aww bless you :) I might do... I am really not sure about all that yet XD Thank you though, such a huge compliment which I am very grateful for :)

hahaha~ aww XD thank you very very much hun :)

Very nice dear

thank you for listening :) ! x

I don't think the reverb really fits, but I like the song =)

Would you mind telling me why you think it doesn't fit?

Well, it just feels to me like a song that should have a simple, unproduced sound, more like a demotape or something.

Ah I understand now :D Thank you ^^ I am tweaking it a bit now, seeing what I think. I tend to get the reverb too high according to a lot of people, so I wonder if I am hearing it different due to my headset or something :s It's difficult.

It is a tricky thing, but generally I'd say that unless you're trying to use the reverb as an actual song effect, less is more. This song in particular I think could do with almost none.

I tend to use it as an ethereal type thing, ambience. I do get told that I overdo it but I guess I like that sort of sound... a lot of bands I listen to do the same, but perhaps im "doin it wrong" XD

Nah, I don't think there's any such thing as "doin it wrong" in music. It's an issue of taste, so it's very subjective. I do think that less would fit with this song, because it feels less "ethereal" and more "quietly emotional," but really, as long as it doesn't obscure or distract from the actual song, it's not a big deal.

aww you already answered all of my questions. Nice ornamentation in the vocals. The harmonies could be a bit louder and there is a bit too much reverb, but it gives it a ghostly feel. All you are missing is bass and drums and this thing is done! Hey, I could do that for ya if you want. if you don't think I'd mess it up.

I never get the reverb right for everybody, it's frustrating. Some say it's too much and others say it is fine. I lowered the level of the harmonies when I finished this, because in Cakewalk they sounded too dominating XD So it's interested you said that. I am giving it a listen again and they seem to have gotten lost, maybe due to the compression or soemthing... I don't know. sometimes windows file converting does that I noticed.

I don't know if my songs suit bass and rhythm... I was gonna do it for this but I didn't in the end.

...Wow I don't know what I was expecting but that completely went over them O_O

That was amazing, sounded so pretty <3
I can't really give any constructive critique, music isn't my thing at all ;_;'
I love listening to it but I don't know anything about it xD'

All I can say is that it sounded very pretty and I enjoyed the lyrics - they made me feel like even though their relationship is hopeless, they just can't let go 'cause they love each other so much, and that's touching. >w<

Faaaaaav~!

Awwww you listened :D!! wee~ Thank you for listening.

^^ I am really happy you like it :3 I am quite worked up about getting it right, and since it's my song I feel a bit personal about it you know? :s
It's ok, I don't need tons of critique, not everyone is musical or critical and just enjoy listening to music instead. After all that's why the music industry is so successful, the point is to appeal to those who enjoy listening rather than doing, mostly.

And your feeling from the song is spot on. They can't let go of one another and are finding it painful to accept that things aren't working for some reason. I've been there myself, it hurts a lot. That's where this came from.

I am really glad you enjoyed my song and gave me such feedback.

Unbelievable VOICE!

I turned this on expecting to hear the off key singing like so many of the singers here on FA only to be hit full force by the emotion and presentation of this track. I was amazed at the clarity and the vocals so much I had to literally do my best to sit still while listening to the track in its entirety, the mood and atmosphere was beyond words can truly describe and the notations were spot on the structure was really good and your guitar playing was extraordinary and was some of the best work I have heard so far on this site. Hidden jems like you only appear ever so often and it was by sheer fluke I even found this track whilst browsing to find new talent. I am deeply impressed and very moved by this work and must say I thought you only another artist like any other on FA but appears I am highly mistaken and truly hope you post up more work like this. Works like this are highly inspirational and you should not hinder this talent you have as this could create something BIG and I mean BIG, talent like yours should be share more often as you have what it takes to really draw in an audience.

The writing was very deep and emotional and the whole score itself was so well preformed and recorded I could not find a single note out of place and was so enamored by this I had to say something to show my appreciation for the works and to thank you for sharing it. I DO hope you will post more works you have done as this is BRILLIANT work to say the least and thats only scratching the surface! It was a pleasure to listen to such fine work and I look forwards to another track from you in this fashion.

I seriously just got tearful from reading this comment. I am utterly overwhelmed that you took so much time and thought over writing a response to my song, and I am happy and relieved that someone finds it so touching and can see the work I put in to this. I don't mind criticism at all, but being human it does hit me a lot and specially since my self worth and confidence is next to nothing. You're so very very kind to leave me something to read like this, I can't thank you enough for taking the time to listen to my song. Ack can't even type hehehe!

I don't think I will ever do this for a living, but I love singing and playing music so much that I will work hard to produce things for people to listen to and enjoy (hopefully!). I put so much effort into music it's ridiculous and I was scared to post this up for review because my songs are so personal to me, since they are always about my own feelings.

