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Song of the Month Club - May 2016

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  • @orchardman said:

    @theconnactic said:
    Here's my own for this month:

    All the best,
    Dimitri.

    Great playing and production as usual and liking the slightly rockier feel.

    Thank you so much, @orchardman!

  • Hey, @gmslayton! Another good acoustic song, and great mother day tribute. Looking forward to listen the finished studio version. Congrats!

  • Very good song, @orchardman! Loved the vocals, and I liked the fact you place them quite in front at the mix as well. Well done indeed!

  • Hello, @Dounstar_, very interesting piece. Hoping to see it developed further, since the ideas are really great.

  • @orchardman What d'ya mean, not too many Country ballads? I submit one every month! :wink: Ah a new mic. Which make/model?

    Beautifully angelic intro with that crisp, lovely guitar & your wife with a tenderness & longing in her vocal. I find myself sitting in between Johnny & Dimitri with regard to the vocal mix. "On top of" & "in front of" the mix. I think I get the difference but as a vocal virgin I don't think I'm qualified enough technically to fully appreciate & understand where a vocal "should" sit. Maybe some experimenting with the new mic will open up new avenues to explore.

    My favourite line is "Looking around the room for something no one else will understand." My mind races with the possibilities. Congrats to your wife on writing this song. It retains your feel & throws out a pleasant, feely good vibe to enjoy this Monday morning. (Hope your hangover has faded). I like the lead guitar stuff that you've put in & where you've put it. It gives a different texture to supplement the vocal passages.

    Drums. Nice tone. Got that laid backness to them. I find it tricky to nail this style without using real drums. It can sound ploddy & pedestrian (well it does on my attempts) without adding some fills or more urgent dynamics on parts of the rhythm tracks.

    Keep giving us those hippy, sunshine vibes. It will be a summer to match the last proper one we had in '76 if you can.... Nice one. :smile:

  • @richardyot said:
    What is the Song of the Month Club?

    It's a place where musicians come to give and receive feedback on their work. Anyone is welcome, whatever their level of ability.

    The spirit of the club is to contribute: if you submit a song for others to comment on, you should also have the courtesy to listen to everyone else's contributions and give as much feedback as possible. Posting a track and not listening and commenting on others is not cool.

    The purpose of feedback is to be honest. Essentially you should give your truthful impressions of the song, whether good or bad. Negative feedback, if done in the right spirit and with courtesy, is often the most useful and can help the artist to grow and improve.

    All submissions are welcome, don't hesitate if you want to contribute. Instrumentals are very welcome, and songs with vocals are especially encouraged, so if you are thinking of experimenting with vocals this is a good place to get started.

    We ask that you only post one song per month in this thread - if you're lucky enough to be able to produce more, then please just submit your strongest material.

    Just a little question before I indulge. Are we allowed to submit Remixes? @richardyot

  • @studs1966 said:
    Just a little question before I indulge. Are we allowed to submit Remixes? @richardyot

    Well remixes have been posted in the past. If you do post a remix, please also link to the original for comparison.

  • Will do Thank you for that.

  • @JohnnyGoodyear said:
    @orchardman She's got a fine clear voice, the 'sound' -however much that's too do with the mic- feels very close. It does sound a little separate or 'on top' of the mix to me....the song is nice enough, but the end (again to me) feels like it peters out and while it's full of a certain and of tired longing, I wish I could hear another 10 per cent of that in the voice. I'm guessing in the end this is very much personal taste. I want my broken-hearts to really sound broken. This is perhaps an area where the very clarity of the delivery works in opposition to, but, again again, that's hugely subjective...

    Thanks for the feedback.

  • @trackedout said:
    @orchardman sounds great .goodjobon tracking the piano , your wifes vocals sound great thru thatnew microphone congratulations,

    Thanks for the feedback, I'm glad you enjoyed it.

  • @kin said:
    @gmslayton lovely idea to record something for your wife on Mother's Day, hope she appreciated the sentiments .

    @orchardman nice tune, your wife has a lovely voice. Found it a little one paced and the fuzz guitar seemed a bit out of place ( but it worked well in that Carpenters song I forget the name of, so what do I know :) ) overall it was well played and I enjoyed it.

    @Dounstar I thought it would make a great backing track to an animation piece, made me think of hundreds of little moogs marching through a city intent on sonic destruction with the swooping lines representing a squadron of airborne moogs flying overhead.
    I like things that fire my imagination, so thanks for that.

