the plans.

I liked the other mix/performance better. This one is too clinical and perfected or something.
In other words, it was done and now it's overworked. JMO

Wow, she's hot... And this performance/arrangement/mix is so much better Herb! Her performance is the way she should do it. I knew she was a singer, I never doubted that.

"Everytime we come and go baby." I would bring you up a bit, and maybe "tune you a little." :-)

On some of the fill parts (lead guit) It's good? But I would go more for feel, and melody, and a little less of the mechanics and motion. Maybe in spots? But hey, EVERYONE is a producer? And this is much better. Most notably, her performance really improved and is noticablly better. I would love to have access to a vocalist like this, bravo and good job.

very nice... good luck with song Herb...

ruralrocker2010


Nice HOOK! Now, I'm now familiar with where this song started, but I would like to hear a tempo feel like Lady Antebellum's "I Need You Now" because it's the same kind of feel lyrically and range wise.

You know.... the guy in Nashville who listened to this song and gave me the feedback to update the production mentioned " Need you now" as being very similar in many respects to this song. Good ears. 

OK... good point. I did pull the electric down a bit especially in the verses to get that country acoustic dynamic happening. 

I plan to revisit it today to work on the "mids" issue and that may be the problem.  Since I have the guitars bussed into electric and acoustic, it's an easy thing to tweeze the envelopes in the busses to see what happens. 

Thank you Rimshot. 

Like the guitar work in a big way, very Eagles. the chorus had a bit of a Eagles thing going as well, cool thing!!!
The opening vocal line is so very sweet. Her emotion in the line "Is this how the story has to end" faded a bit. I love the sound of voice, I could picture her singing any Eagles song very well. The production and mix is well done. Sounds like you have a keeper.
 
 
Cheers, Terry