Originally Posted By: Janice & Bud
That is a great and well mixed band. Drums are fine. Almost everybody mixes them too low.
Everything makes for a good soundstage on our KRK's. We aren't cans people smile

Hi, J&B.

Good to hear it works without headphones. I'm using RealPhones to listen to the mix, and they simulate a number of different environments. Unfortunately, I still need to figure out how to make my mixes translate well to my car stereo.

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Nice write also.
"..pieces of our hearts
that won't fit right
we always seem to fight..."

Thanks for mentioning that!

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We were wondering if you've considered adding a bit of vibrato to the vocals?

Yes, but with a caveat.

I've been trying to use the voice as "out of the box" as possible, and still sound good, with the goal of getting it out the door as quickly as possible while keeping the quality high.

The results are good, but as you already know, vocals are key.

I've been spending time listening to some well-tuned songs, and it really makes a difference. But I really haven't put in enough time to learn how to do this well.

Fortunately, a lot songs that are posted as videos show the playback on the song using the Synthesizer V editor, so you can see some of the tuning parameters. So I've been able to learn a couple tricks, so to speak.

Since I'm already a week behind schedule getting the next song done, I'll try to spend additional time on my latest song fine-tuning the vocals and see how that turns out.

At the point where I've got enough skill, I'll probably revisit the other songs and tune them up as well.


Thanks for the comments! smile

-- David Cuny
My virtual singer development blog

Vocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?