Originally Posted by floyd jane
Ambitious. Accomplished. Astounding.
Thanks! smile

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The opening instruments were cool. Very organic.
When the organ came in, I thought the frequencies got all wrapped up with the vocals. Did not care for that.
The production that followed was excellent. A lot of (good) work!!!
Thanks again, especially the suggestion on the organ.

It doesn't help that there's a "Rotary Verb" effect on the organ making the frequencies all swirly, either.

I've gone back and put TrackSpacer on the organ, so it should be ducking the competing frequencies in the organ. It may or may not have fixed the problem. I think Curves AQ can do that as well, but that would mean reading the manual.

Edit: I listened to the track in my car, and the swirly effect on the organ is now dropped. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but it clearly wasn't. I need to spend more time listening through other systems, and do a bit of monitoring in mono. I've also pulled the vocals down a bit. I also listened to my prior tracks, and yeesh, the vocals are embarrassingly hot and soaked in reverb. I need to go back and fix those, too.

I also noticed the word "remember" needed fixing, and adjusted the vocal balances in the first section a smidge. I seem to bring the vocals up too much in my songs, and since I love the counter-lines so much, have trouble adjusting them properly.

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The voices get more real all the time. In fact, I could have sworn your female singer was a bit out of key a couple of times...
Heh. The harmonies get a bit crunchy, and SynthV does let the vocals go out of key in places. Which is nice, because otherwise they would sound pretty robotic. I used to put a doubler effect on the SynthV vocals to avoid harsh perfect fifths. Now it sometimes needs pitch correction, which is an improvement. laugh

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"all you need" does not preclude adding your own MIDI tracks. smile
Hehehe. wink

Yes, despite my laziness, I try to get a good balance on the instruments. I lean towards "overstuffed" and so sometimes I'll err on the side of putting in less.

BiaB isn't going to give instrumental "hooks", and my songs lack that. It's definitely on my "to do" list in future songs, especially since I've bought so many lovely sampled sounds to do that with

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Well done.
Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it. smile

-- David Cuny
My virtual singer development blog

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