Up Where We Belong - Lana & Diego
doc_ramadani
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They are young, they are hot and they like challenges. Therefore I suggested @coffeecrank and @Diego to do a collaboration together. I chose a very tough one for them but they did a fantastic job. What do you think about our rising stars?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF-4CdpZooQ
@Wigs @Sophia @DogMeat @cwcw @samw2019 @d1g2w3 @Rick_amateur @samw2019 @Goldtaff @Mysti @sagemacg @blondiewales @Raphael_Hussl @bentk @Gaston_Jauregui @HuduVudu @AaronChristie @AaralynShiri @Hollywood @Wildmanofthewoods Anyone else?
Doc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF-4CdpZooQ@Wigs @Sophia @DogMeat @cwcw @samw2019 @d1g2w3 @Rick_amateur @samw2019 @Goldtaff @Mysti @sagemacg @blondiewales @Raphael_Hussl @bentk @Gaston_Jauregui @HuduVudu @AaronChristie @AaralynShiri @Hollywood @Wildmanofthewoods Anyone else?
Doc
Comments
@Diego I really like your tone.
You both did a really good job, it was beautiful. You have a great control of your voices !
@Diego nice chest voice on this one. One of your better performances for me.
Amazing stuff to both of you and think it's safe to say were all improving as the weeks and months go on.
George
I told Diego that, if I hear any Freddie or Michael in his recording I will come to Honduras and kick him in his ***. That worked - except for some spots.
To be honest, Diego has some really nice and unique parts in there. Soon we should collect some money for him to get an audio interface and a large diaphragm condenser.
Doc
Super job, all of you! Plugged my pc into some powered speakers and cranked it up...sounds great!
personally it was a great pleasure for me to see these young voices blossoming. We elder guys can just lean back and enjoy their performances.
Doc
Audacity isn't terrible, for what it is...simple and free. I just switched over to Cakewalk, from Audacity, which is also free (it used to be a paid-for DAW called SONAR, but is now totally free under Bandlab ~~ also free) and am just learning about it and connecting my MIDI stuff through it. It's only drawback is that I think it is a Windows only program, but the FX, reverb, compression, limiting, etc, all seem to work amazingly well. It comes with a lot of plug-ins, and there are more available (mostly free, also), but I have a steep learning curve to figure out what's already there. Fun! It all takes time, and 'they' say Time is the best teacher. Unfortunately Time tends to kill off all of his students...so I better hurry up.
Personally, I've been using Reaper mostly lately, and like it better for my day-to-day work. It's just more straight-forward for simple recording, yet still lots of power when needed.
Audacity is very straight-forward and has much more accessible learning curve. That it can use VST (and other format) plug-ins and there are lots of good and good enough free ones out there, it's also a good solution.
Chris
Thanks Chris,
I may give Reaper a try. Still just trying this, that & the other thing because between music and ham radio...well, the technology is just geek heaven for a person like me!
Now if I quit playing with all the toys so much and focused more on singing...
~~Dan
even if have earned a few skills on recording and mixing I don't really like to do it. For me, it is like loosing time. But the thing is, that we have to deal with this recording things if we want to deliver our recordings in a way that the listener is used to.
To my personal taste a lot of modern productions are highly over-produced with all the vocal chops and Autotune FX stuff (an octave up, an octave down, talk box + vocoder). Since I am doing the course I am listening to the singers' techniques much more. To hear growing voices, like those of Lana and Diego, became a real pleasure for me. The same for Hampton's voice (Blondie) in Brandy.
Doc
I have the Scarlet solo really great bit of kit, ultra portable as well and It’s a brilliant starter kit very good sound quality. I didn’t buy the bundle already got a rode nt1a and headphones though.
Vocality
You two sound great together! Thanks for sharing this.
@blondiewales I have a Scarlett 2i2 and it works well. Would be happy to pitch in another $20 towards the kit for Diego. If the 3rd gen price is an issue, the 2nd gen is good too and about $60 less.
@doc_ramadani @DogMeat @coffeecrank @Mysti @Vocality and @blondiewales !
Sure, let's start the thing.
Doc