Return on Herman's Hermits "A Kind of Hush" classic cover

[burpo]

I didn't expect a forward on this. My performance and production chops are not great.

The funny thing is the return said that the reason was that the vocal performance seemed stiff and without energy.

What I was going for (and I kinda thought it was apparent. Guess not) was a sort-of
cyborg (half human/half machine) sound, sort of a lo-fi techno robot thing.
It's listed on my page as "electronic."

I dunno. Any comments?

It's on my TAXI page under "A Kind of Hush- electrovox cover."

Thanks for reading.

-b

[lesmac]

Hi Burpo, that song is a blast from the past. For a "Robo type" sound the playing probably needed to be right on the grid which most types of music are these days. Technology has influenced human behaviour yet again. An article in sound on sound magazine about this {you will have to google, sorry} , mentioned that young girls are singing completely on pitch, more than in years gone by because of auto tune etc.
I don't know if the screeners mention it much, I haven't been round the block enough here yet ,but I think the "industry" is extremely sensitive to timing as much tuning.
For me it does my head in practising a song till I get totally bloody sick of it but I try and hang in there. I move my bass parts around in elastic audio and try and lock the midi drums in with it nice and tight and build from there. I think because you can move vocals and any instruments around in a DAW being on the grid is the norm these days and is expected.
Whether its for better or worse, who knows?
For me I love creating the song but bringing it into the world is bloody hard work.
Sorry for the rant don't take it personally.
Best
Les