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[garote]

Hey -- Key the Metal Idol has hair like kikitheferret's! Coincidence?

Well, sound input on the laptop that I recorded from is TERRIBLE. We're talkin' really really low signal strength. I had to amplify it 2000% just to work with it. By the time I applied EQ and sound-dynamic, most everything was snowy crap. Rerecording is in order ... but with what device? And how? And where?

As for my voice, the results are encouraging. It's clear I need to continue practice with driving sound, and I'm totally unfamiliar with how to position a mike relative to the volume I generate. Vibrato isn't as bad as I thought it was, though there's obviously room to improve. And as Mr. Beatings once said, one of the most vital things you must do when singing is mean it.

After the initial extreme embarrassment of hearing myself sing (it feels kind of like watching a home video of yourself taken at all the most unflattering angles), I realized that I might as well create something as a milestone. So I put some instrumental loops on top of a track, and mixed it all down as an mp3. Here it is, for the morbidly curious.

And now, bedtime. I sleep now with the sincere hope --- that tomorrow is a more productive day at work. Today sucked.

Comments

[katheudo.livejournal.com]

Wow, not bad! Although I think you messed the lyrics up in a few places, your voice isn't so bad until you hit higher notes at "I know I must investigate" when it gets a little thin.

You use a PC, right? Can't you up the rec levels and check them in Cooledit somehow before you start recording?

w00t

[garote]

Wow, I didn't think anyone would realize I mucked up some of the lyrics. So we have another They Might Be Giants fan! Excsarrent.

My usual recording rig has much better gain on the inputs. This was from a laptop stuffed in the trunk of my car, and even with the input level maxed, the microphone barely made a peep. The mike is self-powered, and a good mike, so I'm inclined to blame the laptop right now.

[devilspice.livejournal.com]

wow, that was pretty damn good! you sound hellza bad ass, yo. the only critique i could make is that you seem to loose confidence in places. you don't have any reason to be doing this because you sound like mad pimpin' shiz-nit.

Re

[garote]

That's the nicest thing anyone's said to me in quite a while. :)

Advice noted!

[beatings.livejournal.com]

Ah this is good! Your voice blends in well, and towards the end you sound really confident. I approve. For what it's worth. :)

I like your voice much better than the TMBG guy's voice, too. Ugh so nasal, I'm dizzy just thinking about it...

[garote]

All right! The Beatings Sticker of Approval!