Lavender Sea

This is a collaboration between myself and Kelly Chadbourne. Kelly had the basic idea and sent me a vocal of her simply singing to a melody in her head. I think she used Audacity and a usb mic.
I had to do some extensive editing to make her voice fit the grid and bring her vocals out.
 I added the rest.
Mixed in Sonar, mastered in SO.
 
 
 
https://soundcloud.com/st...der-studio-one-mixdown
 

Lovely Tim, certainly a nice Celtic ballad you both have there.

Tim,
 
Very nice production.  That must have been quite an undertaking to match up a vocal only track to a yet to be constructed backing track.  Great work.
 
Regards

Very nice! Impressed how you created a song around just a vocal track.
 
At 1:43 the vocals come in a bit unatural. Probably easy fixed with a small fade in.
 
Good job!

Hiya Tim, a great song this. Well done to Kelly for that. A real tallent there.
 
Knowing how you had to bring in a pre-made vocal track, to then mould your "backing track" around that and come up with the end result is a testament to your skills, for sure.
 
Altogether an excellent piece of work
 
cheers
 
andy

Daryl1968- Thanks for listening and liking/reposting!
 
Biodiode- Thank you sir.
 
eph221- Thank you much!
 
markno999 - To answer your question. It was kinda funny, every time she took breaths it threw her out of time on the original track. If I took out the breaths most of the timing was pretty close. Melodyne really came in handy here.
It didn't help that I recorded the harp as audio, so I  ended up editing the harp in audio.
 
Lynn- Thank you sir!
 
Kloon- I'll look at that. I probably missed it. Thanks!
 
Wookie - Thanks for listening sir!
 
Andy- It was a challenge for me. I hoping we can get some kind of system that is easier to do. Kelly has a great ability for lyrics and singing.Thank you!
 
Dan- There seems to be some kind of thing going on with soundcloud. I had it happen once before and I double checked my master and it wasn't there. Re exported and it wasn't there. I'm uploading 24/48 and it's converting to 128 mp3 online. I dunno. I also had a click or two that went away when I did that. I'll listen to that upload again.
 
I wanted to ask you a question. A few others have used the term harsh when referring to her vocals. I listened today in my car and that's the only place where I might call the vox slightly "edgy". As you know the listening gear has a lot to do with it. The vocal is especially present in this mix. Does it seem as if it needs a rolloff to you? Thanks!
 
 
 
 
 
 

Hey Tim, it must have been quite a job pulling this all together having started with just an unclocked vocal, but you did quite a fine job of it.  The finished product is a pleasure to listen to.

Nice job, Tim...   Forming an arrangement around something as fluid as this aint easy, but I think you did a fantastic job.  The music + vocals fit naturally together.  If you hadn't mentioned, I doubt anyone here would have been the wiser.  
 
As far as harshness goes, I think I'm also hearing the signal chain and not the voice.   Your arrangement is so smooth that even a little isn't being masked.   No biggie though, it still sounds good and more important, has the emotion intact.