Comments on: Hummingbrrd

Hummingbrrd

gsalad — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 22:50:17 -0800

A light-hearted vocal tune/experiment - all sounds are from my own voice, including the potentially craptacular quasi-beatboxing in the middle. Enjoy!

By: epimorph

epimorph — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 01:13:40 -0800

That's pretty neat. It sounds like you have some range.

By: JZig

JZig — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 02:02:23 -0800

I like it. I was thinking of doing something like this.

How'd you record it? I'm having trouble recording my voice with this clarity.

By: gsalad

gsalad — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 07:35:27 -0800

Thanks! I don't actually have that kind of range - I made extensive use of Melodyne for pitch-correction and transposition, and assembled the whole thing in Digital Performer.

I used a Rode NT-1 mic, in my home studio, with a tiny amount of slapback delay on the vocal to give it extra punch. That's about it - a simple setup.

More info is on my website.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 10:47:37 -0800

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By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 20:22:48 -0800

Nice. I tried something like this once using Acid Pro and Cool Edit. Needless to say the end result is not for public consumption.

By: snsranch

snsranch — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 22:14:44 -0800

Yea, I like it. I could see this being in a movie or tv show.

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 11:27:25 -0800

I could see this being in a movie or tv show.

It'd be the perfect soundtrack for a well-cut heist montage.

By: raedyn

raedyn — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 07:44:59 -0800

That's catchy.

By: ryran

ryran — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 10:08:03 -0800

Why oh why does this have to be so catchy........ sweeeet.

By: redsnare

redsnare — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 12:38:04 -0800

Nice. Reminds me of Bobby Mcferrin's Circlesongs which I may have to break out of the CD storage bin when I get home. Thanks!

By: The Great Big Mulp

The Great Big Mulp — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:19:35 -0800

As the only other person with a song tagged with acapella, I dig. I dig muchly.

By: It's Raining Florence Henderson

It's Raining Florence Henderson — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:06:35 -0800

I love this unreasonably much.

By: RustyBrooks

RustyBrooks — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 07:55:53 -0800

Yeah, it's awesome.

By: RustyBrooks

RustyBrooks — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 22:22:51 -0800

Man, I downloaded Melodyne's demo to try it out. That thing is totally sweet. I can't sing so I wanted to see if I could do some other cool stuff with it.

If you record a single guitar line VERY cleanly (pretty much you need to do it all on on string and make sure not to get any notes going on other strings on accident) you can import it in and go wild. I made some cool 3-part guitar harmonies with very little effort and time. It doesn't really deal that well with chords and stuff though. There is a video on their website which includes showing someone making a long, nice, trumpet solo out of a 5-second trumpet clip.

If you sing, and record digitally I think it could save you some serious time.

Oh, and you can get a pretty good/interesting chorus effect by taking a recorded sample, in all it's imperfection, copying it, and allowing Melodyne to clean one of them up (or you can take one clean one, and have it apply small random frequency offsets).

The ability to take a sample and edit/modify *individual notes* easily is so badass. I had a lot of fun playing with the "formants" of notes and passages. What Melodyne calls a "formant" basically seems to be what overtones get accentuated, and how much. For voice I think it has to do with where you're singing from, like chest or head, for instruments more like what size of resonating chamber you have on your instrument.