Uber Duper VOX
(Super Dooper Vox)
Your Artistic Thoughts ... distinguishing excellent voice singing and art in 2010.
TBH, Mark Baxter (
Rock and Roll Singer's Survival Guide) does not really cover the 'new school' vox pomp. I'll go out on a limb and state: The old school diaphram-larnyx techniques seem vain and/or obsolete.
Hypothetical (Old School) Fallacies (many):
-- Develop a performance vox! (Hah!)
-- Trust your vox skill!
-- Solemnly practice your vox alone an hour or 3 a day! (Right!)
-- Your/my vox somehow sucks with pitch correction software!
-- Raspy, nasal vocs are taboo.
-- I have a crap vox! (bullsh!t)
-- I don't use pitch correction software because I'm destroying God's articulations.
-- I don't use compression because I'm destroying God's articulations.
-- I don't use HPF's because I'm destroying God's articulations.
-- Numerous other hypothetical fallacies ... please share.
Hypothetical Uber Duper Vox Techniques (for 2010):
-- Vox and vox alone will make or break your song.
-- Classic Rock emotives and performance driven bellows are becoming histerical and vain!
-- The mixing sequencer and mixing artist is the vocalist's best strategy source.
-- I can take any vox with 5-10 minutes of vocal coaching (tuning) and use it.
-- Stellar vocs are a fallacy. The gift you/I are born with are ample enough. E.g., YoyoFactory and Tony may state their vocals aren't ample ... but they manage to outdo themselves with vox perfection ... as well as charisma and vibe.
--
Melodyne Editor is my best girl-friend ... she never criticizes me ... she brings out the pomp and pride of my narcissism without embarrasing me.
-- If you/I don't have backing vocs in the studio you can easily create them with Melodyne Editor:
-- For a
girly alto vox: Go up an octave ... take the formant up another 4 semitones+/-. TBH, My 7 y/o daughter (Joy) can't tell my vox from hers!
-- For a
negro-bass vox: Do the opposite (downward)
-- Your/my vox is a lovely and beautiful thing to work with.
-- You/I deserve the best pre with compressor/EQ set in advance for getting that perfect take or 2. (The Avalon is better than the Neve)
-- Most of us are timid and don't like to sing in public. Learn to sing and hum all day in public and private.
-- Try bellowing LOUD and taking it down from there ... during your/my feeble takes.
-- Bellowing and whispering are both beautiful ... and lots in-between.
-- Sing/record ad-hoc ... without reading from anything! Yeh! We know!
-- Keep lyrics HOT! Angry, crying, pitiful, dramatic, sensitive, defensive, legato, and/or crazy. Go out on the limb and stay there!
-- Forget the old school larnyx-diaphram limitations ... they don't necessarily apply to your/my desperado games.
-- Be (vox)
sample driven ... not performance driven. I don't care how well I can act like a hypocrite. So the sweet and cool vox samples make your/my mix
-- Be hyper-articulate and coherent at least 80% of the time. Keep some of the plosives and sibs. Enhance these in children's and female vocs.
-- The vox signal chain ... the *best possible* for your/my genre. It's such vanity and vexation to constantly use exquisite volume/gain envelopes ...
-- Know your compressor settings on both the pre and on the sequencer.
-- Use beatz and/or chord progressions to ad-hoc your/my lyrics and melodies.
-- As in a painting, the vox sketch must retain its freshness.
post edited by Philip - 2010/08/13 15:27:08