The video is so chill it has an old vintage vibe to it. It sounds so good it's hard to believe it was recorded on an 8-track cassette recorder. You can barely hear the noise. Absolutely love this track
Thank you so much! I loved reading that. I’m really happy you liked the video. I wanted it to almost look like an old home movie haha. And yes! The Tascam cassette recorder has a really good noise reduction. Sometimes I get it wrong and the song is 90% hiss though 😂
@@SleepingOrchard You're very welcome. It's a nerdy question but when you double the vocal track do you allow your voice to sound different or even use a different recording technique, or try to be as close to the original tone pitch and general delivery as possible so it sticks to the original but just thickens it?
@@electrosonicnebula I like nerdy questions! haha. It depends on a few things like the accuracy of the singer, whether you want a stereo or mono double track, how busy the mix/instrumentation is, how trippy you want the song to be etc. In short, I like them to sound different if I'm doing either mono vocals or a weird and creative stereo placement like Bowie or early Pink Floyd might do. I only really try to get them to sound exactly the same if I want it to sound more conventionally wide (more commercial basically). I love how Syd Barrett did weird, inaccurate doubles but also how Cat Stevens did awesome mono powerful doubles and some 2000s alt-folk might have a perfect stereo pair of vocal takes...so in that sense it depends on how 'out there' the track is. I've elaborated a bit below :D Because my own singing is pretty loose and my doubles don't line up that well, I like to do them in mono and have 1 as the "main" vocal, which will have all the high and low end in tact, and then the "backup" vocal which will have the high end and lows rolled off a little so it's basically a 'mid-range thickener'. I find this helps keep clarity in the lyrics because one vocal is the focal point and the other is not competing or clashing with it. It also makes it sound a bit more like just 1 singer to the general audience. I still generally record them the same way but just EQ them differently when doing this, but you could record them with different techniques and it could sound really cool. (The last video I posted before this one is a 'making of' of this track and you can hear each vocal isolated to see how each one was EQ'd differently). If I'm doing a track where I want the vocals to be stereo but symmetrical, I try to get them to sound as similar as possible and to sing them as accurately as possible to each other as possible so they are really tight. I then try to EQ them to be exactly the same so it sounds like one singer still, but wide. The lyrics will still be really clear because the vocals are tight so there's not any confusion between one vocal being slightly behind or ahead of the other etc. This also goes for big layers and stacks of backing vocals or a big fat chorus in a dense mix. I like it to be a very symmetrical wall of sound. If I'm mixing anything remotely mainstream, then this tends to be the way. But then a third thing is, if they purposely sounded really different (like one vocal recorded in a shower with a boxy reverb sound and a second vocal recorded really up close to the mic in a dry room for example) it could sound really cool having them panned left and right, deliberately NOT being symmetrical but still being stereo. Space Oddity by David bowie is a good example where left and right are different octaves, and one of them is just him counting for a bit haha. There's so many options I wish I could write about them for days haha. I hope that helps in some way lol, I did just start to ramble a bit...
@@SleepingOrchard ok, that's interesting, the vocals do have an almost Bowie story-telling mood. I've experimented with doubling and adding distortion to vocals myself but that's a lot of new options to try. I found out about doubling from the d'Angelo records back in the 90s but will listen to the records you mention. Space Oddity is one of my absolute favorites. Thanks for the detailed reply.
i do realize this song didn't use the Space Oddity doubling technique btw, i did read the full explanation. i think now I'll listen to all those great records trying to spot the doubled vocal tracks, from memory vocals are interesting sounding on Pink Floyd too
This is criminally underrated. But… RUclips sure knows how to feed me something I’d love and this did not disappoint. Sub for life brother, God bless you 🙌
Thanks so much! The vintage look is partly making the video closer to square than wide, like older footage, and then using the film grain and film damage effects in Da Vinci Resolve which is a free video editing software. The camera is a Fuji X-T20. Thanks for your kind words 🙏
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Cool that the cat let you play on his debut.
He was furious when I found out that I was going to be in the final edit!
