Musicians Collaboration Studio

Virtual Music Studio => Finished Works => Topic started by: stoman on January 18, 2015, 06:07:51 AM

Title: Everything Has A Story (Kim, Henry, Steffen and offsite musicians)
Post by: stoman on January 18, 2015, 06:07:51 AM

EDIT 2015-02-22:
New mix with new vocals (better mic)!

Difficult material. Especially the vocal recording quality was very bad (the singer will eventually get a better mic, then the mix will be updated), and the brass sounds like MIDI because that's what it is.

But under the given circumstances I think the song still turned out quite ok. :)

Thanks to Henry for adding the icing to the cake with his tasty guitar parts.

Thread in Studio "A":
http://www.musicianscollaboration.com/forum/index.php?topic=11010.0

Vocals, Lyrics, Vocal Melody: Kim Noble
Bass: Alberto P.
EWI (Trumpet, Sax): Brad Dunbar
Guitars: Henry Mittnacht
Drums: Dean Wuksta
Music & Production: Steffen Offermann


Regards,
  Steffen

Title: Re: Everything Has A Story (Henry, Steffen and offsite musicians)
Post by: docmidnite on January 19, 2015, 06:58:59 AM

A beautiful ballad with a very gifted singee and a quality production!
It was a pleasure to play!

Title: Re: Everything Has A Story (Henry, Steffen and offsite musicians)
Post by: Errol on January 19, 2015, 09:29:03 AM

Sounds great gentlemen. Very nicely put together.  :)

Title: Re: Everything Has A Story (Henry, Steffen and offsite musicians)
Post by: stoman on January 20, 2015, 02:26:31 PM

Thanks for listening, Errol - and thanks for playing, Henry! Your guitar was a big improvement to the song. :)

Regards,
  Steffen

Title: Re: Everything Has A Story (Henry, Steffen and offsite musicians)
Post by: rightonthemark on January 25, 2015, 11:45:36 AM

kinda reminds me of the carpenters.
quality stuff here.
nice job.

Title: Re: Everything Has A Story (Henry, Steffen and offsite musicians)
Post by: stoman on February 05, 2015, 01:41:33 PM

Thanks, Mark, the Carpenters were great. :)

Title: Re: Everything Has A Story (Henry, Steffen and offsite musicians)
Post by: Lyric man on February 06, 2015, 06:49:26 PM

wow what a beautiful song. The female vocalist reminds me of Maureen Mcgovern,from back in the day.......
                                 Bob

Title: Re: Everything Has A Story (Henry, Steffen and offsite musicians)
Post by: r4m on February 08, 2015, 08:09:03 PM

Great job all!! Motown hit!! 8)
Vox sound good to me!
Geeez doc! Motown too!

Title: Re: Everything Has A Story (Henry, Steffen and offsite musicians)
Post by: Paulo on February 09, 2015, 05:51:53 AM

Beautifull... Sounds great Steffen.

Title: Re: Everything Has A Story (Henry, Steffen and offsite musicians)
Post by: stoman on February 16, 2015, 07:51:10 AM

Thanks, guys!

And, surprise, surprise: Not only did Kim buy a decent mic (a new mix will be posted once I get around to editing it), but she also joined MCS a couple of seconds ago!

Just waiting for Nick to approve it! :)

Title: Re: Everything Has A Story (Henry, Steffen and offsite musicians)
Post by: Guitar Dude on February 16, 2015, 12:59:18 PM

This site needs more female artist. Out of 2540 members on this site I only see one active female artist on here. This site needs new blood and more female musicians and singers.

Title: Re: Everything Has A Story (Henry, Steffen and offsite musicians)
Post by: stoman on February 16, 2015, 01:13:07 PM

Quote from: Guitar Dude on February 16, 2015, 12:59:18 PM

This site needs more female artist. Out of 2540 members on this site I only see one active female artist on here. This site needs new blood and more female musicians and singers.

+1

Title: Re: Everything Has A Story (Henry, Steffen and offsite musicians)
Post by: Studioplayer on February 17, 2015, 06:43:33 PM

That sounded really good. Nice vocals.  8)

Dave

Title: Re: Everything Has A Story (Henry, Steffen and offsite musicians)
Post by: stoman on February 22, 2015, 12:57:31 PM

Thanks for listening, Dave! And nice to see you again, btw! :)

I just added a new version with new vocals to the first post. Kim bought a much better mic an re-recorded the vocals.

I also fixed some other parts (this is essentially a completely new mix).

Title: Re: Everything Has A Story (Kim, Henry, Steffen and offsite musicians)
Post by: gbm on February 25, 2015, 04:08:05 PM

Nice song, composed well, executed well, Doc's guitars sound great and Deans drums also! Good commercial sound! Kim's vocals are sweet! :)

It does sound OK even with the midi EWI sax..... :)


 ;D ;D

Title: Re: Everything Has A Story (Kim, Henry, Steffen and offsite musicians)
Post by: Stoney on February 28, 2015, 11:08:36 AM

Very cool and smooth guys ... sounds great  :)

Title: Re: Everything Has A Story (Kim, Henry, Steffen and offsite musicians)
Post by: Billy on March 07, 2015, 02:19:02 AM

Wow! This takes me back to the 70's golden age of soul. This could have come out of a "Shaft" love scene.  8)

Fantastic production and arrangement, Steffen.  Love the singer.


Billy.

Title: Re: Everything Has A Story (Kim, Henry, Steffen and offsite musicians)
Post by: stoman on March 07, 2015, 04:11:56 AM

Thanks for your ears, guys! :)

Title: Re: Everything Has A Story (Kim, Henry, Steffen and offsite musicians)
Post by: stoman on March 07, 2015, 04:14:01 AM

... you are all listening to the wrong version, btw. :)

Title: Re: Everything Has A Story (Kim, Henry, Steffen and offsite musicians)
Post by: CosmicDolphin on March 08, 2015, 06:13:00 AM

This is great..very classy vocals help make it sound professional even if you did have to use midi brass..be great if you could get those redone at some point as it deserves them.

CD

PS- Can hear some nasty distorion on the Wah type guitar I think..sort of non-harmonic rather than musically related distortion..you can hear it most on the intro. Not sure if it was recorded that way or something happened afterwards but I can hear it more now I am on headphones.

Title: Re: Everything Has A Story (Kim, Henry, Steffen and offsite musicians)
Post by: docmidnite on March 28, 2015, 08:23:03 AM

Quote from: CosmicDolphin on March 08, 2015, 06:13:00 AM

PS- Can hear some nasty distorion on the Wah type guitar I think..sort of non-harmonic rather than musically related distortion..you can hear it most on the intro. Not sure if it was recorded that way or something happened afterwards but I can hear it more now I am on headphones.

I relistened to the 1st mix here and also heard a crackly noise during intro, somehow related to the wahguitar.
I doublecheked my wave file of it and have to say: Nope, my file is clean... :-\ :P :)

Title: Re: Everything Has A Story (Henry, Steffen and offsite musicians)
Post by: docmidnite on March 28, 2015, 08:24:10 AM

Quote from: r4m on February 08, 2015, 08:09:03 PM

Great job all!! Motown hit!! 8)
Vox sound good to me!
Geeez doc! Motown too!

 ;D ;D ;D well, I´m good in pretending, Bill...