Floyd inspired track , with great vocals

  • Here is another collaboration with my singer Lee Rice.


    My simple fantasy


    Main inspiration was Floyd , as you may guess by yourself...


    I'm no Gilmour nor Alan Parsons , but I had lots of fun of layering & mixing this one, especially the intro & ending pseudo lap steel ( played with a dunlop tone bar ) .


    I also used the Abbey Road mastering tool, gives really great specialization & tape drive.


    Lee did a superb job singing this one, I really dig the vocals parts on this mix.

  • Great track, thanks for sharing Renaud. I like the 70s feeling in it quite a lot. The drums are really spot on. Cool guitar solo starting at 1:00 and the deep dark voice at 2:12 is really cool :thumbup:8)

  • Thx Michael, yes I really dig spoken world , especially with Lee's deep bassy voice , great vocals.


    We have a spoken world specialist in France , an absolute reference as a musician too, Serge Gainsbourg. He is a major influence for me.

  • Hi Renaud . Nice and cool one there :thumbup: :)

    I hear "Happy The Man" more than "Pink Floyd" , but that´s me 8o


    Happy new year !

    The adjective for metal is metallic. But not so for iron ... which is ironic.

  • Very cool track! I’d be interested to hear how it would sound with a nice big vintage plate verb and echo on the vocals and some treble rolled off to really give it that classic psychedelic vibe.

  • Very cool track! I’d be interested to hear how it would sound with a nice big vintage plate verb and echo on the vocals and some treble rolled off to really give it that classic psychedelic vibe.

    The Per, It's actually a vintage lexicon plate on this vocal track with 18 % mix ( bright setting )


    Do you have a precise reference I could refer to , to match this idea ?

  • Yeah very cool reference thanks, I got to go deeper listening this band , any recommendation on an album ?

    This one is really good .... It was the beginning of "Wind up doll day wind" I "heard" in you song ..... ( @ 19.56 )

    Not exactly , but that´s how my brain works 8o

    They released 2 official albums in the 70´s and one "Third" later on with "leftovers", with some songs that also

    appears on Kit Watkins solo album "Labyrinth" ( Check Wikipedia for more info ... )


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    The adjective for metal is metallic. But not so for iron ... which is ironic.

  • The Per, It's actually a vintage lexicon plate on this vocal track with 18 % mix ( bright setting )


    Do you have a precise reference I could refer to , to match this idea ?

    Ok, so my reference here that instantly springs to mind would be “Hey You”, the verb there is much higher and sounds like it’s the channel bus so maybe even 50% or higher (parallel) with some sort of hi-pass/bass cut and shared a bit to add glue. I think the vocals suffer a bit from being too dynamic if you know what I mean, they’re so lively especially at the top end, so see how it sounds with more compression (what did they use back then? Was the LA2A around?) maybe even multiband to bring up the lower mids and curb the treble and rolling off the treble just a tinge for that more vintage Russian fet or Neumann mic sound (not sure what they used in the studio back then but I read they had some Russian mics). That’s just me though, I am probably totally wrong, but in my minds eye I’m imagining it would smooth things out.