Evan Hayley

Im outta time again this morning but I will finish Iistening shortly. Really digging the vibe and the guitar work.  I like imagining these tunes sung an octave higher and with a bit of a Zeppelin feel to the vocals. It's something that happens anytime I hear music like this. I would love to be able to sing a version if the music were available. 🌞 

16 hours ago, Bapu said:

B+ on the vocals. I'm not sure that is the actual backing track. Sounds like a Caraoke track to me (see what I did there?) albeit a good one.

Well, this here is the real backing track for The Battle of Evermore .  There are some songs you can get this way. I didn't actually listen to the Floyd side by side but I thought it was a pretty good track.

B+?  I guess that's pretty good for a Caraoke, but I believe you are being too kind! 🌞 

I'm thinking actually I may have been a little flat on the start of the chorus parts. 🤨 

Thanks for listening brother, and for giving your feedback! 

3 hours ago, Jesse Screed said:

well, I think the thing is

you expressed yourself, I love the spontaneity, in a car no less

this is a great song

and I really dig the vocal go, especially after 3 minutes, you hit your stride there.

rock on dude

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Thanks pal. 

Yeah I thought that at 3 min it sounded better also. I will try to check out your tunes and give some comments. I literally have almost no free time lately  (hence the car recordings. Lol) I'm doing this partially to keep my sanity right now

2 hours ago, mark skinner said:

 I tore a knee up in a motorcycle wreck. They Blasted this song on a killer sound system , as I was fading out in the operating room. Thanks for the Good and bad memories...   

Sorry about that. Maybe I should do "Silent Lucidity" next.  Would that make it better?  (Just kiddin dude. It's amazing the power songs can have!)

48 minutes ago, Jim Fogle said:

The car gives your vocal performance a distinctive sound.  I think you encountered a common problem with using a pre-recorded performance though.  The range of the song is a little high for your voice so your voice drifts flat.

Also I mixed this on headphones which is a no no but I had no other option at the time. It was very spontaneous and done mostly for a laugh but I find it interesting that I would be flat as I have sung this many times. Which words do you think we're flat?

38 minutes ago, Jim Fogle said:

The car gives your vocal performance a distinctive sound.  I think you encountered a common problem with using a pre-recorded performance though.  The range of the song is a little high for your voice so your voice drifts flat.

Actually I can sing a lot higher than this. It's the singing while sitting that gives me the trouble! 

This once again was recorded in the car via the Bandlab mobile app. 

Comfortably Numb

And this actually might be the original backing track to the song, which I found via YouTube!

On 9/14/2020 at 3:46 AM, Douglas Kirby said:

I thought you did a pretty good job on this cover - the groove is right where it should be.

Thanks Douglas. Yeah the timing and groove on this one are really important.

I once sang this at karaoke back when I was an alcoholic and I'm sure I didn't find the groove.

On 9/14/2020 at 12:49 PM, Bapu said:

As I said in the "Paradise" cover thread, I'm usually not one to get all over "exact" covers but this was a great job by keeping the Beatles vibe with the Karaoke track and your vocal leaned a little more towards Steven Tyler's version. So kudos there.

Hey thanks man! Very interesting feedback. I usually tend to imitate too much on covers and on this I was trying not to!

Also the Tyler version actually came on the radio just as I was about to park and sing this, which was of course rather trippy, as I had just turned on the radio one song before that.

On 9/14/2020 at 12:51 PM, Bapu said:

This concept has been around for a good number of years now. I'm too lazy to haul a mic cable out to the car and my arms are not long enough to hit the start button. 🙂 

Besides everyone here knows I can't sing.

I did this recording on my Android (top of the line) so I had no need of cables. I wish I had investigated it sooner! I used the Bandlab mobile app. I had to dick around with it a little bit but it is fairly user friendly. 

You might want to give it a try just for fun! The app has lots of great effects on it.

On 9/14/2020 at 1:39 PM, John Bradley said:

FWIW, I was using a "DIY Eyeball" thing for a while - basically some acoustic foam wrapped around my RODE NT-1 with a hole cut in the front and a pop filter in front of the hole, but decided I didn't quite like what it did to the sound and went back to bare mic + pop filter. 

Need to play around with isolation techniques some more, though like most of us, it's complicated by the fact that I need to see and operate the screen from wherever I'm singing. So standing in a closet isn't exactly feasable.

I did this recording here on my Android (has a nice mic in it) which allows me to see the lyrics up close as I sing. 

I once tried stuffing a microphone in a small box and surrounded it with socks but it sounded like sht. 

It is fun to experiment with for sure. Wasn't there something Lennon did with the vocals and a speaker? I don't quite remember what it was.

On 9/15/2020 at 1:47 AM, Wookiee said:

I had no need of a PC then, all my programming was being done on HP and IBM mini's running Unix and using terminals. I started using computer MIDI sequencing in 1988 on an Amiga.

Wow dude super old school. I never got to use those but I did have the opportunity to use an Amiga for a bit. Nice little machine for it's time. 

This time thing is only temporary.

In the Bible it mentions that "in heaven there is no reckoning of time"

I really enjoyed this track. A lot of great work in there. I feel the chorus/refrain part could use a bit more energy, possibly sung higher. I was wondering how the whole thing would sound if some or all of it we're sung in another octave or with some higher harmonies. I think it is a fun and interesting blues song with a nice warm vibe to it. 

Frickin awesome!  Also awesome that you seized the day that you had in order to do this, esp after 10 years! 🤠

8 hours ago, Jim Fogle said:

My favorite "isolation booth" is my clothes closet facing a bunch of winter coats and my clothes behind me.  It gets pretty dark with the closet door closed and no overhead light.  😄

Dude I'll have to try that soon! Thanks!

I love this! Beautiful song and well produced for a first song especially.  Good voice also. The lyrics seem to be very positive but I'll have to listen again to catch them all

1 hour ago, Jim Fogle said:

Excellent effort.  I would try and eliminate the pops and crackle in the beginning and end.  Sometimes you see someone singing in their vehicle but this is the first time I've heard someone use a vehicle as an isolation booth.

Welcome to the forum!

Thanks for your feedback and for the welcome!

To record this I sat in the back seat of a Corolla with the windows all rolled up and stretched a blanket across the front seats to block out the front windshield reflections. I once used a folded up mini mattress back there and i think it was better because it completely surrounded my head, but I don't have access to it anymore. 

I don't like to sing sitting down really, but for anyone who doesnt always have a place where they can record, it's wonderful.  

1 hour ago, Wookiee said:

You probably need a licence to use it I would think I do not know as I do not do covers.  Have you considered using Cakewalk by Bandlab the PC application, rather then the Bandlab Phone/Web app?

Dude I used to use Cakewalk when it was a sequencer back in 1989! 

I am hoping to get my actual home studio set up again soon. I just moved to another state and not totally settled in yet!

I used a karaoke YouTube file that I extracted the audio from.  Is that ok to post that here?

Come Together

I recorded this in my car (1 take) with the Bandlab mobile app! The isolation of the vocal seemed to be better than in some rooms I've used