Accepting Requests for next LBT Song to Sing

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #40 on:** May 20, 2007, 02:50:26 AM

I feel your pain man! Only 3ghz?! I would have to blow all of my money and buy a new computer. I have no idea how good my sound card is - never thought of it before. It's just the cheapest on at bestbuy so I think it's pretty bad. I did use some techniques to remove hissing and stuff. I live on a busy street and you can hear the cars go by no matter what unless you're in the bathroom - in which case it echo's and turns out pretty bad. The enhanced version is A LOT better than the origional. The origional has so many background noises and hisses that it makes you cringe while listening to it. I am not very good at this new program I got to remove background noises and stuff. I don't really know how to use it. I found it at a garage sale today for $2 and I don't know what half of the stuff means. It didn't come with any instructions at all so I am at a loss.

I don't really use the computers too much - it's much more fun to fix them.

action9000 · **Reply #41 on:** May 20, 2007, 03:51:09 AM

Hmm...that's going to present an interesting problem...

What about the RV you mentioned earlier? can you go in there? Also, if you turn the gain down on your microphone a little bit, you can reduce background noise. If it's honestly that noisy where you live that you can't even record yourself, there's something wrong. How do you even sleep at night?

If I were in that situation, I'd be moving, as soon as possible! Actually I wouldn't even buy a house with that much noise around it. Surely it can't be that bad. Turn down your microphone and try again.

action9000 · **Reply #42 on:** May 20, 2007, 04:00:23 AM

Also, I have previous experience with noise reduction and audio programs. If you want to let me handle that part, I'm okay with it. You're the first person who has tried to correct their recordings before sending them off to me. Everyone else has left all the noise reduction and whatnot to me, previously. I actually prefer that so then I can compare how much noise exists along with the music, how much I actually have to remove, and how much I can remove before breaking the voice.

As for my personal preference for audio editting/noise reduction:
Goldwave 4.26.

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #43 on:** May 20, 2007, 04:03:59 AM

The house was free. We sleep by listening to music at night (LBT music for me). You get used to it. The RV is closer to the road then the house and is a ton louder. Perhaps I'll record at like 2am when there isn't much traffic. Perhaps I didn't build the microphone right. It is super sensitive. As it is, I have to hold it about three feet away from my mouth so it doesn't distort. I will have to try the free mic that came with my pc. It isn't nearly that sensitive. As for the house, we live on an island which has only one road that goes through all the way. We live about ten feet from that road and everyone who goes on or off the island travels it so it has almost constant traffic. I will try something differnet but not until morning. It is after all 1am. I'm just too tired. I wouldn't normally be so tired at this time except I have been up for several days (I lost count) and can barely stay awake to type this.

action9000 · **Reply #44 on:** May 20, 2007, 04:05:31 AM

haha no worries. I'll catch ya later. B)
G'night.

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #45 on:** May 20, 2007, 04:11:45 AM

Wow. That's pretty mean. They didn't even ask you if you wanted to do the noise reduction and stuff, they just expected you to do that? I always try to make other people's life easier if I can. I just thought that you shouldn't have to do my work and I would never just expect someone to do this for me. It is after all my recording. I do think that you could do a much better job than me though at doing this stuff. I'm not very good at this. I suppose you want the origional recording and not the one I posted here is that correct? I must warn you, it's pretty bad.

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #46 on:** May 20, 2007, 02:40:42 PM

Okay. I'm posting 4 recordings - all of them I didn't put through the enhancment program that I screw the previous ones up in. Just use which ever one you think is best or tell me if I have to redo them (Oh please god no!)

http://download.yousendit.com/EB242364345A202E

http://download.yousendit.com/4ED1CB623CC6945F

http://download.yousendit.com/CCBD3AA055907B83

http://download.yousendit.com/5A24316A6D51FAB3

action9000 · **Reply #47 on:** May 20, 2007, 03:50:37 PM

The noise level on these is a bit less than I expected there to be; I think other singers have sent me recordings with more noise than these, in the past.

The main thing that concerns me is your choice of file format to save these songs to. Why did you choose an 11kHz sampling rate? 44.1kHz is CD-quality, 22kHz is significantly less, and 11kHz is basically only useful for recording a teacher at a school lecture.

