Good Advice<\/a><\/p>\nPositive Comments: <\/b>I really liked the song, the composition, the lyrics, the vocals and the instruments, but this has a couple flaws holding it back.<\/p>\n
Constructive Comments: <\/b>I liked how you handled the intro, problem for me was it was too long. I think you could have ended the intro at :16 and it would have been more impactful, instead it carries on to :35 and by then it devolves into a gimmick. I went back and re-listened to that part and honestly I don’t think the lyrics that come after that :16 mark make a difference. So consider that change.All my other critical comments are about your mix. It is very out of balance.The vocals are way to high in the mix and keep peaking. Vocals should not cause peaks in your mix. One issue you are having is when she is adding more punch to her vocals, she is leaning into the microphone. It is counter intuitive that when you want to hit the lyrics harder you actually need to lean back. when you yell at someone your body naturally leans forward. When you do that in a recording it makes it very difficult to mix properly. It always makes the vocals turn out where half are too quiet and half are perfect, or half are perfect and half are too loud. A simple trick is when you get to that part where you want to sing with extra gusto, take one foot and step back that way you can then naturally lean forward and still be a little further away from the mic. It takes a little practice but it will make mixing easier down the road.With the instruments, they are too low in the mix, especially compared to the vocals which are too high. I think it is the result because you panned the rhythm section way left and the lead way right. It is not wrong to do that, it is quite common to do that, but you have to be careful. when you pan all the way to one side that instrument loses a lot of intensity and needs to be bumped back up to get it back. You panned but you didn’t give it a bump up, which left the musical component to get washed out at times in the track and not having the punch that it deserved.This may seem like really nit-picking stuff, and it is. But what you did was really good, if I am not nit-picking then I can’t help you be better going forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Broadjam Artist: Marie JarreauSong: Maybe It’s Just MoonbeamsReviewer: Good AdvicePositive Comments: I really liked the song, the composition, the lyrics, the vocals and the instruments, but this has a couple flaws holding it back.Constructive Comments…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56593,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56109\/revisions\/56593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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