What is this feeling - cover.

 You have some talented girls Karyn! Great job. I think I detected a slight British accent in there as well ;)

 
Hey Karyn, this is absolutely fantastic
 
Your girls are very talented - they must follow their mum

Just great, Karyn!  :)  They can sure sing.  Did you do all the instruments?  

Wonderful!  :) 

Thanks Janet and Danny,

No, I didn't do the backing track for this one. I found it on U-toob and ripped it (shhhss).
It seems to be a propper cast recording, without the cast..  I also found an orriginal cast recording (which I ripped) and the backing is a perfect match.

I put the full cast recording on track 1 and the backing on track 2 so I could cross-fade between them to turn on/off the cast vocals. Very effective.

The hard part was matching the reverb settings for the girls vocals to what is on the backing track so they appear in the same "space". Some master buss compression and hard limiting also helps to glue the parts together.

Actually,  the hardest bit was convincing them that most of the apparent vocal lines they heard in the chorus line part didn't actually exist and were the result of several harmony parts.  That effect where you have a lower part with (say)  2 notes rising then 2 notes falling, and a high harmony starting 2 notes falling then 2 notes rising.  On playback it sounds like the lower harmony is 4 notes all rising while the high harmony is 4 notes all falling...

Hours of arguments over that...


I think my next project will be to replace the ripped backing with my own,  I have the piano score so it shouldn't be too hard.

Hi Herb,  

1) Yes
2) No

Nicely done!