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Moin, Roubina!

Good to have you back - it's quite a long time since.
Hope you are well, and your moving day (wasn't it?) had been successful.

Did you notice you'll find some classical friends from South Africa who joined us lately? => this style has more supporters now - hope we can even win Pandit to do some classic crossover.

Will you be available for some further steps?

:-) Carsten (-:

dear Roubina, to hear this beautiful good-known songs and your wonderful voice was like to have sunny holidays... respect and much love

Moin, Roubina,
I hope your moving day is a "lucky move" - I remember some myself and many of them kept my family and myself rather busy for some time.
We're just back from our holiday in Italy, but I have to do some homework for my other drafts first - and additionally we have to remember that the project is still in it's initial 1st phase of songwriting - so you are definitely not supposed to be in a hurry about the next recordings - we have lot's of time.
And I think you know my oppinion: We have to have fun in this project to be successful and make good music, so don't apply too many pressure to yourself to carry on work too early if your real life doesn't allow to.
I'm really happy that a great singer like you has interest to work with my draft even at this early stage of the project - I really would enjoy if we could do some more collaboration once you can be back. Cheers, Carsten

Moin, Roubina,

great voice - very impressive and much better for this song version. I'm very glad you passed the first border to work as a classical live singer in a computer environment. I think you've really hit the heart of the sugarpot wih your interpretation.

Please note that in this song the credits for melody go to Uli Staudenmaier, I just made the orchestral arranging and some conceptual "enhancements" - and slowed down refrain melody to half speed.

Of course home recording in the champions' league (classic style) is very demanding and a matter of experience and equipment - Here just some first hints from my personal point of view:

* It's normal that your voice sounds dry and will not fully fold to the arrangement, since the reverb is missing. If you send me the single vocal track I can add the same reverb to your voice which I used for the orchestra, so you will then be virtually in the same "room".
* The p's, b's and t's sounds make plosive noise in the microphone - that can easily be countered with a so-called "pop"-filter (i.e. it eliminates the "pop"-sound that accompanies those syllables with these letters),
* If you don't want to buy one, you can try to build one youself. Search something like a frame or rim in your household that has a hole of approx. 10 cm in the middle - maybe a tiny picture frame (without glass, picture and back of course, just the outer frame), or cut a ring of that size out of thick paperboard. Then, tighten some cloth like an old nylon stocking or lace curtain around the frame, at best in two resulting layers.
* It now should look a little like a ping pong bat where you can see a little bit through the fabric surface in the middle.
* You can test it easily by holding a hand some cm behind it, and then feel if the airwaves of a loud "p" reach your hand through the cloth.
* Then place it 5 - 10 cm in front of your mic; and all plosive sounds will be avoided, without distubring the sound.

Remember, it's all a little bit about making some experiments to gain some practice. It is essential you develop a recording style where you really feal comfortable - which is not easy from the start, since it is not everyone's business to sing with headphones to avoid playback being recorded with the vocal track once more.

I may comment some more details later on your personal mailbox of this site.

Until then, thanks again and cheers, Carsten.

Moin, Roubina,

great voice - very impressive and much better for this song version. I'm very glad you passed the first border to work as a classical live singer in a computer environment. I think you've really hit the heart of the sugarpot wih your interpretation.

Please note that in this song the credits for melody go to Uli Staudenmaier, I just made the orchestral arranging and some conceptual "enhancements" - and slowed down refrain melody to half speed.

Of course home recording in the champions' league (classic style) is very demanding and a matter of experience and equipment - Here just some first hints from my personal point of view:

* It's normal that your voice sounds dry and will not fully fold to the arrangement, since the reverb is missing. If you send me the single vocal track I can add the same reverb to your voice which I used for the orchestra, so you will then be virtually in the same "room".
* The p's, b's and t's sounds make plosive noise in the microphone - that can easily be countered with a so-called "pop"-filter (i.e. it eliminates the "pop"-sound that accompanies those syllables with these letters),
* If you don't want to buy one, you can try to build one youself. Search something like a frame or rim in your household that has a hole of approx. 10 cm in the middle - maybe a tiny picture frame (without glass, picture and back of course, just the outer frame), or cut a ring of that size out of thick paperboard. Then, tighten some cloth like an old nylon stocking or lace curtain around the frame, at best in two resulting layers.
* It now should look a little like a ping pong bat where you can see a little bit through the fabric surface in the middle.
* You can test it easily by holding a hand some cm behind it, and then feel if the airwaves of a loud "p" reach your hand through the cloth.
* Then place it 5 - 10 cm in front of your mic; and all plosive sounds will be avoided, without distubring the sound.

Remember, it's all a little bit about making some experiments to gain some practice. It is essential you develop a recording style where you really feal comfortable - which is not easy from the start, since it is not everyone's business to sing with headphones to avoid playback being recorded with the vocal track once more.

I may comment some more details later on your personal mailbox of this site.

Until then, thanks again and cheers, Carsten.

Moin, Roubina,

did you succeed in downloading the playback version of "Good Hopes Intro Musical"?
Is it pleasent for you to sing, or should we transpose or alter melody for the perfect fit?
Everything is possible here, and there is no limit than us ourself, but we can grow!

Kind Regards, Carsten

Hi, Roubina,

is it OK for you if I removed your discussion "songs" from "Starbug's Café"?

That group was meant for complaints and error discussion, and it seems you mastered your songs / recordings OK.

Kind Regards, Carsten

OK, Roubina, here comes your special invitation:

I split the musical version "Good Hopes Intro" into single tracks and put them in:

http://www.sawubona-musicjam.com/group/musicianswanted/forum/topic/show?id=2066642%3ATopic%3A3667

There you can download it to your software and start singing to it - if you want to at after all :-)

The first step is very simple: The main discussion section has a "Karaoke"-Version with all the playback and choirs, so you will only have to download one file to do the lead vocal.

If you - later on - would also like to do the women's choirs, then of course all the other tracks are needed and should be recombined in your software. You will find that - taken out of context - the vocoded choirs sound more terrible than they do within the song, so they really need replacement. You could to multiple versions of one choir voice and stack them on one another - later I could further overdub them with doubling effects to make it a lot of singers again.

I'm really hoping I can win you to join this project!

Kind regards, Carsten

Hey, you got it!
Ready to make a try on "Good Hopes Intro - Musical Version"? In that case I would make it the next of my projects to be sliced into single tracks, so you could download them and start. Can't wait to hear your great voice with my little mock symphonic orchastra! Yours, Carsten,