I love it, beautiful song, I know how hard it is to make music to accompany an acapella, you did it very well.
For myself, I would lower the bass a little.
I'm thrilled that you enjoyed the music! Credit truly goes to Manuela for her original composition, without her track, I wouldn't have been able to create the backing music. Regarding the mix, I've made some improvements by reducing the touch/velocity of the bass and eliminating some problematic frequencies. With repeated listens, I may continue tweaking things, which could refine or potentially harm the sound if taken too far.
Thanks once again for taking the time to listen and share your feedback! Cheers!
Nice song, good flow.
Sorry for my personal opinion: I think it could be much better. I feel like the chase for loudness has degraded the overall sound.
I understand although this not an official version. It was a quick mix completed in less than 30 minutes after I stumbled upon the vocal here and remembered I had a backing track that might suit it. Naturally, if the track were to be developed further, I agree with you that it could be improved. Thank you for listening and providing feedback.
Thanx Frans.When I first started making beats I did a lot of vocals on my beat from LM and youtube. Now I use my own voice lol.
But Manuela has a really beautiful singing voice and fit well on my beat.
Hi Rita, I did not do much, just tweak a little bit.
The extra voices is you, I took 4 copies of your vocal for the chorus parts.
Each copy received some treatment to have slightly different timbre and timings like it was sang by someone else.
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Reaper has stretch markers to compress/stretch parts of an audio item. So I stretched/compressed each copy on multiple points in the audio a little bit to have slightly different timings for each voice, then pitched up 1 octave and corrected the formant (avoid mickey mouse voice) so each voice sounds a little bit different, and different to your original)
==TECHNICAL=END=
Normally you would have a real choir. But you can simulate that yourself by singing multiple extra takes for the chorus ("choir") like you do for the background voice, now just more takes (separate recordings/audio files), and in this case preferably 1 octave higher to eliminate the need to pitch.
==TECHNICAL=START=
Put each "choir" take in a separate track in your DAW, match all roughly to your you main vocal so they sound like a "choir", then spread the voices by changing the PAN for each "choir" voice, you get width in the sound. If possible group them or send the output to a bus, put some reverb on the "choir" and take the "choir" volume down, the main vocal should virtually stand in front of the audience, the "choir" in the back accompanying the main vocalist, adjust to your taste.
==TECHNICAL=END=
The guitar part was a VST (NI Kontakt, lib Kontakt, Rock Guitar) with an automation on volume to fade the guitar sound in and out.
As mentioned before, I loved your original track and just had to "play" with it :-)
Dankje Frans.Ik had in mail al gelezen hoe je het had gedaan en ik ben nu aan de slag gegaan om met een ander nummer ook een beetje te spelen met de panning en pitch en mijn vocal 3 keer een ander geluid te geven.
Ik stuur hem naar je.Ik ben benieuwd wat je ervan vind.
In iedergeval heel erg bedankt voor je uitgebreide uitleg.
I like the result even in the (still?) unfinished state.
I did some Silver Bella / Ashes and Dreams mixes myself, didn't hear this one before :-) I'm to busy creating :-(
I like it, lots of variations but can't specify like the musicians among us.
Now sorry for my comment: I listened with studio speakers and audio headset and heard something strange. From 00:23 to 01:24 I experienced a distortion. So I took the studio headset and heard a sub bass. After running the sound through an EQ I found a 20-35 Hz frequency that is considerably louder than the rest.
Again sorry if this was intentional and my equipment is simply not up to par :-)
You were not wrong. There was a distorted Sub bass. Leftover Lasagne's Push Tech was the culprit. I used The Eighties Monster Kick Prest which pushed it over the edge. Also I usually listen on Multiple audio units (headphones and speakers) I did not do that. (Lazy, lazy, Lazy.) So I remastered it. Good ears mate and I appreciate you fo that.
Good job, I like the track, personally love the base and vocals.
I can imagine the task at hand to get a result like this, I wasn't able to create something comparable yet.
I like this song, played it multiple times on speakers and headset to catch the lyrics, but my ears aren't the best ;-)
Nice beat and vocals, can relate to the story :-)
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For myself, I would lower the bass a little.
Thanks once again for taking the time to listen and share your feedback! Cheers!
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Would you mind when I give it a try to dutchify this track?
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Sorry for my personal opinion: I think it could be much better. I feel like the chase for loudness has degraded the overall sound.
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But I'm missing the end! It's so abrupt that it sounds clipped.
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But Manuela has a really beautiful singing voice and fit well on my beat.
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Hartelijke groeten, Manuela
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Ik had hem al een tijdje maar het werd tijd om weer even een beat te droppen hier.
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The extra voices is you, I took 4 copies of your vocal for the chorus parts.
Each copy received some treatment to have slightly different timbre and timings like it was sang by someone else.
==TECHNICAL=START=
Reaper has stretch markers to compress/stretch parts of an audio item. So I stretched/compressed each copy on multiple points in the audio a little bit to have slightly different timings for each voice, then pitched up 1 octave and corrected the formant (avoid mickey mouse voice) so each voice sounds a little bit different, and different to your original)
==TECHNICAL=END=
Normally you would have a real choir. But you can simulate that yourself by singing multiple extra takes for the chorus ("choir") like you do for the background voice, now just more takes (separate recordings/audio files), and in this case preferably 1 octave higher to eliminate the need to pitch.
==TECHNICAL=START=
Put each "choir" take in a separate track in your DAW, match all roughly to your you main vocal so they sound like a "choir", then spread the voices by changing the PAN for each "choir" voice, you get width in the sound. If possible group them or send the output to a bus, put some reverb on the "choir" and take the "choir" volume down, the main vocal should virtually stand in front of the audience, the "choir" in the back accompanying the main vocalist, adjust to your taste.
==TECHNICAL=END=
The guitar part was a VST (NI Kontakt, lib Kontakt, Rock Guitar) with an automation on volume to fade the guitar sound in and out.
As mentioned before, I loved your original track and just had to "play" with it :-)
Ik stuur hem naar je.Ik ben benieuwd wat je ervan vind.
In iedergeval heel erg bedankt voor je uitgebreide uitleg.
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I just listen to your version and its great what you didd.
I will replace it with this one
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I did some Silver Bella / Ashes and Dreams mixes myself, didn't hear this one before :-) I'm to busy creating :-(
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Now sorry for my comment: I listened with studio speakers and audio headset and heard something strange. From 00:23 to 01:24 I experienced a distortion. So I took the studio headset and heard a sub bass. After running the sound through an EQ I found a 20-35 Hz frequency that is considerably louder than the rest.
Again sorry if this was intentional and my equipment is simply not up to par :-)
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I can imagine the task at hand to get a result like this, I wasn't able to create something comparable yet.
Keep at it, it will come together :-)
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Nice beat and vocals, can relate to the story :-)