TABwebmaster wrote:
Well, you have a great voice, CK! Did you just do that or was that pre-recorded from some time ago? If you just did it, I'd like to hear your renditions more often. It's soothing to hear a voice that doesn't belong to some big star.
Mark
P.S.~Don't forget the Metallica (that is, if you like them). Either King Nothing or One.
Ah, I knew that someone would ask this question. This is how I did it:
I have two programs which I use to achieve the effect of my singing lead on some songs.
Goldwave and the
Acoustica MP3 Audio Mixer.
Goldwave has a fuction that removes the vocals (on most tracks) leaving just the music tracks. I save the file after removing the vocals and then I proceed with the MP3 Audio Mixer. The MP3 Audio Mixer is basically a 24 Track Recording Studio
in your computer.
Now then, in a Recording Studio, sometimes not all the Musicians or vocalists can be there at the same time, so the follwing is done:
Track 1: Bass
Track 2: Rhythm Guitar
Track 3: Lead Guitar
Track 4: Keyboards
Track 5: Drums
Track 6: Lead Vocal
Track 7: Back up Vocal #1
Track 8: Back up Vocal #2
The Sound Technician or Engineer takes
all these tracks and blends them, with the help of his or her Mixing Board, into one cohesive song or instrumental track.
What I do is not all that different. I lay down the track without the Lead Vocal that I have saved (such as "Venus and Mars") into Track One. I then make sure that the Built-in recorder is set on
Overdub so that while the Main track is being played, I can sing into the mic and it records my voice. Then, I save my lead vocal, assign it to Track Two, then save them both as one cohesive song into either a Wav format or mp3.
This has opened up an entirely new world for me, so to speak. IN the finished version of what you heard on my show, I blended my voice with the Studio version of "Venus and Mars" from the album of the same name and segued it with the Live version of "Rock Show" and "Jet" from "Wings Over America".
I did this while I was putting the show together on Friday.
And that's how I did the deed.