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GunslingerGirl - The Light Before we Land (cover)
by Smudge
Traditional Artist
14 years ago
Okay folks - don't laugh at my feeble attempt at singing too hard. lol!
Just got some new sound equipment today so that I can record voice-overs for movie/animation work and wanted to test it out. So, I tried singing - something I use to do a lot but had to stop for various reasons and now... I suck at it. While I held most of it, there was a few notes that you can tell I was reaching for.
Guess it just means I have to practice a bit more. Go-go Hobbies that don't involve my hands! ^.^
This is a pure vocal cover of 'The Light Before We Land' by The Delgados and was used for the opening of Gunslinger Girl, which you can see HERE
Oh! to anyone who does actually listen to this (all 2 of you) - if you hear any buzzing or 60watt hums - or it was simply not clear - tell me. Sometimes when your listening to something over and over- you can miss the little things...
Just got some new sound equipment today so that I can record voice-overs for movie/animation work and wanted to test it out. So, I tried singing - something I use to do a lot but had to stop for various reasons and now... I suck at it. While I held most of it, there was a few notes that you can tell I was reaching for.
Guess it just means I have to practice a bit more. Go-go Hobbies that don't involve my hands! ^.^
This is a pure vocal cover of 'The Light Before We Land' by The Delgados and was used for the opening of Gunslinger Girl, which you can see HERE
Oh! to anyone who does actually listen to this (all 2 of you) - if you hear any buzzing or 60watt hums - or it was simply not clear - tell me. Sometimes when your listening to something over and over- you can miss the little things...
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use a noise gate. There is ambient noise at the beginning. What DAW do you use?
I did not hear any hint of 60hz hum. You did seem to be singing very close to the mike, presumably for a sultry sound.
I find listening to notes or singing on earplugs while I sing helps me keep pitch better; my voice is better doing funny puppets than singing. Try it.
Right now, I have a Shure AXS 3 mic connected to my Avid MoblePre and recording directly into Sony Vegas Studio Platinum 6, though I suppose I could use Audacity as well. I know the former really well, but it has extremely basic audio stuff (it's mostly for movie making) where the latter would would do better, but I know little about it. Except for a quick trim of dead space in-front and behind the audio, what's posted here is untouched.
Basically you set a volume floor on the plugin. When the only sound is below that floor (just a little above the background hiss) the gate closes, and absolute silence is what you get.
One of the first lessons you learn in multitracking is that ALL of the hiss from the microphones, the keyboards, the guitars, the amps, everything adds up. And after only 4 tracks it builds up so loud that you want to tear your ears off. Noise gates are the solution -- if there is no noise until an actual voice/instrument is making sound, you don't have noise to add together.
Since you are familiar with Sony stuff, consider getting ACID music studio 8. It's dedicated to sound production whereas you are using a video tool right now.