Without You-Nilsson Cover

http://soundcloud.com/aaudiomystiks/withoutyou
 
Ok I've been fiddling around with Reapers varispeed over the last couple of months mainly because there is no way I could hit Nilsson's notes on this classic song.
 
What I have done is lower the pitch of the song by half a semitone in the verses and a whole tone in the chorus's, I think, I have no real way to tell.  I've also fiddled with Rolands variphrase to ADT and ATT or artifical double track and artifical tripple track.  Rather than corect a couple of off notes on the original vocal, I have corrected the double track voice, this is to try and hide the obvious.  Whether you can tell, well thats up to you.
 
Now I have cheated somewhat, I downloaded a midi file of the track and then used Cakes, TruePiano, Session Drummer Three (Rings Beat Kit), Dimension Pro Strings and Studio Instruments bass.  I should have put the bass down myself but I was being lazy.  I did however do the lead solo at the end but I am hopelessy out of form.
 
There is no way I am going to say I nailed the vocals or the track but it was cathartic in that it helps heal a broken heart and as I say I was interested in Reapers varispeed capabilities and Cakewalk need this feature in whatever the next release is.  It is awsome varispeed.
 
Finally I have not gone over to the darkside, Reaper is not a nice looking program and I wouldn't use it but for the varispeed, this song was mixed and put together in Sonar X1.
 
Peace Ben

Um not quite sure what you mean RimShot, all the chorus and verses are my voice only the end has a guitar solo.

Thanks for listening though.

Peace Ben

 Wow Ben. This is a nice rendition of a nice tune man! The vocal was just a little shy of its mark on the highest notes, but I could have never touched where you were there,and I'm not saying the vocals were bad so don't misunderstand me here. They were overall quite good actually.

 I really like this song a lot. I might have added some slight verb to the drums but I see why you probably didn't do that because too much can rob the effect you put on the vocals.All subjective.

As soon as I saw the Lennon reference, I had to listen.  

Ben, you did a very good job with this....and yes, some very Lennonistic vocal nuances coming from you on the vocals.  I liked it....good job man!  Not sure that John could have hit some of those high notes.

Thanks guys, yea when I do my head voice I become very Lennonesque but I grew up listening and emulating him.

What I needed was a producer to help me because I can hit the notes albeit with the help of the varispeed in Reaper, it's just I have spent weeks learning the vocal and when I did finally go for it I almost blew my vocal chords, I mean the day after I did this vocal my chords were actually swollen, I actually felt a little sick.

The other thing was I was getting complaints from the neighbours, they the realestate people sent a notice about noise levels and threatened to throw me out.  NO ****!!!.

Thanks and peace Ben

Thats alright Scotty as I say it's just an experiment and as I also said I really probally needed some help with this one, hmm me saying I needed help well that is some thing new.