A young (real young) talent new to the internet...

leskiepie · Joined: 06 Jul 2004 Posts: 12

interesting spin on that!

I liked... :bmutant

Lesk

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Betti Gefecht · Joined: 09 Nov 2003 Posts: 20

Hi Folks,

please give 15 year old newbie singer Justine a listen.

She uploaded her interpretation of a Procol Harum classic to besonic.

I think her voice has a great promise!

She's just started to write her own songs...

Would you mind to encourage this young lady by some feedback?

Check out:

Justine's Page at Besonic (scroll down to listen to the song)

Greetz from

Betti :-)

RonOnGuitar · Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Posts: 1916

Hiya Betti!

I liked it, I think it's a very nice cover of "Pale"! She has a good voice.

The only 2 things I might do if I were remixing the MP3 is to put a bit of echo, reverb or whatever on the nice vocal track, to add some depth. I might also cut out the synth drum-percussion - I think the song would stand up well as a "ballad", where it would depend mostly on the piano/organ keyboard parts.

I don't know how familiar you are to the forum here, but the "big guy", hahaha! (Mike) is German and many of the members here speak German to various degrees. I noticed Justine's Besonic page was "auf deutsch". So if Justine wants to drop by, this is an international, relaxed & fun forum to talk about music and other cool stuff.

If she doesn't feel comfortable in English, Mike has a sub-forum here GERMAN ARTISTS FORUM (auf deutsch)

But I find that the folks who gather here from around the world do fine in comminicating with each other. Many of them speak English much better than I do! hahaha! It embarasses me!!

Good cover song by Justine. It's not an easy tune to handle, but she does it very well!

RonOnGuitar · Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Posts: 1916

Just adding a link to the English page at BeSonic for this song:

Justine - "Whiter Shade Of Pale"

questionnaire · Joined: 29 May 2003 Posts: 640

.... how's it going?

Justine's got a good voice, she just needs to keep going, do lots of gigs and recording sessions, learn to be a bit more expressive.

I'd be interested to hear her original material

bbchris

I'm so glad I took the time to play Justine's song. Anything recommended by Betti has gotta be good! She's got potential. I found her recording slightly muddy and my ears wanted to hear Justine more clearly. Send her Mymp3 board's best wishes!! :banana

Tell her we want to hear MORE!

RonOnGuitar · Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Posts: 1916

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I found her recording slightly muddy and my ears wanted to hear Justine more clearly

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I'm guessing that it's in the mix, a bit too much lower and middle brightness. I played with it a bit to kick up Justine's vocal and adding some echo. But since the tracks are locked together on an MP3, it also echoed the lower "duumm!" of the drum track which muddied it up.

I think her vocal fits the song almost perfectly, "Pale" is a strange, downbeat tune and a tough one to cover.

Higher volume & a tad of echo on the voice track, keep the piano, organ keyboards and lowered hi-hat. Drop the perscussion's program medium-buttom parts - the keyboards carry that well enough. Maybe add an acousstic guitar?

I don't know if this is Justine's first effort - if so, she's got a great start! I liked it.