He’s the best ❤
😅😂 Just seen he’s now your profile pic
The song writing is amazing
That’s very generous of you, thank you!! 🙏
Agreed
The video is so chill it has an old vintage vibe to it. It sounds so good it's hard to believe it was recorded on an 8-track cassette recorder. You can barely hear the noise. Absolutely love this track
Thank you so much! I loved reading that. I’m really happy you liked the video. I wanted it to almost look like an old home movie haha. And yes! The Tascam cassette recorder has a really good noise reduction. Sometimes I get it wrong and the song is 90% hiss though 😂
@@SleepingOrchard You're very welcome. It's a nerdy question but when you double the vocal track do you allow your voice to sound different or even use a different recording technique, or try to be as close to the original tone pitch and general delivery as possible so it sticks to the original but just thickens it?
@@electrosonicnebula I like nerdy questions! haha. It depends on a few things like the accuracy of the singer, whether you want a stereo or mono double track, how busy the mix/instrumentation is, how trippy you want the song to be etc. In short, I like them to sound different if I'm doing either mono vocals or a weird and creative stereo placement like Bowie or early Pink Floyd might do. I only really try to get them to sound exactly the same if I want it to sound more conventionally wide (more commercial basically). I love how Syd Barrett did weird, inaccurate doubles but also how Cat Stevens did awesome mono powerful doubles and some 2000s alt-folk might have a perfect stereo pair of vocal takes...so in that sense it depends on how 'out there' the track is. I've elaborated a bit below :D
Because my own singing is pretty loose and my doubles don't line up that well, I like to do them in mono and have 1 as the "main" vocal, which will have all the high and low end in tact, and then the "backup" vocal which will have the high end and lows rolled off a little so it's basically a 'mid-range thickener'. I find this helps keep clarity in the lyrics because one vocal is the focal point and the other is not competing or clashing with it. It also makes it sound a bit more like just 1 singer to the general audience. I still generally record them the same way but just EQ them differently when doing this, but you could record them with different techniques and it could sound really cool. (The last video I posted before this one is a 'making of' of this track and you can hear each vocal isolated to see how each one was EQ'd differently).
If I'm doing a track where I want the vocals to be stereo but symmetrical, I try to get them to sound as similar as possible and to sing them as accurately as possible to each other as possible so they are really tight. I then try to EQ them to be exactly the same so it sounds like one singer still, but wide. The lyrics will still be really clear because the vocals are tight so there's not any confusion between one vocal being slightly behind or ahead of the other etc. This also goes for big layers and stacks of backing vocals or a big fat chorus in a dense mix. I like it to be a very symmetrical wall of sound. If I'm mixing anything remotely mainstream, then this tends to be the way.
But then a third thing is, if they purposely sounded really different (like one vocal recorded in a shower with a boxy reverb sound and a second vocal recorded really up close to the mic in a dry room for example) it could sound really cool having them panned left and right, deliberately NOT being symmetrical but still being stereo. Space Oddity by David bowie is a good example where left and right are different octaves, and one of them is just him counting for a bit haha. There's so many options I wish I could write about them for days haha.
I hope that helps in some way lol, I did just start to ramble a bit...
@@SleepingOrchard ok, that's interesting, the vocals do have an almost Bowie story-telling mood. I've experimented with doubling and adding distortion to vocals myself but that's a lot of new options to try. I found out about doubling from the d'Angelo records back in the 90s but will listen to the records you mention. Space Oddity is one of my absolute favorites. Thanks for the detailed reply.
i do realize this song didn't use the Space Oddity doubling technique btw, i did read the full explanation. i think now I'll listen to all those great records trying to spot the doubled vocal tracks, from memory vocals are interesting sounding on Pink Floyd too
Lovely music too 😊
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Beautiful song man
This is criminally underrated. But… RUclips sure knows how to feed me something I’d love and this did not disappoint. Sub for life brother, God bless you 🙌
Ah thank you! That’s so lovely of you to say, and praise be to the algorithm for connecting us 😊.
Nice one man!
Thank you! 🙏 (sorry I’m late with my reply!!)
How did you achieve this great vintage look? What camera and app/effect?
And song is very nice btw, you should have deal with some record company :)
Thanks so much! The vintage look is partly making the video closer to square than wide, like older footage, and then using the film grain and film damage effects in Da Vinci Resolve which is a free video editing software. The camera is a Fuji X-T20. Thanks for your kind words 🙏
What chords are these brother? I'd like to play along :)