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Fiverr is good and the result may vary but are very much better than singing out of tune unpleasantly...there is a cost involved. I don't do the 5vr thing though. I have an appalling voice. The more I use it, listen to it and try again the better it becomes - incrementally though. I have a couple of songs that I can listen to and a bunch that I can't. The synth things works pretty well. Find & phone a friend? Establish a relationship with forum members who may, eventually, offer, or respond positively to, a request to sing for you. Melodyne is pretty good but subtlty is required...I know because I was sledge hammering for a while and the results reflect it. ReaTune, in REAPER, is good but not as sophisticated. Vocal fatteners can help...Reaper has a ReaDelay setting called Vocal Fattener and does juts that. It's a couple of ultra short delays spread a tiny % left and right of the original vocal. Look at you vocal in a parametric EQ and gently boost the weak spots while carefully/surgically cutting back on the strident or rattly spots. Want more bottom end and intimacy - sing close to the mic...want clarity and a rolled off bottom end - more back from the mic. Too much "room" in the capture hang a heavy blanket before & behind you about a meter. Don't hide behind reverb...it does blur and mush the vocal but in the end leaves a smear that can be detrimental to the song. Record a phrase at a time across multiple tracks...ensuring you've a glass of water at hand and a pop screen between you & the mic. OH...find your range and write for it. Mine is quite limited and blah but I've found that the chords in A maj suit me better than other keys because they don't press me to sing higher or lower than I can. OHHHHH, have you tried your falsetto voice? For some time I found that I was clearer and stronger up there than in my natural space...weird but true. As for microphones...eh, they all record...you can work out the foibles of any mic to your advantage. I have a couple of decent medium diaphragm condensers, some very cheap small D condensers and a bundle of dynamic mics. I was in a hurry to get an idea down the other day and grabbed the nearest mic...a cheap dynamic...it required the right amount of preamp boost but did a fine job or recording...I wish my singing was good enough to make the mic seem deficient. RUN with what you have/can afford. A 58 is, after all, a live & studio dynamic with quite a history. It simply needs more "gain" from the preamp because it's neither internally powered like, nor as sensitive as, a condenser. Give it enough juic and it will record what is sung into it and not notice background noise much if at all. Ah...personal question...do you sing relatively quietly so as not to disturb the family and/or embarrass yourself? If the answer is YES then you need to send them all to the cafe or beach so you can get loud and develop you breathing/lung capacity and belt out beyond the rattle - SERIOUSLY. Bon Chance. OH, BIAB has pitch correction too as mentioned...I don't use BIAb to track so don't know the ins n outs of it.
Last edited by rayc; 02/05/22 07:13 PM.
Cheers rayc "What's so funny about peace, love & understanding?" - N.Lowe
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