The Song Fight Bulletin Board

And now, for Round 5. Do tires hit the road, or does shit hit the fan?

Title: "Heart Shaker"
Non Optional Challenge: creative use of a flatline tone
Songs are Due on: Monday, May 23rd @ 12:01 AM EDT
Send your MP3 to nurein.sidefight@gmail.com

roymond wrote: Non Optional Challenge: creative use of a flatline tone

First "Patient Number 7" and now a flatline tone, eh? Death rocks!

NUR EIN!!!!!

Don't we usually get the new challenge after receiving the scores?

dantes wrote:Don't we usually get the new challenge after receiving the scores?

Hey, we're running a little ragged here. Things have to get done, and people have to do stuff and the buttons need to get pushed. Scores are being tabulated as we speak.

NUR EIN!!!!!

Funny, I had a EKG machine that went to a flat line at the end of my pn7 song, but went with the record has ended skipping sound instead because it seemed to fit the challenge better.

Well, I *guess* I'll be leaving you guys. It was fun ride, hope to stick around longer next time. Keep on trucking, fellas!

Billy's Little Trip wrote:record has ended skipping sound

The run-out groove.

Oh, that's what that's called. Thanks.

Yeah, I'm out too. Oh well, life goes on.

Nur Herausforderung!!!!!!

Billy's Little Trip wrote: Yeah, I'm out too. Oh well, life goes on.

That was some fun music you put out here!

I'm out too! Have fun guys (and DJ)!

roymond wrote:

Billy's Little Trip wrote: Yeah, I'm out too. Oh well, life goes on.

That was some fun music you put out here!

Thanks! *gives roy a reach around* shhh shhh, it's ok as long as we don't make eye contact.

Sorry to see you three go. Better luck next time!

Nice try, jast. The reach arounds have all been passed out.

But maybe you can give me online singing lessons. You mentioned monitors. I record and mix on headphones. Could that be a problem?

You don't need singing lessons. You need Alcoholic's Anonymous.

Manhattan Glutton wrote:You don't need singing lessons. You need Alcoholic's Anonymous.

Yeah, I already tried AAA, but they tried to sell me auto insurance. So I stumbled across the street to AA. They didn't help my singing, but they did teach me this song.
Well i stumbled in at 2 am all drunk and full of smoke
My wife said "I have had enough, that's it i'm sick,get out"
So i stumbled down to kellys pub across the edge of town
And told the boys me story, and we had another round
Now we drink
And drink and drink
And drink and drink
And drink and fight
Yes, we drink
And drink and drink
And drink and drink
And drink and fight

Billy's Little Trip wrote:You mentioned monitors. I record and mix on headphones. Could that be a problem?

There is no sane way to record vocals without headphones, I think. I've heard, though, that if the stuff that plays on the headphones is too loud or too quiet compared to your singing during recording, it screws up your pitch perception and the vocals are more likely to end up pitchy. So, try playing the backing track louder or quieter during recording.

jast wrote:

Billy's Little Trip wrote:You mentioned monitors. I record and mix on headphones. Could that be a problem?

There is no sane way to record vocals without headphones, I think. I've heard, though, that if the stuff that plays on the headphones is too loud or too quiet compared to your singing during recording, it screws up your pitch perception and the vocals are more likely to end up pitchy. So, try playing the backing track louder or quieter during recording.

Are you going into politics? Because either of these methods might be the right answer, lol.

I've noticed that when the backing music is lower *edit* louder, I push my vocals more and they stay on key better. When my vocals are way up front, they get shaky like they are too strong and I try to control them too much and I get unsure. I think?

Some people flip one headphone the wrong way or otherwise take it off an ear so as to hear the playback in one ear and their natural voice in the other. Just make sure that if you leave playback going out of that headphone that it doesn't get picked up by your mic.

EDIT: Also, you can actually record vocals without headphones. Ken's set that up for BSS and other Song Fight! bands in the past. Usually it involves something like having the music on low on the speakers, and point the mic away from the speakers, and sing loud.

I just edited myself up above. All I need is to feel the music and get in the right mood. When I'm tiptoeing on my vocals, I get.....timid? Or maybe too over conscious? I find that when I let it loose and let my real self out, I hit the mark without trying.

Someone should sticky this thread so it's at the top. I totally missed it for about a day. :p Or I could just stop being lazy & read more than 3 lines...but I would rather stay lazy.

Oh, yeah, I do the "headphones on one ear" thing. That way I can turn the playback up quite a bit more without losing perception of my own pitch.

I do my vocals (no snickering!) through headphones with the beat up, music down. This helps me with my pitch. I never mix through phones, though.