[ah-yi]

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[sikkony]

For the vibrato comment... >>;;;

It's REALLY REALLY REALLY bad to force vibrato by fluctuating your air flow with your stomach/diaphragm. It's incredibly unhealthy and it'll train you into a muscle memory that'll mess you up really bad. Vibrato, by nature, is a natural oscillation of the vocal chords that helps relieve stress on them. It has nothing to do with the diaphragm. If you force it, you can hurt yourself-- if you have no vibrato, or force yourself to sing with no vibrato, you can damage your vocal chords as well.

Hope that clears up a thing or two.

To clear things up with what I've said, just incase that is (because I think I was unclear with what I posted), I didn't mean for the person to make vibratos by using their stomach. By using the stomach trick, it helps give the sense of what vibratos feels like. You don't actually train with that technique though. And it is not the way in which vibratos are generated (by using our stomach etc).
Nothing should move when you make a vibrato, which includes your jaw, larynx, stomach etc. Like Sou has said, it's when there's no tension on the vocal folds and they are allowed to oscillate freely.

Sorry I was definitely unclear about that when I re-read what I posted just before.


Let Sou do the explanation, she by far is an excellent singer and very knowledgable in singing.

[mizz_J]

There's a converter called DBPowerAMP. I used it when I made AMVs XD
But what do you use to record? Just sound recorder or what?
If you use another recording program, google up "Lame mp3" and copy the files onto your computer. Its the mp3 encoder so you can save stuff as mp3 ^^

What files do you copy?

[Raix]

There should be lame.exe and lame_enc.dll
I have those two files in a folder called LAME in Program Files.

[MyEE]

How do you record yourself ? O_O What program do I use?

[mooncake]

How do I train up on my fasetto? I have a pretty weak fasetto and I don't really know how to relax my vocal chord when I hit the high notes. I like fantsiimaker's fasetto ine one of her song. How do I improve my fasetto?

[Raix]

How do you record yourself ? O_O What program do I use?

Google up Goldwave It's shareware and it'll stop working after 3000 action things but all you need to do is uninstall and reinstall.
A few people use Adobe Audition/Cool Edit Pro as well but its paid. There's is a 30 day trial though.

[juki_love]

^ i tried reinstalling goldwave b4.. but it didn't let me ><..

that's when i got adobe... (*just get the code thingy)

[hesaid143]

How do you get rid of the nasally voice? I`ve tried holding my nose and singing and trying hard so that my voice isn`t distorted at certain notes when it goes through my nose instead, but it doesn`t seem to work.

Just practice singing without it going through your nose? x] lol

[Raix]

Isn't singing nasally when you don't get air through your nose properly?

The reason some people sound stuffy (or nasal, I'm assuming) is that they're not resonating in their sinuses. It's why you sound kinda bad when you have a cold; you sound dull and nasal because your voice isn't resonating properly in your sinuses.

To fix it, you just have to relax yourself, breathe right (via your diaphragm~!), and try not to tense up when you sing. Dropping and relaxing your jaw helps too. ^^

[My Sweet September]

I have a question about mics.

I have noticed that most soompiers have nearly flawless recording quality....my mic is absolutely horrible and I really need a new one.

Sooooo...if anyone could direct to where I could buy a mic (it doesn't matter if it is online, I can make online purchases) thats decent (or mroe than decent!) I would appreciate it very much. I don't know where to begin to look, and I dont want to waste my money on a mic that i thought was good and it isn't

Thanks!

[tsububu]

Anyone know how to remove instrumentals from songs rather than remove vocals?

Ta

[mmitsjojo]

what is head voice and chest voice my chorus teacher always goes sing this in chest voice sing this in head voice and i`m all confused but i dont want to ask her =x lol

[Raix]

^ Head voice, I think is falsetto. It's like softer than your chest voice. Chest voice is stronger. I'm not quite sure on this though

[Diamond_]

From wikipedia.com

"The head register is generalized to be the range of vocal notes above middle C (C4). Technically, it can be said to be the upper half of a person's vocal range. It is called head voice because the pitch resonates through the upper mask in your face and forehead, as opposed to vocal notes in the chest register, which resonate in the chest cavity (and are deep and colorful). As you pitch your voice higher, the side muscles (in a properly trained voice) close the lower ends of the vocal cords, shortening the vibrating length (think of a guitarist using the thumb to change the pitch of a guitar). Vocal notes around tenor C (C5 - one octave above middle C) have a light trumpetty quality. As the pitch increases (and access to the chest cavity further decreases), the notes become lighter and lighter. Around A5 (the A below soprano C), the notes start becoming "squeaky" as the chest cavity is nearly completely removed. Going higher to E6 (only the most flexible of head registers allow this), the outer fringes of the vocal cords remain and the note loses any color. This is the beginning of the whistle register."

