Felipe Carvalho

Reaper here.
I noticed some folks record acoustic guitars to sing along. I have a tip that works wonderfully with any 2 channels interface.
- Record the guitar using two channels, one with a mic in level with your ears, and close to you, pointing to the fretboard, another with the line out (if the guitar has some sort of pickup, if not, another mic pointing to the bridge).
- On the first mic (fretboard), apply some compression, not more than 3:1, with a very short attack, perhaps even 0 attack. This will be the "center" channel, and will carry body and warmth.
- On the line out/bridge mic, apply a high pass filter, cutting everything bellow 100Hz, or even higher if you can get away with it, experiment. Also apply compression, but now, leave a decent attack time, something between 5 and 15ms should work nicely. This will be your "side" channel.
Now for the trick, duplicate the second channel (line out/bridge), pan the original hard left, and the copy hard right. Then on either of them, this is up to you, unlock the "snap to grid" feature of your DAW and DRAG manually the whole track so that it gets out of sync by a few miliseconds. The offset should be visible with a good amount of zoom but it should be quite gentle, don't overdo.
And that's it, a simple technique that can be done with almost any DAW default tools. It will sound rather good, provided that you play it properly (something I can't do )

Reaper here.
I noticed some folks record acoustic guitars to sing along. I have a tip that works wonderfully with any 2 channels interface.
- Record the guitar using two channels, one with a mic in level with your ears, and close to you, pointing to the fretboard, another with the line out (if the guitar has some sort of pickup, if not, another mic pointing to the bridge).
- On the first mic (fretboard), apply some compression, not more than 3:1, with a very short attack, perhaps even 0 attack. This will be the "center" channel, and will carry body and warmth.
- On the line out/bridge mic, apply a high pass filter, cutting everything bellow 100Hz, or even higher if you can get away with it, experiment. Also apply compression, but now, leave a decent attack time, something between 5 and 15ms should work nicely. This will be your "side" channel.
Now for the trick, duplicate the second channel (line out/bridge), pan the original hard left, and the copy hard right. Then on either of them, this is up to you, unlock the "snap to grid" feature of your DAW and DRAG manually the whole track so that it gets out of sync by a few miliseconds. The offset should be visible with a good amount of zoom but it should be quite gentle, don't overdo.
And that's it, a simple technique that can be done with almost any DAW default tools. It will sound rather good, provided that you play it properly (something I can't do )

Reaper here.
I noticed some folks record acoustic guitars to sing along. I have a tip that works wonderfully with any 2 channels interface.
- Record the guitar using two channels, one with a mic in level with your ears, and close to you, pointing to the fretboard, another with the line out (if the guitar has some sort of pickup, if not, another mic pointing to the bridge).
- On the first mic (fretboard), apply some compression, not more than 3:1, with a very short attack, perhaps even 0 attack. This will be the "center" channel, and will carry body and warmth.
- On the line out/bridge mic, apply a high pass filter, cutting everything bellow 100Hz, or even higher if you can get away with it, experiment. Also apply compression, but now, leave a decent attack time, something between 5 and 15ms should work nicely. This will be your "side" channel.
Now for the trick, duplicate the second channel (line out/bridge), pan the original hard left, and the copy hard right. Then on either of them, this is up to you, unlock the "snap to grid" feature of your DAW and DRAG manually the whole track so that it gets out of sync by a few miliseconds. The offset should be visible with a good amount of zoom but it should be quite gentle, don't overdo.
And that's it, a simple technique that can be done with almost any DAW default tools. It will sound rather good, provided that you play it properly (something I can't do )

Reaper here.
I noticed some folks record acoustic guitars to sing along. I have a tip that works wonderfully with any 2 channels interface.
- Record the guitar using two channels, one with a mic in level with your ears, and close to you, pointing to the fretboard, another with the line out (if the guitar has some sort of pickup, if not, another mic pointing to the bridge).
- On the first mic (fretboard), apply some compression, not more than 3:1, with a very short attack, perhaps even 0 attack. This will be the "center" channel, and will carry body and warmth.
- On the line out/bridge mic, apply a high pass filter, cutting everything bellow 100Hz, or even higher if you can get away with it, experiment. Also apply compression, but now, leave a decent attack time, something between 5 and 15ms should work nicely. This will be your "side" channel.
Now for the trick, duplicate the second channel (line out/bridge), pan the original hard left, and the copy hard right. Then on either of them, this is up to you, unlock the "snap to grid" feature of your DAW and DRAG manually the whole track so that it gets out of sync by a few miliseconds. The offset should be visible with a good amount of zoom but it should be quite gentle, don't overdo.
And that's it, a simple technique that can be done with almost any DAW default tools. It will sound rather good, provided that you play it properly (something I can't do )

https://app.box.com/s/xtczgyz7dgjy48mtrmqg0yydtkwh0466
Whitesnake cover!

