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- Can you suggest any specific techniques that might improve the track?
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Kisapada by Milica Paranosic
Milica describes the track: "Three vocal tracks and some sound FX. A simple track. A Serbian folk tune."
Author's website: www.milicaparanosic.com
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User Comments
( ADD YOURS )Willem November 6th
Excellent vocals. Very fresh.
As a suggestion i would add very light and playful percussion, which is very quiet to give the whole piece more variation.
( )Davide Di Bucchianico November 6th
i don’t know much about serbian folk music, but i agree that some percussion would spice the tune up! also a drone, and maybe some background strings might make it more interesting…
( )Neil November 8th
Beautiful song, beautiful vocals. I think you did an excellent job with compressing/mixing the vocals — the balance is great and consistent throughout. The FX are very nice, not overpowering (except for the thunder, which deserves to be a bit overpowering).
How does it sound with less reverb on the vox? At least at the beginning, I found it a little bit heavy (but that’s just my personal taste). Also, a few microphone pops — it seems wasteful not to use such a good performance, but maybe it’s possible to edit them out?
Anyway, really a beautiful recording… The percussion idea sounds interesting too!
( )Esben Lorenzen November 8th
fine tune!
however i sounded to me as if you didnt use a pop-filter for the “lead-vocal”. you might wanna record it again with a filter. it annoyed me pretty badly.
I agree with the others that a small amount of percussion would spice the track up!
( )Charlie McEvoy November 9th
Interesting track.
I agree with the above comment about needing a pop filter. Also at 0:45 the change in one of the vocal tracks is over the top for me.
I really liked the overall balance of the vocals. Good use of effects and I really liked the panning of the vocals. When it’s just vocals like that it’s hard to make the track interesting for a whole song but well done on this.
I’m not real familiar with this style of music but I do agree with the comment above. Some subtle percussion would be cool.
( )Robin November 10th
Agree there is in ned for some percussion and yes, the vocal neds to be rocorded with a pop-filter if you want it to sound professional!
( )Nice melodies in the song/vocal, but to me this does not sound like a finished song. More like a vocal track from a song.
Kieran Klaassen November 15th
for your voice, use a popkiller… for the popping p…
( )you can make one yourself with a panty.
not my style but unique song
thanks allot!