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Here's my second post which is the first track I did on the BR600.

The wife kept interrupting me when I was doing the vocal track saying I sounded awful and out of tune.  I think you can hear the nerves in my voice!! Women!!

I think I over-processed the vocal when I mastered the track trying to make it sound better.

Any comments are appreciated.

hi,

..don't worry too much about the vox at the mo..my advice would be to not rush it.

 Certainly don't over process the vox because it makes matters worse and you can't disguise a nervous  vox take behind effects. Iv gone down that road before and it dosn't really work.

 When i'm nervous...(even when i'm in a room on my own) i try to smile a little when I'm singing, i give it all the arm movements and try to imagine an audience in front of me..
I am not an expert..I'm learning just like you..

 Don't forget to punch in and out if your not happy with part of your recording...no one will ever know...
Like all of us, your giving it a go...that says a lot..

Keep posting man and smile a bit when your singing..
all the best
Nick

Thanks for the advice Nick.  I don't know if you've listened to my other post yet but I was a lot happier with the vocals on that one - the wife was out when I did them and she liked the end result! I recorded the vocal twice through 2 of the preset patches on the BR600 and didn't mess around adding any more reverb or delay.  I'll try smiling on my next track !!   ;D

Cool cover! Vox and guitar sound great!

Mark

Great production, the guitars sound excellent.  The vocal is pretty darn good, just keep on singing and it gets better and better.  You have a great starting point here, very appealing, strong and rich voice.  You are a natural singer really, keep it up.  I had the same problem with a wife who would make comments when I sang, I just ignored it and kept it up and I don't feel as stressed anymore about my singing voice.

I think you are being a bit too self critical....
I think your vox is quite good. Guitars are awesome!
Great cover.

LG

Guitar and vox sound fine, well done     Alex

Great cover....well done :)

 Good  cover Pete !! I have a hard time recording vocals also. I wait until I'm alone.I feel awkward about singing loud at home.It's just so different than with a live band!!! My wife doesn't understand this though!! I never get it in one take.I took some good advise from Hooper and have learned to use the auto-punch in/out feature on the parts that I don't like.I still have a lot to learn about recording!!
 You are doing great keep up the good work!!!
 Gary
                                                             

A fine composition. Your vocal and guitar is nicely done.

Regarding The Interrupting Wife Problem.
Send her on a two-year goodwill tour of the upper Amazon River. The unexplored part.

This sounds really good. Guitars have a nice edge too them and your vocal performance sounds strong underneath all that reverb. I don't have the same problem with the wife as I use a Micro BR and always do my vocals remotely parked in my car somewhere. It's the best place to let it all out. Once in a while someone will walk by and I know my windows aren't soundproof but what the hell...it's a lot easier to sing in front of strangers than wives!

sounds real good. Your voice is good, and you did a fine job singing, keep at it.
Very enjoyable listen of a great song.

Quote from: Pete C on April 12, 2010, 03:17:12 AMThe wife kept interrupting me when I was doing the vocal track saying I sounded awful and out of tune. 

We've all been there, brother.  I think you just hit on the hardest part of our obsession - waiting for those stolen moments to get a vocal track down.  Everything else I can do near silently through headphones.

I like the guitar sounds and the mix overall, but I think you already know the vocal needs to lose most of that reverb.  I think I'd make a cut to the lower mids too, help it sing out from the backing track.

Good to have more Brits around, welcome...

I missed this one somehow. Thanx for the bump!

I think the vox sound great !! And music is really well performed too !! Come back and post some more please !!

This is a really nice cover!  The guitars were great and I thought the vox was just fine.  I don't like recording vox when anyone's around either.  A great tip that someone on here gave once was to go out to the car in the garage and do it.  I've done plenty of vox recording there!   ;)

Thanks for the bump and the great comments!

I was off work for 2 months earlier this year due to stress and had plenty of time to do a bit of recording. I posted another couple of tracks about the same time - Whiskey in the Jar and Angie (Rolling Stones).  I think my real singing voice came out on Angie as nobody was in the house so I let rip! Back at work now so its difficult to spend much time on my music but I'm hoping to post some more as soon as I can.

Wishing you all a great Christmas !!

Oh yeah ! This deserves another bump ;)

A really great version !!!

So full of love for the music !

Haha Thanks Geir - we were both ahead of our time!!

Your welcome..

and cool tune my man:)

Great job.  I love this arrangement.

Thanks for the bump FuzzFace - this was the very first recording I made on my BR600. I was so embarrassed of recording my voice that I drenched it in reverb. Nowadays i don't put too many effects on my vocals...I've grown to accept how I sound - it is what it is -  and some of you Songcrafters seem to appreciate it even though Mrs C is still my biggest critic when she hears me singing.  Often thought of re-recording this song to see if my 7 years on Songcrafters has helped me improve in any way but there's enough versions of One on here now.

Pete

Quote from: Pete C on April 12, 2010, 03:17:12 AM

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Here's my second post which is the first track I did on the BR600.

The wife kept interrupting me when I was doing the vocal track saying I sounded awful and out of tune.  I think you can hear the nerves in my voice!! Women!!

I think I over-processed the vocal when I mastered the track trying to make it sound better.

Any comments are appreciated.

Thats when I say "put a dang set of headphones on and get in here.... then tell me what you think...lol...
I would love for people to hear alot of the "stars" vocals raw, without music, and no embellishments...even Taylor Swift don't look that good in the morning (not that I would know...but I am guessing! )
yes, there are alot of vocal enhancements on this but this is the beauty of the home recording studio...experimentation... find out what you like and what you don't as much... 
it sounds cool to me...