That's not a requirement, just something to consider, and something to be ignored if it wouldn't work or fit your vision.įor the vocals, they're solid, IMO. Consider some sort of drums or other percussion to anchor the piece. I'm not saying the percussion needs to follow the source tune more closely, but it felt like there was something missing from the percussion to give the piece direction, and the instrumentation felt empty. Subtle touch, but nice countermelodic stuff with the bells at 1:19.īrass entering in at 1:53 was also very unrealistic sounding and stuck out. The piano sounded fairly solid though, although kind of muffled in the background it should have had a richer, more realistic tone, but it gets the job done, IMO.
Right from the start at :06, the string articulations are really fake, particularly the sustains, and they stick out like a sore thumb.
If some time is spent making the backing orchestral elements sound more realistic this would have a chance on the panel (granting that others consider the vocals passable, which is in the air), but right now this is a hard pass. The arrangement is pretty good, but the mechanical backing instruements send this below the bar. The levels all remain the same, the attacks and releases of all of the notes are the same, which just makes it sound like a computer is hitting all of the notes the same way all the time (which it is, but the trick is to make it not sound like that). It doesn't help that the brass has a long solo at 1:55, which magnifies just how mecanical it is. They're not at all humanized, with the strings and brass being particularly mechanical. The backing instruments, though, are a non-starter. It's not perfect, but considering you're going for a rough, snarling sound I would say it's passable. I'm surprised how (relatively) in tune you keep your vocals at those deep tones.
Glad this isn't an instrumental, since those vocals really do have a lot of character. Gotta say, this is an interesting approach.
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