Beardog: My new record is out!

Beardog 07.15.20	Please check it out my dudes!
notagenius 07.15.20	Okay, i am directing to it.
Beardog 07.15.20	thanks, let me know what you think!
porcupinetheater 07.15.20	Tight, I’ll check it after work
bloodshy 07.15.20	Does it sound like Robbie Williams? If so, not checking. JK probably would still check. Home right now, will listen at work.
Beardog 07.15.20	Nah it doesn't sound like Robbie Williams at all haha! Thanks man!
notagenius 07.15.20	Good points. styles are very diverse. It's awesome. (smoke and Leaving are my favs.) instumental performance is generally very very good. music structure is quite interesting Bad aspects. The recording environment and mixing is poor. Vocal pitch issues but you do all of this on your own. which is remarkable. will need to look up to you
Beardog 07.15.20	Thanks man! What did you found so poor about the mixing?
notagenius 07.15.20	I haven't mixed anything myself, so I can't tell you the details, only how I feel about it. The volume of the mixing is fine, but the spacial arrangement is quite problematic. I've listened to Leaving quite a few times, and at the 30 second mark, the instruments are all in, and the panning issue is showed up suddenly you know, the sounds are all coming straight at me. So I think at least panning still needs to be greatly improved. (edit: But I've come to adore the fact that you have done it yourself. hoho well done)
DungeonBoy 07.15.20	honestly, I thought the mix is fine from the one track I listened to. I agree with the "vocal pitch issues" it's the same criticism I normally have, apart from the programmed everything. but we are living in the digital age i suppose. do you use any sort of auto tune on your vox?
DungeonBoy 07.15.20	supdog
Beardog 07.15.20	Not sure what the panning issue is, never noticed that. Seems weird to me but oh well... Butt yeah, some vocal tracks here were pretty bad but I thought they fit the tracks best emotion-wise so some autotune was used for sure. The weird pitch issues also just have to do with the fact that my singing is just downright bad in places.
bloodshy 07.15.20	i agree with the vocals... kinda kills it for me i did like the instrumentals though, couldn't tell if i liked the idea of vocals in it/the vocal melody or not
Allergist 07.16.20	Very awesome! I will check it out for sure.
Beardog 07.16.20	Thanks @allergist @bloodshy makes sense, I should take vocal lessons which I probably will next year, but I didn't want to delay this record even more haha.
CugnoBrasso 07.16.20	I see you're using Reaper, you can adjust your pitch using the manual correction in ReaTune. I'm personally not a fan of some of the virtual instruments you're using, and the lows/low-mids are pretty busy at times, but these are minor problems and the mixing is fine and very enjoyable overall. The songwriting is also strong, too bad your voice is often out of tune.
Beardog 07.16.20	Yeah that's what I'm doing but it's not enough lol. Thanks!
Asdfp277 07.16.20	fixed the artwork for 2, gonna check the other one remember that album names must not include the ampersand character ('&'), as it creates issues. artwork must not be bigger than 600x600px, nor any larger than 200kb ! good luck on your endeavours !
Beardog 07.16.20	Oh thanks haha, didn't know
CugnoBrasso 07.16.20	Haha I don't know what to say then, maybe try using it twice? Too bad, because the way you arranged those tracks is very interesting and you're clearly very talented, but those vocals are really keeping this from being great.
Beardog 07.16.20	haha not sure if that works. I'm planning to take singing lessons the coming year so my next record will be stunning ha.
CugnoBrasso 07.16.20	No doubt!
Beardog 07.16.20	If you don't like the vocals, Glimpses (my 'debut') is instrumental :)
CugnoBrasso 07.16.20	I'll give it a try
notagenius 07.17.20	plus plus: your natural tone is quite good.
Beardog 07.17.20	Thanks, my vocals have atleast massively improved compared to the record I released before, but that had more screaming, which I don't really have problems with
Bedex 07.18.20	I'm pumped for another record with improved vocals after singing lessons dude, I listened to a couple tracks and the instrumentals really are fun and have a lot of depth to them. But the vocals do drag the record down, I'm afraid I agree with the others. Adding more fx on the vocal track would help massively I think but unless you autotune it hard that won't solve the pitch issues here and there. Going for a shoegaze/dream pop on the voice with heaps of reverb may help give it more texture and depth to match the vast instrumentation, but that depends on the artistic route you want to take of course. Good job on the whole man this shows a lot of promise!
Beardog 07.19.20	Thanks a lot! Adding a lot more effects wouldn't really serve the music that well I think, that would just seem out of place. Next record will be more metal so it's easier to hide bad vocals there, but I hope to complete that with improved vocals after lessons.