Mornin' all!!
 
As I try and get comfortable in my suit with the additional festive weight, thought I'd pop my latest effort up for your ears and comments. 
 
Had a couple of objectives in mind with this one, wanted something short and sparse, wanted to avoid having a "standard" rhythm guitar playing chords, wanted to try something different drum-wise from other tracks and wanted quite an abrupt ending - although admittedly it is probably too abrupt! I did have a play around and have the middle vocals and just a drum beat from the intro at the end, but it didn't work well.
 
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Intro is a little long without an additional element, like a guitar solo being added. Mix is really good. Vocals are nice and even, and very clear. Drums sound great.
 
Regards,
Dan

IMO the ethereal background vocals could be a little more up at 1:09...they are kind of getting lost from what I could hear...the main one is real close, and there's another one, which comes in first, and is real faint
behind the main that's totally lost, and I could barely hear it, and I was listening intently to
try to hear it...other then that it's a great track!

I like it! The sparse instrumentation really works for me – it lets the lead vocal take center stsage without having to fight for space. BV as mention by others a little distant – I found it a bit frustrating. All in all, a very cool track – it’s got its own personality.

Thanks for the listens and feedback! 
 

dcumpian
Intro is a little long without an additional element, like a guitar solo being added. Mix is really good. Vocals are nice and even, and very clear. Drums sound great.
 
Regards,
Dan

 
That was my original intention, to have the reverbed guitar high up the neck playing throughout, and have a more prominent lead part for the intro and the spaces between vocals. Unfortunately my guitar playing is not great, and my theory knowledge is even worse, so the elaborate plan whittled down to a simple guitar line. Drums are BFD2 and the first time I have used the CLA Drum plugin, loving the CLA bundle already!

cclarry
IMO the ethereal background vocals could be a little more up at 1:09...they are kind of getting lost from what I could hear...the main one is real close, and there's another one, which comes in first, and is real faint
behind the main that's totally lost, and I could barely hear it, and I was listening intently to
try to hear it...other then that it's a great track!

 

Mannynyagain
I like it! The sparse instrumentation really works for me – it lets the lead vocal take center stsage without having to fight for space. BV as mention by others a little distant – I found it a bit frustrating. All in all, a very cool track – it’s got its own personality.

Those middle vocals were a nightmare! I attempted to create a type of choir with just me. I ended up recording the same line 15 times, 5 normally, 5 a little higher and 5 a little lower. I then cut each line up into 16 clips and chopped them all around to get as much variation as possible. The result was 10 tracks panned at 20 intervals from 100L to 100R. In hindsight, I could've spent a little more time trying to do that part properly, and got some others to provide some backing vocals for some variation.
 
Thanks for the feedback, will definitely take it into the next project. 

I really like the pensive mood of this song.  The minimalist (instrumental) nature of this song really sets the tone for this number and the rhythm paired with the accents of the guitar are great.  However, the gritty nature of the vocals really make this number.
Great stuff!!!

Nice track, nice song. Cool feel. I like the minimalism.
 
So it makes sense that the middle vocal section stands apart as your issue - do I understand that you sang the same line like 10 times? If so, that's gonna get mushy pretty quick. It could be the ethereal thing you want, but I had a hard time discerning the vocals at that point.
 
I thought your guitar work held up nicely in this song! And  was fooled, I thought the drums were recorded live! Did you play them in?
 
keep at it, man, good stuff.
 
cheers,
-Tom

Freddy J
I really like the pensive mood of this song.  The minimalist (instrumental) nature of this song really sets the tone for this number and the rhythm paired with the accents of the guitar are great.  However, the gritty nature of the vocals really make this number.
Great stuff!!!

Well, I in no way consider myself a vocalist, in fact, it's a bit of a necessary evil for me as I'm not a fan of instrumentals. So a massive thanks for the compliment! 
 

emeraldsoul
Nice track, nice song. Cool feel. I like the minimalism.
 
So it makes sense that the middle vocal section stands apart as your issue - do I understand that you sang the same line like 10 times? If so, that's gonna get mushy pretty quick. It could be the ethereal thing you want, but I had a hard time discerning the vocals at that point.
 
I thought your guitar work held up nicely in this song! And  was fooled, I thought the drums were recorded live! Did you play them in?
 
keep at it, man, good stuff.
 
cheers,
-Tom

Thanks Tom, drums were a bit of a mixture of playing along on a MIDI keyboard and manually inserting them on PRV. I changed my usual approach of mixing each individual drum track to having just OH, Room, Snare & Kick and letting the OH/Room pick up cymbal, hi-hat and toms,

That's a cool track, great atmosphere. I like that idea of the high-pitched guitars, works a treat. Good drum programming too.

I liked the mood created by the instrumentation, nicely placed vocal, all in all a nice track, thanks for sharing.