RichieWinn
Chester, United Kingdom
Joined : 21st May 2011 - 14 years ago
Last Online : 5th Oct 2025 - 1 month ago
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on Stay featuring Farisha Haque by RichieWinn
I'm a bit confused as this is a fine track but I'm not really hearing obvious autotune. It's something I generally dislike if I can clearly hear it.
Farisha is a fine vocalist (I checked out that Youtube video you linked) and can sing jazz too. I heard much more obvious autotune on another recent track of hers. But, still, I'm struggling to hear the obvious bits here. They're just great vocals!
Anyway, your accompaniment is good to though I'll return and offer some more detail. My only criticism for now is a slightly weak drum kit, though it's no big deal. I'm also a Superior user and use the one brush kit that I have (from the Roots and Sticks packs) quite a bit. I love brush drums.
More later but these are my initial thoughts.
A "weak drumkit" you think? Hmmmm! Not sure I agree but my goal was not to swamp the vocal. I wanted something playing sixteens on the hi hat but using sticks it just didn't sound right. I don't have the Roots and Sticks pack so thanks for the pointer - I will check it out.
Glad you think it's a fine track which is a great compliment. Thank you.
Richie
on Stay featuring Farisha Haque by RichieWinn
Love the sweet gentle vibes,love the gentle layers,stunning vocals
Beautiful soft bass n drums,lush guitar
This is some real tidy blissed music!!.
Great work Richie.!
Fave from me mate!
***chris***
Thanks for stopping by. Always a pleasure to read your comments - they are much appreciated. Yup, I had to be so gentle with one as there was so much in the vocal (it was all on one stereo track too!) and I'm so pleased the way it turned out. Thanks for the comments on the drums, bass and guitar too. It doesn't sound an awful lot in there but it took ages!
Thanks again.
Best
Richie
on Stay featuring Farisha Haque by RichieWinn
Well done!
Wayne
Good to hear from you. I hope all is well.
Thank you very much for your kind words. It is rewarding when I get comments that make is all worth while and "superb, clean and clear" are just knockout. Thank you. Glad you liked the solo too.
Best
Richie
on Stay featuring Farisha Haque by RichieWinn
/Anders
Many thanks for stopping by and posting comments. I really appreciate it. Particularly like your views on the bass, drums and piano and the guitar. So rewarding to have comments like this. Thank you.
Richie
on Stay featuring Farisha Haque by RichieWinn
Many thanks. Pleased you enjoyed it.
Richie
on Stay featuring Farisha Haque by RichieWinn
it's a beautiful track
simple and soft
just an amazing music
and the voice of Farisha is charming as usual
Good Job
Samer
Thank you very much for posting comments. Really appreciated.
It's so rewarding to have such nice things said about my work. What knocks me out particularly is the "simple and soft". Thank you. I really try my best to let the vocal shine and not put anything on the track this isn't required.
Thanks again.
Richie
on Stay featuring Farisha Haque by RichieWinn
Thank you for taking the time to stop by and post comments. Really appreciate it. Glad you like the production and you have a real insight into the way I intended it to be. Yes, I like the vocal to take centre stage and try very hard not to ever swamp it with anything that take away from a fine vocal performance.
"Smooth" and "groovy" are compliments indeed. Thank you.
Richie
on Stay featuring Farisha Haque by RichieWinn
Thank you so much for your comments. I am really pleased you liked the track and the way it was put together.
Cheers
Richie
on Stay featuring Farisha Haque by RichieWinn
I'm always a little jealous of your talents Richie. You should be making dollars out of your music rather than giving it away.
Definitely a FAV.
FR
Good to see you here. Thank you so much for your comments. Much appreciated.
As far as making dollars from music is concerned all I can say is my overnight success continues unabated! It began in 1964 with my first band and not much has really changed in the intervening years! I still love playing live, writing, recording and producing. I'm just very rewarded when I get comments like yours. Thank you.
Richie
on Stay featuring Farisha Haque by RichieWinn
on Stay featuring Farisha Haque by RichieWinn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25LBTSUEU0A&html5=1
And Soshy without Autotune.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnvJA_BlgC0&html5=1
When Auto tune is used with a great singer in a good arrangement to me it's like a good use of a Vocoder. This tune has all those elements and I am very impressed with everything about this one.
great work
Steve
Thanks for the comments and the links. If you have read the other comments posted here you will have noticed I appear to have opened a can of worms with the auto tune thing!! Thanks for your support. Glad yo liked the track.
Richie
on Stay featuring Farisha Haque by RichieWinn
...and this is a real art!
I think this should always the first goal of a musician: give the song exactly what the songs needs, not a single note more!
With that respect, the short guitar solo is a perfect example: it is helping tremendously in creating a "movement" in a point where the song may slip into "repetitiveness".
In short: I loved this song!
Ciao, Domenico
PS: ...forgot to mention...I hate the auto-tune effect and I fully believe that Farisha doesn't need it... but who am I to dictate what others should do?
And the final result is "very enjoyable", this is all that matters.
Thank you so much for taking the time to post your comments. Much appreciated.
