Vocals with harmonys.

[bazzlad]

Here's a song you should all know, and I did a different take on it, I only did the vocals, so no feedback on the instrumentation please!

cheers,
Rich

 

[darnold]

I hear a big puff of air noise at the beginning of the song. Your really flat in alot of places. Sounds like your really stretching your vocal chords when your hitting the high notes. Try using more air instead of pinching the vocal chords. Sounds like your holding back in general. Use air and let it come out, let it flow. The harmonies sound really distant compared to the lead vocals.

Danny

 

[chrisharris]

so no feedback on the instrumentation please!

Ok...deal.

 

[bazzlad]

I hear a big puff of air noise at the beginning of the song. Your really flat in alot of places. Sounds like your really stretching your vocal chords when your hitting the high notes. Try using more air instead of pinching the vocal chords. Sounds like your holding back in general. Use air and let it come out, let it flow. The harmonies sound really distant compared to the lead vocals.

Danny

The puff and distance is due to a single sm57 sans pop shield in a big unpadded room. Same reason for holding back, putting effort in with the set-up I have at the mo is risky, I can only hard limit AFTER the performance, which I swear can't be a good thing. I'd like a real time - software limiter, IF such a thing exists, else I'll have to buy a box I suppose.

There are two vocals, any that are flat are the other guy

As for the harmonies, they're only really distant in the first verse, where they're an octave higher, and were meant to be very faint....

I'll take note of the technique you mentioned and give it a try, but this was an exercise in recording and mixing harmonies, rather than a vocal show piece, although I'll probably redo it when I get round to buying a nice condenser mic!

Cheers for the feedback,
Rich

 

[chrisharris]

There are two vocals, any that are flat are the other guy

Hahahaha...nice one.

 

[brummygit]

can hear a good voice there, but... but...but

steve tyler (some may disagree) is an exceptional singer with an un-natural range and vocal ability for a man....i doubt anyone would be able to cover this as good as he did it, so nice one for trying
do your own tunes, and seriously, you'll be very good

if you DO wanna do this again for a proper cover, dont over-emphasise the first syllable of every word. get a pop shield on there too (or a pair of tights stretched over a metal coathanger)

back to the point (that you actually asked for lol) the sound quality is good, until the end bit when you sing the higher bits. being non-technical, i dunno what happened there, but sounded a bit dodgy.
also, sounds like you sang karaokee. pop some reverb on your vocals so that your vocal line sit in the mix more, rather than sounding like music and vocals have been thrown together to 'see what happens'.

but where you sing in your range and comfort, youre good. where you go out of it, youre not so good. practice will sort that out. i aint a good singer, but MY GOD, i listened to old demos i did before i started recording properly and i nearly fuckin cried!! they were awful!!

still. i probably still never answered your question properly did i?

cheers

 

[bazzlad]

back to the point (that you actually asked for lol) the sound quality is good, until the end bit when you sing the higher bits. being non-technical, i dunno what happened there, but sounded a bit dodgy.

I added a fair bit of chorus to blend the twin vocals I did. Didn't work did it???


I agree Steve Tyler is amazing, and I didn't do a straight cover simply because of the gruffness he has is lacking!

I'm still learning to sing properly. I've only been singing for 12 months, due to me kicking my vocalist out due to him wanting lyric writing ability. That he didn't have. But for 12 months the improvement has been immense, I'm a natural guitar and drum player, so vocals won't take too long to improve I hope! As you said, they're good in my comfort range

Cheers for the feedback again!

 

[brummygit]

I'm still learning to sing properly. I've only been singing for 12 months, due to me kicking my vocalist out due to him wanting lyric writing ability. That he didn't have. But for 12 months the improvement has been immense, I'm a natural guitar and drum player, so vocals won't take too long to improve I hope! As you said, they're good in my comfort range

me too mate, im a guitarist that just got bored playing guitar so got into writing and recording too whilst on the hunt for a band. listen, if i send you a demo of my first ever recording, youd wanna shoot me and would seriously wet yourself laughing at how bad it actually is. and whilst im still not very good so dont claim to be a singer, i do really appreciate how much you can get by just practicing by keep going and going and testing your range. i just keep going on, cos some of my songs are a little personal to me, therefore i wouldnt feel right letting someone else singing them with me backing so im determined....keep going mate!!

maybe its just me, but the only things i use on vocals are compression and reverb (occasionally a de-esser but mildly). i never use autotune (cos its expensive for poor people like me that splashed out on Logic Pro for a fooking hobby!) or chorus (only on my guitar, but mildly). and dont know anything about EQ, so i leave that for the experts...lol

keep it up tho buddy. taking away the parts of that tune that were out of your comfort zone, you had me convinced you could pull it off. and i never cringed either like the last time i heard someone trying that in the pub karaokee...