Originally Posted by dcuny
Hi, Noel.

Excellent opening:

Maybe tomorrow
This ocean will be blue... again.

It sets up the song and "attitude" immediately.

The vocals in the mix feels a bit distant to me, but that might be a "me" issue, because I prefer my vocals a bit more up front.

There are a few places were the /s/ is brought down a touch too much is "lisp" territory - but again, that's a preference thing.

I like it! Nice song, it tells the story well. I'm glad you were able to dust it off. smile

Hi David.

It's good to see you. I wholeheartedly agree with you about the sibilance. There are definitely places where it is borderline lisping. This is in the design of Asterian2 and was not something I chose. In a number of places throughout the vocal track, I've raised the 's' volume to a maximum, and a few times, I even changed 'z' endings to 's' endings. I'll revisit the aspiration output and see if I can bring a little more life into the sibilance! Thanks for your comments. As always, you give me good food for thought smile

Thanks again,
--Noel

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