Feedback requested - my recording of Hallelujah (Buckley inspired)

thecolourbox · March 2020

As a result of distancing etc, I was playing my piano earlier when I found myself singing an old Crystal Gayle song. My mom is quite a fan so I sent her a video of it, asking if she had any requests as I can't see her at the moment due to Corona, it being Mothers Day tomorrow. She said she liked when I did Hallelujah, so I thought as I've not much else to do, I'd have a go at the Buckley version of it for her.

So yes, I know it's a blatant rip off of his version, but I wanted to practice parallel reverbs and stuff, and my singing whilst standing up, and getting a nice sound out of my home set up etc. So thought I'd do it pretty much straight but with a verse cut out and instrumental bits shortened. I know it's a cheesy choice, but my mom requested it so there you go.

Please could I ask for some feedback. Appreciate my vocals are a bit rusty at the moment but my throat has been a bit restricted of late (not corona!!!).

Here it is:

Boring set up stuff:
Guitar - Squier VM Mustang, into Digitech GSP1101 on Fender Twin model, into a bassy Marshall 4x12 IR. Reverb on left channel, dry on right.
Vocals - Cheap basic USB condenser mic.
Recorded into Audacity, guitar straight through, vocals mostly straight through ( a few takes to get levels right) but I did re-record part of verse 3 and 4.
Mixed, effects added, and exported etc through Cubase.

Thanks (please be kind, but ideally constructive with it!)

Funkfingers · March 2020

That guitar sounds rather nice.

Whack the vocal through an octave shifter, down twenty four semi-tones, for the full Leonard.

EDIT: On the two-disc Deluxe edition of Live At Sin-É, Buckley Junior has a crack at The Way That Young Lovers Do from the Van Morrison album Astral Weeks. Have you considered interpreting other songs from that album in the Buckley style?

thomasross20 · March 2020

This sounds brilliant, friend. I'd be very proud to have recorded something of that quality - well done.

thecolourbox · March 2020

Very kind gentlemen thank you. @Funkfingers the guitar practically plays itself

although it didn't like the capo! But I suspect that's just a limitation of the scale as much as anything.

I only know the Buckley version of the Van Morrison song to be honest, don't know much else by him except the famous one, and one that a band I like covered which I think was The Them or something? Or do you mean other songs in general in that style? I do play that kind of style a lot to be fair by myself, but as you can tell from my voice in this, my voice is limited in what songs I can do in reachable keys. I have done his cover of I Shall Be Released a few times though and that went alright

Funkfingers · March 2020

Capos are radiused. You probably had a mismatch. Some strings will have been held down better than others.

Astral Weeks … another time, another place, another Ivan. Before he got slick, Americanised and fat, like Elvis.

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