    Thanks for the feedback

  • @theconnactic said:
    Very good song, @orchardman! Loved the vocals, and I liked the fact you place them quite in front at the mix as well. Well done indeed!

    Thanks the feedback, I'm glad you enjoyed it.

  • @Bluepunk said:
    @orchardman What d'ya mean, not too many Country ballads? I submit one every month! :wink: Ah a new mic. Which make/model?

    Beautifully angelic intro with that crisp, lovely guitar & your wife with a tenderness & longing in her vocal. I find myself sitting in between Johnny & Dimitri with regard to the vocal mix. "On top of" & "in front of" the mix. I think I get the difference but as a vocal virgin I don't think I'm qualified enough technically to fully appreciate & understand where a vocal "should" sit. Maybe some experimenting with the new mic will open up new avenues to explore.

    My favourite line is "Looking around the room for something no one else will understand." My mind races with the possibilities. Congrats to your wife on writing this song. It retains your feel & throws out a pleasant, feely good vibe to enjoy this Monday morning. (Hope your hangover has faded). I like the lead guitar stuff that you've put in & where you've put it. It gives a different texture to supplement the vocal passages.

    Drums. Nice tone. Got that laid backness to them. I find it tricky to nail this style without using real drums. It can sound ploddy & pedestrian (well it does on my attempts) without adding some fills or more urgent dynamics on parts of the rhythm tracks.

    Keep giving us those hippy, sunshine vibes. It will be a summer to match the last proper one we had in '76 if you can.... Nice one. :smile:

    Sorry, I forgot your monthly contribution to the country music scene. Country punk, now there's a thought. The new mic is a Blue Yeti, it was a bit of an impulse buy but I am pleased with results so far.

    I'm glad you enjoyed the song although I'm not sure what the lyrics say about the state of our marriage, I hope she is not trying to tell me something.

    The drums were done using the drummer in GarageBand.

    Let's hope the sun keeps shining I've got a festival to go to this weekend.

  • @crouchie said:

    @orchardman said:

    @crouchie said:

    Never sure about the slow ones, but in the interest of variety I persevere. One day I'll be happy with one. I listen to a lot of music, but like many I'm sure, quite a narrow selection. This was initially called Lonely Soldier, and it was inspired by a two word sample in a Meat Beat Manifesto tune of the same name. I wrote the lyric and melody for the band I am/was in (don't ask) and felt v pleased with myself until I looked up Lonely Soldier and found there were lots of songs with the same sodding name. Hence it became "He's forever a soldier" and I'm sticking with that so there.

    The end is a bit messy but I got fed up and just mixed it down. I'm not renowned for my patience and needed to move on. No EQing this month I tell you, goodness me no! This was done almost exclusively in Auria Pro, with just a simple beat from Patterning. Modstep continues to stare accusingly at me from my iPad, grumbling with AUM and muttering about what exactly I think I'm going to do with Blocs Wave and Samplr now I've started filling the credit card up. I'm not going to buy that Moog thing, really I'm not...

    Anyway, hope u don't find it too tedious. My mate said I have a "very 80s voice" when I made him endure a couple of my recordings. He will be sadly missed.

    Lovely song with a great vocal. Not sure it needed all the electronic twiddley bits.

    Thank you. Some days it's only the electronic twiddley bits that keep me going...

    Hey man, I'm just an old rocker. What do I know. Just keep doing what you think is right.

  • @orchardman said:

    @Bluepunk said:
    @orchardman What d'ya mean, not too many Country ballads? I submit one every month! :wink: Ah a new mic. Which make/model?

    Beautifully angelic intro with that crisp, lovely guitar & your wife with a tenderness & longing in her vocal. I find myself sitting in between Johnny & Dimitri with regard to the vocal mix. "On top of" & "in front of" the mix. I think I get the difference but as a vocal virgin I don't think I'm qualified enough technically to fully appreciate & understand where a vocal "should" sit. Maybe some experimenting with the new mic will open up new avenues to explore.

    My favourite line is "Looking around the room for something no one else will understand." My mind races with the possibilities. Congrats to your wife on writing this song. It retains your feel & throws out a pleasant, feely good vibe to enjoy this Monday morning. (Hope your hangover has faded). I like the lead guitar stuff that you've put in & where you've put it. It gives a different texture to supplement the vocal passages.

    Drums. Nice tone. Got that laid backness to them. I find it tricky to nail this style without using real drums. It can sound ploddy & pedestrian (well it does on my attempts) without adding some fills or more urgent dynamics on parts of the rhythm tracks.

