White Wedding - Cover

[Psycho Clown]

I've been trying to refine my vocal recording techniques and this is one of my latest experiments.

It's basically just me singing to a ready made backing track, but it was only done for the vocal part of the exercise anyway.
I chose this song because it has quiet bits and noisy bits and I wanted to do it all in one take.
OK, yes it does clip towards the end but I can make excuses for that by pretending it was supposed to sound like that in the shouty bit.

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Thoughts anyone?
Have I got it anywhere close or how can I improve it?

Whether improvement involves the recording or the production side (only the vocal though, there's not a lot I can do with the backing track)... I'm open to ideas, information, knowledge or guesswork.

Here to learn.

Cheers

 

[fuzzsniffvoyage]

Doesn't sound to bad to me. Maybe a little much on the reverb. Probably not the best song choice for the tone of your voice.

 

[ido1957]

Not bad - probably equal to any bar band singer I've seen over the years. This is a tough song to nail as the vocals are either really low or screamin high. There's no middle ground. Low range vocals take a lot of voice control. And screaming is tough to do and retain melody.

 

[RockinRobby]

I tried to listen, but SC was on its knees for me for some reason. A favrite of mine, I'll try again another time.

 

[Psycho Clown]

Doesn't sound to bad to me. Maybe a little much on the reverb. Probably not the best song choice for the tone of your voice.

Yes, I'm a big fan of reverb (preferably "too much" according to a few sound engineers I worked alongside in studios )
But I've always been of the opinion that "too much" is subjective, unless of course the frequencies in the reverb are getting in the way of other sounds or making it sound like what ever is reverbing (made up word) is too far away within the mix.
In this instance, I've tried to get it so that the vocal sits well in the pre-mixed track instead of sounding like it was stuck on afterwards. Do you think I've got that wrong? or is it just that the original didn't have so much?
I'm not disagreeing with you, just wanting to pin down some of the possible technical issues that hopefully will lead to me improving my ear and getting my possible over enthusiasm for reverb under control in the future.
Thanks for giving it a listen and providing some feedback, it's appreciated.

On the issues of it not being the best song for the tone of my voice. Yes, you're probably right there too.
I'm basically a rockabilly guy and have been doing that for 30 years in various bands.
When I record at home (and most of the songs I write myself), I like to get away from what I normally do and thereby hope to learn more by entering unfamiliar territory. Sometimes the juxtaposition of two styles can work really well, sometimes not so much.

Not bad - probably equal to any bar band singer I've seen over the years. This is a tough song to nail as the vocals are either really low or screamin high. There's no middle ground. Low range vocals take a lot of voice control. And screaming is tough to do and retain melody.

Thanks
Yes tough to nail indeed. In this particular case I was more concerned with the quality of the recording than with the quality of my singing and it's certainly not meant to be a Billy Idol impersonation. Maybe that sounds like an excuse but really, this was just me trying to improve my recording technique. OK, so a part of that technique will include choosing appropriate content to record, but like I said above to Fuzzsniffvoyage, I like to get out my comfort zone and play in unfamiliar territory.
So to that end, the song was chosen because it is either extremely quiet or extremely shouty.
I was really expecting some comments about my overuse of the maximiser or too much compression as I did crank these up a lot to be able to get the whole song in one take (I say one take, I actually sung it through about 15 times, but the take I chose was then one of those takes from start to finish with no edit). But I'm guessing that the maximiser/compression thing isn't an issue if no one has picked up on it... which is good to know.
Thanks.

I tried to listen, but SC was on its knees for me for some reason. A favrite of mine, I'll try again another time.

Yes, please do, thanks for trying.

 

[janeparachutes]

good. better than most covers i've heard online, that's for sure. you should keep it up. there aren't many pitch problems. the most noticeable is the second verse, "who's the only one" line, "the" needs to be fixed. the end could be touched up as well. i disagree with the person above who said this song didn't fit your voice, though, because i think it does.