Scott,
A smooth performance in your vocals,though a bit soft & low key,but your falsetto abilities are just what this cover needed.
I particularly like the vocal backing tracks you added-of which I left out,as my falsetto leaves a lot to be desired.
Thom, Just to be clear, there's no falsetto used anywhere on these vocal tracks. I think perhaps you don't understand what falsetto is, or don't quite know how to identify it. I'm getting underneath the breath and singing full voice throughout. I'm singing high notes, yes, I'm singing softly, yes, but no falsetto was used. You would be able to do it too, as you got to these notes full voiced just fine--but as Azell said, you need to relax your throat and mouth and breath correctly. Easier said than done, as those two things alone make up about 90% of vocal instruction.
For the most part,the vocals tracks are overpowered by the music,which is one of the aspects of this recording I would like to change.
Yeah.. I went back and forth on it. I actually had the vocal more forward in the mix just before I sent it, but then decided it was too much. I think I'm second guessing myself too much just because another person's work is involved. I didn't want to overpower your music production.
I'd really like to know what equipment your using-as judging by your website,you seem to have sufficient funding for high end gear.
You are incorrect.
My equipment is nothing special, and I can't really afford anything special either. I'm just a working class Joe with a mortgage and a wife and like most of us, I do music as a hobby.
Getting back to the cover at hand,I would like to create a duet,whereby I would combine both of our vocals together,to give this tune a broader,more lush quality to it...sound like a plan?
Sure.
Will send you the stems today. Do with them what you will.
On a side note...there's one thing I am really curious about,which is,why pitch correction?The reason I ask,is that you have such a skilled voice...so how does this necessitate the use of such a function? Etc...
I'm not sure it's a good idea for me to get wrapped up in this discussion, we seem to fundamentally disagree and debate is not why I came to Kara-Moon, but....
The absence of pitch correction is something I feel very passionate about-as if you use it,you might as well be a lip-sync group like Milli Vanilli
Ouch...
I'll leave it at this. As a pretty decent singer, I feel I'm in a better position than most to comment about pitch correction tools. Besides the fact that they can be used as a very cool effect in their own right (Kesha's "Tik Tok", although surely not everyone's cup of tea, has AMAZING use of pitch manipulation that far transcends just a tool to "correct singing mistakes"), they also can make a bad vocal performance passable, and a good vocal performance VERY good. The fact is, if I'd not brought up the fact that I used it, you would have never known I used it. And if I had used the non-pitch corrected vocal in the mix, it would have been fine, but it wouldn't have been as good as it COULD be. How that's different than the quantize function in correcting imperfect timing, or MIDI instruments for creating music that compliments the playing of your own instrument, or using apeggiators to create musical patterns that you yourself are not capable of playing, or any other studio tool for that matter I'll never understand, but as you say, to each their own.
Thanks again,for you accolades towards my instrumentation & vocals.
And thanks, again, for letting me contribute to your tracks.
Scott
