poopy vocals

[cloy26]

I referred to this in another thread, but this is more of a rate a mix thread. I used a 57. I don't know what it is... The vocals are just dragging everything down.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2376100/hfhsong1.mp3

Rough mix.

The snare is fucked up as well. Ugh.

 

[slampop]

i would just say bring down the main vocal to match the chorus and doubled parts...when that main vocal track came in it just felt overbearing, but the rest sits pretty well imo.

 

[cloy26]

yeah I realized that after I posted it on here (go figure) They just aren't very "musical" if you know what I mean.

Thanks for the quick response, man.

 

[iHate]

wouldn't sound nearly as bad if the vocals were on pitch. delivering with any kind of emotion would have helped. the verse vocal doesn't blend with the chorus at all. eq more similarly. auto tune.

the whoah whoah sounds like a baby bird taking a shit. auto tune probably wont even help that annoying center vocal.

 

[JeffTD]

Honestly, it's just a shitty singer not singing on pitch and not singing with any delivery or emotion. You're not gonna polish that one much.

 

[cloy26]

I already tried melodyne... Didn't do a damn thing. haha

 

[JayB]

Wow that vocalist is fucking terrible

 

[[UEAK]Clowd]

this reminds me of dudes that cant sing trying to sing along in the car.

it's not even so much the pitch as the fact he just sounds bored as shit. you could fix the pitch up with some manual autotune, but he's still gonna sound like he doesn't give a shit.

 

[SentencedToBurn]

come on guys. you cant just chalk it up to a bad singer. seems very lazy to me :/ . there IS a way for this to sound nice.
Its the style of the music. this kind of reminds me of The Weakerthans. listen to some of their shit cause the singer has the same vibe but a little higher pitched.
It sounds to me like the vocals are still a little.... dynamic i guess. compress the fuck out of them. They are also sitting a little loud so turn em down a bit.
It honestly doesnt sound that bad. Sounds like tongue in cheek indie rock to me.

 

[cloy26]

haha indie, maybe, but they were going for a processed radio rock feel and when were tracking, I thought it was attainable. Then we worked on vocals... for three days...

Thanks for all the input guys.

 

[kev]

There is no escape cloy! lol

 

[~BURNY~]

You guys obviously never heard weezer

Or even worst, bands like Piebald.

The guy suck in a very indie sarcastic way. You may not like it but this is artistically relevent, especially in this autotuny age.

Cloy, do not hesitate to saturate the vocals a bit to "fix" the levels.

Also, don't underestimate the power of doubling vocals

On the other hand, the drummer is awful.