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Hot Diggity with Shawn Ash on vocals.

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I have not been posting the lyrics like I guess I should so, here they are.



Hot Diggity © Copyright 2004 Ronald Anderson


Who’s that girl, over in the corner?
You should do the right thing and warn her.
Stealing hearts is a very very serious crime.
p-pretty thing by the record machine,
Well I saw it all and she's comin' with me.


Hot diggity damsel it’s my lucky day.


So I shuffled over to the bar,
Ordered up a double shot of charm.
Had the band play something nice and slow.
When I turned she was lookin’ at me,
The kinda’ smile makes you weak in the knees.


Hot diggity damsel it’s my lucky day.
I found me an angel take my blues away.
Who knew tonight that you would hear me say,
Hot diggity damsel, Hot diggity dame!


I asked her if she’d give me a chance she said,
“Tha’d be fine if you’re askin’ to dance” and we,
Cut the rug ‘till the band could’nt play no more.
Saturday I pick her up at nine,
We’re goin’ back to the scene of the crime.


Hot diggity damsel it’s my lucky day.
I found me an angel chase the blues away.
All the way to Austin you could hear me say.
Hot diggity damsel, Hot diggity dame!


Outro:

See that girl, over in the corner?
You should do the right thing and warn her.
Stealing hearts is a very very serious crime.

Hi Ronnie:

Nice write and Shawn performed your song just fine. If you have access to a digital editing machine/recorder... I would suggest doing what you can to "lift the vocal" above the music just a tad. (Please keep in mind I'm listening on PC speakers and they can't compare to studio monitors... so take what I say with a grain of salt.) Best of luck with it. ----Dave

Vocals are shy? It's a recent creation so it would be easy to load the file up and pump the vox. You think 1 to 1.5 db? or more?

Good song and vocal Ronnie great atmosphere too yes a good one!
Travis

Ronnie,

I like this alot. Dig the musical arrangement, a lot going on but action a good thing with this pop song. She's a great singer as well!

I was reading Dave's reaction, not sure if you made any changes to vox since I've listened just now--I don't think cranking up the vox 1 or 2 db is the answer, as that might throw off the balance of all instruments--my opinion is to "maybe" pull back a couple db on the guitars which will achieve slightly enhancing a bit more vocal presence. It's always easier just to crank up vox, but then you have to crank up harmonies etc. (There are times however when the vox made need boosted). It could also just be a personal preference along with most of us listening on headphones, but just some feedback--use or lose.

I did listen again at a lower volume, and the vocals cut through better and overall balance seems better--could be our headphones just boosting certain frequencies more than we wish............. I'm going to try something!.........I've just plugged in my reference Beyerdynamic 880 Pro headphones that I use "some" for mixing which should give a more true flatter sonic response...............Okay, now the mix is sounding RIGHT ON, vocals sitting nicely and crisp on top of the mix with the 880's. I should always use these phones for critiquing! Well anyway with these BD-880's it's spot on. Most listening head phones will always boost and screw with the mix a bit, having said that, it is probably a good idea for we mixers to check our mixes on the more standard headphones to perhaps "compromise" slightly between our studio monitors or flat reference phones to get the mix sounding good on both.

Hope this little experiment helped, it actually helped me to be careful about judging a mix too quickly.

Super write/performance/production Ronnie!

steady-eddie

Thanks for listening.

I fuss over mixes for so long I grow deaf to the problems.

I'll listen to something I did a year ago and go "Oh my, the guitars are way too loud".
So sorry, thanks for telling me. I'll revisit it sometime. Right now I'm obsessing over a new one. :-)

None of this stuff is mastered professionally. I just kinda bugger it up best I can.

Ronnie,

Enjoyed the listen. Great sound on the drums and guitars. I thought the vocal "sat in the right place". Would have liked to hear "a little less production" during the verses - to balance the current big sound in the chorus (which is nice). Your vocalist has a great Country tone - but I think the vocal track itself needs some tuning (Melodyne or Autotune) - it seems slightly flat in a number of places.

A terrific "drive" to this.

fj

Thanks Floyd and you're right about the flat vox here and there.
As for production reduction during the verses, do you mean dispense with the ohh's and ahh's? (Sound Better Singers Kontakt Library) or something else.

Song sounds great Ronnie.
Is that a live band?

As for the vocals I'd like to hear them turned up or move up front a little, in general but especially in the chorus.

But overall you seem to have that radio ready sound.

all the best with it...

No, me tracking this, then that, then the other instruments until it's a song.
I wish I had a band on call like when we were in high school but now a days I'd have to keep them in cages so they couldn't get away. :-)

The oohs an aahs are fine (nice, in fact). My comment is more about the piano, guitar and drums are all doing about the same thing in the verse and the chorus. There's no real differentiation. There are some really nice "touches" throughout. As things pull out in a couple of spots. But, the overall feel of the verse vs the overall feel of the chorus are pretty much the same. It's a fairly "picky" note - but the production is very good and, so worth making that note (I think). If the piano were more "held chords" during the verse and the guitar weren't quite "so clever" - a bit more subtle - that might give you some more separation from verse to chorus.

OR, it could be that the chorus actually needs more - to be bigger. Most Country today include BIG held chords in the chorus - a full, hard strum of an electric guitar with a lot of distortion/delay/reverb at each chord change - that just holds and rings for the length of however that chord lasts (it in almost everything on the radio). And, then they add a tinkling banjo behind that.... Could be that just the addition of those big, explosive held chords would give the difference.

Like, I said... this is "picky" stuff. But something to think about...

Floyd I like that. Thanks.

I love how country and christian pop get huge distorted (I think) guitars without is sounding like huge distorted guitars. Something still out of my grasp. I'm an old 80s hair band metal guitarist where it's supposed to be huge distorted guitars so I know how to do that. Seems like the attack is shaved off of every chord front or something. I've tried rolling off the top, that just makes for muffled grind and not very nice sounding either.