RIP David Bowie:
 
Great idea gsoul, keep em comming folks!

RIP David Bowie:
 
Great idea gsoul, keep em comming folks!

The Shadow of the Wicker Man is rising up again!!
 

Thank you so much for the words guys, Bruce is one major influence for me, and singing this stuff is pretty much why I began studying technique to begin with .

https://app.box.com/s/xtczgyz7dgjy48mtrmqg0yydtkwh0466
Whitesnake cover!

Thank you so much for the words guys, Bruce is one major influence for me, and singing this stuff is pretty much why I began studying technique to begin with .

RIP David Bowie:
 
Great idea gsoul, keep em comming folks!

Redid this one with video, cool song, always fun to sing it!  

The Shadow of the Wicker Man is rising up again!!
 

The Shadow of the Wicker Man is rising up again!!
 

Its kinda the same that I say on the blabbering on the technique section... I could say, keep it bright, find more space and go stronger as soon as you get to the higher sections (for example, on "believe" it changes already). The reason is that you are getting too narrow and a bit airy/almost breaking already.
Perhaps, you could use that video I did for middle voice to map down every single vowel that goes above F4 and make sure you are articulating it with a more or less appropriate position (and that will help with the "bright/space" part), but then again, its no magic recipe.
I also had an idea for some other weird stuff that may be helpful to "go strong" and I will throw on the technique section as soon as I find a way to explain it well.
 
But then again, these are band aids that might help a bit and give a idea of how it goes like but won't be really solving the problem at its core. To solve it with technique you would need to... train technique... train support slowly and piece by piece, adjust emission based on it, adjust the EE vowel, adjust all the other vowels using it, start working on the positions for passagio, adjust one vowel using the position, train going in and out of the covered position, train the EE vowel on the covered position, train passaggio on EE, adjust all other vowels for head voice using EE, train the passagio on them all, and so forth.
Usually, alone, this fails big time on the "support" part, and many of these aspects are done on parallel constantly refining everything.
 
How did you train support and attack of sounds so far? How did you assert the exercises and which songs did you use to apply it?

@Mivke lame!  Hahaha not! Very nice man. It was a impressive progress you did since last time, not in Technique, but in musicianship and expressiveness.  This is the kind of quality you should always strive for! Good work man.

Hello everyone!
 
I've been working on this cover for quite some time, I think I've got it to a place where I can share it. Still not 100% with it but would like to know what you guys think about it.
If you have the time and the will, please take a listen. I take all criticism so you can be too specific or too generic
Link below, thanks to everyone who takes a listen!
 
https://app.box.com/s/e6m1pnmnrxx7a5nqph7olq0nzvo1zqce
 
Edit: New link to a better mix.

Thank you guys!
 
@aaravin its possible I believe, althought I try to base my studies on his live delivery (its one of the songs on the rep).
 
Also at the time of this recording he was probably at his best condition on his whole carreer, he was simply much better than I am

.. As always,, epic my friend!! I was not familiar with this song and I listened to the original after hearing your version and you sound like you can sing for the original band!! 
Bruce sounds a little darker and heavier set in the chorus.  Is it a physiology function?  I mean can someone with a lower center of voice exactly mimic the Bruce sound?  
But all in all, amazing work.  Please keep posting more work!!  

Awesome cover of an awesome modern Maiden song. Great job Felipe. 

Hey man!
 
Really really awsome! Amongst the best covers I've heard from you, on both the singing and the production. This sounds like you could have been an original member
 
Edit: Misspelling.

The Shadow of the Wicker Man is rising up again!!
 

The Shadow of the Wicker Man is rising up again!!
 

The Shadow of the Wicker Man is rising up again!!