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  • If I were a carpenter (p.2)
2012/11/18 21:43:36
bayoubill
I haven't heard this song is decades. Great job! Sounds so good! THANKS!!!
2012/11/20 17:41:58
geeare1
Hi Sunny,

I'd forgotten what a great song this is. Excellent job on the mix and vocal! 
2012/11/20 20:33:15
bapu
Great stuff Sunny.
2012/11/21 23:10:36
Janet
I haven't heard this for ages either.  Really nice job on the vocals and playing and mix!  :)  
2012/11/22 00:00:50
Marcus Curtis
That was great. nice Job. Love your voice in this song
2012/12/08 08:30:24
munmun
Some mix fixes. Any critique welcome!

https://soundcloud.com/su.../if-i-were-a-carpenter
2012/12/08 08:54:43
The Maillard Reaction
It sounds great.

I'd dig in and get some more bass out of the guitar.

I'd move the shaker back just a tiny little bit... just turn it down a bit.

Maybe go for for less phase efx on your voice... and find a nice sweet reverb to glue everything together.


The song is so well done overall that if I was engineering for you I'd work to inspire you to try a few re takes on the very few phrases where you vocal tuning is stretched to the point where you sound uncomfortable. I'd just work on those as we ID'd them and it'd be worth it to see you smile. :-)

I don't know how it works for you... but the next song that auto plays for me on the Soundcloud site after your songs is "Big Scotia" by Hasse Krebs. If you have a chance to compare that back to back to your song you should immediately hear the way that cut has a deep authoritative bass tonal resonance coming off the guitar strings.

It's a "sonorance" type effect and it makes that cut sound "pro".

You can have that too!!!


Great stuff.

Just trying to offer some ideas of how another person might mix it.


all the best,
mike


PS wow I get to listen to Daryl's Simplicity in the stream... it's gonna be a great day.


:-) 
2012/12/10 08:51:30
Guitarhacker
nice job... the guitar sounds good. 

it sounds like you are straining to hit the high notes... I would either figure out a new original melody line there or lower the key a few steps to put the highs in the comfort/power range while keeping the lows out of the basement.  I would also pitch correct the vox to pin the note to the pitch. 

Some reverb would really help to blend it together as has been mentioned. 
2012/12/10 12:13:37
Starise
 
  I don't always agree with Herb, but he is usually right on a lot of the mix crits. In this case I have to agree with him that more space and some vocal changes would help. Maybe even taking the songs down a half step will help.

 I like the song and with a few minor corrections it will be there.
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