14-11-2014, 05:17 AM
I really liked what you did on your version Mike_K! I think you managed to get a great tone out of these bad takes!
I do have better mics (Blue Sparks and ADK Hamburg, which is a very nice condenser) but somehow I didn't like it the sound I got from them when I tracked a first version of that song (might have been a bad day too!
), so I tried the SM57, like it better, and abused the proximity effect, and of course I realized much later how bad an idea it was... oh! well. I won't do it again, for sure.
I agree that I don't think this song needed doubled vocals. I do that regularly for other songs, but this one just didn't fit the bill IMHO.
I do use headphones, but I'm can't say I'm really comfortable singing with them. I usually set the music level quite low so that I hear myself in the room more than from the mix return. I even considered tracking with no headphones in front of my monitors and using phase cancellation to negate the room later. I still have to experiment with it.
And yes, I need to practice singing! I feel much more of a musician than a singer
I do have better mics (Blue Sparks and ADK Hamburg, which is a very nice condenser) but somehow I didn't like it the sound I got from them when I tracked a first version of that song (might have been a bad day too!
), so I tried the SM57, like it better, and abused the proximity effect, and of course I realized much later how bad an idea it was... oh! well. I won't do it again, for sure.I agree that I don't think this song needed doubled vocals. I do that regularly for other songs, but this one just didn't fit the bill IMHO.
I do use headphones, but I'm can't say I'm really comfortable singing with them. I usually set the music level quite low so that I hear myself in the room more than from the mix return. I even considered tracking with no headphones in front of my monitors and using phase cancellation to negate the room later. I still have to experiment with it.
And yes, I need to practice singing! I feel much more of a musician than a singer
"Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something." - Frank Zappa
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