    Keep giving us those hippy, sunshine vibes. It will be a summer to match the last proper one we had in '76 if you can.... Nice one. :smile:

    Sorry, I forgot your monthly contribution to the country music scene. Country punk, now there's a thought. The new mic is a Blue Yeti, it was a bit of an impulse buy but I am pleased with results so far.

    I'm glad you enjoyed the song although I'm not sure what the lyrics say about the state of our marriage, I hope she is not trying to tell me something.

    The drums were done using the drummer in GarageBand.

    Let's hope the sun keeps shining I've got a festival to go to this weekend.

    That mic looks decent value as well. Great impulse purchase backed up by the quality of the singing. Festival season started early this year. Which bands /acts are you going there to enjoy? IOW festival for me soon as well. Yippee.... Buzzcocks & The Damned to reminisce & gently sway to. :smile: Have fun!

  • @Bluepunk said:

    @orchardman said:

    @Bluepunk said:
    @orchardman What d'ya mean, not too many Country ballads? I submit one every month! :wink: Ah a new mic. Which make/model?

    Beautifully angelic intro with that crisp, lovely guitar & your wife with a tenderness & longing in her vocal. I find myself sitting in between Johnny & Dimitri with regard to the vocal mix. "On top of" & "in front of" the mix. I think I get the difference but as a vocal virgin I don't think I'm qualified enough technically to fully appreciate & understand where a vocal "should" sit. Maybe some experimenting with the new mic will open up new avenues to explore.

    My favourite line is "Looking around the room for something no one else will understand." My mind races with the possibilities. Congrats to your wife on writing this song. It retains your feel & throws out a pleasant, feely good vibe to enjoy this Monday morning. (Hope your hangover has faded). I like the lead guitar stuff that you've put in & where you've put it. It gives a different texture to supplement the vocal passages.

    Drums. Nice tone. Got that laid backness to them. I find it tricky to nail this style without using real drums. It can sound ploddy & pedestrian (well it does on my attempts) without adding some fills or more urgent dynamics on parts of the rhythm tracks.

    Keep giving us those hippy, sunshine vibes. It will be a summer to match the last proper one we had in '76 if you can.... Nice one. :smile:

    Sorry, I forgot your monthly contribution to the country music scene. Country punk, now there's a thought. The new mic is a Blue Yeti, it was a bit of an impulse buy but I am pleased with results so far.

    I'm glad you enjoyed the song although I'm not sure what the lyrics say about the state of our marriage, I hope she is not trying to tell me something.

    The drums were done using the drummer in GarageBand.

    Let's hope the sun keeps shining I've got a festival to go to this weekend.

    That mic looks decent value as well. Great impulse purchase backed up by the quality of the singing. Festival season started early this year. Which bands /acts are you going there to enjoy? IOW festival for me soon as well. Yippee.... Buzzcocks & The Damned to reminisce & gently sway to. :smile: Have fun!

    This festival is only a small localish one just up the road from Chepstow. The only named act is the Neville Staples band, he of former Specials fame. The rest are mostly local bands but a new skanking hat has been bought and a good time will be had by all. Look forward to hearing your contribution this month.

  • @orchardman said:

    @Bluepunk said:

    @orchardman said:

    @Bluepunk said:
    @orchardman What d'ya mean, not too many Country ballads? I submit one every month! :wink: Ah a new mic. Which make/model?

    Beautifully angelic intro with that crisp, lovely guitar & your wife with a tenderness & longing in her vocal. I find myself sitting in between Johnny & Dimitri with regard to the vocal mix. "On top of" & "in front of" the mix. I think I get the difference but as a vocal virgin I don't think I'm qualified enough technically to fully appreciate & understand where a vocal "should" sit. Maybe some experimenting with the new mic will open up new avenues to explore.

    My favourite line is "Looking around the room for something no one else will understand." My mind races with the possibilities. Congrats to your wife on writing this song. It retains your feel & throws out a pleasant, feely good vibe to enjoy this Monday morning. (Hope your hangover has faded). I like the lead guitar stuff that you've put in & where you've put it. It gives a different texture to supplement the vocal passages.

    Drums. Nice tone. Got that laid backness to them. I find it tricky to nail this style without using real drums. It can sound ploddy & pedestrian (well it does on my attempts) without adding some fills or more urgent dynamics on parts of the rhythm tracks.

