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I've been using Reaper all year long and mainly recording things without BIAB. (Just EZ Drummer, my own guitars, bass, and voice.) But last year, I put a LOT of songs into BIAB but didn't record them.
Now I'm doing some of that.
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Go for it !!.... this as Floyd has said , is hard to make out the Lyrics !! not be long tho !! .
till your posting every week .
And you will have our in house critique !! who pays for mastering , commenting on your sounds !.
All that for free!!
What a deal !!
Take care ! Thanks, beatmaster. I'll be posting more soon. Really having some trouble deciding how to set vocals in a mix. I've never been a big fan of my own voice, and once upon a time when I sent out demos to record companies, a noted producer sent me a handwritten note informing me no one would ever listen to a demo with my voice on it, so forget about that! I'm older now and more accepting of my voice. It's not great but it has some character and I gravitate to songwriters who aren't the best singers, so there may be hope for some of my songs yet!
"If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often." Leonard Cohen
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Welcome, Milkweed. Wonderful start and I'll be spending more time listening to your YouTube channel. Thank you, Marty! At this point, there is more on my YouTube channel without BiaB than with it. But that's about to change... 
"If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often." Leonard Cohen
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I don't think vocal reverb or echo is an issue, part of the song is understandable some is not.
I just think you need to do some more vocal takes, perhaps a verse at a time, or even a phrase at a time. You could loop multiple takes and comp it (compile by using the best part of each take).
An example of where the words were not legible.
Gulped coffee by the pot
Now my head hurts, I don't feel so hot
Boo-hoo.
I couldn't get any of that. Just a performance issue mostly. Taking some words out might help also. "Gulped","Now" and "I" could go and with fewer words you should be able to enunciate better. "Boo-hoo" in your low register may be problematic, you're singing that as one word, probably need to separate it as two words for it to be understandable.
This one is also hard to understand.
Nothing I can't get past
Just want a punchy and fast
Song
To roll me along
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I don't think vocal reverb or echo is an issue, part of the song is understandable some is not.
I just think you need to do some more vocal takes, perhaps a verse at a time, or even a phrase at a time. You could loop multiple takes and comp it (compile by using the best part of each take). Thanks, Frank. That makes sense. I often do a guitar part several times to get it right but tend to do a vocal all in one pass. Need more experience recording vocals. It's especially hard for me to keep an eye on the level meter WHILE singing. (For starters, I often close my eyes when I sing or else look up toward the ceiling.) Better mic technique should come with practice, practice, practice.
"If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often." Leonard Cohen
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welcomes, nice geetar licks.
all i might suggest is on this song lowering the voc effects a tad. and experiment with dry vs fx....
Thank you, OM. That's good advice. I'll try that. I notice now---after having recorded vocals for a half dozen or so recent songs in Reaper--that it makes a big difference which fx were used and how much they were used. Had not doubled tracks the way you suggest. I'll give that a try. (I have sung the same vocal twice and used both tracks for a chorus part.) Thanks!
"If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often." Leonard Cohen
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Mark.
do you know bout reaps parent/child trak feature ?
very usefull for comping vocs.
experiment with folder traks and indented child traks
under parent folder trak in reaps.
so name parent folder on lhs of reaps "LEAD VOCS".
then...child1...name take1
.......child2....name take1fx.
.......child3....name take2
.......child4....name take2fx
.......child5....name take 3
etc etc and...
1. experiment with reaps faders on lhs.
eg take1fx under take1 dry. also experiment with sliding traks. as i mentioned.
2. the above can be usefull in testing out fx, and see what might work.
3. dont forget the amp sims built into reaps.
used slightly under a dry voc trak can introduce character into vocs. its all experimental.
hth/ymmv
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my songs....mixed for good earbuds...(fyi..my vocs on all songs..) https://soundcloud.com/alfsongs(90 songs created useing bb/rb) (lots of tips of mine in pg tips forum.)
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Mark.
do you know bout reaps parent/child trak feature ? No, OM, I knew nothing about it. Thanks for the lowdown on that. I have a few tracks I'm working on that will need some vocals next week and I'll try this, see what happens. I've done six or seven songs lately (but only a couple use BiaB, so the others won't be posted here) and tried out some different approaches to vocals. I'm learning what sounds good to me and getting a little more comfortable recording vocals, so I expect to see a lot of improvement in vocal tracks over the next several months. "Life is for learning."
"If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often." Leonard Cohen
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I aint been around lately, just catching up on some good songs.
Sounds like grumpy fun1
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I aint been around lately, just catching up on some good songs.
Sounds like grumpy fun!
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I aint been around lately, just catching up on some good songs.
Sounds like grumpy fun1
moto Thanks!
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