Would you be able to explain what diphthong means?!
It's the sound of two vowels together. When someone says toy, they say too-eee.
There's a popular trend of manufacturing these as you do in 'God' (goid) and 'us' (ois).
I suppose I shouldn't criticise too hard. Everyone's doing it. I just happen to hate it!
And I've always liked the idea of making covers but never thought I was good enough.
You are, and you should.
Do you write, too?
What kind of gear would you recommend? I just recorded this quickly one night on my old laptop's voice memo app but I do have a microphone. It's a Blue Yeti Nano which was purchased for my computer awhile back though so I doubt that would do the trick for recording instrumentals and vocals but correct me if I'm wrong!
The Yeti probably wouldn't be recommended if you just turned up with a budget and a dream, but it should be good enough for starting off.
Certainly it should be cleaner and clearer than the laptop recording.
If you prefer to play and sing simultaneously and want some degree of separation between instrument and voice for editing/manipulating,
then multiple mics would be preferable in the long run.
Whether that's your preference or not, I guess you could start out with the yeti and experiment, and see how it goes.
Your clip sounds quite roomy so maybe consider recording in a room with more dense material...furniture, a loaded bookshelf..something like that,
although I guess if the attached clip was recorded on a laptop it probably wasn't very close; Distance/position alone makes a big difference.