Reviews for More Than Words (Lira's V

[EchozAurora]

Soo yeah...

If this doesn't at least come close to top 5, I'm gonna beat a zero-bomber with a stick. A big, painful one. Yeah, that's right bomber-douches. You'd better move that cursor over to the 5.. and click it. Nao! >=[

Well.. it's not perfect mixing.. but then again.. you did this after the original was made.. and outside of the original mix.. so that can't be expected. With the right reverb and delay on the vox though, this addition would be amazing.. thinks I.

You definitely need to do some more collabs on the site with trance artists.

I'd be up for one.. but I'm in more of a housey phase... so unless you do that as well.. well.. it'd probably be a while. lol.

Anywho, definitely keep up the good work, you have a beautiful voice.

Also, much props to Pulstate for the original track! You're definitely one of the most awesome.. frequently overlooked artists on here! Professional quality stuff.. really.

5/5, 8/10 -Echoz

Liralei responds:

Haha, if I know anything about the top 5, it's that the songs you expect to get somewhere near it never do, but thank you for the well-wishes! I'm going to try and get this mastered, so hopefully a better mix will be up soon. Thanks very much for the review! Greatly appreciated.

I sing any genre -- even a jazz song recently -- but I've been told that my voice works well with trance, and it's one of my favorites anyway (as a DJ, I spin trance) so that works. Best wishes to you with your music. :)

[Pulstate]

Magical! =D

I can't compliment your vocals enough, and your intelligence to write lyrics. I am very impressed with the outcome of this! I even downloaded it here!!!

I may have us some nice vocals too so i'll talk to you soon!

Liralei responds:

Pfff, it's your amazing production that inspired this. Congrats on the new single once again! Talk to you later.

[Phyrnna]

8D Ultra Long Review FTW! 8D

Writing this review as I'm listening.
First thing that struck me when your vocals entered is the lack of reverb. Not that your voice always needs reverb to sound good, but Pulstate's instruments are already coming out with lots of reverb. So I think it would be better to mix some reverb into your own voice so that it fits in better.
The next thing I'm noticing is that your voice seems to not move around much pitch-wise. But I think the main problem here is that the EQ is off. I think you need a little bit of peaking on your higher frequencies to make your voice clearer, and maybe even a high shelf a little above that. Of course add a low pass if you do the high shelf or the ultrasonic frequencies are going to get dizzying.
The part at 2:59 where your voice comes back in has a nice delay effect. Well used... although I think you should work on it a little more. It sounds a little inconsistent at some points. Perhaps add a delay to certain parts to emphasize certain words, such as the "here" at 3:11 and the "alone" that comes right after it. Now if you had reverb in there also, that delay would sound really great! Although I think you could get a better effect with a increased decay in reverb too. Maybe use both delay and longer reverb decay together?
At 5:00 when your voice enters again, I think you should increase the volume of your voice a little so that it stands out a little more. Or better yet, raise the levels in the EQ so that it doesn't all get louder, but the parts that you want more clearer will be more clearer.
The part at 5:45 sounds fine... but if I was doing this I would change your voice by using reverb effects. Namely I'd lower the dry signal output to somewhere about 75% so that it gives that "distant" sound, which I think fits that part well.
Agh... 6:43! When your voice enters in, I think it sounds practically perfect except for one big thing. It clips!! >.< You should go check your levels a bit there.
At 7:15 where the drums keep panning between left and right, I think it would be neat if you added some vibrato effects via use of a LFO envelope, or a sung vibrato. I think it'd fit those weird drums.
Well, that was all for your vocals. *looks up* That's a long review... @_@ I talk a lot. :X
Anyways, I think you shouldn't use compression on your vocals AT ALL. Why I say that is that it kills off the dynamics that MAKE your voice great. I'd use EQ only on your vocals and use that to bring out certain frequencies and make your voice clearer.
Anyways, as far as lyrics go, great lyrics. :3 I wish I could write like that. >_>;

-HFX ^_^

Liralei responds:

Um. Wow. That was an impressively long review. I appreciate it tons. <3

What makes me sad is that I can't put any of it to use because Audacity isn't powerful enough to be that sensitive with my vocals. :P Nor could I find an appropriate reverb plugin to use-- my attempt to compensate for that was putting a delay on the ends of each line. Which clearly wasn't terrible audible. Eeeek. Oh well. Also, I feel worse because Audacity doesn't let you put effects into a separate channel (unless you literally copy the vocals twice, and then apply effects to one and lower its volume, which is what I did for the delays at the ends of words in the main verses.

I also used a very minor delay on the part at 5:45, which I hoped would be enough as well, but I guess I undershot with that one. Thanks for all the feedback-- I'll definitely plink it at the friend who offered to master it for me after I put this up! :P

[rollmyjoint]

nice

there arent many songs with lyrics on here and yours isnt one of them so kudos on that anyways im lovin the song instant download

Liralei responds:

Thanks. If you check out my favorites, you can find all of the songs on the site that I've featured in-- they all have vocals. :)