singing log
Oct. 24th, 2004 08:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
solarbird0. Kind of skipped around instead of going through my usual practice routine. That was fine though, really. It means that I sang the high A but never actually hit the high Bb, which doesn't matter so much. I didn't actually try to do either until I was already pretty well tired out, too.
1. Sang some of my usuals - Caro, Amarilli, Quelle Familla - and the scales and such.
2. Tried having the microphone on my headphones and singing some - not really significantly different to having the microphone on the speakers. That kind of surprise me - I guess I thought I'd get more amplification before getting feedback if I went to the headset, but I didn't. Well done, little directional microphone.
3. Recorded some of the singing I did - including a somewhat impromptu attempt at "Somebody to Love," by Queen, that I don't know well enough to sing past the opening. I get tired quickly, and it really shows. But ... when I'm less tired
...I'm not necessarily sounding too bad.
It's kind of neat. ^_^
1. Sang some of my usuals - Caro, Amarilli, Quelle Familla - and the scales and such.
2. Tried having the microphone on my headphones and singing some - not really significantly different to having the microphone on the speakers. That kind of surprise me - I guess I thought I'd get more amplification before getting feedback if I went to the headset, but I didn't. Well done, little directional microphone.
3. Recorded some of the singing I did - including a somewhat impromptu attempt at "Somebody to Love," by Queen, that I don't know well enough to sing past the opening. I get tired quickly, and it really shows. But ... when I'm less tired
...I'm not necessarily sounding too bad.
It's kind of neat. ^_^
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Date: 2004-10-25 01:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-25 02:11 am (UTC)I haven't sung anything for a while and probably should (*I'm* never going to not suck, but I mean, just because it's fun) but since I mostly only sing along with anime themes, and haven't watched anime for a while, it's not surprising that I haven't... also, I think my microphone is in a box somewhere, need to dig that out...
Oh, yes, directional vocal mikes do indeed rule. I was really impressed with mine too; at normal volume levels I can put it down on the desk about 20cm in front of a loudspeaker (but pointing sideways) and not get any feedback. (I know, because that's where I leave it when not in use, and several times I've forgotten to fade it down before going on with watching some show :)) But, I guess if they're going to work in an actual concert with lots of amplification, they *have* to be resistant to feedback...
I find headphones better if I really want to hear what I sound like singing (as opposed to it sounding bearable), though they're less comfortable. The reason is, I assume, that the stuff from speakers goes through the room acoustic and mixes with the stuff from your mouth; a slight natural chorus effect, since there's effectively two of you singing at once from a metre distant. But, if you're recording you can always play it back later and hear yourself for real anyhow...
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Date: 2004-10-25 07:15 am (UTC)You need to burn a few CDs-I'd be interested in hearing what your singing sounds like. Things like "B flat" are lost on me-if those frequencies were given in Hz or cycles per second, I'd have a better audio image of what it sounds like..I need to do a search and find a musical scale to Hz chart...Scott
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Date: 2004-10-26 06:26 pm (UTC)Funny movie.
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Date: 2004-10-27 12:44 pm (UTC)I was at a convention once where some open-source people had hacked one of 'em to say "Open Source is the Future!" It was hystarically annoying. ^_^