sgulley
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Post by sgulley on Oct 4, 2014 3:39:33 GMT
soundcloud.com/theirishtexan/love-is-a-long-roadI spent 16 consecutive hours on this one. I'm not 100% pleased with it but not as easy as 1st anticipated. Let me know what you think... The vocals were a real strain + drain on my voice... so I had to quit or loose it.
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Post by mcarp555 on Oct 5, 2014 8:12:54 GMT
I was daydreaming a bit during the intro, so when the vocals came in, for a split-second I thought it was Petty!
One trick for strengthening a vocal is to double it, like we used to do back in the PS5 days by copying it to another track and delaying it by a few milliseconds. Nowadays you can just add some delay.
The backing tracks are okay, but they do have that somewhat sterile MIDI sound to them.
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Post by sgulley on Oct 5, 2014 14:12:34 GMT
I may work on this some more; especially with the vocals. Yeah the synths are midi... the guitars are not.. the bass is.
I did lots of enhancements on this including re singing the song. The bass is still weak but the rest I like OK with the exception of the broken voice in a couple of spots of straining during the chorus.
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Post by latmat on Oct 6, 2014 17:54:33 GMT
Stan fantastic guitar work. And the vocal is sounding pretty good. I can tell your stretching your vocal range on this one, which is not a bad thing by the way. It's really cool to hear your higher vocal registers. As you already said, this track would be well served by having a real recorded bass on it. That intro though is fantastic, the synth is midi but that does not matter one bit. Good work, a few vocal comps, a bass and this track is there!
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Post by sgulley on Oct 26, 2014 5:21:21 GMT
I've redone vocals multiple times as well as tweaked several midi and audio tracks on this. While drinking a can of Sunkist Orange soda my vocal chords seemed to have loosen, and afterwards said that I should probably leave this track alone. This is most likely my last release on this song (unless someone wants to play bass on this (hint)) soundcloud.com/theirishtexan/love-is-a-long-road
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Post by mcarp555 on Oct 26, 2014 7:56:36 GMT
It all sounds fine to me! What happened to yesterday's posting of Cocaine?
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Post by sgulley on Oct 26, 2014 18:20:17 GMT
I took it off. The Coke addict still comes up on my Facebook page whether I've changed the song's image from Sound cloud. So, I just got tired of looking at her and decided to remove it. Plus, I really wanted to try and get the Petty song finished because I love this song and didn't what to give up on it. I don't necessarily like these lyrics, especially not applyed to my life, but it's a great rock classic that I feel got overlooked as one of his best.
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