first in a while
Hey team, here’s a new tune for your review ,
http://soundclick.com/share?songid=7513456
Girl in the Woman
I wanted to enter it the SC contest, so I’m looking for your advice, Don’t get too excited about the contest though, they changed the rules a whole lot, now you have to have more than 20 posts to vote, I posted once about how it made it like a little club, like they don’t want any riff-raff coming in and voting, but nobody listened. So anyway, let me know what you think.
Musically, my first thought was Donovan. I love the lyrics, and the point they make. Your best writing to date, I think. 
with all the starts and stops, either you’re just learning a clutch, or it seems to be from left field. as an longtime outfielder myself, i can really dig it. the layers of sound you’ve built really sell it. you made it really interesting and creative with your arrangement. nice return to the scene.
After that last post, I thought I should go back and make sure I knew what I was talking about. Went to your SoundClick page to listen and read lyrics. You’ve added a lot of really cool tunes since last I visited.
Good job Nix, love the lyrics.
I love the breaks!
nicely written - the track is not up to the level of the songwriting in my thinking - sorry…
The drums are buried…
The vocal is weak in spots… you actually sound nervous?
Vocal is on the edge of distortion toward the end.
Just the way I hear it.
I kinda hear Donovan too in the early part of the song. The thinking behind the lyrics is great, extremely well written. Like the breaks in the music, confident wrtiting.
I hear the same as Poppa in the vox. Sometimes I have an issue where I try to record the vox before I’m really confident in the song and I hear the same thing.
Actually this is quite a difficult song to sing.
Nix…what a great tune! Reminds me of the Posies, and I love the vocals against the guitars. This song has a great indie/alt rock sound to it.
Sounds to me like everything is running dead center, and the mix just needs some room. Why dont you try moving the guitars a bit out into the stereo field, keep the drums & main vocals center. Raise drum volume. Starting at 2:23-2:24 try panning, “She is the girl.”, they over lap in thier length so why not try bring one in from the (L) then ®.
Duff
Well done Kev
(have I seen that picture before?.. 
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Love the lyrics and the message. Also the sound is very cool/indie. I really enjoyed listening!
Enter it
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Wow guys thanks for the advice and info, Kevin, Jdet and Yaz, Bruffie thanks for the encouragement, Poppa and Bruffie, you may be right, I will check to see if that track clips, or it might be that I wrote a song too hard for me to sing well, Thanks for the honest words Poppa, Duffman, that sounds like good advice I will definately make some changes with the pan and mix, Thanks Craig! Yep I know how you recognize that Picture!
Thanks guys, that helps! 
Nix,
I have gone back and listend to this song a bunch more times. If you are wanting an XTC, Tragically Hip, Posies, Ben Harper/Burn To Shine vocals & guitar sound then DONT CHANGE THE VOCALS. Yes Poppa is right about the slight distortion after 2:39. But your vocals stylings with that guitar lick is spot on in my opinion!
Duff
I appreciate that so much, I thought about it awhile, I’m stuck with the voice I’ve got, God gave me this voice to jump up on the table and scream out and go Yeah, ROCK OUT EWHOOOO, but my voice is like playing a tuba, easy to play loud but real hard to sing low and quiet, I think I racked up about 14 takes on those vox before I stopped,
But I did pan out the guitar (about 25 Right)and bass about 30 left, the round vocals too, for a wider stereo sound, and the drums are up a full 2.1, and I think it does sound better,
The advice is really appreciated, you know how it is when you’ve been working on a song and you get deadened to the details, So thanks a million!