How to post a .wav file so you guys can listen to my stuff and hopefully help me???

[pisces7378]

How can I get a stereo .wav file of to you guys so that you can listen to my stuff and tell me what I am doing wrong? I know all about posting MP3's and being able to get MP3's from Kazaa etc. But since I am really talking about very sensitive changes, and subtle things here, wouldn't an MP3 not do my questions justice?

I have a bad ass DSL connection, so the upload/download time would not be eternal. The song(s) is/are only around 3 1/2-4 min. long so we are not talking about a 20GB file here.

I just have recorded a new acoustic guitar track using my AKG C-451-B stereo pair of mic's, and I did vocal track on my Rode NTK. Actually I did one vocal track. Then, based on MANY suggestions from people on this and other recording websites, I went back and sang over myself on another track, (it took me ages to get the two parts to sound similar enough to "pass as a single take") and then I panned the two mono vocal tracks full left and right. It makes the sound wider, and fuller, but it has a sort of hallow, "singing in the bathroom" sounding feel. Even though the pitch, attack, and release of the words are within reason identical... there is still this wort of odd... "something ain't right" feeling to it. I tried it with no signal processing... I tried it with both vocal tracks being left dead center. I tried it at 45 degrees apart... I tried it with EQ, Reverb, a soft-medium-and hard Limiter... No matter what, it never blends in to sounding like a single track. Or even close.

Anyway... how can I get this .wav file to someone that recommended this method to me? Hell I would settle for MP3/// but I have NO idea how to convert a .wav file to an MP3, and post it on the internet...

I have no website. I only have a Hotmail e-mail account. What can I do?

Thank guys!

 

[Razor1548]

You will need to have some web space, or use an online hosting service. I just use my own webspace so I don't know any hosting services off-hand, but I am sure someone else here can recommend one.

Your ISP probably gives you some web space. What company connects you to the internet?

 

[ssscientist]

I can give you some advice right now without the advantage of hearing the track.

Try mixing one behind the other with darker EQ (-3 db @ 6kHz -10kHz w.wide Q) and some small room or chamber reverb with the reverb time tight enough to not spill over the end of each word / phrase / line. It's never going to sound like one vocal - the idea of doing this is to make it sound cool. If you really don't like the way it sounds, pick one vocal track and go with it.

 

[Garry Sharp]

Wav files run at 10MB or so a minute - a lot even for braodband. MP3's will get you a lot of help - look at the quality of comment in the Clinic, so I'd go that route.

To make MP3's from wave files, I use a free programme called CD Ex - http://www.cdex.n3.net/. There are plenty of others, and I'm no expert on the ins and outs of it, but this one is easy to use and does it for me.

To host your new files, just sign up at www.nowhereradio.com - you can get 15MB (which is approximately 15 minutes if you encode at 128kbps) free.

That's it, you're all set.