Itâs a beautiful little piece. I can understand the temptation to present it as one of those album interludes between big tracks, but I hear a lot of potential in it for more.
First of all, the guitar and voice is creamy and heart-rending, and I would like to understand what youâre doing to make that guitar and voice fill the stereo field without a ton of reverb. I really admire the way the harmony sort of floats into the background.
As we get near the end, Iâm expecting or envisioning a build-up with drums, bass, and of course, your lap-steel, maybe keys, to take it up a notch, to punch home the message of longing (if I may be so presumptuous), with a lap-steel solo. I guess you already thought of this.
Very beautiful piece, love the guitar arp introâŚwhat a great sound!! love those harmonies at around 1.20âŚ
as early saysâŚmaybe a bit more could be made of itâŚbut as is itâs lovelyâŚ
Leon, there are several identical reverbs and delays
happening on both vocals and guitar.
Underneath what I might label the core set
is a Lexicon hardware setting of delay and
reverb that is quite massive but fixed at at a very
low level. Once I add M/S mastering to that on the stereo
mix it widens everything. The trick is in
getting everything just right so that it is subtle
but effective.
No plans of making this track anything more than
it is.
I am glad you like the Champ. It is a great little amp.
apart from adding the new delay, I realised Iâd fallen
victim to the ânever-heard-it-loudâ trap. Apartment
living doesnât easily allow for monitoring audio at
volume, and once I started to crank up the JBLs
I noticed a lot of extraneous noise from the
amp track, as well as some tape hiss.
I hit the project with the Z-Noise plugin and Cambridge EQ
and those stopped all noise in its tracks (bad pun intended ) and switching to
Dolby SR knocked the bit of tape hiss on its head (another bad
punâŚ). Even at full volume I could hear nothing.
The original mix now sounds a bit brittle and quite
noisy, plus the mastering EQ really cleans up the
harsh 2-4Khz zone and helps the track bed in against
the others.
As to knowing what Iâm doing, not sure about that.
But at least you didnât write that it wants to make
you puke, so seems all is well.