It's My Right - Matt's mix

[The_Metallurgist]

For what it's worth, I pulled the multi up and listened to the vocal once, and said NOPE.

Life's too short.

i felt similarly about Wayfaring Stranger...and...and....and.....

but vocals are so difficult to track, not helped by our human response which is all too familiar with timbre and the qualities of a voice. and not everyone has a respectable signal chain, nor an appropriate one (e.g. mic, acoustics, hardware......ears...."experience" etc). vocals are so individually fussy about microphones and to the budget-strapped DIY'er, that single mic is asked to be rather too flexible on occasion. and so it is, the vocal ends up being the subject of a lot more compromise than it deserves....and for the non-vocalist person doing the recording, it's the other stuff they tend to obsess over (that "instrument-bias" thing).

it doesn't help that the main emotion for a song comes from the vocal...it's the centrepiece, the thing that gets all the attention, or most of it. no vocal no emotion, no emotion no song, no song no mix...then we're nailed even before we push a fader!

"With willing hearts and skillful hands, the difficult we do at once; the impossible takes a bit longer." actually, i will make this my forum signature for a while!

but i had some fun with this one...especially when it came to the chorus; mine had BV's!!!

cheers folks..