Kevin Walsh

1 hour ago, Old Joad said:

Awesome guitar riffs, love your vocals..👍

Thank you for taking the time to listen and give feedback!

9 hours ago, Pavlovs Cat said:

Cool tune.  I like the groove, the progression and especially the guitar riffs and the guitar playing overall. Nice job! 

Thanks for listening and for sharing your thoughts!

9 hours ago, Douglas Kirby said:

I like the song and the mix sounded top-notch to my ears - I listened through headphones. 

Nice job on the lyrics and the arrangement of the song.

Thank you for your feedback, it's much appreciated! If you don't mind my asking,  what kind of headphones did you listen with?

It must be great making music with your brother. Your guitar sounds are always so nice and it works great with the cheerful lyrics in this one. A really fine mix!

Hey Lynn, great tune! I can't believe I missed this one. That bass  has a killer tone. I'd love to know how you got that sound. Love the bass line and those bongos! Great vocals, great lyrics, and tasty guitar all around.

Mix sounds great, great performance of a pretty jumpin' tune!

Beatiful, David. I ran across this unexpected pleasure while enjoying my morning coffee.  I had to listen to it several times and I am still trying to get my head around some of the cool harmonies. Really lovely work, thank you.

As for the name, all you need to say is after listening  it becomes perfectly obvious.

3 hours ago, noynekker said:

Had a listen to the new mix on bigger speakers, and it sounds great ! Brilliant how you go between a driving rock guitar groove, then suddenly into the vibrato bending guitar . . . you have such great control and subtlety in your playing. It's just very interesting to listen to, a lot because it's not repetitive, keeps evolving, well written there !

I'm glad you enjoyed it, thanks so much for taking the time! And thank you for the kind words, makes all the pain worthwhile.

Quite beautiful piece, Larry. I think the repeating motif is find, but would agree that some variance would add some movement.  Maybe vary it with inversions of the chords or playing in octaves. One of my favorite things to do is to use passing tones as I move to different voicings of the same chord.

Really nice piece of music and well executed, mis-step or not (which I didn't hear).

I *thought* I heard some slight discordance in the arpeggiated parts which may or may not be tuning issues. lol, how's that for decisiveness!

Larry, sorry, I'm referring to a mic shield. Here's a picture of my setup. As you can see, I also use a pop filter. 

Thank you Larry! I appreciate you giving it a listen!

Really nice take on a truly great song. Everything sounds so nice! The mix is sweet and warm and the vocals are a different but very enjoyable take on the original. The mix of sung and melodyne-create harmonies works really well here. 

I'm with Wookie, too much reverb on the pianos, but the vocal tracks seems okay, just needs a bit more presence. You have a good voice, and your personality comes through with it. Just keep singing and you won't need to hand your songs over to others to sing.  As you keep writing and singing, you may find yourself naturally evolving styles and structures that favor the way your unique voice works. 

Of course, then you'll be stuck with songs that don't really work for anyone else ha!

Not a think wrong with your voice, it's very rock' and roll. Great  start here. I'm a big fan of your covers, you're always so faithful to the spirit of the original song. Can't wait till this one is finished!

Larry's advice is good on dealing with noise between the blobs on vocal tracks. Another route is to use a gate, which is a device that senses the dB output level of your track and when it drops below a certain level it essentially mutes the output.  You can set that level to any value you like. Play your song and fiddle with the threshold value till it does what you want - silence the stuff  you don't want and plays the stuff  you do. Gates are fun for other types of effects too, but that's for another day!

I personally just manually split and crop clips till they only have the parts I want in them. I zoom in very tight to see exactly where the audio I want starts and I trim the clip right up to that point. It's tedious, and so is going through vocal parts and manually adjusting volume automation to get nice levels, but the results are worth the effort. Particularly if you're like me and you record in a room with your dog snoring and the AC running and the TV blaring in the next room! 

