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2016/09/11 19:18:56
skinnybones lampshade
Just sang this one while playing the guitar. That's it, at least so far. Well, that's about all there is to say about it, I guess, except I hope someone likes it :) 
https://soundcloud.com/laura-thomson-723335445
 
 
2016/09/11 20:54:30
eph221
I like it! :D
2016/09/11 21:00:22
skinnybones lampshade
Awww, eph221, thank you :D
 
2016/09/11 21:23:08
bitflipper
I think maybe multiple someones will like it. 
 
Looking forward to hearing this in a full mix. 
2016/09/12 17:54:36
jamesyoyo
Heard some McCartney stuff in the guitar figures. Nice work. You have a lovely voice in this.
2016/09/12 20:37:51
Beagle
Hi Laura - I like it!
 
you have a great voice, but your the vocal recording is not great.  what are you using to record your vocals?
 
2016/09/12 21:51:12
skinnybones lampshade
Thanks very much, bitflipper. I'm (I think I'm) hoping to make a full production of this ....
 
Thank you, too, jamesyoyo. McCartney is a such a great musician - it's sweet to hear I could play something that would bring him to someone's mind in some way.
 
Hi Beagle and thanks for your comment and question.
 
I was using an mxl (dual-sided) v67. I agree that it sounds kind of  squashed and odd here, especially with initial consonants of a few of the words near the beginning of the song.
 
Most likely it wasn't the mike, but that I probably messed up and accidentally had my Octa-Capture on some weird setting.
 
But I managed to get a kind of decent take first shot singing and playing the guitar simultaneously so I was happy and relieved. I thought I'd try to get by with what I had in that take and hope that nobody noticed the kind of crummy vocal sound.
 
Lazy, or just plain afraid I couldn't make it all the way through again without a major mistake. Guess I should have made some adjustments and tried again. 
 
Thanks again, all, for taking the trouble to listen and comment!
LJ
2016/09/13 13:36:50
Jesse Screed
I have your SC page bookmarked.
 
I stop by once in a while to listen to your playlist.
 
Nice work!  again..
 
Jesse Q. Screed
2016/09/13 16:29:08
Beagle
skinnybones lampshade
Thanks very much, bitflipper. I'm (I think I'm) hoping to make a full production of this ....
 
Thank you, too, jamesyoyo. McCartney is a such a great musician - it's sweet to hear I could play something that would bring him to someone's mind in some way.
 
Hi Beagle and thanks for your comment and question.
 
I was using an mxl (dual-sided) v67. I agree that it sounds kind of  squashed and odd here, especially with initial consonants of a few of the words near the beginning of the song.
 
Most likely it wasn't the mike, but that I probably messed up and accidentally had my Octa-Capture on some weird setting.
 
But I managed to get a kind of decent take first shot singing and playing the guitar simultaneously so I was happy and relieved. I thought I'd try to get by with what I had in that take and hope that nobody noticed the kind of crummy vocal sound.
 
Lazy, or just plain afraid I couldn't make it all the way through again without a major mistake. Guess I should have made some adjustments and tried again. 
 
Thanks again, all, for taking the trouble to listen and comment!
LJ

Hi Laura,
just a point of information which might be a problem and might not - I own an MXL V67M and they're not "dual sided."  the V67 is a Cardioid patttern side address condenser mic.
 
basically those are a lot of big words to say that the pick up pattern for the mic is not "directional" but has the biggest pickup directly in front of it when it's "standing upright"
 
so you want to sing into the side where the "V67" is facing you like this:
 

 
the back side of the mic WILL pick up your voice, but it will be greatly reduced volume and probably will have some artifacts because of being on the back of the cardioid pattern.  and since it is greatly reduced volume you'll need to crank up the mic preamp on the octo which will also cause artifacts to add to the signal.
 
the cardioid pattern is like this:

the "firing line" in the above pic is the FRONT of the mic as shown on the V67 mic front above.
 
so, you might not be doing it wrong, but since you said "dual sided" - I wanted to make sure you understood that the mic is actually not dual sided and the pickup on the front of the mic will be where you can read "V67" and if you're not singing directly into the front, you get different pickup "sounds" but if you're on the 90 degree off axis you'll have odd artifacts and if you're at the back of the mic you'll have even higher artifacts in the recording.
2016/09/13 18:48:30
fjz
Very nice!  Listening to this had me almost hypnotized, sort of in a trance (in a good way). 
Great voice and guitar playing!
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