Christian Compositions and Creations

Thank you for sharing your wisdom!
As I think about the recording, I think I did end up (would have to confirm, though) using the same reverb on his main and harmony vocals but a different one on the echo vocal. I think the bigger issue is that he did three different takes of the main vocal at different positions to the mic and different volumes so I couldn't eq them to sound similar. I told him we needed to redo it with one take - or multiple without position changing - but he didn't want to redo anything...

Oh yeah. I didn't think about that.

Yeah, the three different takes would have three different natural reverbs already. Blah.

You might try using impulse reverb to fix it.

Impulse reverb takes an impulse recording, usually an audio file of a finger snap or some other short, sharp sound, and uses the echoes to reconstruct the environment in which the snap was recorded.

It would take a lot of effort though. You would need to:
-figure out how to use impulse reverb.
-set up a microphone at each of the three locations where he did the recordings.
-record a finger snap at each of the three locations, approximately where his mouth was relative to the microphone when he was singing.
-apply each of the three reverbs to every track except the vocal recording that you recorded the finger snap for.
-probably ditch your existing reverb, because that would wind up being just way too much reverb for one track.

Also I don't know if it would actually work. I've never tried anything like that before myself.

But I mention it as a possibility, if you have just a whole lot of energy and time and want to tackle it. There are some good free impulse reverb plugins you can try.

So in the spirit of the thread, here's the title track from my album. Honesty is paramount, so no worries if you don't enjoy it.

https://on.soundcloud.com/UZzmcyxEjeNV6AkS7

New song I made yesterday, it’s a little nuts

i,have a keyboard that does all kinds of things but it’s so complicated I haven’t been able to figure it out.

Howdy and welcome to the Forum.

Ableton live is a computer program. I have a pretty simple keyboard, an M-Audio 88 key ES. It is midi only. All I used the keyboard for is playing notes. It doesn't really mean anything until you tell Ableton to interpret the notes as starting this section or that section.

I am listening to your son on Sound Cloud. Beautiful! Unique.

Woops, "song"

Oh my this is beautiful Lynx!! I love both of these!

I love this SOUND TRACK!!! I wish I could learn how to add to my guitar songs I write.

Thank you - I appreciate that!

Many different ways. Some of them are free. Most of them have LOTS of tutorial videos on YouTube.

Knowing how to play keyboard makes actually playing a tune faster, but it's not really NECESSARY. You can mouse click notes into a piano roll - basically a way to see what song you are playing.

Or you could use drum loops other people made. Stick them and your guitar lines together, or start the drum loops playing and record your guitar with the beat.

Flute, drums, bass guitar, you can get all kinds of virtual instruments... Also free, some of them.


Here's a good simple demonstration of making a drum track by clicking the notes into a piano roll.

Did I mention you can find free programs for doing this, and free instruments to use in those programs?

I can try. Did I say I need someone to sit by my side and walk me through it? Seems intimidating to me. I used Band Lab, have you heard of that? and Sound Cloud of course.

Unfortunately Google tells me you cannot use VSTi (the most common form of virtual instrument plugins) in band lab. Sorry about that.

Bandlab does have its own instruments though. Here's how to use them in a MIDI track.


Standard disclaimer: I have never used it before, so all I am telling you is what I have googled. Your mileage may vary.

Thank you for the video. I just need to take the time!