A Little Acapella

Hey folks...

Was just hanging out at the house by myself today and wanted to play around with the v-vocal, so I thought I'd just put a thing or two down and as I was thinking of what to record, I started singing this acapella thing called "Honest Work" from Todd Rundgren's Acapella CD. I haven't heard it in years, I had no tempo or key cues...just went through it. There are bits of the v-vocal, manual editing, strewn throughout this and I think it hides itself well. I did NOT correct everything, and I didn't try to do anything with the timing aspect of it.

I had a few "almost locked up" moments while using, but it was pretty intuitive and flowed well - saved often to be safe.

This is just three vocal tracks, each with Sonitus compressor, put through the master bus, where I put some multiband compression and the Perfect Space on a "Large Room" with the EQ internally tweaked to lose the low-end.

Love to hear your thoughts (keep in mind, I'm a drummer )

Honest Work

Hey, that's nice!

One question though: did you actually sing the harmonies or tune duplicates with v-vocal? If it's the latter, then Kudos to v-vocal - otherwise Kudos to you!

The sound is great! Almost like you're standing in my room.

werner

dreamkeeper - I sang the harmonies - just fixed them up with v-vocal.

Dale - I was specifically going for an "in the room with you" sort of thing, but I may throw it through a big chamber or something just for grins.

Incidentally...since I did this recording, I was going to try to build up a big harmony thing and v-vocal just keeps hanging when I try to create a copy and then apply v-vocal to it. It seems to do ok for one, then two, then all bets are off. It's weird, cause I used it all over the place on this little toon and I haven't been able to use it without having to reboot my machine since.

Gotta figure out what I'm doing to goof it up.

Thanks DSandberg...surprised anyone would know it. I sure with I could do a song like "Pretending to Care" off the same album - what an amazing song. I need to get a new copy of that CD just for that one!

I could post the "unfixed version by simply bypassing all instances of the plug in (if it doesn't bail on me). I wasn't "terribly" off in most cases, just a little here and there and I spot fixed it, so it won't go from "nearly aweful" to "completely aweful" anyway

Appreciate the comments.

I'm not big on the song; but the vocal performance was very impressive. I know you tweaked, but you have a nice voice, Blades! Good character. Decent range. Well done.

Now you tell me!