Johan, yeah, lots of n00bs come and post on mondays about starting new team projects.

I activated my squeaky violin and recorded the violin melody and a little solo that could enter right in the beginning of the solo part, before Paul's guitar because it's pure awesomeness and it should definitely end the solo. (I love the duet part, it sounds so sweet it's untrue! Guitars don't sound that good easily, you've got something there)

Here's the first chorus with new background vocals and no solo voice. It's better not to have same singer in both backgrounds and soloist. Matthew, you could use this snippet for recording the chorus lines. We could use same recording in three first choruses and maybe another for the last chorus (with any change in lyrics or slowdown or gimmick whatever you can think of).

The raw dry background vocals are here:

http://kotisivu.dnainternet.fi/johan25/musik/chorus.wav.zip

It's a stereo track with the voices slightly to the right, a bit apart from each other. And an annoying sounding B in a very high octave due to a lousy iMic. I left it there, maybe Ron has better tools for filtering it out. The two higher parts I sang an octave lower and had Logic Express transpose it up. It still sounds falsetto, but much better than my own falsetto. The third part I sang in right octave.

Seems we have all the needed lyrics here. They turned out to be a success. Even if they tell a kind of an inside thing, the song could be something that advertises this great community. Especially when Matthew himself is the lead singer. The background vocals could have been sung by female voices. Diana, Manjula, Nichole? Are they still with us?

As I get older, my falsetto gets weaker. When I did that last mix, I got my voice sound like it used to. There's nothing wrong with falsetto, but usually another singer who can sing same pitch with full vocal chords action sounds better than the falsetto voice.

There's musical talent everywhere. But nowadays people don't have time for it anymore. People who don't have music as a profession tend to see themselves as music consumers, not producers.

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Any progress on that time mechgin song?

Pedro, it really wasn't that bad. I think the little parts that went out of tune were most likely you being a little nervous after hitting record. At least that's what it sounded like to me... It happens to me all the time.

Johan, those vocals sound good how it is... Your right though, transposing vocals or any instrument up even just a few notes means that you lose the natural low end frequencies... It's not something that can be processed back in though... You could always try to mix the unfiltered version (before the transposition) into the background of the filtered one to make it sound a bit more natural. If I had the unfiltered versions both transposed and not I could fix it up even more...

Ok... I'm doing a head count of the tracks I have so far and let me see:

Chorus
Violin Solo
Violin Melody
solo (guitar)
ritmicas (guitar)
2guitars

All I need is the rest of the tracks and there relative start times/beats and I could make a mixdown... And it sounds good so far. I think we have a hit

Well, the raw dry background vocals were not actually raw, they were transposed, that is the two higher voices. I used Logic's Vocal Transformer, which preserves the formants while changing the pitch. It was not the chipmonk transform. I do have the three background voices as separate tracks, in their untransposed unfiltered form. But at some point the two higher voices should be transposed to get the whole chorus idea right.

I thought it could be handy to have more options with the rhythm guitars, so I recorded two times with a steel acoustic the whole song through. I placed them on one stereo wave, far left and far right which usually sounds good for two similar guitars, but they could be narrowed, too. The track starts exactly at bar 2 (where intro starts at 1 and verse at 3). By options I mean you could choose to get the guitars there when Pedro's violin starts, or in the choruses, or anything, or just leave them off. I'm trying some mixing myself, but I haven't placed everything yet. Since we don't have Matthew's clean vocal track yet, there's not that much point. The additional rhythm guitars are here:

http://kotisivu.dnainternet.fi/johan25/musik/ac_guitars.wav.zip (23.7 MB)

I could record the electric bass, but I'm not sure how I should do it. I could play directly to a Logic or Garageband track and maybe put on some electric bass amp simulator. Or I could fetch a real bass amp from school and record with mic.

http://members.allegro.cc/matthew/misc/monday-vocals.zip

I can re-record any (or all) of it as needed.

I had to return to this place to demand a cover of Tom Wait's Christmas Card From a Hooker In Minneapolis with Matthew's lyrics.

listening to Matthew's vocals ahaha, this is sheer greatness
And the guitars sound very good too. I can't wait to hear the final mix!

To Ron: that is totally true recording with a score: "gotta... get it... right!" / improvising: "ha, this is more fun than I expected!". That explains why the solo sounds a lot better than the verse...

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Ok, nobody asked for it, but here is Pedro's awesome Chinese violin for your listening pleasure

I'll wait for people to mix stuff together in case the chorus change at the end.

I was just thinking of something like an animation (Flash style) mostly because I think it would be easier to do.

http://www.allegro.cc/forums/thread/597715/771170#target

Oh crap... Thanks Matthew. I looked back through the thread and missed that link... I've got it now though.

Yes. I agree there... Doing multiple tracks of one person only gives you a more natural chorus 'effect', which does sound better then using some kind of digital chorus 'effect', but it's not a means of replacing actual backup singers or an actual choir... I'd just laugh if someone called themselves a choir when they just recorded themselves 20 or so times..

I wouldn't dare to. The horn parts I posted are as real as it gets. Here's the gear list:
Trumpet: Getzen 300
Trumpet mouthpiece: the one that came with the trumpet
Trombone: Conn Director (from 1985 judging by the serial)
Trombone mouthpiece: Vincent Bach 6 1/2 A
Mic: AKG C519 (third generation of the legendary clip-on)
D/A: TASCAM US-122 L
PC: Custom-built intel core 2 duo system, 4 GB RAM

And to answer the question about where the horn parts go:
Open your favourite audio suite, set the tempo to 120. Put the mixdown at measure 1. Put the horn part at measure 19 (on the first beat). The first horn note will be one 8th before the first beat of measure 20 (the first chorus; the horns follow the backing vocals there).

And does, by any chance, anyone have a recent version with everything in it?

Maybe I'll have one for you later... I've been working on it between mixes of other songs so it might take some time... It would make things go quicker if I had the start times for all the tracks. I can figure them out myself but I've suddenly come into a bit more work here...