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Steve

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  1. I have not heard the original but that was very good. There is nothing that jumps out at me as not being right, perhaps you had something in your mind that should have been different from how it actually turned out but we can't read your mind so we don't hear that as an imperfection.
  2. I liked that. I think you voice sounds clear, relaxed and pleasant and suites the style. When you say you dislike your voice do you dislike it for what it is or what what it is not? For example do you dislike the fact that recorded it doesn't sound like the voice you hear in you head when singing? Nobody's voice does because we hear a coloured version of our own voices. Or is it that you have someone else's voice, an ideal, in your head and you are disappointed you voice doesn't sound like that? Trying to be someone else is a wild goose chase - just be the best you you can. On the technical issue you mention with monitoring and the sound being late it this is because there is a delay while the sound goes in the sound card, round inside the software on the PC and then back out the soundcard. Depending on which OS and software you are using there may be some tuning possible - check out "low latency audio". The other possibility is to take some of the signal from the mic and mix it into the signal going to the headphone or monitors in analogie electronics rather than inside the PC. Some audio interfaces designed for musicians have this feature - if not and you have a traditional analogue mixer you could trying rigging that up manually.
  3. I reckon this was pretty good given how little time you had to practice it. A strange analogy but is some ways this song seems a bit like a toddler's temper tantrum. The common features are being tired and grumpy at the start, finding a difference of will and rebelling with new found energy and then finally resignation.
  4. That difference is reflected here in the recordings. Sea Fever was recorded with an AT825 single-point stereo mic probably about 1.5 metres away (4'6") connected to a minidisc recorder and no artificial reverb - the reverb is from the room. The other tracks were recorded with a Rode NT2A at a distance of maybe a foot and will include some EQ, some artificial reverb and some compression. That's interesting - so far operatic tenor arias seem much harder to sing (for me) than either their baritone counterparts or a large body of rock/pop music which seems to be set in a tenor key.
  5. Thanks for taking the time to comment. It would help further if I could be sure which ranges you refer to by mid tenor and upper tenor. Do you have specific ranges of notes in mind here or is it easier to relate this to parts of the song? For example are you calling the lines "bat out of hell when the morning comes" (second and higher version in the chorus) and "sinners before the gates of heaven" again the higher version mid-tenor? These go up to about A4 (or is it Ab4) IIRC. That would leave upper tenor to descibe the Bb4 and high C (C5). I am not specifically trying to make this song sound like opera though I guess that has happened so some degree. Thinking back a few years I would have struggled to sing above E4 and if I did it would be by flipping into a very much weaker sound. Having got to the point where I can reliably sing the next few notes, presumably "bridging" one part of the voice to the next - i.e. some kind of mix I find a new "brick wall" at about Bb4 and again, I can get the other side of it with a sudden change. At first doing this for the high C seemed like a bit of a cop out and I was sure in my own mind that note was then in falsetto but interestingly since singing that note in that way, not just in this song, I am finding it is getting stronger and I have more control over the volume of it. So I am wondering what the chances are of being able to bridge from the F4 to A4 region into the Bb to C5 region without such and obvious change.
  6. Reading some articles here on male vocal registration reminded me that there is a part of my voice where I am not sure if I am singing in head voice or in falsetto and where this could possibly develop. In these examples I am very interested in any insight into what I am doing registration-wise though all constructive criticism gratefully received. Empty Chairs at Empty Cubicles This is a parody of "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables" from Les Miserables. I found the words on the net and thought I'd record it. The recording here is in a higher key than the show - I experimented until I was happy with the lowest note which, IIRC makes the lowest note C3 and the highest Bb4. The highest part feels very different to the lowest part and from what I remember the difference in sound quality in my head from the bottom to the top seemed greater than it seems listening to the recording. http://fosdick.dnsalias.net/music/2009-04-18-empty_chairs.mp3 Bat Out of Hell This recording is in the original key which, IIRC, makes the top note tenor high C - C5 though interestingly this was not the hardest note to sing which is the one just below, Bb4 I think. In this case clearly I must be singing the Bb4 differently in Bat Out Of Hell than in Empty Chairs and why I am doing that I am not sure. This is an edited version of the song reduce the time. http://fosdick.dnsalias.net/music/2007-08-22_bat_out_of_hell.mp3 This Town Ain't Big Enough Some parts of this feel similar to the higher parts of Empty Chairs and the C5 in Bat Out of Hell though this goes higher - to F5 (last sung note) http://fosdick.dnsalias.net/music/2005-07-26-this-town-aint-big-enough.mp3 Sea Fever This is in what seems to me like a baritone key and seemed quite comfortable. I have been told I am a baritone but there seems to be a fairly sudden loss of power/focus for me around B2 which I am told is unusual for a baritone and it seems to be the top that becomes easier with practice rather than the bottom so now I'm wondering. http://fosdick.dnsalias.net/music/2005-10-04_sea_fever3.mp3
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