Many thanks! I have been visiting here before as a good ol' lurker, I've seen the strangest of discussions (rape, politics, personality disorders, Anders' hipster hamster style and what not) and I'm familiar with some of the nicks
As for Timo I think he's just being he's weird self, but he has a good voice nonetheless
Yeah we're a bunch of weird and crazy motherfuckers, but we're harmless really
I thought I'd see if you guys could find me
As a word of warning, I'm kinda lazy as you'll see from my "videos" on youtube. I do a song every now and then for fun and to relax. I usually steal instrumentals shamelessly and sing in one take or two. Also, I usually do In Flames as I know all the songs and don't have to practice. Here are some some songs though:
One where I'm trying to do all sorts of voices
Then a rather relevant one
And of course Backstreet Boys
You've got some good power in your voice bro, you just need to learn to control it a bit more. It's kind of difficult with screaming/growling but it comes with practice. Also what do you use to edit your vocals into the songs? I'd recommend getting something like Adobe Audition if you want to have the vocals integrate more into the track rather than just be pushed over the top of it.
It's been a long time since I did this kind of thing, but I can vaguely remember from my days of using Cool Edit 2 & Adobe Audition I would record a vocal track and have one panning slightly to the left and another panning slightly to the right, with one of the two a slight decibel lower. Then I'd merge the two together and edit them into the final mix, adjusting the volume to try and fit into the music, also adjusting each part to try and match the instrumental cues as best as possible. To be honest it's not easy when you are layering a vocal track over an instrumental track that's already been completed - in a professional mix the vocals tend to be mixed in with the bass line or in its own channel (which is why a lot of the time if you choose to remove the bass line in audio editing software it will remove the vocals as well). Vocals layered over the top of a pre-made track will always sound slightly off, but you can get it sounding half-way decent with some time put into the editing. Part of the reason for having two vocal tracks panned left and right is that it helps it sound less flat in the final mix. I can't say it worked for everything I did but I got some OK results with it. I could only ever get so far with a £30 microphone and out of date audio editing software
Also, now I'm curious about your covers
I remember Da Schehf, such a legend! I did some covers back in the days using his tracks as well, and sounded absolutely ridiculous
Jeez man, this was a long time ago
I think
@A88 heard some of my stuff years back and was like "bro, you're like early era Anders, Mikael Stanne and Michael Kiske all rolled into one
", but you know, that was just his opinion. I'm pretty sure Krofi-kun heard some of my covers on YT back in the day as well, in fact I remember him commenting on one of them - a positive comment, so it must have been before I became an asshole
but I haven't touched that stuff in years and no way I could do it nowadays. I probably still have some stuff on an old hard drive somewhere, I'll do some digging.
Whoracle. But Battles is good when I want some easygoing pop metal, it has some nice catchy tunes! The more poppy songs sounds most inspired and best. Siren Charms is kinda boring, but it has some good tracks. Paralyzed, Through Oblivion and Dead Eyes especially. I also like the bonus tracks.
For the record I was joking about SC and Battles
but yes, the best SC tracks are the non-metal ones, which sums that album up. The bonus tracks are both good, and should have been on the album.