You've made me so much better after reading some of the other comments, I was starting to feel like I ought to take my music down because it wasn't good enough.

Thank you so much!!!

As stated in the comment above I search for new talent and I don't normally go to artist who draw the naughty stuff so I end up missing a lot of other talents that that artist may have. The work represented here showed a lot of dedication and patience with the amount of tweaks and polish I found within the track and will ALWAYS give critique and praise to those I think have deserved and caught my full attention. I say this as a music lover and composer myself that the real gift of music is PASSION for ones work and in this track I found plenty of it in great quantities. I am very pleased to hear I made your day but ask for no thanks as it was thanks enough to be able to share such marvelously written lyrics and such emotional music as I have not heard in a very long time. As for receiving or giving critique...one must ALWAYS keep an open mind and remember that we are ALL very proud of our work and to have someone speak out against it is considered a sin...but the wise artist will always welcome critique as long as it has positive effect upon ones own works.

"Music is the key language which we all speak...some of us are more fluent then others, while others will always listen to the tales we weave in sound alone"

You may not see a future in this kind of thing but I think otherwise and to have the courage to post up something you felt unsure of to begin with shows guts and determination. Be proud of your accomplishment and keep the hard work up as I can tell you can only get even better from here on in.

and that as they say

-Is my two cents worth-

You're wonderful, you know that? I agree with all that you have said and greatly appreciate your input. I wish I had more to say back, but I feel that enough has been said already. I thank you very deeply for your comments... thank you very very much indeed

T'was MORE then well deserved in my eyes, great work I applaud your effort and your skill and have even grown to respect you more as an artist.

this is the definition of skill. You make a song and its perfect. Yep, yep, CD would be fine ^^
bass is fine also in my opinion. Also started to play with chords. Yepp, hard to believe that I played all the years only with power riffs. The days I started to play "propably" guitar with chords XD. Isn't that hard as I've expected, but some chords still kill me.
keep it going, shall the awesomeness never leave your music XD

Oh my... thank you Meeya... coming from a fellow musician it's an honour to receive a positive comment :) I am really really glad you like it and see the work I put in here. I am far too impatient to finish things properly but I've stuck to this one like glue.

Thank you so much for taking time to listen and comment, I really appreciate it. x

I am impatient, too. Maybe the most on the world >.< but atm I have not that much time to record and I am waiting for some tools for some weeks to try.

this made me weep a little...

i'm a real sucker for "too much reverb" i think the haunting quality of this is perfect for it. anyone who feels this way IS haunted by the spectre of futile passions that dissipate unrequited into the ether.

your voice is stunning. shimmering silk in a crystal breeze.

this song will haunt me forevermore... o.o

I'm relieved that you are ok about the reverb on it. I too like the ambient ethereal quality of this sort of reverb and a lot of music i like has the same sort of level of it.
However, due to other comments I am going to tweak it a bit for a change and see how it sounds then. I'll keep both version and just see what happens etc.

Thank you very very much for your comment, it really does mean a lot and I try very hard to respond/take the criticism in, good or "bad" etc.

xx

Are you a professional singer? If not, you should be! You made a wonderful piece of art and you just sing beautifully. Keep up the good work.

No I have never sung professionally before. I am too nervous to do so and don't believe I will "make it". I just do it as a hobby. :) Thank you so much for your comment it means a lot to me. x

Sometimes we have to let go and just say something's complete before we go crazy. I re-mixed and re-mastered a song for a month and a half last January, thankfully a deadline came up and forced me to finish otherwise I'd still be at it right now. I'm still not happy with it. The performance of this song is excellent, the guitar and singing both. I'm okay with the amount of reverb you have going on, but the real trick to using it is not to make the tracks you put it on too washy. If your reverb has a wet and dry mix it's better to lean towards the dry and turn up the effect which leaves a solid foundation while still getting a good wispy reverb ambience thing. A cool trick if you don't have that type of control with the reverb is to copy and paste your track and soak the second one in reverby goodness and leaving the first one completely bone dry, and the just adjusting the volume of each track to taste.

Great stuff. I can't wait to hear you tweak it. Like someone else said, bring up the backing vocals, and maybe that second guitar too.

