First Love, Last Love (Final Studio Version)

[TPB]

Hello and welcome from Mississippi A good hook is always a good hook well done
Tim

[SteveAlton]

Firstly welcome to the forum. Boy that is some great first post, an extremely professional sound to go with a top class song. Willie

Thank you my friend....

I felt sure I'd commented on this one - Stunning, congrats!

Hi Hilary,  I appreciate you stopping by and listening & commenting

Wellcome on board from Finland! What a nice first post...

So enjoyable and peaceful performance. Professional job on every way; top class singing and playing. I loved the harmonies. Perfect production!

I am glad the song moved you....Funny how those harmonies worked out...Was going in a different direction, but quickly put the brakes on it and went this route....

[tonyc]

fantastic song put together superbly . love your vocals and the backing vocals brilliant recording so clear , and superb musicianship , love it ......ps a bit late but welcome to songcrafters .....cheers tony cee

[SteveAlton]

So it sounds great and welcome. I'm curious, knowing now this is professionally done with session musicians, what was price tag. For the most part everyone here records with home studio gear. Some stand alone machines and others DAW but I dont think any one here pays for any our recordings. This isnt a knock or dig at you im just curious what a recording of this caliber costs?
Rock on!

Not a knock at all, I know what I am trying to accomplish here.  It's not cheap, believe me.  These guys work on all the Nashville Records, I mean all of them....I did pay them a little below scale, but with the agreement that if this gets airplay my producer & session players would be compensated further...

I am a solid, very good player, acoustic guitar & keyboard, & I do very good home demos.  But it will sound like a demo.  While I am not a "Pro" player, I have written some really special songs & I am a "Pro" Singer.  So when I feel a song stands out from my catalog, I will invest in it, & I spare no expense. I wanted this tune to be radio ready.
 

[StephenM]

great song...and yes...it should be on the radio for the world to hear...perfect as is and of course it is because not only are you a great singer but these pro's know how to make you sound pro.... and behind every great musician is a great producer/engineer etc..... and behind every great live band is a great sound crew.... this points that out once again....
I have a friend who does gospel music and he spent thousands on his cd using studio musicians to play almost all his stuff that he sang with...and it is really good...  I am happy for anyone that can figure out a way to be able to do music for a living....or part of one.... etc....
I think it would be cool to record in a studio again... I did it one time a long time ago.... I can do some really good recordings...but you are right this is so much better....especially the vox.....

[WarpCanada]

This is great.

I have been inside a real Nashville studio (Darkhorse, in Franklin TN, I believe they did Taylor Swift's breakout release), but not as an Artist, I was there as a Fan, as a perk on a kickstarter backer thing, for a band I love based out of the Nashville Area, "The Choir" (Derri Daugherty, Steve Hindalong, Dan Michaels, Tim Chandler).

I got to see how the Big Boys do it.   The bass player (Tim Chandler, now sadly deceased) played bass direct into a DI box and they did his bass rig as plugins in ProTools, but the guitarist and lead singer (Derri) played into a Vox AC 15 which was in an isolation room, and of course the drummer/songwriter Steve played a full acoustic kit mic'd up with more money in microphones than I could believe, and also a funny looking gadget that looked like a modified snare drum, and which had a speaker coil in it. It was basically a drum mic, a homebrew drum "sensor/pickup" that grabs things with its huge snare-head attached to the voice-coil of a big subwoofer.  It functioned as a task-specific bass drum mic. There were two techs working the mics, there was a producer, a protools rig operator, and the band, and there was us tourists sitting around eating snacks and listening to the takes.  The vocals were done the usual way with several full takes, and then a lot of comps.   The guitars were tracked with primary and secondary parts with lots of takes, and lots of flourishes.   Another member of the band, Dan Michaels, played Sax and a bit of synth via a wind-controller (we Choir fans call them Lyricons), so he's like the keys player for the band, but he doesn't play keys.   The vocal takes and comps easily took a lot of the day.

It was eye opening.  I'm sure it costs quite a bit to book an A level studio in Nashville, and even more to book a producer and session players.  Anyways this sounds radio ready, and your vocals are bitching good, Sir.

[StephenM]

This is great.

I have been inside a real Nashville studio (Darkhorse, in Franklin TN, I believe they did Taylor Swift's breakout release), but not as an Artist, I was there as a Fan, as a perk on a kickstarter backer thing, for a band I love based out of the Nashville Area, "The Choir" (Derri Daugherty, Steve Hindalong, Dan Michaels, Tim Chandler).

I got to see how the Big Boys do it.   The bass player (Tim Chandler, now sadly deceased) played bass direct into a DI box and they did his bass rig as plugins in ProTools, but the guitarist and lead singer (Derri) played into a Vox AC 15 which was in an isolation room, and of course the drummer/songwriter Steve played a full acoustic kit mic'd up with more money in microphones than I could believe, and also a funny looking gadget that looked like a modified snare drum, and which had a speaker coil in it. It was basically a drum mic, a homebrew drum "sensor/pickup" that grabs things with its huge snare-head attached to the voice-coil of a big subwoofer.  It functioned as a task-specific bass drum mic. There were two techs working the mics, there was a producer, a protools rig operator, and the band, and there was us tourists sitting around eating snacks and listening to the takes.  The vocals were done the usual way with several full takes, and then a lot of comps.   The guitars were tracked with primary and secondary parts with lots of takes, and lots of flourishes.   Another member of the band, Dan Michaels, played Sax and a bit of synth via a wind-controller (we Choir fans call them Lyricons), so he's like the keys player for the band, but he doesn't play keys.   The vocal takes and comps easily took a lot of the day.

It was eye opening.  I'm sure it costs quite a bit to book an A level studio in Nashville, and even more to book a producer and session players.  Anyways this sounds radio ready, and your vocals are bitching good, Sir.

good stuff Warren....enjoyed reading it...