Need Rating for Vocals

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The song hasn't been mixed or mastered or anything like that...

I just need a rating for the vocals...

I'm having trouble coming to terms with my voice and I just wanted to know if my voice is good enough for singing.

Thanks a lot.
 

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1) Can't hear the vocals in this mix very well. They are mixed too low and with too much reverb.
2) The music is pretty good.
3) Post this in the Singing forum for feedback on vocals, but remix it first.
 
I'm having trouble coming to terms with my voice and I just wanted to know if my voice is good enough for singing.

If you need to drown it in that much reverb when it's already so low in the mix, then probably not. That's all I can offer as I can't really hear them, as already pointed out.
 
If you need to drown it in that much reverb when it's already so low in the mix, then probably not. That's all I can offer as I can't really hear them, as already pointed out.

Drowning indeed. I don't think I heard any vocals, I think I just heard vocal effects. Dude, if Tom Delonge can't carry a tune in a bucket, but that doesn't seem to have stopped his ability to attain massive success. Don't be so self conscious. Peel back the 10 layers plugins on the vocals until your voice can actually be heard and just put it out there. Great songwriting can help make up for just okay vocals... unless you sound like William Hung, which I don't think you do from what little I can hear behind that wall of noise covering your vocals.
 
Ditto on what's already been said. First, vocals are an instrument that you play. 99.9% of everybody's voices are good enough to sing professionally, but most people haven't invested the time and effort to learn how to play that instrument. Your voice is not fundamentally different from Bruce Springsteen's. He's just expended more effort learning how to use it, and he has better engineers.
Secondly, vocals are a thing that (usually) involves *words*. Sometimes, when you mix vocals as if they were an instrument, you get a well balanced mix that sounds fine, but no one has a clue what you said. You can't hide behind reverb. Like they said, clean it up, stick it out there, and live with it.
Finally, a couple of points on technique- Your pitch is pretty good, once you find it. You have a tendency to start a word or a phrase flat, and then slide to the correct note. Practice hitting that note right from the get-go. You're not a trombone. Finally, clean up your diction. Say the word *bigger*, not *louder*, as if you were talking to someone that is hearing disabled, or speaks a foreign language. Stop worrying about your voice, and start worrying about how to sing better. Good luck.-Richie
 
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everybody's pretty much narrowed down on what i was going to say.
 
Great songwriting can help make up for just okay vocals...

Great point right here. (Also agreed on the example of Tom Delonge, talented songwriter but his voice is like nails on a chalkboard for me)

You can learn to write songs that both support and partially mask a weak singing voice. Look at some of the songwriters considered the best...Bob Dylan, Neil Young, etc Not exactly velvety smooth but it hasn't stopped them.

Then there's writers who use really odd voices to create their own style almost...Tom Waits, dude from the B-52's.

There's current pop singers too who wouldn't be considered great singers but they just write to support their voice...Adam Levine from Maroon 5 comes to mind.
 
Pitch seems to be there, but I can't distinguish what you're singing 'cos you're so faaaaaaarrrrr awaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy............
I've heard worse voices.
 
your voice is good enough for singing

it just needs some work
 
let your voice be heard or produce instrumentals...I choose mainly the later :)
 
Voice sounds decent enough...like everyone else said you have to remove most of the verb on the vocals...vocals also sound panned to the left...should be more in the center.
 
From what I could hear, vox sounded OK but it did also sound like you were singing thee lead part from the bathroom about a hundred yards behind the rest of the band, which was really rather strange
 
The vocals don't sound like you spent enough time recording them and that you tried to cover up poor recordings with effects.

I've had experiences where I just couldn't get certain songs to click vocally. Something about the time of the song or some aspect of the song was throwing me off. If it was slightly off from how I heard it in my head it just wouldn't connect for some reason.

What I found was to listen to the song over and over for a few weeks and rehearse different ways of singing it until I found melodies that I really liked. Sounds like a lot of work, but will pay off when you go back to record the vocals right. You'll probably only need compression, a little EQ and a slight delay and it'll be the shit.

As it is, sounds bad. :D
 
More vocal....less reverb! Listen to cd's more to sense how much vocal comes through and shoot for that?

Best wishes,

Lloyd
 
it's a good song but you could use a real drummer too. a good real drummer would make this song really so much better than it already is.

:)
 
Can't add much to what's already been said. Under all that reverb it sounds like your singing voice is pretty good. Seems like pitch and strength are there.

You haven't mixed it yet? Where'd all that verb come from?
 
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