One thing I've recently invested in that has made a big difference in the quality of my vocal recordings is a mic shield, which is a bit of acoustic foam-coated steel that mounts on the mic stand and blocks room reflections and noise from getting into your mic. Saw one at GC and picked it up for a lark and man, what a difference! Turns out the less noise you have in your vocal parts, the less distortion compression imparts to the track and the nicer the sound. If you're going for warmth and clarity, it's great. Nowhere near as good as a real studio room but no way I'll ever have something like that. Some dudz on the interwebs have declared them snake-oil, but I think they're wrong. YMMV!

Wow, just incredible vocals! You have a great song here, Nigel and the mix lives up to it. Love Devine Lie!

On 2/15/2022 at 8:03 AM, Bajan Blue said:

Hi Kevin

I like this - I think this will be excellent as you progress - personally, if you don't mind me saying, I would shorten this and end at  3.45 dropping the last guitar solos and fade out - I think it would sound much sharper!

Anyway, best of luck on this, think there is a really good track in this

Cool Stuff

Nigel

 

I re-arranged the ending, give it a listen. Thanks!

Dup, please ignore!

On 2/15/2022 at 8:13 AM, Wookiee said:

Solid groove established early on, mix seems to work here, though there is a boom here on the low tom as the drummer runs round the kit.

I added a low pass filter to the toms, thanks for the feedback!

11 hours ago, noynekker said:

What a great track you've done here ! Some amazing guitar work, a treat to the ears. If I can possibly help, in the mix zone, the one thing that stood out to me, I think the first solo guitar kind of blasted through a bit harsh (somewhere in the middle of the piece) . . . but that's a close headphone listen, sorry, the baby's sleepin' and I can't crank the speakers right now. Some great work creating this, and I really enjoyed this listen.

Thanks for the feedback! I dialed it back a bit in the new mix, give it a peek!

17 hours ago, steve@baselines.com said:

Love that guitar tone Kevin.  Started like T-Rex, but morphed quickly and interestingly.  The vocal is a little reminiscent of Randy Newman in a way, but better.  Great mix.  I hear something I would do to the drums, but not real sure what it is.  The snare needs something to my ears, maybe a touch of verb.  And I think the toms need to come down a little.  At least that's what I hear - but it doesn't really matter it sounds great as is.  Good work.

The new arrangement I just posted adds a bit of oomph to the snare. I did dial back the toms with a low pass filter. Let me know how it sounds.

Good stuff in here, particularly the last section which is a bit mesmerizing. I always like your work.

23 minutes ago, David Sprouse said:

 mix was very gentle on my ears.  Great guitar playing.

Thank you, David!

16 minutes ago, PhonoBrainer said:

Love the guitars, great bends! Vocals and bgv's are getting there quick, you might bring up the lead vocal volume. The lyrics are working for me big time! I agree with Wookie on the toms, a bit pokey loud in the mix when the fills come along.

I'd also somehow get the bass guitar tone more focused, you might eq it more narrowly and pump the volume of the bass guitar a bit so it drives the song a little harder?

those guitars, back to those - awesome! 

As you dive a bit more into the mix, try your ears on the snare hit, very much the same exact sample each time. You might room up the kit a bit with a a killer drum compressor of some type.

It wasn't too long for me and I'll definitely check in to see where you take this! 

cheers,

-Tom

Thanks for your feedback, Tom. I always struggle with bass eq and tone and getting the levels right. 

Good feedback on the snare, but I'm unsure of how I vary the samples.  I know I can run a humanize function on the MIDI note velocities, but that's not quite what  you're talking about, is it?

As for guitar, gotta love S-Gear, right? By the way, some of the clean tones are from the XLR out of a Fender Mustang GTX 100 I picked up a while ago. I'm pretty amazed at how good this thing sounds DI. 

51 minutes ago, KurtS said:

Well written song, good work, I like all the changes. Very nice guitar tones.

Thanks, Kurt!

2 hours ago, Wookiee said:

Solid groove established early on, mix seems to work here, though there is a boom here on the low tom as the drummer runs round the kit.

Thanks, Wookie, I hear that as well. I appreciate it!