I suspect this may have sounded much better at a 44.1kHz sampling rate, as I asked for earlier. If you're unsure how to do this, I'd say just read my tutorial here
http://z7.invisionfree.com/thegangoffive/i...?showtopic=1506

and go through it. That 11kHz will totally kill your quality in our 44.1kHz song. If a 44.1kHz .wav file is too large, I'm perfectly happy with a 192 kb/s (or higher) mp3 in 44.1kHz (easy enough to do in Goldwave, following my instructions). B)

This project is only for fun! If you're okay with me using these in our song, I'm fine with it, too. I'm just pointing out what could be improved.

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #48 on:** May 20, 2007, 05:29:35 PM

Well I got 4 more recordings that are in 44.1kHz. Sorry it took so long. There is something wrong with my wireless network. I am now getting 209k per second as opposed to around 8,400k per second.

Just take the best one. I don't remember which one but one of them is pretty bad because a huge tanker truck or something was going by and it messed up about 20 seconds of the recording. How are these?

http://www.yousendit.com/download/UW13SU5DZ2dwTVUwTVE9PQ

http://www.yousendit.com/download/UW13SU5EMGM5bEEwTVE9PQ

http://www.yousendit.com/download/UW13SU5GT010d0UwTVE9PQ

http://www.yousendit.com/download/UW13SU5IQVNCMTQwTVE9PQ

I couldn't save the best one because the stupid low battery alarm went off on the headphones and I screamed "OOOOOOOW! MOTHER F!" during the recording.

Saphireraptor · **Reply #49 on:** May 20, 2007, 07:10:22 PM

I like Bestest Friends too

uhmm I also love the song Adventuring Its a cute song easy to get addicted to

Petrie. · **Reply #50 on:** May 20, 2007, 07:42:51 PM

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I couldn't save the best one because the stupid low battery alarm went off on the headphones and I screamed "OOOOOOOW! MOTHER F!" during the recording.

When we first started doing this I had the same thing where I just messed up so bad, you just say things and the mic is still on.

Sent them to Tim anyway for a blooper reel.

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #51 on:** May 20, 2007, 07:47:56 PM

I stopped singing at the "your friends" part and I missed the rest of the song. Anyway, after singing that line and screaming, I turned it off but it was very good until then.

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #52 on:** May 20, 2007, 10:00:48 PM

Do I need to do anything else Action9000? Are these okay?

Saphireraptor · **Reply #53 on:** May 20, 2007, 10:19:06 PM

i hope you dont mind me asking landbeforetimelover but are you asian too?

i love your recordings btw

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #54 on:** May 20, 2007, 10:43:12 PM

Why would I mind? No I'm not asian. Why? Do I sound like it?

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #55 on:** May 21, 2007, 07:27:15 PM

Hello Action9000. I was thinking that to improve my recordings, I could sing into a karaoke machine and record that. I don't sing very loud and I think it might help. What are your thoughts on this? Are the last 4 I posted here in 44.1khz format okay or should I try to redo them on the karaoke machine?

action9000 · **Reply #56 on:** May 21, 2007, 09:11:40 PM

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Do I need to do anything else Action9000? Are these okay?

They're okay with me if they're okay with you. If you're happy with the quality, I can use them. If you want to sound better, feel free to keep trying. I'm accepting recordings until June 22nd.

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Hello Action9000. I was thinking that to improve my recordings, I could sing into a karaoke machine and record that. I don't sing very loud and I think it might help. What are your thoughts on this? Are the last 4 I posted here in 44.1khz format okay or should I try to redo them on the karaoke machine?

You know, that just might work! Give it a shot! B)

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #57 on:** May 21, 2007, 10:04:46 PM

Okay. I recorded three more times using the karaoke machine. Are these better?

http://download.yousendit.com/6EE987034B0410E0

http://download.yousendit.com/369DC8FB73E3F35A

http://download.yousendit.com/A4CCFF4542118597

Petrie. · **Reply #58 on:** May 22, 2007, 06:42:26 AM

Are these the same three in the other thread? If so, if you didn't catch my message, for some reason they're muffled and lack clarity, but you've a really nice singing voice under there.

You might want to consider a different recording system.

action9000 · **Reply #59 on:** May 22, 2007, 04:12:40 PM

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Are these the same three in the other thread?

Yep, they're the same ones.

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You might want to consider a different recording system.

I don't know why LBTlover is having such a hard time getting a decent recording. He must have equipment at least as good as what I'm using, if not better. I have a hard time believing that high-tech karaoke machine sounds as bad as these recordings. I don't know what the cause of the poor quality is here..maybe soundcard related? I'm not completely sure here. LBTlover has tried so many things now, I'm out of ideas.