Chasing Cars - ChrisHall

truly beautiful...

I haven't heard the original, but this is a great cover track! I agree that your voice is awesome and it should definitely be given more space in the mix. Wayne gave you the best recommendations for doing this, and I don't have much to add. Great work on this though, you should be proud!

Firt off, this is a nice song and I think a good choice for you to cover, it fits your vocals. I like the way you arranged this, nice dynamics overall. You vocals seem to get a little lost when all the instruments increase, around 2 min. Sounds like the electric guitar you have is mixed too close to the vocals or may be a bit too loud.

What I like to do a lot with my rhythm guitar tracks is to widen the stereo field a bit(or a lot depending on the song)so they are mixed to the left and right of the vocals. I really try to leave the center open for just the vocals and try not to have any instrument with similar frequencies competing with it in it's place in the mix. Kick and bass are ok down the middle, they have lower freqs and don't clash with the vox's freqs.

I'll even widen the stereo field and then pan the guitar track quite a bit left or right. I do this a lot with songs that only have a couple instruments to fatten the tracks up and fill the entire panning range, left to right.

I'm babbling now, lol, hey nice song Chris, hope any of this helps! Nice vocals again.

Wayne

I just wanted tell you again how great of a singer you are, I played this for my wife and she thought you sounded better than most people that are on the radio :)

whoops yeah you bad and be out of here true and blankets and covers