I like the "understated" view very much and just about sums up my approach to all of this. I guess my view is "little is more" and sometimes it's what you leave out that is important. Thank you too for the comment on the solo. Again you hit the nail on the head as providing some contrast was indeed the purpose of it. You have a good insight into how I work I think!!
OK I am all auto tuned out so glad you found the overall track enjoyable.
Regards
Richie
on Stay featuring Farisha Haque by RichieWinn
Thank you so much for your comments. I really appreciate it and thank you also for not mentioning auto tune!! If I have produced anything near to a "best track" I am extremely proud. Thank you so much.
Richie
on Stay featuring Farisha Haque by RichieWinn
Great to hear from you. Hope all is well.
I have to agree with your view on the autotune. I think it works well on the track and doesn't detract from Farisha's performance at all (or the timbre of her voice for that matter). I just feel privileged to have an acapella of this quality to work with and hope I have done it some justice.
It took me several attempts over a three day period to find something I could live with on the solo. My acoustic sounded too bright, a synth part just didn't sound right and a jazzy electric patch with the Godin was awful. I switched to the piezos and used a patch from Logic and finally something to work with. I am not unhappy with the way it turned out.
I am simply knocked out with your comments on the production and arrangement. Thank you.
Richie
on Stay featuring Farisha Haque by RichieWinn
Her voice is tuned to the moon, but there are those that like
that kinda stuff...
Some how!!!.. To me it sounds like they are hiding, something
funky about their voice...
But the Music track really works very well...
So good of you to listen and post comments. I do appreciate it.
Yeah, a bit jazzy is cool and it was that kind of laid back understated feel I wanted on the track. Having a voice tuned to the moon is infinitely better than having it tuned to Uranus!!
Thanks again
Richie
on Stay featuring Farisha Haque by RichieWinn
Many thanks for the comments. Very much appreciate it. I found it challenging finding an arrangement that would compliment the vocal (there is so much going on with it!!) and hope I have succeeded in some small way.
I can't resist putting a guitar solo on. Hope it adds some colour to the track and gives the vocal some contrast.
Thanks again.
Richie
on Stay featuring Farisha Haque by RichieWinn
Happy to meet you again here also.
You are a great "manipulator" of instruments, more the genius of mix. It's always with great pleasure that I am listening .... and take some lessons .... This track is proof of what I wrote above. A pure listening pleasure. Very good choice of that voice to this musical concept. I hope my English is as good as your French.
Dan
Ce est si bon de vous revoir ici. Vous nous avez manqué! Merci beaucoup pour vos paroles très aimables - ils sont très appréciés. Je suis heureux de vous aimez cette chanson avec Farisha. Elle est un tel talent merveilleux.
Je espère que nous voyons plus les uns des autres bientôt. Peut-être une collaboration?
Richie
on Stay featuring Farisha Haque by RichieWinn
Made a winner with song Richie...your arrengement and tasty attitude to this acapella is like a model...
Crystal clear mix, stunning instrumentation...
(But that autotune...hmmm...Why do this kind of brilliant voice need to use it?)
Much respect, Danke
Did you hear Enzotic's version with this popular acapella?
Thank you for taking the time to stop by. I just love your "tasty attitude" comment so thank you for that. I try to be as tasteful and understated as I possibly can and hope whatever I do makes the vocal into a song. Glad you liked the instrumentation and mix too. Very rewarding to have you pick up on that.
Thanks again.
Richie
on Stay featuring Farisha Haque by RichieWinn
Always good to read your comments and thanks for taking the time to listen and write some very kind words. Yup, as we have discussed many times before allowing the vocals to shine and only be supported by understated playing and production is always the goal. I hope I've done the vocal some justice here.
Thanks again - much appreciated.
Richie
on Come home by RichieWinn
M.
Richie
on Welcome to my world by RichieWinn
on Military Song by RichieWinn
FR
Once again I'm late with my response!!
Thanks for the comments. They really are very much appreciated. This is such an early song for me and I actually thought about remixing and doing the guitar solo again (I'm not too happy with the sound). The vocals were as I got them and all on one track (albeit a stereo track) so I had to work with what I had. I did do some cut and pasting towards the end just to bring it up for the finale. I just love Farisha's work. An really privilege to work with.
Thanks again for the comments.
Best
Richie
Glad you enjoyed
on Only time will tell - featuring MuzicIzMee4Ever by RichieWinn
Simply awesome.
FR
Firstly my apologies for taking so long to respond to your posting. It's just so busy at the moment.
Yes, you are dead right. The intro is very Eric Clapton and inspired (stolen?) from Wonderful Tonight. Patricia makes the song all hers after a couple of bars of singing - what an enormous talent.
I'm so pleased and very much rewarded by your comments here. I do try to keep the tracks clean and aim for a good crisp sound. Working with one of Patricia's acapellas is the nearest I get to working in the same studio as her but if it sounds like that I'm very very pleased. Thank you.
Again my apologies for the late reply.
Best regards
Richie
on Come home by RichieWinn
Franco
Thank you so much for your comments. Glad you liked the track and "refined" is a real compliment. Thank you.
Richie
on Stay with me till dawn featuring Pauline Wright by RichieWinn
Very many thanks for the kind words and thanks for taking the time to listen and post comments. Much appreciated.
Richie