Project Kaze

Project Kaze
A six-man team of awesome is coming your way! ♩♬♯ Choruses we're working on: Mr. Music ♪♥♭ Upcoming choruses: Glow

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Important Notice~

Guuuys, please take note to record your harmonies+"Hey Mr. Music"s (the ones where Yuki does her dialogue) in a seperate recording. Which means, first you record your solo+chorus track, not singing the harmonies+YukiBackups. Save it without the karaoke, remember that~
After saving that take, close everything extra in Audacity, starting again. Open up the original Vocaloid-sung version, and then record your harmonies+YukiBackups by singing along with the Vocaloid-sung version. Then send me the harmony track too.
That way, you won't be finding yourself dying while attempting to switch from on-pitch (chorus and solo) to purposefully off-pitch (harmonies) in between lines.

Also, please make sure you know your lines. Haha. Faltering is highly hearable, darlings.

Here's the dealio: mouse clicks are very easily picked up by your microphones. Mouse clicks? Really? Tchah. That's what you might think, but the truth is, if we have 1 person clicking 4 times (once to open the document, once to scroll, once to scroll again, and possibly to position the document), we'll have masses of 24 ungodly clicks. Srsly, sounds like crap. Also, it's distracting to hear a click while someone is singing.
Now, especially since Mr Music starts immediately after 3 drumstick taps, you'll be clicking the red record circle, quickly maximising your document, maybe dragging it around to get it the right size so that you can see both your recording and the words. That sucks, distracts you, and makes click noises.
The trick is:
Max your Audacity (i.e. fullscreen) with your karaoke track inside and whatever.
Open your document. And here you're probably thinking, Duh, I would've done that. But remember that with Audacity in full screen, opening the document then pressing Record will make the document go behind Audacity. Pwned. Document gone.
So, open your document. Then, see the picture? Gee wow! How do you do THAT? Well, there's a thin ridged portion beside the "taken out" section. Clicking that once will make it float. You can drag it over to your document or wherever, and now, when you press Record, the document stays there, PLUS you can see your spectrogram.
Oh, by the way, you don't have to open your document that fat. =_= That would be stupid. Just to the end of the sentences or something like that.
You can put the tray back to where it should be by accessing View>Dock Control Toolbar.

That's the end of yet another lesson! That's all, folks.
Remember that if you do the overlapping thing mentioned in "Too Close For Comfort", save each individual recording as "Name1" and "Name2" and so on so forth.
Here's an example: For Ahika, it's "Ahi1" and "Ahi2". First three letters of the name. Then, "AhiHarmo". If there are more than 1 (which is highly impossible unless you breathe really slowly) you use your common sense and name it "AhiHarmo1" and "AhiHarmo2". Hope you remember all this: it'll help you, the singer, not just the mixer.



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