Rain In December

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Very cool, good to hear it with vocals. My critique. I would get rid of the storm effect, cheesy and a novelty imo. I think the main acoustic needs some more compression and so do the vocals (they need to be more upfront), also try another reverb on the vocals, that sounds like a hall reverb I would use a plate reverb and a little synced delay (just felt not heard). Good tune man rock on!
 
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"Nothing lasts forever, in the cold November Rain."

Aww...nothing like a cliche' GNR song to start your morning.
 
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innerdreamrecords.co said:
Very cool, good to hear it with vocals. My critique. I would get rid of the storm effect, cheesy and a novelty imo. I think the main acoustic needs some more compression and so do the vocals (they need to be more upfront), also try another reverb on the vocals, that sounds like a hall reverb I would use a plate reverb and a little synced delay (just felt not heard). Good tune man rock on!
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Yeah, I agree with pretty much everything you said. lol The storm thing does have to go..
I didn't add any compression or eq.. Just that reverb. And yes.. It is a hall reverb. It's effect #1 on the mixer. It was late and I wanted to get done with the song quickly.. so. I didn't feel like tinkering with the compresser etc.

I think I might re-do the lead and vocals tonight. I dunno.
Thanks for your input man! Seems like you're the only one who really cares about my work haha.

Thanks again, great critique as always.
 
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Man, I dig the song a lot!!!

IDR pointed the important things already out, do it and it will sound even better.
 
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Don't you dare re-do the vocals! There are two spots where you sing December in the verses that are a little flat, when you sing December hard at the end you're fine. Fix those two parts and leave it. My 2 cents. I think it sounds cool.

If you don't have a good pitch correction program for those two Decembers re-sing them or send them to me I'll fix them.

* Edit: I listened again. You could leave those Decembers, though I would probably get them a bit tighter if it were me.
 
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innerdreamrecords.co said:
Don't you dare re-do the vocals! There are two spots where you sing December in the verses that are a little flat, when you sing December hard at the end you're fine. Fix those two parts and leave it. My 2 cents. I think it sounds cool.

If you don't have a good pitch correction program for those two Decembers re-sing them or send them to me I'll fix them.

* Edit: I listened again. You could leave those Decembers, though I would probably get them a bit tighter if it were me.
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Well, here's the song with no storms, some compression, different reverb, and a limiter:

http://www.4shared.com/file/130496461/d8aff3c7/Rain_In_Late_December2.html

And here's the vocal track if you wanted to tinker with it. It's wet btw..

http://www.4shared.com/file/130496412/ee734ba/joey.html
 
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Okay, all and all it was pretty good as far as pitch. I fixed the real bad notes, those two Decembers and a few others. PM with your email and I'll send you back an mp3. I'd just cut and paste in the words that need to be fixed.
 
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Sounds much better. The solo guitars might be a little loud and you could push the main acoustic back a touch with a little more reverb.
 
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hey brother, I don't have any real criticism bad or good, but I just wanted to tell you that I really enjoyed your song man!
 
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Great! At :41 seconds and it happens one more time in the song, all the instruments drop out except the guitars and vocals. The guitars are fighting with the vocals right there. I think you could drop down the guitars there and maybe even bring the vocals up a db or so for the whole song. It should be about the vocals.
 
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innerdreamrecords.co said:
Great! At :41 seconds and it happens one more time in the song, all the instruments drop out except the guitars and vocals. The guitars are fighting with the vocals right there. I think you could drop down the guitars there and maybe even bring the vocals up a db or so for the whole song. It should be about the vocals.
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Hmmm... I'm not exactly sure what you're reffering to..
At :41 there isn't any vocals.

It's where the lead, main, bass, and drums end the verse.

Then the vocals come in at :42 for the chorus.

I didn't hear any drop outs, but I could be wrong.
 
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fenderbass6 said:
Hmmm... I'm not exactly sure what you're reffering to..
At :41 there isn't any vocals.

It's where the lead, main, bass, and drums end the verse.

Then the vocals come in at :42 for the chorus.

I didn't hear any drop outs, but I could be wrong.
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The guitars fight the vocals in the chorus, that's what I meant.
 
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innerdreamrecords.co said:
The guitars fight the vocals in the chorus, that's what I meant.
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Ohhh. I see. My bad.
Yeah, I noticed that.

The thing is.. I'm used to mastering my music through my headphones..
My headphones perished this afternoon lol.

So I've been doing all this through my crappy monitors.
And yes, the vocals should come up a bit.
 
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Oh, and I hate turning my vocals up too loud cause I hate my mic.
I want a nice, warm velvety mic so bad.
I think that'd go good with this song..

If I didn't eq my vocal tracks, they'd sound horrid.. But I guess you have to work with what you can afford lol.
 
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innerdreamrecords.co said:
Don't I know about cheap gear! $37.00 mic is all I own right now. The vocals sound fine...
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Haha. Yeah, one day I dream of owning a Neumann. Ahh... That'll be the day.

When that happens, all I'll say to the people that criticque my music is, "Shut up, this song sounds good. Because my wife divorced me over it." haha
 
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