The Way I Feel Inside

[bcgood]

I was inspired by one of the posts here to do this Zombies song Aceppella. I used a custom class A tube pre amplifier with Mogami cables and my SM 57 around 11 inches from my mouth. To try and match the ambience of the original I also used an outboard plate reverb. There was no compression or eq used in this recording.

[Mr. Liszt]

I think that your vocal recording is far better than mine. Good job! I wish that I had some tube gear (in addition to greater knowledge) to mess with. I don't know about your performance/arrangement. Though your sensibility to the style are a lot more keen than I think a lot of people around here would be it seems a half baked go. You transposed the key, changed some of the notes in the melody (?!) and left out the organ and bass. Why? You say that you decided to do it acapella but it's already like 60% acapella anyway. Is there some reason not to do it all the way? If you wanted to just focus on the isolated vocal sound it's already isolated have of the song.

[bcgood]

Originally Posted by Mr. Liszt

I think that your vocal recording is far better than mine. Good job! I wish that I had some tube gear (in addition to greater knowledge) to mess with. I don't know about your performance/arrangement. Though your sensibility to the style are a lot more keen than I think a lot of people around here would be it seems a half baked go. You transposed the key, changed some of the notes in the melody (?!) and left out the organ and bass. Why? You say that you decided to do it acapella but it's already like 60% acapella anyway. Is there some reason not to do it all the way? If you wanted to just focus on the isolated vocal sound it's already isolated have of the song.

Hey thanks for the compliment, I appreciate it! Do you know how many hours I spent trying to get the right tone and performance for this take? Time, times NOT on my side, no it isn't.

At first I was trying to just sing along to the original but that was a little difficult. Then I just decided to crank the out on my left monitor directly behind my 57 so I could hear my self and the plate a little which made it nice to sing to. That is a very difficult melody to sing, I tried my best but still fell short of the original vocalist, he rocks!

I just got lazy thus, no organ and no bass. I have a bass guitar but I don't have a real organ and for this song I think I would actually want a real organ. Maybe I'll have another go at it and sing with the track again. I kind of improvised some of those notes that seemed strange to me such as his "smile" note. Thanks for the kudos and checking it out plus introducing me to the track, what a cool song!

[bcgood]

Auto tune no. Some off notes, yes.