Comments on: Workshop #5: Presbycusis by Jeffrey James

By: jeffreyjames

jeffreyjames — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:18:27 +0000

myspace.com/jeffreyjamesmusic

(I’m not sure if the other response I wrote showed up or not)

By: Metz

Metz — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:38:59 +0000

Sorry, it’s me again. Where do I get more music by this guy? I’m totally hooked… I’ve downloaded this song and have probably listened to it 15 times already. Reply to this thread. The mailadress I use here is just a spam-eater.

By: Metz

Metz — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:56:20 +0000

This track really makes me want more! It it possible to download this as an mp3?

By: Tom Davenport

Tom Davenport — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:29:47 +0000

Very nice.

I would remove the close breath sounds (e.g. at 23 seconds) , because they’ve been produced to sound more distant than traditional close micing. The breath breaks that illusion.

Don’t be scared to push the high end on that acoustic, it has that bedroom low-mid sound and there’s not much air to it.

I really do think this sounds beautiful though. Great song.

By: Stephen S.

Stephen S. — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:49:19 +0000

good indie, lo-fi sound. I think it works. I agree with Joshua, some editing could really go a long way for impact. The layered vocals are nice, but you could really make a few lines stand out by cutting them for a bar or two.

I noticed some weird p sounds on the main lead vocal (like at 0:29). Sounds like there were plosive problems or something and you just used a low cut filter strip out the low freq bump. This still leaves that transient sound. Maybe it is also the layered p’s constructively adding and leading to that weird sound too. Try automating a few down and see if you can avoid that sound.

By: Joshua Bogart

Joshua Bogart — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:07:00 +0000

I love it…..it kind of has that bright eyes thing going on. Kind of lo-fi like you walk up to the mic and grab the guitar being in the recording and little room noise. My only criticism would be to not have the vocal layers on every single line. Less is always more. I would say bring it in for emphasis parts to make it that much stronger. That’s all, I like it…