Originally Posted By: jannesan
Very nice to hear Natalie on your hands smile She has lot of potential, I have her also now... she sounds especially nice in the middle range. The low range she is singing here sounds bit unnatural, but I think it may be due the effects and the way she is mixed to front.

Hi, Janne.

Yeah, blame me and my lack of mixing skills! (I'm sure you're right! laugh )

I just happened to like the low range of the voice, and I have a habit of pushing the vocal to the front of the mix. I may have gone a bit too far, but to my ears it's very pretty.

But now I need to spend some time learning what she sounds like in the middle and upper register as well!

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Beautiful romantic song, "down lazy rivers we glide" just one example of fine lyricism. Nice slowly gliding melody and enjoyable chord progression - "the sun is so high in my forever July" part works especially well.

I really liked the way her voiced worked with the phrases - so languid and soft!

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The band works very well, nothing distracts me. I like how the drums and the bass are mixed.

That's good to hear. I went back and had another shot at getting the kick to sit a bit better in the mix. There's a bit of a cut on it so the bass low end, and I may go back and add TrackSpacer on the drum just to make sure the kick stay out of the way of the bass.

Thanks for listening and your suggestions! smile

-- David Cuny
My virtual singer development blog

Vocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?