Today’s song is a fun one I discovered a couple years ago and love. So clever.
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you soften the self pitying bitterness of the lyric with the fun you have with it.
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I loved the shocked faces of my friends the first time they heard that turn when I played it at an open mic. They were used to me singing sweet songs and had never heard this one. It starts out so nice… 
I knew a girl like the two of them : }
Great cover song, well done.
When you do eventually get a mic set up, 2 - mic’s, you’ll hear a whole new world of mic proximity effect and “letting go” so to speak without having to “belt” to hard. I can hear it in you - it’s a com’in : ) lol! Then your friends will really have a treat!
Anyway - great work.
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@ustaknow
Two mics for vocals? Or one for vocals and second for guitar? (I have an electric acoustic guitar.)
This cut is from my album of covers that was (half) recorded, mixed and engineered by an amazing guy named Ryan Wenzel. Halfway through this album he took a job elsewhere and shut down his studio. I was so sad. He was reeeeally good at this stuff.
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Yes, sort of.
Actually, as I see it, since asking - it’s really not “hard”. It’s not any more difficult that all it took for you to get “here” online as you are.
- Consider all the elements of what it took to get you here, and I’ll folks say for “free” - hahhh… not so free (so to speak). You needed alone time, a guitar, a Mic of some kind (if even in the PC), a way to digitize your analog signal to a place of storage, then to upload that track, then to URL link it to here, which you had a learning curve to navigate, and then took the time to socialize yourself to the environment.
Easy? hahh… “free” - omg no (cost of the guitar(s), internet access, PC et alia equipment, and etc.
So, in that context, to create a 2nd Channel in your tracks (an audio, not video) is not anywhere near “hard” for you to do. Moreover, while I would not take the time, you could then, re-embed that audio in the video and have a non-mono, if even sudo-stereo track, so to speak.
Some of the easiest ways to start with seperating tracks is to just dup them, make a second copy (carefully knowing that now all has been doubled, noise floor and all), put one Left, the other Right (50% to 100%) adjust the volume and render it - not much effect in that.
Then, you’ll find that if you slightly slide one of them, e.g. the Right track, 4 Sine Waves over : ) you’ll get some real head phone separation. A bigger effect.
The, you’ll find that if you simply EQ one side “normally” (define that : ) ) - and then, e.g., High Pass Filter the other, say the Right Channel and again, adjust the volume - you will sound like you had even 4 ? mics, 2 - voicing’s each, guitar and vocal - arguably : )
The “art” of it ? may be to know if all that is “better” than the simple mono track of one mic for the 1v1g! Hahaha… - sometimes less is more too!
A few top legend, published their “Demo” tracks as “Albums” and most don’t necessarily know that. But, I’ll stop there since tend to write to long as it is.
However, if that encourages you - great! Then post your experiments and ask specifically for feedback so anyone knows, their responses, what ever they are, is okay.
It’s not easy to post as we all do here our stuff. I can be even “harder” to respond beyond 250 characters, 3 sentences of “songs good, like it” as I used to say - part of another conversation. (Folks that really knew me, then - knew, I posted that or nothing - and they could message me for further so as not to burden the folks that felt compelled read every single word written and then complain they had too! : ) lol!! I feel for “OCD” folks since am one myself : ) hahahah…
I hope that helps. But, as I say too, if not - just ignore it! Or, ask more questions - but, maybe not “here” so as to not put anyone off, if that could occur.
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