Hi, Janice & Bud.

Originally Posted by Janice & Bud
Firstly, we were amused and engaged reading your backstory.
We thoroughly enjoyed it.
That's why it's there. wink

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The synth vocals sound good.
No need to apologize for them.
Heck, aren’t they like scoring and playing an instrument?
Yes, very much so. But unlike real instruments, music has to be adapted to fit the instrument, not the other way around.

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The entire and and mix sound excellent on the monitors.
You definitely accomplished the Americana band vibe
smile

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Like you, we sometimes change the feel of the song several times in the making.
Particularly after we match Janice’s melody/progression with Bud’s lyric. smile
It's interesting how different people have different methods.

Al Stewart apparently often wrote lots of different lyrics for a given melody. On the other hand, Elvis Costello would write different settings for the same lyrics until they fit.

Whatever gets you to the finish line!

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And we always enjoy your mix data. Wish more folks did that.
Mixing is one of the more mystical parts of this process. I'll work for hours and think I've got something perfect. They I'll hear it the next morning and wonder what I was thinking.

And last-minute uploads can be horrible! I'll upload a song, and then hear a click somewhere, and spend the next 15 minutes trying to track it down, fixing it, re-uploading it, only to find something else I missed.

And that's the easy part of mixing. cry

I want to know how other people make the magic happen, so I can steal their ideas!

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Well done!
Thanks again!

-- David Cuny

My virtual singer development blog
Vocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?

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