Nice, work!

I like the short intro and jumping right into the vocal, and the choice on instrumentation is light and jaunty.

Only a couple of critical notes:

I think there's too much FX on your vocals, and it gives it a bit of a "karaoke" sound. It's particularly noticeable in the gaps between vocals, such as at 0:05 and 0:06.

If you want to keep it that wet, you might consider cutting it back a bit at the "empty" spots, so it's not apparent. The "right" way to do that in Reaper is probably to create an envelope to control the wet/dry level on the reverb. I prefer to create a separate track for the reverb, send the vocals to that track, and control the amount of reverb in the mix with a volume envelope.

But I don't think there's a need to cover your voice in reverb - it sounds better with less.

The slide guitar is a great sound, but at places like 0:12 it's sort of noodling around aimlessly under the vocal. At the gap in the vocals at 0:18 - where a fill probably should go - it stops playing. You probably want it doing the opposite, playing less under the vocal, and jumping it to add fills. That's exactly what it does at 0:25, and it sounds great there. There are a couple of other places where you could do that.

The harmony at 1:00 sounds nice, but it would be nice to hear a bit more of them, instead of being so far back in the mix.

At 2:09 the harmony timing is a bit off on the words "went" and "today". If that wasn't intentional, it's pretty easy to correct with a bit of cutting and pasting.

Again, nice work.


-- David Cuny
My virtual singer development blog

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