So bad any advice will help

[ap1325]

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[brandondrury]

I like the way the guitar sounds. The bass sounds good too.

The vocal has a touch more low mid stuff in it than I would want, but that has a lot more to do with the style of the vocal.

It's not a genre I'm used to dealing with, but it seems okay to me.

Brandon

[dirkcee]

v cool! i like it. good job
i know nothing about the techinical changes you can make to get the sound you want as i'm very new to all this. It sounds to me tho that you were a little nervous recording the lead vocal, maybe if you were more comfortable with the words and they came out more effortlessly it would help. maybe if the vocals were tighter together that would help . But like you said you only had a day, so mess around and see how you get on it really is good though you shouldn't be so hard on yourself

Dirk

[archiegood]

I've heard lots of guitars in my time, and I don't believe there is a guitar on this recording.

AP. it's a keyboard, isn't it?

I do like the upright bass sound, even if it is also a synth. I don't see the need for the lower voice, although I've heard that technique used in other similar recordings.

With some hand-held percussion and congas, this would sound pretty cool. However, I'd ditch the lower vocal.

[magno]

Originally Posted by dirkcee

v cool! i like it. good job
. maybe if the vocals were tighter together that would help .

I think you should redo the bass vocals as to not not offend any Brazilians. heh
Really I think it would make it sound like a "top notch" recording instead of just a "recording".
I like the tune.

[nnnonnn]

Had me fooled too. I thought it was a guitar and bass.

You g=otta have a great synthesiser to do that.

[magno]

OK, the vocals sound good.
But I don't like how it's mixed now.
If I sit about half way towards my left speaker it sounds great.
Listening in the middle theres too much going on.
I think the vocals need to be more centered, and more outfront.
The music should act as more accompaniment to the vocals.
Putting more guitar in the right would help me from moving around so much.
Maybe adding some reverb to the bass vocals to sit them back would be awesome too.
This sounds like it would be a fun song to mix.

[Matthew71]

Actually, its very close to sounding like something I'd buy for $.99!!

Very nice harmony but the delay was annoying.

[brandondrury]

I rerecorded a low vocal and added a high vocal as to give a balance to the backup vocal altogether. I sent the high backup vocal to the right and the low one to the left;

I thought this was highly distracting, personally. I thought maybe the orginal song did this or it was some kind of tribute to some kind of Latin thing I'm unaware of. If that's not the case, I would NOT do this on my own recordings.

As for the vocals "phasing", it's very tough to get two different vocal tracks out of phase for more than a microsecond at a time. You are probably hearing pitch issues clashing. If that's the case, you simply need to tighten the performance up.

Brandon

[rsadasiv]

Not digging the MIDI guitar - everything else is pretty good. The highest note in the vocal melody line seems like a stretch for your range (1:22 the worst example) - can you comp/overdub something in?