Durin - composition experiment

This is fairly rough, I was just playing with adding vocals to a composition of mine. I haven't added any soundfonts to it yet and the vocal line is dodgy (I wasn't sure what notes I was supposed to be singing, so I go flat or plain wrong in places.)

I'll be making a better version of this at a later stage and will probably be using it in my mod, Dwarves and Goblins

here it is: Durin - by Challis

That's real good man. It sounds so proffesional... What are you singing? What is your editing program? And what is your mic?

Shure SM58, singing a language I made up and it's recorded in CoolEdit Pro with the midi composed in Cubase VST 5.0

Thanks for the comments

Are you a professional singer or something? I really like the voice there man. Have you got anything else you do/did? I don't get out of the sound forum much. :)

liked the folowing:the tone,the song,the voic,the everything

If you need any help getting that midi from midi to good quality gimme a call :) I got some ver nice gigastudio strings and timpani.

Thanks for the comments :)

I've sung in bands before and this song actually represents the beginning of a project I had in mind. I'm a music tech student and I wanted to create an album with a series of Dwarven themed songs using midi, real vocals and possibly real guitars, but I gave up on it cos of the time restraints on my course. Now that my course is over, I might start it back up again.

Here's another composition that I wrote with dwarves in mind, I have a whole bunch of others that could be adapted, but they are in midi format and I don't want to post them on a public forum, PM me your e-mail adress and I'll send you them. Anyway, here's the other one:

Underneath Earth and Stone - Soundfonts added by The_Lord

Anyway, I really need a studio that I can mix my midi in and insert soundfonts, cos using Creative SoundFont is really fiddly and resource draining, could you recommend anything?

Thanks again

Challis

Yeah I personally recommend Sonar :) Or you gotta get mucho hardware and do it the hardware way. I got a thread stickied at the top of the forum. Check it out.

The ...trumpet? part in the above thing is rather boring, the rest is nice.

PS: To my knowledge The Lord also uses Creative Soundfonts...?

Ahh men, I'm not a pro in signing (got lessons on school for 1 year) but I must say it is realy good, your voice in the first one sounds very good, good balanced, you keep the same tone imho. Also the 2e one sounds cool.

Keep up the good work!

Yours,

Your singed song looks impressive, I remembered of Christopher Lee when I heard it, seriously (I know, it' is pitched). Really good. I didn't know you were a singer.


PS: I also gave the name of that dwarven song, if you remember.

hey challis,nice voice! ,i'm green with envy not only of it but of my cheapy mike,but each to our own. Anyway i think it might benefit you and bloodslaughter both if you posted this over on the hobbit cinematic thread? just an idea....shouldn't waste dwarven talent my friend

Heh, I'm doing voices for the Hobbit already, I'm Bilbo

Bloody hell... you don't sound much like an a-level student... are you sure you're not a fourty+ year old member of a welsh choir?

I liked it....

It was understated musically, which was perfect...

the 'made up' language was aight.... didn't sound totally unrealistic/thrown together with only sonic considerations....

using the classic sm58, huh? I used for CEP for a couple of beats once... It's a good program...

did you use any effects/processors for the vocal?

God yeah, reverbed it up to the max, but that's with software, I don't have any hardware effect boxes at home, I do in school though. Wish I could get my hands on that compressor...¬¬

*Jaw drops*

Wickedness incarnate.