Thank you, Peter. We're not at all reluctant to use pitch correction. A bit embarrassed to say that we actually did use it - and still got the "out of tune" feedback. We used "ReaTune" which is a plugin that comes with Reaper. We had read good things about it. We have actually read comments of people who found it produced fewer artefacts than Autotune!funsongs wrote: ↑Sat Sep 04, 2021 12:49 pmFor what it's worth/just an Old Guy's ears' opinion - basic ideas for mix volumes:
1) set the level of your drums so that the snare is close to matching the level of the lead vocal;
2) then lock the kick & bass volume - so they sound like one.
If you're not gonna hire a proper Country demo singer, are you reluctant to use a pitch-correction device?
I think the track does fit in the New Country/Southern Rock genre.
The uptempo vibe seems to be working well.
Good luck refining up to the bar, and "broadcast quality".
HTH, Cheers.
"On the vocals I work with now, in the automatic mode, Autotune bring more unnatural artefacts, while Reatune sounds more natural." https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=188555
Not sure where we're going wrong, but we will figure it all out!
Anyway, we appreciate the listen, the thoughts, your time and expertise, etc. etc.
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Michael & Sharon
Thank you!