    Keep giving us those hippy, sunshine vibes. It will be a summer to match the last proper one we had in '76 if you can.... Nice one. :smile:

    Sorry, I forgot your monthly contribution to the country music scene. Country punk, now there's a thought. The new mic is a Blue Yeti, it was a bit of an impulse buy but I am pleased with results so far.

    I'm glad you enjoyed the song although I'm not sure what the lyrics say about the state of our marriage, I hope she is not trying to tell me something.

    The drums were done using the drummer in GarageBand.

    Let's hope the sun keeps shining I've got a festival to go to this weekend.

    That mic looks decent value as well. Great impulse purchase backed up by the quality of the singing. Festival season started early this year. Which bands /acts are you going there to enjoy? IOW festival for me soon as well. Yippee.... Buzzcocks & The Damned to reminisce & gently sway to. :smile: Have fun!

    This festival is only a small localish one just up the road from Chepstow. The only named act is the Neville Staples band, he of former Specials fame. The rest are mostly local bands but a new skanking hat has been bought and a good time will be had by all. Look forward to hearing your contribution this month.

    There's no better place to break in a new shanking hat than at a festival! That's what you call a christening party! :smile:

  • @gmslayton, I hope she appreciated it. :smile: It's a fun tune.

  • @orchardman, her voice sounds beautiful. It's a lovely song, the lyrics are great. The one thing I would say is that, it starts out so ethereal an sweet, but when the drums come in, it's just too abrupt, too straight. I think it would be better served by more of a build to the complete instrumentation.

  • @rickwaugh Thanks. She really enjoyed it. Made her cry. Now she told me that I need to write her another song that she can sing all year long.

    @theconnactic Thanks I hope to get some spare time soon to do a proper recording. This would be my first song i wrote from beginning to end to include lyrics and music. I hope to use this to figure out how to actually put together a complete song, figure out a good workflow.

  • @JohnnyGoodyear said:
    I must caution you to remember that I write a lot of fiction:

    @JohnnyGoodyear said:
    I must caution you to remember that I write a lot of fiction:

    Yes, that really works doesn't it? The backing is almost perfect. My skills are limited as you know, but maybe just a touch more reverb on something or other, just to try to give the sound a little bit more depth? Oh, I don't know what I'm talking about most of the time, just ignore me. I like the vocal track more than usual, it had a coherent narrative that kept me entertained, and there was a mix of irony/satire/humour/malevolence that was just right. I think @LostBoy85 has mentioned the vocal sound in the past, not sure what it is but it just sounds a bit strange at times, bit like you've got a sweet in your mouth. I'm sorry, I'm honestly not trying to come across like a tw@t, this is a really good track, and my favourite by your good self (as I said to u on another occasion I'm trying to put a bit more into my critiques, forgive whilst I find the appropriate level!). well done

  • @gmslayton said:
    A little song I wrong for my wife on Mother's Day. Not sure if I would have time the rest of the month to do a studio version so I am going to post the Youtube Video I did. Thanks for Watching.

    Love it. Saves getting her a present. I'll remember this for when the UK one comes around ;-)
    Great song

  • edited May 2016

    @trackedout said:
    sim working with an ipad mini one, its slower than the newer ones obviously so you can imagine how important cpu is. ive started tracking everything like busses auxillaries even channels with any eq or compression i track back on to a stereo track. i know it sounds like a lot to do but it saves my ass alot in my limited cpu world

    Well it helped me!
    Thank u

  • @Dounstar_ said:
    A quick song I made.

    ipad #moogmodel15 #auriapro #runtheapps

    Nice atmospheric number this. Good to hear what all the Moog-related fuss is about. I will be a late adopter as 30 notes is a little steep for me at the moment, but well done, sounds great

  • edited May 2016

    @orchardman said:
    I'm guessing you don't get too many country ballads posted here so we thought we would try one. Mostly written by my wife and I also got her to play some piano this month. Also we got a new microphone so I would especially welcome comments on the vocals.

    Sounds great, although I wonder if it might just need a few electronic twiddly bits on it ;-)

    I think this is my favourite one of yours. Nicely structured and mixed, the breakdown to vocal and piano at the end gives it enough variety as its q long. Strong lyric and vocal (is the artefact on the vocal a bit of pitch control? I mean no disrespect by that, she has a lovely voice. I have a Blue Yeti and I still struggle with the bugger's sensitivity, try various compressors etc etc). To my taste it could do with a little more bass in the mix, but that is a personal thing. I'm still humming it and so the hook is strong. Really good, well done mate.

