As per our telephone conversation:
1. Vocals - usual except I used the same trick as I did for the acoustic guitar - i.e. delayed one side and panned them left and right respectively for backing vocals only.
2. Acoustic guitar - high pass filter, and delayed one side and hard panned - just like backing vocals
3. Tried to add a bit of sparkle to piano - a bit of reverb, VC-64
4. Bass - only VC-64 on this. I wanted to retain a warm woody acoustic sound to go with the song
5. Drums - VC-64 and a bit of reverb
Hopefully this sounds fuller and livelier
Let me have you honest thoughts
picturethoughts
The mix sounds better. Piano sounds louder, drums sound warmer - only problem is the backing vocals - I think there was a reason why they are so low in the mix and that's because they aren't very good. In places they just clash with the main vocals. It may be something we can fix with V-Vocal. The other thing is the backing vocals sound a bit to synthesised - don't know if this is becasue I'm doing falsetto, but it sounds like the really obvious vocal stretching that is done on some Cher songs. Saying that however, the chorus backing vocals really goes well. I think if the backing vocals were a bit lower and in tune it might be OK. The song really needs a little more interest as well, but difficult to know what to do with it. Maybe strings to add some dynamics. But definitely an improvement from the original.