sorry i forgot to actually draw for a while, have some funky lil doodlies i did this past month. throws them at you like you would throw crumbs to hungry pigeons at a park
Currently working on my cover of Astrogirl by Sana Tsukumo! This is a WIP so the final product is going to sound slightly different. There's a few changes I want to make before I set this as finished and start providing artwork, video and pushing it out to all my social media.
I'll post the changes I want to make and things I'm unhappy with under the break. Please give it a listen before reading the rest of the post so you can have an unbiased first listen and try not to hear the things I point out.
I am open to critique on my mixing. I want to provide the best product, so feel free to comment things you like or dislike about my mix.
This is my first time working with Melodyne and manual pitch correction and time phasing. For a first attempt, I think it's pretty good. There are words like "orbit" that sound kinda wonky. I don't know if it's how I sang it or if its the time phasing making it weird. Reverting time phasing doesn't seem to change how awkward I say it, so it might just be my voice.
2. The last chorus has a high vocal range needed, and using my higher range, I can't reach the highest notes. I used Melodyne to get even higher, but overall the pitch shifting sounds weird, so I might do another take and find an alternate harmony.
3. The original song uses a vocoder and MIDI. I'd love to use this same technique but Adobe Audition doesn't work well with MIDI, if at all. I've settled with using chorus and flanger effects to bring a fuller effect to my voice instead. Might play around with the settings to give it a more "vocodey" effect. Looking to switch over to Cubase since I want to get into composing originals, too.
I also found out that Melodyne doesn't render in Adobe Audition, so I have to realtime bounce my cover (hence the video recording instead of a audio post). I am definitely changing DAWs as soon as I can.
4. All the tracks have no gain automation. I don't think I need any, but it's worth exploring. If I hate it, I can just delete all the automation.
I know you have your little umbreon/claydol sona you use to represent yourself occasionally, but I just keep envisioning you as some kind of conch snail delicately peeking it's eyestalks out cautiously, before throwing artwork on par with Italian Renaissance painters into the fucking wind
the guruguru music video is out now!!! i had the best time working on this, thank you @ujicosnail for letting me create in the snail's house universe 🌠💖🐌