I've been giving a quick listen to your songs and I'm very impressed by
the level of your singing. You are able to sing strongly without getting
strained (very hard to do!). Great song also!

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I think this song would fare better without any FX on the guitar. Your
voice has such a wonderful natural sound to it. That is an elusive quality
for many singers and a definite plus for you.

Avoid the gimmicks... you don't need them. ;)

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Amazing voice- really pure and natural. You really have a nice way of
expressing the emotion of the song. Beautifully written and sung.

I'll echo Joe's sentiments on the guitar effects- just having the guitar
mic'd would give it a much warmer tone. You're the real deal... no flashy
packaging needed!

Welcome to Macjams (and thank you for your comment on my daughter's
song... she's thrilled)!

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both Joe and Adam's comments about the guitar. It might work better
with the effect in a fuller arrangement, but in this simple guitar/vocal
combo I'd really prefer just a tad of reverb and not much else (maybe
eq and compression) just stuff that's relatively "transparent".

I'll also echo the comments about your vocals which are lovely. Strong
w/o strain, movingly performed. Excellent performance. There might
be a couple places I detected the vocal track clipping (really briefly on a
couple peaks) - too easy to do sometimes. You might check out using
the Peak limiter AU effect on your track (which I use a lot) which just
rides the volume a bit and pulls it down if you get too hot - it's more
natural sounding (most of the time) than full blown compression, and
seems to work pretty well to keep the tracks sounding clean but hot.

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Thanks so much! I will definitely redo this song and mic my guitar, and thanks
for the advice on the Peak Limiter thing.

I'm off!

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This is the second song of yours I've listened to, the first being "I would have been a coward", and you truly do have a nice voice and a insightful lyical ability. I wasn't as drawn in by the melody on this song as the first though, it didn't seem to flow as nicely. Seemed kind of forced. But that's just my opinion.

On the guitar, I would simply echo what the other posts have said. It sounds kind of thin - a nicely mic'd acoustic would have served the song better, I think.

Good work.



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Thanks so much!

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