my new mix, let me know how it sounds

https://soundcloud.com/nikhiljoshua/new-mix here's the mix...let me know any suggestions you have.

I do not know the song, if it is someone else's tune or your own, I will comment the same.

This sounds better than your previous tunes. There are no obvious spikes in instrument volume and the software seems to be helping you quite a lot.

Now without knowing the song or the tune, I will make some observations that may (or may not) shape your future recordings.

Repetition. If I clicked at any point in your song, it was the same. No different chord progressions no change in how you sing the song. Yes, you changed the instruments coming and going, but this did not improve the song. Be careful of tipping a bag of tricks at a tune to make it more interesting. If the song is going nowhere, it will not help it get there with a violin replacing a piano (example only).

You called this topic my new mix. It should be My New Song. You should consider ways to think about improving the structure to make it more than a mix. You mix a song, but you cannot sing a mix. You perform songs and the public respond to songs. Could you include a chorus, a bridge or some other element to break the monotony? Use a voice that sings with some range and variation in presence and power. It sounds like you are singing at a very low volume.... probably because of where you live. Record at the church where your videos were shot. Judging by the #hashtags below the tune in the title, this is a devotion song. Let your devotion be heard. Make an effort and make your performance joyful, alive and singing praise.

This song is an old hymn. It doesn't have chorus or bridges. Progressions are same for all the verses, this song is like a lullabye...It's my fav song since childhood. I was singing low because I wanted to get that feel of singing a lullaby. What I can do is add a supporting melody line in the background.

perhaps if you wore a pink suit and rode a giant robot while singing....

very funny

I am not joking, it works for Adam Lambert.

Unfortunately I don't have access to my studio right now, just my iPad so I can't listen yet-

tho...

I am glad to see you took some time working on everything & away from the boards or thoughts about gear.

That's a positive step for sure.

Soon I should have time to give it a listen-

Until then, don't shy away from the Pink Suit...

https://splice.com/blog/4-tips-to-help-you-better-analyze-music/?utm_source=internal&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=3tips_analyse_music

they also left out the pink suit though... or the glittering leather daddy outfit... or this one fro the encore that came equipped with a comedically large rhinestone encrusted crown.... that one was a winner... the giant robot head and flaming gay, pink bicycle for 'bicycle' also help. I am serious, it will help with your listening, writing, singing.... just pick soemthing. I am going to wear my pink shirts more often now that i know this.

lol, no thanks. I'm just fine with my shorts and a tshirt...

you know that I know we're talking about short shorts and a fishnet t-shirt... there's no way you dress like your profile picture every day

all joking aside, the technical aspects of this production have improved some... they could improve more though. I can't really help you with that right now. My sinuses are a mess and I am not hearing up to snuff. Its been really spastic weather in Philadelphia (temperature all over the amp, humidity at extreme ends of the spectrum on a daily basis) and I am not working on sonics or giving advice until the weather calms down and my head doesn't feel like its udner water. I can ehar well enough to say that this is your best balance and nothign soudns voertly fucked up. This is pretty much electronic music though and it falls down in having boring, canned sounds. it doesn't sound like you spent any time getting expressive isntrument sounds. And if you did spend time on those soudns prior to the mix hase then shame on you because you cna do better. Honestly I am not really interested in twaching you anymore because you're just in too big a rush. Old Roman proverb, less haste, more speed.

Its also ahrd for me separate out my boredom with the timbrality of most of this recording from my aesthetic distate for the material. I have no diea what you're singing about, so tis not a secular musician thing. its that this song is duller than a bowling ball and tis not aprticularly beautiful either like some droning, repetitive music. Perhaps switch gears next time, abandon the hymns/covers and write another Nikhil original song. Go ahead and write some christian music, that's what you do. But consider this... you may create a more engaging piece by following the classic dictum 'write what you know.' So yes, praise, Jesus but perhaps consider the more religious inflected U2 music. not stylistically but the way they write from a eprsonal place and then broadly expand into the universal and spriritual. Or the reverse like on the early tracks of Joshua Tree. Maybe combine some social commentary about your home region of India with an appeal to Jesus or an appeal to people to find answers through your church? I think just getting a few core lyrical concepts with this kind of integrity may help you write some really meotionally authentic and dynamic music around those ideas... I don't know from church music really, but I think that most of the stuff I ehar has plenty of itnegrity but acks authenticity. Yes they're authentic beleivers or they would make secular music, but it doesn't have that bold faced honesty. On teh otehr hand, Burning Ring of Fire by June Carter Cash is really church music but his this tnense and personal iamgery and when johnny sang it he brought his struggles to it and amde it mroe spiritual and that's how good church music can be. That's the kinda church music that non-beleivers will sltien to and maybe you'll convert some with it, I dunno. Youa ren't reaching people without reaching into Nikhil. Smoke that over, N-Dawg. Peace out.

hmm...ok I'll keep this song on hold. And as you said I'll write an original song...It might take a while but I'll do it.

spend as long as you need to, no more, no les... the secret of songwriting is going at the song's pace