Friday
Jun012007
Webground Vocals
Friday, June 1, 2007 at 03:40AM
Ok, so I'm just going to tell you here and now that this may be a terrible idea.
HOWEVER.
I kind of think it's going to be awesome.
So, here it is. You guys have given me inspiration for these tunes. Hopefully, you will also download them, listen to them, and give me a couple bucks for the awe-inspiring experience.
On top of that, you're now officially invited to sing a bit of background, nay, webground® vocals.
If you have Garageband or ProTools or Cakewalk or SoundForge or Acid or whatever audio program you may or may not have legally purchased you can do this. If your computer has a microphone on it and a headphone jack any of those will do.
Download the small .zip file from this address here and it should talk you through it.
DOWNLOAD HERE
It should be very, very simple to do this, and there are two parts you can choose from to sing. I'm not going to lie. They're not hard if you can carry any sort of tune.
I'll probably need to get all of these by Monday or Tuesday at the latest, but if you're at all savvy with this it shouldn't take more then ten or fifteen minutes. Thanks so much for anybody who decides to give this a shot. I think we could be making history here with this stuff. I'm having such a blast.
I also added a nice scat vocal after hearing Paul Carrack on the radio tonight. He's the guy who sang "tempted by the fruit of another" AND "say it, say it, say it loud, say it clear...." Brother can SING. He got me going tonight and I couldn't stop. Can't wait for you to hear it. If all goes well, maybe in a week and a half or so.?.?.?
All right. It's time to get webground vocaling. Can't wait to hear YOU for a change.
HOWEVER.
I kind of think it's going to be awesome.
So, here it is. You guys have given me inspiration for these tunes. Hopefully, you will also download them, listen to them, and give me a couple bucks for the awe-inspiring experience.
On top of that, you're now officially invited to sing a bit of background, nay, webground® vocals.
If you have Garageband or ProTools or Cakewalk or SoundForge or Acid or whatever audio program you may or may not have legally purchased you can do this. If your computer has a microphone on it and a headphone jack any of those will do.
Download the small .zip file from this address here and it should talk you through it.
DOWNLOAD HERE
It should be very, very simple to do this, and there are two parts you can choose from to sing. I'm not going to lie. They're not hard if you can carry any sort of tune.
I'll probably need to get all of these by Monday or Tuesday at the latest, but if you're at all savvy with this it shouldn't take more then ten or fifteen minutes. Thanks so much for anybody who decides to give this a shot. I think we could be making history here with this stuff. I'm having such a blast.
I also added a nice scat vocal after hearing Paul Carrack on the radio tonight. He's the guy who sang "tempted by the fruit of another" AND "say it, say it, say it loud, say it clear...." Brother can SING. He got me going tonight and I couldn't stop. Can't wait for you to hear it. If all goes well, maybe in a week and a half or so.?.?.?
All right. It's time to get webground vocaling. Can't wait to hear YOU for a change.
Reader Comments (34)
Man, it's on. You are so cool.
Are you still taking inspirational suggestions for songs or such? This week has been good fuel for much thinking and life-wondering.
Brilliant. You shall have my recordings tomorrow morning. Seriously man... this is totally ground breakingly awesome.
Pure Genius
I sent you an e-mail about this Andy, but my virus scanner here at work found something bad in your download (W97M.Thus.Family). I'd hate for something nasty to happen to someone.
Andy,
This. Idea. Rocks. I'm on it...
Now, about what Jud wrote: it looks like the Word doc you sent has a macro visit in it (W97M.Thus.Family). It doesn't look like it damages Macs (I'm on a PowerBook), but Macs can be carriers. Everyone be sure and run your virus software ASAP (you too, Andy). ClamXav is a good free program for Macs at http://www.clamxav.com/ .
Quick note to everyone now possibly infected, be sure and have your MS Office programs disable macros by default. You can decide to open them if you trust the source and your virus software cleans things up first. Macro viruses are very prevelant, but I don't believe they can do anything if Word or Excel doesn't run the macro.
Hope that helps!
Andy:
Awesome... I am half laughing at the prospect and half dumbstruck that you came up with it. WAY cool.
JJ
whoa, thanks for catching that. I'm downloading that clamvax thing right now and I'll fix it asap. Sorry about that!!
Hey Andy,
FYI - I lined up a metronome and if anyone wants to set a click track it's 84 bpm, I believe.
This idea is way cool.
Later,
Chilcote
PS - I'm jealous of the YL guys too!
Ok, that instructional file is just a .txt now, so it should be fine. Thanks for the heads up!
I coughed up my vocals, and they are currently in your inbox.
Even if it doesn't end up working out, it's an incredibly cool idea.
Oh, and anyone who wants to do this but doesn't have any of the audio programs Andy mentioned, the free, open-source audio editorhttp://audacity.sf.net" rel="nofollow">Audacity can handle this kind of thing quite nicely.
Great idea! I look forward to hearing the end result.
Andy,
Good idea going with the .txt file. I'll have my WBGV's to you this weekend.
Tim
Excuse me...my WGVs.
I don't want to get into any copyright infringement issues...
this is fun! should we use auto tune/reverb/compression or should we let you take care of that?
Yeah man, just let me handle that. You just send me that glorious voice...
can do... I feel so naked with out all of those effects!
Don't thank me, thank the government's overly protective antivirus system.
A friend of mine and I are going to give these WGVs a shot before church on Sunday. She's a beautiful mezzo soprano. Me, on the other hand, well, keep that auto-tune handy.
Very cool idea Andy! I don't really have the audio/gadget capability to join in but I'm excited to hear the results!
Tom
If anyone out there wants to give this a shot but lacks the requisite software, try Audacity. It's 100% free and available at http://audacity.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">http://audacity.sourceforge.net/.
Wow, that really sounded like spam. But it wasn't. Then again, this is my third comment on this post . . .
One caveat about self-recording: If you're using the built-in microphone on a laptop to record your voice, you have a high likelihood of also recording the various clicks and whirrs made by said machine. At least, that's what happens with my Pismo. I haven't tried recording anything with my husband's iBook G4, so maybe it's just a problem with my Pismo, but I wanted to give y'all a heads-up just in case.
Rhonwyyn's right. I tried my internal mic with the same results. The computers fan was clearly audible. I'm now recording with a mic directly into the audio-in of my powerbook (using Monsters mini-jack to 1/4 converter) and headphones on for monitoring. Seems to be working.
Alright, I just sent in tracks for both vocal parts. This is a cool idea. :)
track should be in your box.
this is going to sound awesome!!!
So I'm not the greatest vocalist in the world. I'll take my chances singing if it means being a part of Andy's album. I'll be tracking my bgvox tonight...