A song about growing up and the consequential gains and loses. "She's no Baby" is the 10th track from the FreeEarCandy Collection. This is a bit dry on instruments and has room for more. I'm thinking some complementary synth could certainly work out nice. This one was a challenge with regards to de-essing certain areas. Also may have recorded the acoustic guitar with a little too much volume coming in. Seems to have picked up some dead air at the high end. The quick fix solution came down to eq. 
 
Anyway, hope you enjoy this one. All comments welcomed.
 
Thanks!
Dean. 
 
 
https://soundcloud.com/us...4/shes-no-baby-anymore

Hi Dean,
 
I wouldn't do anything more to this, it is a really fine and honest song... Sounds pretty damn sweet to my ears.
 
Keep 'em coming
 
 
Oh, by the way, I notice you have garnered one follower... I'd block that one, it's spam and they have only followed you to get you to listen to tracks that they have reposted. Just one of the pitfalls of SoundCloud I'm afraid...
 
 
cheers
 
andy

Fine job on this! Yes, I can hear what you called out, but if you hadn't, I might not have noticed. The overall mix is pretty good as is. Very nice song as well...
 
Regards,
Dan
 

synkrotron
Hi Dean,
 
I wouldn't do anything more to this,...

Thanks for listening and nice comments Andy. The previous mix I allowed the acoustic to fall back slightly when the vocal intro starts. On this mix I completely cut the acoustic during the vocal intro so as not to have it ramble on throughout the whole song. However, I didn't redo the vocals, and it sounded a bit empty through there at first. I listened to it a few more times and took another look a the vocals I had. It came down to adding a vocal strip doubler with some verb, and it filled the area out enough to let it go.
 
Thanks for the SC heads up. 
 

dcumpian
I can hear what you called out, but if you hadn't, I might not have noticed.

Your probably right Dan, but it was a bit more apparent before the eq, as the guitar is out there by itself for the opening measures. Cutting some of those top freq warmed up the guitar tone , which this song can handle. So maybe in this case the mistake was an advantage? Funny how that works out. 
 
Thanks for the really nice comment Dan.  

Really cool yet unusual. Love the backing vocals. My only nit, the lead guitar level could come down a couple of dB. It jumped out at me in the middle there.
Great, quirky, honest song.

daryl1968
the lead guitar level could come down a couple of dB. 

Hey Daryl ! Thanks so much for listening to the piece and sharing your reaction. Had a listen to the area you pointed out and it does seem to pop in a tad too strong, but I'm also wondering if the sudden lead entry has something to do with it too?.... Nah, I think your right Daryl. Could come down a few db's. 
 
Thanks for lending your ears. Much appreciated Daryl. Great comment.

+1 to the above - other than the lead popping just a bit much level/frequency-wise, I wouldn't change anything.   It's a slightly quirky arrangement that seems to work.   Nice. 

stevec
+1 to the above - other than the lead popping just a bit much level/frequency-wise, I wouldn't change anything.   It's a slightly quirky arrangement that seems to work.   Nice. 

Thanks Steve! 

Nice guitar accompaniment and vocals. I liked the aaaahs that seemed less background vocals but more of a vocal effect. You have some good stuff here.