so you mean exactly what the DNC did when Hillary ran?

https://observer.com/2016/10/wikileaks-reveals-dnc-elevated-trump-to-help-clinton/

I don't know how this keeps popping up over and over and over. I'm not a Republican. And, fun fact, I've been calling Bush a war criminal for well over a decade.

Meanwhile, the DNC literally invites his cabinet to speak:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/18/politics/colin-powell-biden-convention/index.html

A WAR CRIMINAL (plus dozens more neocon war mongers) just endorsed Biden. That should scare anyone.

And nobody cares. They just... do de doo.... go about their days as the people they've been calling monsters for decades join their party and endorse their candidate.

It's almost like... there is only one party and its name is corporations!

People keep pulling this "trick" out of their sleeves by saying "why didn't you care about the GOP" but it doesn't work on me because I care when either side acts like monsters, and that's easy for me I don't derive my identity from a political party. If someone is molesting kids, I don't care if they have an (R) or an (D) before their name. If Clinton banged kids? Execute him. If Trump banged kids? Execute him. If Prince Andrews banged kids? Execute him. Simple. THINGS are right are wrong, and they don't change based on their party affiliation and whether I stand to benefit from them politically. I don't want to "win" my politics knowing it was paid for with molested children, or drone strikes civilians, or any of the other things that are almost impossible to debate ethically.

Cosby is a bad man. It doesn't matter how much I loved him as a child and growing up saw him as a father figure. Now, he's a piece of !@$!@. My feelings don't matter. The objective truth is, he's a piece of !@$!. Repeat ad nausium for every celebrity (Kevin Spacey), and politician.

[edit] FIX. NOT KEVIN SMITH. KEVIN SPACEY

You might be in an area the Republicans have been trying to only allow Republicans to vote in.

Or that is some random campaign thing to get your roommate to vote for Trump.

Surprised? Trump also puts his name on checks coming out of the treasury as if it's his money.

So you're saying Kanye West has a chance?

And here I thought nothing could be worse than Trump/Pence.

Wear a Biden hat. That should stop the people who catcall.

I was mildly disappointed that it wasn't twenty bad impressions of the spoken nature.

That said, good job.

@BamBam

There's a light amount of AutoTune yes, but I would like to take a moment to explain what AutoTune is and why it is used. There's a misconception that tuning software can make someone who can't sing, sing. This is simply not true.

AutoTune, the name brand version, is a software that divides a signal into a pitch and formant component. It will in real time, adjust the pitch component such that the pitch center is aligned to the frequency of the note in the scale and compensate the formant (throat placement) for the amount of change in pitch.

The amount of tuning, known as the rate, is a measure of how quickly it will interpolate to the pitch center. So the T-Pain effect is basically setting the rate to 1ms. I set the rate quite low which equates to very mild tuning.

If I did not actually sing it you'd hear the autotune because the tuner can actually fix very little without being noticable.

So why is Tuning used?

You may have noticed that the vocals are way out in front, like they are much louder than the instruments. If you compare to the real recordings on some of them, the vocals are buried way in the back.

Modern mixing puts vocals way out in front.

Anyways: here is a 100% raw clip https://vocaroo.com/19bsAO8Fa9Pe

I can sing soft too, I like to use a shouty rock technique but I can sing soft too https://vocaroo.com/19Q8btZ8pDZw

@ML
Thanks

If you sing a song all the way through and use autotune and it sounds good (and by good I don't mean sounds like a robot) then yes you can sing.... if you want to send me a clip I can autotune your voice and show you the difference if you're curious

If more raw singing is your thing I have loads of improv sessions of me coming up with song ideas on piano, and these without a doubt have no tuning or anything, just direct piano feed into PC and mic feed. https://vocaroo.com/ihIdpg4FAAV

Personally I like to listen to things that are more polished but I know there's a spectrum for raw vs polished.

I have demos for every song I produce, here is Butterscotch https://vocaroo.com/41tclFAF9J2

It can be just about anything

It's easier with Pop music since most of that is based on major and minor scales. But just about anything will do.

Ideally it's just the vocal with no other sound or it won't work.

And also ideally you sing along to a track so that your singing is tuned to A440Hz standard.

I'm looking forward to hearing it! Thanks for the kind comments!

Yeah I would tend to agree with that. I would also add - I would say AutoTune can be a productivity tool. Before you had to nail it spot on so you might spend days and days getting that perfect take. Well with AutoTune you can kind of get it 95% the way there and move on to something else so in a sense it gives you more time to focus on other things.

A rough first attempt between work tasks.

I know it's not good. I know I can't do much better. But I will try. I think this was recorded using the built-in mic on my work laptop (I was also wearing a wireless headset, but I suspect that wasn't the input mic).

I forgot to or was unable to breathe towards the middle of the song which obviously caused me extra trouble for the hardest part... Breathing is something that I definitely need to train... I also have a high voice, and struggle to go lower, especially while singing. I often end up singing in the wrong range, and adjusting it once I realize. Though I think I have a fairly limited range, if any range at all.

I have watched a few voice coach videos on YouTube which I find very informative. They point out all kinds of things that I never would have thought of. I definitely could see use in getting professional direction, but I don't think I have enough potential to invest the time and money in. And it's only for personal pleasure, not for income... Though if I could get good enough to switch to a music career I 100% would try.

Bams I'm impressed! That was a lot better than I was expecting hahah! You have a great voice!

As promised I tuned your vocal. I made 3 versions: Moderate, Heavy, None. So you can compare.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/8rcdu0hgycjrzjs/sos2.mp3/file
http://www.mediafire.com/file/h07b1fsq7yu6ga8/sos3.mp3/file
http://www.mediafire.com/file/9ytj6ox0z7e3yb3/sos1.mp3/file

and just for you, here is a live cover straight from the camera mic, no way I tuned this!

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Thanks. I've been working at it for a number of years. Still struggle, but have also improved over time. Watching you in videos I think it's clear that you've studied singing. You appear quite disciplined. If not I think you have a natural gift for figuring some of it out.

Hey, some of that turned out pretty awesome! I wish I hadn't butchered the climax. Let's see if I can guess which one is which (assuming they aren't in the listed order already):

Heavy: sos1
Moderate: sos2
None: sos3

As for your Patsy Cline cover, that's so awesome! Your voice is so controlled!

I'm curious what tools/software you use to for the mixing and tuning. Although I'd love to just get you to autotune everything I make something tells me you won't work for free and I can't afford you. Speaking of which, I hope it wasn't too much trouble producing those 3 versions. Thanks a lot!

Thanks. Easily one of my favorite songs for singing (or vocals). Such a good song, and Disturbed's cover makes it 1000x better. When I thought about what I should sing I was initially listening to Staind on Spotify. I haven't been singing much in the past few months, for various reasons, so I was out of practice and didn't really have anything fresh in my mind. I started noting down Staind songs that I enjoy singing as they came and went on my playlist. Then The Sound of Silence popped into my head, and I changed my Spotfy playlist to repeating just that song, and after a practice run where I butchered the lyrics (it has been probably 6 or 8 months since I've really put effort into singing this song) I pulled out Audacity, hit record, and looked up the lyrics. Just doing a rough run between work tasks. And then history was made. I'm going out on tour next week.