<3

Thanks so much for the tips! Usually what I do is arm two tracks to record, so i have one dry as u said and then one I reverb a bit. I've tweaked a bit and I hope it sounds a bit better. In the past I've let my harmonies blend too much with the main melody so people said I should reduce the volume more (personally i adore harmonies and stuff though, like real choirs) so again I was a bit worried I would repeat that 'mistake'

You've been very helpful thank you :D And thanks for your compliments too :) xx

Harmonies and their respective levels is really a matter of personal taste. I'm more apt to have two part harmony as a joint lead vocal than to have it just be a single melody. I think it's a matter of what fits for a song. Mixing and even moreso, mastering is an art onto itself, something that I've only recently really taken into great consideration. I'm getting to the point though, where I feel like I'm too closely associated with my own recordings to be allowed to mix them without some extreme prejudice, making the lead vocal too weak, bass parts too loud, that kind of thing. To fix this I always have someone else who knows a little about music mix with me, another set of unbiased ears. That helps a lot. Also a good set of speakers is key.

Again, good going. I like it.

Ah I see. I think we are all a bit biased and personally attached to our music. I know I am very personal about mine. I have thought of appealing for someone else to mix the songs for me too... but a bit shy. Harmonies, I enjoy having two leads as you said but also sometimes I feel like having one lead and backing group. As you say it's down to the mood of the song etc.

Thank you xx

I fav'd this. I need not say any more.

haha thanks. Stupid thing wont load for me so i wasn't sure if it worked for people atm, seemed to break D: x

It's uploaded, but it doesn't give me an mp3 file extension (I've had to add it myself). It also downloads it every time I go to this page. To my drive. It's good to have it, but once is enough! XD

Everyone's saying that :< I think this page is fucked. I dont want to have to remove it totally cuz of all the comments x_x my days been shit tbh lol

Have you tried re-uploading the file by editing the submission?

Also, shitty day? Take a seat on my couch and tell me about it.

*CRY* AHHHHH for some reason it won't work for me. *dives into depression* =..(

Yeah I know... I have no idea why it's so broken. I've tried to re-upload it but it's the same for me too :/

it must be a conspericy from tone deaf anti-music gnomes from the planet Bragahfragah. *shakes fist* damn gnomes

Arghhh! it won't play! It tells me that I need a plug-in but it won't tell me which one! Nasty software hobbittses, taking my precious away ...

I know :< I wish I knew what the hell it was doing it for >. never had it before. If you let it download and then add .mp3 to the end of it it works apparently.

I'll give that a try.

It Worked! My precious is back! (trips over rock and falls into chasm of molten lava laughing manically - how come they don't have a 'smiley' for that?)

I like the lyrics, especially the last bit. I think a lot of people feel the same way in a relationship.

As I said before, do not wait until you are forty eight and living in a Scottish village to be discovered. Simon's heart couldn't take it.

This is just <333~

eeee~ thank you so much hun :3 specially from you!! <3

The problems with the extensions have been popping all over the site.


But, as always, I love your music and all of your original work (And some covers!) make it onto my iPod.
I everything about it, the reverb is just perfect, but seems to be a tad bit too much in some parts.. The acoustics are amazing and your voice is as breathtaking as ever.

You really shouldn't be as nervous as you are when posting this stuff! Personally, I don't think I've found a song that you've post that I didn't like!

Perhaps you should make another account that is JUST for your music, that was the only people following it WANT to hear everything you have to offer! Just an idea, though.

I'm looking forward to more work from you!

P.S.
Did you write this yourself?
Did you play the guitar?
Are the backing vocals you?
Are you singing the main melody?

hahaha~~ Well, for now I resubmitted the file again, I am hoping it gets fixed but oh well I dont mind there being two of the same file, I can sort it at some point XD

I wrote a journal a few weeks back asking FA if they thought I needed two accounts, but everyone answered no, they'd rather I kept it all simple and on one place. So for the moment I will XD

I might branch out to youtube but that place is scary XD!

Thanks for your comment, Its strange the reverb kicks in and out a lot, i am unsure why or even how to change it atm... x_x

Of course I missed that journal! Oh well..

I'd be careful if you do go on YouTube. There are a lot of assholes/trolls (What's the difference these days?) on there.

I feel like I want to say something else, but I forget what

Yeah i know.... thats what scares me off YT. Trolls a plenty. Its like the dregs of humanity decided to breed on there :< They're all so rude and stupid. Too much bullshit I think. :<

Yeah. What about a music sharing site like Last.FM, for example.

Something happened to your file. It's now in an unknown format.

The problem is that it has no format...FA screws again sadly :\

The problem is, it is saved with no extention. It should end in an MP3, for those who want to download it.

Ooh I'm trying to figure out what plugin I dont have- so I can hear it, but from listening to your previous works in the past, I can honestly say you should have no reason to be nervous.

Ah~ Hun its brokenz, its lying haha if you download it, add .mp3 to the end and apparently its fine, or alternatively I submitted a newer version here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3508080 :3!!

i wish i could listen but it isnt working : (

There's a version that works in my main gallery. I had to upload it again :( not dure what's wrong with this one ;o;