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  1. hmm very hard to do, Ron, I don't hear much difference or none at all, so I don't know if I do it right or not ... and about the vowels: I don't know how to achieve that either :/ I'm kinda all alone, listening to english songs doesn't really help me and english news broadcasts aren't a good idea IMO I don't have any practical English exercises, I usually only write also I notice a big difference between sung English and spoken English (in my case) I even noticed that when I try to talk in a deep voice, my accent is nearly gone, but if I talk in my higher normal voice it's pretty much there guitartrek: 1 is done, 2 is nearly done, I have pyramide foam on the walls, not completely but at least as much as I can realize here if I sing in any other room I actually hear myself louder than in my room ... lol 3, I only use the voice live2 with a little bit shaping/compression 4 is done with 1, 5 too, depending on the song, but yeah, I'm around 10-15 cm away for 5: if I don't use any filters or just slight EQ my vocals don't mix well and it sounds really weak hmmm
  2. you sing about as long as I do ... but this .... is great did you take lessons? I also tried yesterday, but I'm not really happy with it (maybe it's just me) but you've a nice timbre and I guess you also have the language plus mmmh, now I have to improve even more ^^
  3. well well ... you should get some better recording device, no shit (like I wrote, that would be worth the bucks) I like it and you also play guitar while singing, that's a plus (for me) by the way ... you said the more you listen, the more errors you notice ... I also have this problem XD one day I'm happy, next day I could BURRRN it ... rofl but when I try again, all is fine until I listen to it the next day ... that's really annoying me ... you're not alone ^^
  4. Alright. Hey all so ... a few days ago I tried to sing crash test dummies' mmm mmm mmm mmm. After that I slipped into another new singing crisis ... again, it was like the power was reduced, voice seemed to sound scratchy (but not like it sounds when you've overdone singing or while having the flu, etc) along with that I -again- didn't like the sound of my song mixes. To me it seems like there's no bass in my voice (in the song mix), and as if the mid band is too strong (makes me think I squeak) Currently I'm experimenting with the vocal filters I put on my raw vocals. I'm about to reduce them because they often make the sound muddy, expecially when I listen to the mixdown via my mp3-player and (cheap/common) standard-in-ears. I don't really notice this using my studio headphones. But reducing them removes some kind of thickener effect that occured in the mixdown, which makes me sound even squeakier in my ears. I usually try to create the sound I hear during recording, how I hear myself via headphones, while singing. And like usually, I'm trying to find help, if possible from professional sound engineers. I don't want to find someone to produce me (lol), I'd rather want to get some suggestions, hints, help on everything. Singing, mixing, recording ... buuuuut these people seem to hide ... very very good! ... I swear! I don't know any studio around my place and I'd also be too shy to just walk into one and ask for help (even thinking about that sounds kinda dumb) ^^ anyway. Today I recorded 2 test songs for you. I didn't practice them much today, but I sang before I recorded them, so my voice was warmed up. I didn't work on the raw vocals, there are parts when my voice starts not the moment I want it to make a sound. I sometimes have this problem, it's sporadic, but I don't know what's causing it. There also might be some wrong notes. And one of my other problems is, I often don't notice wrong notes. Maybe I hear them 1 day after, or never. All I can do is compare the notes I sang, but they usually are close around the center of the tone I sang. But that doesn't mean it's the correct note ... lol edit: I think I can only song loud right now (see the williams song). if I try to reduce the power of singing my voice is gone. On the other hand, I sang the mctell song kinda the same way, except that it has lower notes. Odd. Again. here are the 2 songs: robbie williams' she's the one: she's the one - try2 test0.mp3 ralph mctell's streets of london: streets of london - try3 test0.mp3 if you notice anything, no matter what: please tell me! Thanks for your time! Nik
  5. wow Ron, I just listened to the 2nd file and I like it a lot! and it also sounds better than the one in your 1st posting :D
  6. hehe I usually try to fake the "live" feeling when recording I sing and then listen, if I don't like it I'll record it again only if I'm happy with nearly everything I might re-record just a line or 2, but that also depends on the song, often I have to sing a whole verse to get into the correct mood of the lines I want to re-do
  7. that's great I don't know how it feels for you but I had a similar problem before I wasn't able to get a good tone out, I just didn't get into singing, as much as I tried so I ignored music and singing for 2 weeks and tried again and suddenly it was better than before even easier to control the tone
  8. but that's really weird, I'm all alone in my room and can record as often as I want ... if I mess up, I try again, no one pushes me ... hmm, I came up with 2 things: maybe I hear myself too loud and therefore might mishear what I do or I unconsciously concentrate too much on singing correctly which then distracts me from the melody lol oh, btw your name is Ron, right? I'm not sure that's why I address you as ronws all the time
  9. though this confidence is hard to keep up ... often it's like I have a run, everything works as I want it to be/how I imagine it before singing then I do something else, like checking eMail or even just looking out of the window for a moment and if I try singing again it's suddenly totally different and I need 20-30 minutes to get back to where I was when I had this "run" I also noticed another thing I can't explaint right now: if I sit beside the mic, not singing into it, but singing along with a song I hear using headphones I sing along with the correct melody now if I hit the record button -and sing into the mic- the melody I sing is different ... so it's like without recording it I often do it right but not while it "counts" during recording I'm not excited or anything when I sit here singing into my mic, but where's the problem?
  10. wow, I'm sure I couldn't sing that at that pitch AND with that power I surely would hurt my voice! and the scream! really cool :D
  11. ok, this thread mainly is about how low someone can sing, but also about voice ... yesterday I tried to rap for the 2nd time, first time was a few days ago as a sidenote, it's for a cover project that a German rapper and the Deutsche Telekom initiated I didn't feel like I strain my voice but after some takes I suddenly felt like my voice becomes hoarse I don't know if you know this feeling, it was like the voice doesn't "flow" out, it was a bit like some kind of rattle, not strong enough to stop singing, but it took more effort to sing I also didn't shout, I rather tried to just talk with adding some melody so I don't rap at the same pitch all the time. that made me wonder because I usually don't feel strained even if I try to record something for 3 hours or more
  12. oh wow thanks ronws that really surprises me! someone once told me I should sing the chorus more happily, I still try to find out HOW I could do that, for me it "feels" like I already do that ... if I can manage to sing the correct melody I'll make it a complete song try out of it ^^
  13. I've read somewhere that when you do the siren and notice a note that sounds distorted or not clear enough then sing this note longer, it will come back then I often do this siren thing too, but with less power and slower ... sometimes I notice the point where I go into falsetto, it's like an interruption other times I don't notice any interruption at all
  14. well I'm usually tired when I come back home from work. and it's the same today, but I currently can't live without singing at least once a day I just tried Daniel Powter's song, I didn't practice it, it's my 2nd test today I think I mess up the melody of the chorus, but beside that I just want to ask if anyone hears if I make any major or minor "mistakes" while singing something along the lines of "if you go on like that it's bad for your voice" or "you don't support your voice very well" anything that you might notice including pronunciation of words, vowels, S'ses etc beside maybe wrong notes ;D Anything would help me bad day_test2.mp3 Thanks :)
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