Hi, Andrew.

When I first misread the title, I thought this song might be about painting a wall. I'm so glad to be wrong about that. laugh

Really good write - you go right for the heart with this, and it works.

Originally Posted by Andrew Dee
On this recording, finger-picking and strings are provided by Band-In-A-Box while other guitars, 'foot tapping' and vocals are provided by me. I tried to learn Travis picking to record this song, and while I am someway towards my goal, I will release my full version in due course once I can use it more fluently.
Nice job on fingerpicking! There's nothing that motivates learning a new skill so much as being able to immediately use it.

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Vocals – doubled, and no pitch correction – can’t you tell? I manually aligned the second track to the main vocal using stretch markers in Reaper - boy, was that hard work!
Yeah, but it's easier than slicing the track, and then dragging the slice point to align the vocal. I once got to do that with a bunch of recording of my old choir, trying my best to align multiple takes of live playing. Ha! Now that was fun.

As for pitch correction... I've got some songs that have no pitch correction on them that have some painfully out-of-tune moments, but I think it stands up better than some of the overly pitch corrected stuff I've done.

So you made the right call there, because raw, imperfect vocals have a power that processed ones don't.

   You finally came back home, but your Mum and Dad have gone
   This house is cold and dark without the light you shone
   You look up at me - the tears run down your face
   You can’t see mine, but I am looking over this place.

The twist of the knife. Perfect.

-- David Cuny
My virtual singer development blog

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