I had a cold when I tried to sing this and actually made it to the last verse before I started coughing. Oh well.
Feel free to skip ahead… the vocals don’t even start until 1:00. 😛
Archives: karaoke
Vocal Cover – Black (Pearl Jam)
I’m not a huge Pearl Jam fan… I mean, I like their music, but I think I sing a lot of their songs because the vocal register Eddie Vedder sings in is comfortable to me.
It’s always fun to watch myself afterward and see the weird facial expressions I make when I sing. I tried to improvise at the end and couldn’t find the timing… oh well. 😛
Vocals were recorded with my Rode NT1a mic.
Vocal Cover – Aerials (System of a Down)
The singer of System of a Down has a unique voice and I wasn’t really trying to match it in this song, but I did try to capture some of the vibrato used. I recorded this at 4am one morning… I couldn’t sleep and decided to go into my studio and sing.
Vocals recorded with my Rode NT1a mic.
Vocal Cover – Jeremy (Pearl Jam)
I recorded these vocals to a karaoke backing track in 2010. I remember that I had a cold at the time and I’d been coughing a lot, so that helped me get the raspy sound in my voice.
When I listen to this now, I think about all of those years in radio and doing voice acting, and how they’ve conditioned me to try and enunciate my words clearly… which – if you’ve ever heard Eddie Vedder sing – you’d agree is the opposite of how I should have sounded in this song. 😛
Vocals recorded with my Shure SM-58 mic.
Vocal Cover – Epiphany (Staind)
I’m quite certain I didn’t do this song justice. I spent more time trying to create the perfect bass reverb for the vocals than actually doing a satisfactory job on the vocals themselves.
There are some really pitchy moments, and I was screaming some lyrics when I shouldn’t have (which caused my voice to crack toward the end).
At any rate, I wouldn’t dare try to sing this song live at a karaoke bar. 😛
Vocals recorded with my Shure SM-58 mic.