  • edited May 2016

    @crouchie said:

    Yes, that really works doesn't it? The backing is almost perfect. My skills are limited as you know, but maybe just a touch more reverb on something or other, just to try to give the sound a little bit more depth? Oh, I don't know what I'm talking about most of the time, just ignore me. I like the vocal track more than usual, it had a coherent narrative that kept me entertained, and there was a mix of irony/satire/humour/malevolence that was just right. I think @LostBoy85 has mentioned the vocal sound in the past, not sure what it is but it just sounds a bit strange at times, bit like you've got a sweet in your mouth. I'm sorry, I'm honestly not trying to come across like a tw@t, this is a really good track, and my favourite by your good self (as I said to u on another occasion I'm trying to put a bit more into my critiques, forgive whilst I find the appropriate level!). well done

    A fair critique Mister Crouch, but that is not a sweet, that Sir is a plum! However it is located in a sorry mouth that's been bastardized by 25 years of American kissing; what can you do, it's all I've got :)

  • @crouchie said:

    @orchardman said:
    I'm guessing you don't get too many country ballads posted here so we thought we would try one. Mostly written by my wife and I also got her to play some piano this month. Also we got a new microphone so I would especially welcome comments on the vocals.

    Sounds great, although I wonder if it might just need a few electronic twiddly bits on it ;-)

    I think this is my favourite one of yours. Nicely structured and mixed, the breakdown to vocal and piano at the end gives it enough variety as its q long. Strong lyric and vocal (is the artefact on the vocal a bit of pitch control? I mean no disrespect by that, she has a lovely voice. I have a Blue Yeti and I still struggle with the bugger's sensitivity, try various compressors etc etc). To my taste it could do with a little more bass in the mix, but that is a personal thing. I'm still humming it and so the hook is strong. Really good, well done mate.

    Thanks for the feedback I'm glad you enjoyed it. I'll try to add some twiddly bits next month. You are right about the pitch correction, I have started using it as a matter of course following previous comments on this forum though to be honest this vocal didn't really need it. I'm with you on the sensitivity of the Blue Yeti mic, we were having to record the vocals in between the traffic going past outside it was that sensitive and that was with the gain turned down to zero.

  • @orchardman congratulations on a terrific song. Great melancholy melody coupled with a fantastic vocal delivery, I really love it. Love the guitar as well, gives a great counterpoint to the voice. I love the sadness of the song, it doesn't really sound like country music to me though, more like a classic ballad.

    If I had my producer's hat on I would recommend cutting it down a bit, it's probably a minute or so too long. Love the ending though, when it goes down to just piano and vocal after the second guitar solo, makes a great outro.

    I think the pitch correction is working, I didn't pick up on the artifacts that @crouchie heard, and the vocal sounds great. This song is definitely my new favourite of yours.

  • Tried an (my) interpretation of "pop".......it's got a tambourine, so that'll do! Pushed myself & had a bash at singing.....in some parts. I've booked some beds in rehab for you! Struggled this month but got something out. Thanks for the inspiration doglets!

    The song is about one of my two Bichons, the male Sid. Yep, the other is female & is unsurprisingly called Nancy.....what else. In real life, Sid is a deep, timid, beautiful old soul but in this song......he's not! I thought I'd twist it about & "Street wisen" him up a bit!

    He asked to be involved in his song so I let him "bark out" any naughty words, (not entirely successful), play a bit of bass & his favourite......shaking the tambourine in the chorus. If you can stay with it till the bitter end, you'll understand why I'll keep him strictly on mixing duties from now on!

    Oh. I'd better do the... "No animals took any illegal substances during the recording of this song" statement. Can't vouch for afterwards though cos I left him looking glassy eyed & hanging over a rather adorable Alsatian at the Dog n Duck late into the after song drinkypoos!

  • CALL THE HARMONY POLICE!

    Going soft on us Mister @Bluepunk. I nominate this genre Beach Boi or maybe that should be your stage name....hmmm....what I find remarkable about your stuff is that I completely believe you've got a band bashing away in the background there behind you.

    I am going to have recuse myself from critically saying too much more (apart adding that the vox should have been higher in the mix, especially early in the song) because when I first met Mrs. Goodyear she had a boy Bichon (Clifford) and while I was of the 'no little dogs for me thanks very much' persuasion I had to keep a lid on it because I was after the owner etc. Long story short; I loved that dog. More personality than a sack full of sweet mad bastards.

    If Sid wants at the tambourine, so be it.

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