Project: Queen For A Day
- KVRAF
- 40265 posts since 11 Aug, 2008 from clown world
Doesn't sound anything like Queen imho.
There is definitely a seventies kind of thing going on there.
There is an immediately apparent professionalism to what you're doing, from the very first note. Could be you're very experienced or alternatively you've copied some old song arrangements.
Something odd about your vocal sound. Something odd about the mix.
Your voice can carry a tune. If recorded and/or mixed properly, I'd enjoy listening to it more.
I love the 'backing vox' effect. I'd like to know how you achieved it.
The lyrics are pants.
There is definitely a seventies kind of thing going on there.
There is an immediately apparent professionalism to what you're doing, from the very first note. Could be you're very experienced or alternatively you've copied some old song arrangements.
Something odd about your vocal sound. Something odd about the mix.
Your voice can carry a tune. If recorded and/or mixed properly, I'd enjoy listening to it more.
I love the 'backing vox' effect. I'd like to know how you achieved it.
The lyrics are pants.
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- KVRAF
- 2381 posts since 7 Jul, 2003 from Huntington, WV
The vocoder lines definitely add to the ELO flavor. If I were to ever publish a song with my vocals on it, you can expect all those vocals to be vocoded, because I can't sing nearly as well as you.
Maybe it's just me, but I'm also getting a bit of a Jim Steinman feel from this.
Overall, I like it.
Maybe it's just me, but I'm also getting a bit of a Jim Steinman feel from this.
Overall, I like it.
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- 10732 posts since 17 Nov, 2015
not bad actually, i wouldnt say it sounds anything like Queen or ELO tho. The vox is prob the best part (tho the vocoder parts could do with more sustain)
the rest sounds a bit "midi file" to me. Not very natural. I think a good string arrangement would fill it out nicely.
overall vibe is that is sounds quite English, and a bit like a TV theme tune...
the rest sounds a bit "midi file" to me. Not very natural. I think a good string arrangement would fill it out nicely.
overall vibe is that is sounds quite English, and a bit like a TV theme tune...
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- 2288 posts since 24 Mar, 2015 from Toronto, Canada
Nooo!! Don't do ELO!!! I am a huge 70s fan and love all those records from the era, but ELO was one band who's output I hated. I don't know why. Maybe its because they sounded like a sensationalist Beatles rip off. I would rather take Ferrari's dog song over ELO music. At least they didn't pretend to be anything more than they really are and you got what you see from them.
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- 2288 posts since 24 Mar, 2015 from Toronto, Canada
I was (and still am) a big fan of the Jeff Lynne productions of the late 80s/early 90s. I also saw some very very early ELO performances online and I was very impressed with how they sounded in early stages. Sort of T-Rex meets early Fleetwood Mac during the Peter Green era. But the later ELO records just sounded too polished and commercial for my tastes. What can I say. I am guy who wears Ramones and Todd Rundgren t shirts..
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- KVRAF
- 1534 posts since 13 Dec, 2016
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- 2288 posts since 24 Mar, 2015 from Toronto, Canada
I am not cool. I am old. I am fuggin 100 years old!enCiphered wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2019 11:20 amOh, come on dude! This is so old school!!
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- KVRAF
- 1534 posts since 13 Dec, 2016
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- Topic Starter
- 21196 posts since 8 Oct, 2014
Thanks for the listen and the feedback. I didn't add strings because I didn't want to actually go into ELO territory since Queen doesn't traditionally use strings in their arrangements.Aloysius wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2019 4:26 am Doesn't sound anything like Queen imho.
There is definitely a seventies kind of thing going on there.
There is an immediately apparent professionalism to what you're doing, from the very first note. Could be you're very experienced or alternatively you've copied some old song arrangements.
Something odd about your vocal sound. Something odd about the mix.
Your voice can carry a tune. If recorded and/or mixed properly, I'd enjoy listening to it more.
I love the 'backing vox' effect. I'd like to know how you achieved it.
The lyrics are pants.
As for the lyrics, well, I'm no lyricist so they are what they are.
The backing vox effect was achieved with Antares AVOX. It's supposed to do "natural" background vocals but because I stripped the input channel from the mix, all that came out was the synth voices, thus giving it that vocoder effect. It was not intentional. I stripped the channel because the natural background vocal was horrible and I wasn't going to keep recording over and over to get the sound I wanted. It wasn't happening. This is what made me realize that doing Queen vocals is near impossible. Forget that I'm not Freddie Mercury.
Anyway, I now have to decide if I'm going to straddle the fence between the two bands or just go full tilt ELO.
Nothing has been decided yet.
- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 21196 posts since 8 Oct, 2014
As I said above, I didn't do strings because I didn't want to actually go into ELO territory. The arrangement is actually quite sparse. Piano, bass, drums, lead guitar and vocals. And that's it.AnX wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2019 5:28 am not bad actually, i wouldnt say it sounds anything like Queen or ELO tho. The vox is prob the best part (tho the vocoder parts could do with more sustain)
the rest sounds a bit "midi file" to me. Not very natural. I think a good string arrangement would fill it out nicely.
overall vibe is that is sounds quite English, and a bit like a TV theme tune...
As for more "sustain" on the vocoder parts, I don't even know what that means. You don't sustain notes that are sung staccato or quickly, and most of the background vocals are as such. In fact, I had enough trouble playing the MIDI part to get the harmonies just right.
- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 21196 posts since 8 Oct, 2014
That's because the way I sang the vocals was so short. There wasn't much to sustain.
- KVRian
- 1421 posts since 14 Apr, 2016 from Germany
Are your skills on vacation or what happened to them?
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