[Other] See You Space Cowboy

Go here for happy ear candy. It's my own personal English version of "See You Space Cowboy":

Listen

I think I might try to record it again later and see if I like it better. Anyway...
Enjoy! (and let me know if the link doesn't work)

Yeah, I'm gonna kidnap you now. Your vocals are too good.

marry.me.NOW

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Originally posted by Jane Go here for happy ear candy. It's my own personal English version of "See You Space Cowboy": Listen I think I might try to record it again later and see if I like it better. Anyway... Enjoy! (and let me know if the link doesn't work)

Awesome!

That...was awesome. You have the voice of an angel, or even Angel herself. Hell, you sound better than Mai Yamane herself.

You also did a fantastic job transposing the song and translating it to an acoustic guitar.

That's on repeat on ITunes now for me. Expect a sh**load of otakus in my dorm to listen to it through the LAN. Good job, Jane.

Wow. That was amazeing. Cerpin Taxt does not exagurate Definately a keeper.

That was beautiful.
I agree with Piano Black and Cerpin Taxt, you have a lovely voice.
Nice guitar work too. ^_^

I like your version of this song. More, please!

Pygmalion

Wow, you have a gorgeous voice! I've always thought this song was so sad, and the way you sing really gets that across.. you have a very emotional voice. I love the acoustic guitar, too. I think I'll have this one on repeat for a while. ) I'd love to hear more from you!

I enjoyed this, Jane. Nice job

Very wonderful! My only complaint is that the guitar sometimes drowned out the vocals. ^^; Otherwise, very, very well done!

WOW! I like it! Your voice is great. Thanks for performing for us.

Madrona

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I'm utterly speechless. I swear to god. That friggin rocked so hard I don't think I'll ever listen to that song the same way again!

Thanks everybody! You're making me blush

Later tonight or tomorrow, I'm going to try and record it again with better balance between the vocals and the guitar.

P.S. Thanks for not mocking my mad guitar skills

Wow. I'm surprised I didn't download this version earlier. Anyway, you have a nice voice, and the translation is very good. The only problem is that sometimes it's hard to hear some of the words (although you are recording it again to fix that). Other than that, it's pretty nice. Well done.

WOW!! Thats awsome! I am not good at singing and your voice is sooo pretty too!! Kick awsome job!1 Keep on singing!

Take Two

I think I got the balance a little better this time. Of course, I'm a little sick, and now, if you listen very carefully, you can hear me sniffling.

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Originally posted by Jane Take Two I think I got the balance a little better this time. Of course, I'm a little sick, and now, if you listen very carefully, you can hear me sniffling.

Oh.my.god. It's like my ears just won the lotto.

This is really nice, Jane.

Even if you don't have any programs for sound, there is a lot you can do to give yourself more control over the mixing.

Try recording the guitar by itself to start. Once you have a good take that you are happy with, you can use the tools in Windows Sound Recorder to trim any silence so that the guitar starts right up on cue.

Once you have this part to your satisfaction, get your headphones on and turn off your speakers. Run your guitar part and sing along, recording from your un-muted mic. Since you are recording on the mic and you have headphones, you'll get a recording of only your voice. If you have trouble working with the headphones at first, just slip one side off your ears so you can hear yourself.

Again, trim the wav file to your satisfaction. Make a backup of both clips, and start playing with the normalize feature. This will permit you to change the level of the clips, to bring down the guitar and bring up the voice.

Once you think you have it, use "mix paste" to blend the two together. The matching shouldn't be too hard if you've trimmed both clips.

This will help you control your levels a LOT better

If you want to take the time to do it, just make the two wavs and mail me. You can send them to me and I'll clean them up, add a few effects, and mix them down for you with my audio tools. It will be fun and you won't believe how good you sound.

EDIT: Oops, a couple of things if you want to try this. #1: converting to an mp3 is fine. #2 In this case, don't trim the clip, make sure there is at least three seconds (and five is better) of silence before the music begins. The reason for this is because then I can get a profile of the noise that is inherent in your computer and make it go away.

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Originally posted by Jane Take Two I think I got the balance a little better this time. Of course, I'm a little sick, and now, if you listen very carefully, you can hear me sniffling.

I like this second take just a little bit better. However, it is still up there with the original (if not surpassing it). Exceellent job, Jane.

The second is a bit better. I can't hear you sniffing, so that must be a good thing. However, I notice a bit more distortion in your voice than with the first one. Other than that, nice job overall.