Oh Holy Night - 3 Part Vocal Harmony w/Piano {{REMIXED}}

Tis beautiful Bub..
Your voice has a really nice quality to it.

I love some of the vocal harmonies - this is a very tender version. Wonderfully done.

Cheers,
Terry.

Good job Bub, love those vocals and harmonies. Production sounds like a bit of distortion on the vocals but still very enjoyable.

Thanks everyone. Glad you all liked it.

@ohgrant: I like that driven sound, especially on vocals, but it really punches on this one, especially when listening to it on a laptop. I was driving the tube on my mic pre pretty hard and it's recorded that way, so no going back now. :)

There's only 3 parts, main, mid harmony, and high harmony, but I double tracked each one, so there's actually 6 vocal parts your hearing. I had a bass harmony line but it just didn't fit right so I muted it.

Thanks everyone.

Bub

Great job on this - especially considering you did the piano in one take.  Great vocal performances and harmonies.  Nice job! 

Oh holy what? :) This is great Bub! I love your voice...always have! I'd love to hear you orchestrate some strings etc in this...but it's awesome just the way it is. You know, that drive thing Grant mentioned...I've never been a fan of it either...but I've been warming up to it on my own stuff as well. I thought you used it quite well in this. It's not to the point of distortion on my end...but it just has a bit of drive push which I think worked really great on this. 

Really well done man...did I mention I love your voice? :) In a non-gay way of course. Merry Christmas and thanks for sharing this! It makes me want to try my hand at one of those TSO songs...but it would probably take me until next Christmas to have it ready! Hahaha!

-Danny

Thanks everyone for the great feedback.

Thanks Danny for letting me know how much you like my voice. Means a lot to me.

I fixed some problems with it and uploaded a new MP3. See my original post for what I did and a new link.

Thanks,

Bub.

Very nice Bub.  One of my favoite Christmas songs. 

+ + + 1 my fav

Wow Bub,  what a great voice you have. Lovely harmony work.

Have you tried using a multiband compressor for de-essing? 

Bub, this is beautiful. Lovely harmonies, and I really like the way you 'glide' around the melody, excellent. Very nice version indeed.

Loved it Bub.

Even better Bub!

really nice Bub!  I love the sound you have gotten on your vocals and the stereo separation on the harmonies! 

there are still some sibilance issues here and there, but I think it gives the song character.

I have to critique a little, tho.   the piano, tho, I'm not fond of the piano sound.  I think a better piano sound could be found.

there are a few places when the vox drop out that I can hear some noise - maybe mic noise or background noise while you were recording?  you can probably gate the vox - or a better way would be to use envelopes and drop the volume down to -inf during the times you're not singing.

just my 2cents.  loved this version!

Thanks again to all who keep listening and your kind words. :)

@Robby ... in your dreams pal. In your dreams! (Referring to you singing this last weekend.)

@Beagle: Sibilance! Sibilance!! Grr. I struggle with it so. :) I could get it out even more, but when I do, it's apparent that the volume is dipping so I took it out the best I could without it being obvious there was something going on if that makes any kind of sense. :) I tried Karyn's suggestion about the multi-band compressor but I was not very successful. Surprisingly, the 64 Mulit-Band Comp worked a thousand times better than the Sonitus Multi-Band Comp. I didn't have to touch anything other than the threshold. It worked right out of the chute.

True Piano that comes with X1 Producer sounds really bad if you try to EQ it too much. I think that's the noise you were hearing because I manually went in and removed every bit of silence between singing parts. I have dozens of clips in this. I always do that on vocals because V-vocal seems to work better on smaller clips and I find it easier to work with envelopes to fix volume and sibilance on small clips. The other thing you might be hearing is the drive on the mic pre amp. I really had the tube warmed up on this one.

If I didn't take out the bottom on the True Piano, it was too boomy sounding and overpowering, even at a lower volume. Unfortunately, it's all I have. I don't care for the ones in Dim Pro or TTS1 and it's so rare that I do a piece with the piano this prominent that I can't justify purchasing a better quality one. I should try the piano patch on my Korg X5. It is excellent.

Thank you for the critique! :) It was getting expensive paying everyone off to say all that nice stuff. ;)