Reviews for "brokenhearts"
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Thu, Nov 11, 2010 @ 3:41 PM
very nice groove, and vocal effect adds a unique tone. brilliant guitar tone. cool mix.
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Anomaly_Jonez
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Fri, Nov 12, 2010 @ 9:50 AM
lovely, it called to me from the other room. I was thinking about how our ears are trained to reconized good music. From the first notes I had to stop what I was doing and come to the computer. You got me. I was looking for song to play for my road trip theme on my radio show. I think this will fit nicely. thanks. AJ
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colab
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Fri, Nov 12, 2010 @ 10:40 AM
I’m just a bit torn on this one.
The music is absolutely lovely and a great match for CSM’s vocals - and the idea of vocal harmonies is absolutely terrific - when it works it’s stunning. To my ears however there are parts where the harmonies don’t sound as good, and I would have liked it to be used in selected places rather than across the board. But the music - ahh now, the music is just lovely and you’ve done an incredible work with the guitars. |
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Hi colab and many thanks for this. I think you’re right about the harmonies. This was my first attempt at using a VST plug-in called ‘Mu Voice’. Having listened to the track a few times I can see that this effect is probably best used sparingly. I think I will probably go back and redo the vocals at some point. The guitar stuff was the easy part - I think I did a single take, which I then edited. I played acoustic and electric guitars and enhanced their tones using VST plug-ins.
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Mon, Nov 15, 2010 @ 8:45 PM
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Clarence Simpson
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Wed, Nov 17, 2010 @ 3:32 PM
Your acoustic guitar work is brilliant and full of soul! Nice use of harmonics too.
I don’t know if you altered how much vocal harmony is in the song since you originally posted this (I saw the other comments about it), but I think it sounds great personally. My only constructive criticism I could give is that I think the crash in the background is too much and a little distracting for my tastes. The groove is absolutely solid without it in my opinion. :) |
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Hi Clarence,
Many thanks for the review - I really appreciate it. The acoustic guitar part just kind of happened on its own without much effort. I think the vocal line is good and helped create the right atmosphere for the backing track to develop. There were no harmonies at all in the original acapella. I used this ‘Mu Voice’ plug-in for the first time to create artificial harmonies. That’s a valid point about the crash - maybe I’ll do something about it in the future. Thanks again for the review and all the best. |
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BTW, I’m curious what effects and such you had on your acoustic track b/c I really like the tone you ended up with. Also, did you just record through a single mic?
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Hi Clarence,
Thanks for the reply. Here’s a rundown of the stuff I used for the acoustic track: Guitar = Washburn electro-acoustic (unplugged) Single Mic = Samson C1 Studio Condenser (requires phantom power) FX = iZotope Alloy VST plug-in (preset = ‘Multiband Acoustic’) FX = Sonitus Reverb Mastering = iZotope Ozone4 I use Sonar Home Studio for recording + Cakewalk UA-25EX USB sound card. I usually like to have 2 mics for recording acoustic guitar: one mic on the soundhole and the other on the fretboard (I like finger noises). Sometimes I also plug in the Washburn and add ‘electric’ tones using iZotope Trash. But in the case of this track I just used a single mic on the soundhole and went for it. I was actually surprised that it sounded OK with a single mic because the Washburn is a slimline electro-acoustic and doesn’t kick out much noise (I try to beef it up by using heavy-gauge strings). Anyway, thanks again for getting in touch and all the best. |
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