Majestic Is Your Name, a song created by Terry Tornblom, words adapted from Psalm 8.
I am honored and grateful to be asked by Terry, to sing and interpret his beautiful musical composition of this beautiful psalm.
This song is dedicated to all the suffering peoples of our world!!!
Feedback greatly appreciated.
Don’t see you use a capo much 
You have mastered keeping all the wonderful lows of your voice shining through. The acoustic is in that same frequency range and usually they fight. So kudo’s to you for that. Good church tune for sure. It’s all good bud
Hi feaker,
I do have 2 guitars that I tuned down to “Eb” and even “D”.
I did not realize that low vocals and guitar freqs are in the same range.
Good to know that.
Love your comments, and thanks to Terry Tornblom for this beautiful song, and for asking me to be a part of this great tune.
I actually sped this song up a bit, as the message is quite joyful.
Thanks Paul!!!
Rene
Yes, they certainly can be. You’d have to look at it on a case-by-case basis. You’re playing up the neck with the capo (key of B?) which may clash less with low vocals, but probably not by that much. Keep in mind that 2nd and 3rd harmonics of tonic notes are bouncing all over everything all the time. Vocals and guitar can clash in a lot of areas when you consider harmonics, but in a mix you’d likely have to compromise and just deal with the most problematic areas. Offhand, I’d say maybe 200-400 Hz is where this is happening, but as I said it can vary by situation.
That said, I assume you are recording vocals and guitar into one microphone. I don’t know if you are putting some stereo emphasis on there initially, but it sounds like you have some stereo reverb on the whole thing that is giving that impression. In the video software ‘post’ process? If you could do an EQ in ‘post’ also, ‘sweep’ in that 200-400 Hz range to find the most offending frequency - you could cut that a little bit and it might help. It’s not going to separate the vocal and guitar clash - you’d have to have single tracks with some isolation to do that in a mix - but it might reduce the emphasis. Once you find that one frequency (or as close as you can come), you can look in the octaves for harmonic overtones. There are charts that will show you the octaves of frequencies or notes. And if you don’t know how to ‘sweep’ an EQ, there are lots of tutorial videos on YouTube.
For this format, I assume you’re not going to go to those lengths, this is basically a singer-songwriter live performance IMO, but I thought I’d elaborate on Paul’s point. This song does show some qualities and range in your voice that I don’t think I have heard in some of your other recordings. It seems like it makes you ‘stretch’ a bit to sing and enunciate it, which brings a nice experience of your abilities.
I am not religious, but I appreciate the sentiment, and you did a bang up job performancewise and recordingwise that I feel is spot on, Rene.
Mind you, I’m no technical pro, but I didn’t hear any glaring or even subtle errors. Maybe it could be improved by what was suggested, so try it if you can.
Hi Stan,
Wow!
What intricate world EQ and freqs really are!!!
I am focused on making my set-up as simple as possible, and as applicable to “live performance” as can be.
And this information is very useful and can be of help for me in the future, as I see issues.
I use 2 microphones, which I am hiding from the camera, one for vocals, and one for guitar.
I also do not have separate tracks, both my microphones are fed into my mixer, and have a little bit of room reverb applied built-in from the mixer.
Thank you for the detailed definitions and description of this complicated and very important aspects of musical recording, specifically vocals and guitar application.
Respectfully,
Rene
Hi steban,
You are so appreciated.
Terry did a fabulous job on this song, and I am so happy to be a part of this song production.
At this time, I am not going to make a lot of changes in my set-up, as I am currently focused on song compositions and recordings. I am currently satisfied with my simplistic set-up, which is actually producing decent recordings.
Thank you for your wonderful feedback!!!
Respectfully,
Rene
Rene,
Not clear to me who wrote the guitar chords (whether it was you or Terry), but they sound really good! Did Terry write it on guitar or some other instrument? Wish I could sing & play guitar decently at the same time. People that are very good at particular things make it look easy, and you’re one of them (haha), and I know it’s not easy because I can’t do that. Very nice song, singing, and recording!
Hi Aaron,
Always great to hear from you!
Terry sent me a video file of his song with him sining and playing the guitar.
His interpretation is much slower, and his chords are also slightly different, but he melody and notes of the song are the same.
When I interpret songs, I always try to keep the melody the same, but my guitar playing will be a bit different, and the chords will be vary a bit as well.
Terry gave me the option to change things up, including the melody, but I kept the melody, and sang it a bit livelier and congregation-friendly. He did a wonderful job on this song.
Thank you, as always!!!
Rene
I am super impressed with how you guys wrote this. I’d actually love to hear how you guys worked out the progression, etc. It seems like so many songs these days stick to the 3 or 4 chord structure with very little variation, particularly in the praise/worship/CCM genre. What’s most impressive about this one is that although the structure is slightly more complex, you did a great job of maintaining a sing-along/hummable (is that a word?), catchy tune. Well done yet again. 
I totally agree!
Hi holster,
Terry did a terrific job on this song, and he picked a truly majestic set of words in psalm 8. I agree, most worship songs are 3 chords. I tried to maintain the melody of the song, but I did make it my own and sped the song up a bit, so to become a congregation song. Your comments are “spot-on”, and really love the super “compliments”!!!
Thank you.
Respectfully,
Rene