[strtblstr]

I wrote and recorded this a few years ago and I think Its my best so far, as far as composition, recording levels. Its not a guitar song but I did throw a little in at the end. It is my first atempt at singing to so I hope you enjoy it.

[Kirk Lorange]

What a great song, strtblstr, and the arrangement is superb ... nice textures, light and shade, neat vocal sound, beautiful harmonies. Lennon/McCartney would give the thumbs up too, I know it. Thanks for sharing and I for one would love to hear more.

[allthumbs]

I dug that. Thanks. Nice keyboarding. I would have liked the vocals a little more in front in the mix though.

[strtblstr]

Thanks, mixing my songs seem to be the hardest part. I don't have monitors, I use klipsh surrond sound computer speakers. I will mix a song and will sound good than I'll play it in the car and the mix sounds different. I was thinking of buying some monitor headphones, what do you think?

[Lcjones]

strtblstr,

While I'm downloading your song .....

I'm learning to home record too....

Headphones and mixing ..... don't mix! Well, maybe they do, but the inherent problem with headphones is you are creating a closed environment to you ear. With a good set of headphone even a bad mix sounds good.

That's not to say "don't get headphones", you'll need them anyway. But when it comes down to "getting the sound" and mixing it down, real monitors are the only way to go. That way you get exactly what others are going hear on their systems. You can really fine tune the mix that way.

( ok ... now let me eat some crow here ... )

I don't have monitors yet and I do use headphones to record and mix. And the problem I have every single time .. it sounds great with HD's on, sounds "mushy" thru speakers in an open air enviromment.

any way ....... you song is almost down ....

Les

[Lcjones]

strtblstr

WOW. very well done! Ditto allthumbs.

So after my dissertation above, how do you get your vocals so "in the middle". I love it! I'm having a hard time with the whole stereo seperation thing and my vocals suffer for it, among other things.

Thanks for a smooth tune! Great listen.

Les

[seagull]

Good recording, I like the whole thing.

[si16]

Top notch. Well done.

[OM21]

Very lovely tune

[nagukush]

Its awesome, i've fallen in love with it. Keep them coming !!!!

very well done indeed

[PickNGrin]

very nice! ...I use the "Burn it and then go play it in the car" technique too! Indeed, I get much better bass out of the car than the computer. I dont own expensive monitor speakers but most everyone that has a set claims much improvment.
So--what is the "airy" effect on the vocals. Sounds like might be a light flange with EQ'ing.

[Rockerbob]

I also had trouble hearing the vocals, but I think much of that is the effects on the vocals. Anyway, nice work!

[strtblstr]

Actually I believe I ran my mike through my guitar pedal. Thats before I bought an aardvark direct pro which has mic preamps on it ( even though they went out of business ) It seems I had to yell into the mic to get any levels so I just set my guitar pedal without gain until I found a sound that sounded good. I run a 1/8" stereo jack out of my guitar pedals headphone jack into the line in jack of my sound card. It depends what kind of system your playing it on whether you here vocals or not. You'll hear them better through headphones.

[mjwjr]

Nice song. Guitar at the end sounds really good. I like the way the vocals sound.

Thanks,

mjwjr

[nocat]

I agree with Kirk... That could have been a Lennon song... Excellent recording...!!!