I used to be cool

[Gert van Santen]

Jay Vaughan schreef:
>>   I used to be cool is a track that I am currently working on.  Have  
>> a listen and let me know if you can help me out.  The vocal is very  
>> repetitive but that’s the way I want it so in order to vary the  
>> vocal I am looking for some male and other female variations of the  
>> same vocal.
> 
> 
> Its just too 'vocal heavy'.  I really like the line, and the message,  
> but its over-loaded a bit.  By the time you get to the 'second arp',  
> the vocals have just driven my interest away, but if you scale it back  
> a bit, and maybe add one more line/message (my suggestion: "what you  
> think that we think is cool .. WE LEARNED IN SCHOOL") i think it'd be  
> really, really groovy, and quite fancy.
> 
> I'd encourage you to develop the dance groove a little, turn the vocal  
> knob down from 11 to .. about .. 6 .. and push some really big groovy  
> break mid-way.
> 
> And of course, its dying for a male vocal to take the song over a bit ..

Well... what he said. I like the moment when the second arp is 
coming in.

I would try to slowly distort/deform that vocal line into 
something else / some other vocal line...

Can be a cool track, but like you said: needs work.

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