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Dave DeWhitt
Hey, thanks everyone. I'm really loving all of the great feedback and interaction on hr.com....very cool!
kcearl, thanks for checking it out. No offense at all on the radio comment, that's exactly what I was going for, so I'm glad it seems to be hitting the mark in that regard. I really have to figure out the vocal thing. I'm thinking it might be something I can tame with a very judicious use of EQ, if only I can find the magic frequency to target and cut. I hate to cut the overall level, but if that ends up being the answer then that's what I'll do.
Thanks Squibble94, glad you liked the solo. I had fun with the wah on that one
Guitar Zero, I appreciate the listen. I don't know about the available for purchase question. For now, I've just been doing this for fun, and I haven't really thought much about doing anything more with the tunes besides just sharing them and trying to get better at writing and recording. Lately though, I have been wondering about joining TAXI or something to see if maybe I could sell a song or two, and this one was my first attempt to create a song with that goal in mind. I think this one is pretty commercial, so if I can manage to write another one or two in a similar vein, I may just try that to see what happens. It sure would be nice to make a little money doing this instead of always just spending it
Hey Brad, the backing vocal thing is not hard, it just takes a decent number of tracks and some patience. Basically, I set aside about 8 - 16 tracks, depending on how "Mutt Lange" I want them to sound (although I think he probably set aside at least 24 tracks for this stuff). Then I do the high harmonies and double them on about 6 of the tracks and then the low ones and double them on about 8 of the tracks. I typically pan them all over to try to get a nice stereo spread, but I try to balance them, so if I pan two high ones left, I also pan two high ones right, and ditto with the low ones.
I think there are a couple of keys with this type of thing: 1) You have to be really picky about being sure the timing of each doubled line is exactly the same as the original harmony, especially the start and end of the phrase 2) Pitch should be good, but exactness is not super critical because you get a natural phasey type of sound if they are slightly out of pitch and time anyway, which I think works well for this type of backup vocal 3) I used to have to record my backups like this and then bounce in order to save tracks and processing power at mixdown, and depending on your setup that may be the only way to get this to work without getting dropouts and errors. Luckily for me, I recently upgraded to a screamin' fast Mac Pro, so I just let the tracks rip now in Logic, which is really nice
Let me know if any of that isn't clear, and I'll definitely try to do a better job explaining.
Thanks again everyone for listening!
Best Regards,
Dave DeWhitt
http://www.soundclick.com/davedewhitt
kcearl, thanks for checking it out. No offense at all on the radio comment, that's exactly what I was going for, so I'm glad it seems to be hitting the mark in that regard. I really have to figure out the vocal thing. I'm thinking it might be something I can tame with a very judicious use of EQ, if only I can find the magic frequency to target and cut. I hate to cut the overall level, but if that ends up being the answer then that's what I'll do.
Thanks Squibble94, glad you liked the solo. I had fun with the wah on that one
Guitar Zero, I appreciate the listen. I don't know about the available for purchase question. For now, I've just been doing this for fun, and I haven't really thought much about doing anything more with the tunes besides just sharing them and trying to get better at writing and recording. Lately though, I have been wondering about joining TAXI or something to see if maybe I could sell a song or two, and this one was my first attempt to create a song with that goal in mind. I think this one is pretty commercial, so if I can manage to write another one or two in a similar vein, I may just try that to see what happens. It sure would be nice to make a little money doing this instead of always just spending it
Hey Brad, the backing vocal thing is not hard, it just takes a decent number of tracks and some patience. Basically, I set aside about 8 - 16 tracks, depending on how "Mutt Lange" I want them to sound (although I think he probably set aside at least 24 tracks for this stuff
). Then I do the high harmonies and double them on about 6 of the tracks and then the low ones and double them on about 8 of the tracks. I typically pan them all over to try to get a nice stereo spread, but I try to balance them, so if I pan two high ones left, I also pan two high ones right, and ditto with the low ones. I think there are a couple of keys with this type of thing: 1) You have to be really picky about being sure the timing of each doubled line is exactly the same as the original harmony, especially the start and end of the phrase 2) Pitch should be good, but exactness is not super critical because you get a natural phasey type of sound if they are slightly out of pitch and time anyway, which I think works well for this type of backup vocal 3) I used to have to record my backups like this and then bounce in order to save tracks and processing power at mixdown, and depending on your setup that may be the only way to get this to work without getting dropouts and errors. Luckily for me, I recently upgraded to a screamin' fast Mac Pro, so I just let the tracks rip now in Logic, which is really nice
Let me know if any of that isn't clear, and I'll definitely try to do a better job explaining.
Thanks again everyone for listening!
Best Regards,
Dave DeWhitt
http://www.soundclick.com/davedewhitt