^^ BTW... this is a recording question. You know with songs by artists such as Ashlee Simpson, other rock songs and in Kelly Clarkson's songs... you can hear like their voice has got some sort of effect on it.... Anyone know what it is?

I use AA/Cool Edit Pro... so any help on making the voice sound more... songish... professional[?] with the FX's would be awesome help.

[appledapple]

I just wanted to recommend all you Cool Edit Pro/Adobe Audition users check out this forum for tips (JOHNNYMOON you should add this to your first post as it has lots of info):

http://homerecording.com/bbs/forumdisplay.php?f=41

You have to join the forum or else it will say there's no posts. Lots of info in there

answer from that forum to **tsububu's (i had the wrong poster before, sorry >.<) question about making an acapella:

ThaArtist
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Creating Acapellas from Songs

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Well I've seen this asked a few times and seen people say its impossible. Well its near impossible.. But we can come pretty close or at least get a useable sample.

Heres a little tutorial I put together using part of the information from Adobes Resource Center. The following is a link to Adobe's Web site where there is a video (which you need Quicktime to view) on using the Center Channel Extrator. Take note when the guy uses NEW settings in the acapella filter. Then come back here I got more tips. So go check out:

Center Channel Extractor video on Adobe's Web site

http://studio.adobe.com/us/tips/tip.jsp?p=...l=aud15ttvoices

So heres a quick run through...
In Adobe Audition 1.5 go to the wave editor view then open the file you want to to extract vocals from. File -> Open.
Highlight or trim down the section you want to use. Go to Effects -> Filters -> Center Channel Extrator, then choose Acapella. If the Preset settings work then great. For me they never do. So heres what we do... Change the Frequency Range to "300Hz to 12000Hz". Feel free to play around but I found them settings to work best for most songs. Click OK.
Now you'll notice that your drums are still pretty loud. What I did to combat this is went through the Dynamic Processing effect by clicking Effects -> Amplitude -> Dynamic Processing.I then used the the [B]Limit Hard -12dB Preset which limited them loud drum noises. Now they are softer...

Now after them steps if you want to try a little more. I usually do this to get the vocals louder and try to drown the music more:

Effects -> Filters -> Center Channel Extractor -> (Preset) Lift Vocals 10db
Effects -> Filters -> Center Channel Extractor -> (Preset) Amplify Vocals 6dB
Effects -> Amplitude -> Dynamic Processing -> Limit Hard -12dB Preset

Play around and see what you can come up. In other vocal extractions I used other Presets and then the Limit Hard -12dB. Don't be affraid to make your own Presets too. If it sounds good it sounds good. Let your ears be the final judge. And then... if you find something good. Share it here.

[mmitsjojo]

when yu start recording on cool edit pro right? you press the red record thing a thing will pop up? well i would like to know which numbers and which stuff do i have to choose in order to get good rec0rding? and do i save it in .mp3 file after? && also i need help with soundclick i dont know how to use it and add the songs, i tried numerous of times, doesn`t work out for me =[

[Raix]

^ Go to the first page and download Hmaster's tutorials. I can't help you with Soundclick right now, sorry

[mmitsjojo]

^ Go to the first page and download Hmaster's tutorials. I can't help you with Soundclick right now, sorry

hmaster's tutorial expired already. =[

[HmmlOL]

Not sure if you guys will know the answer.. but if you have any thoughts please respond..

If someone doesn't have a really nice sounding voice.. can they "practice" to make it sound nice? Or are they stuck with that voice?

My voice is pretty okay.. its not bad.. but it doesn't have that "sweet" sound to it.. could I practice to achieve it or what?

Also if someone doesn't sing very strongly.. does it just take practice?

I'm just kind of confused about the singing thing.. b/c singers have trained for years and debuted.. so I'm wondering how much worse their voices could have been before..

and I'm kind of hoping I could get my voice to sound good with practice lol.