This time I went back to trying to copy a good voice that was closer to my own. I think his still has more bass in it, but its close. I don't have the words for what I mean actually. Its not that the pitch is lower, it just has more oomph behind it. Maybe I'm thinking of timbre. Anyway, here's his (start at :40):
And here's mine:
I recorded it MANY times trying to match and trying my own. I eventually settled on this. I had a lot of things to fine tune. Because of my lack of professional hardware, I think my mic is always going to be my bottleneck. It seems to distort quickly at medium-high volume. I just softened my volume for the final cut.
I grabbed a music loop that seemed to match the tone of the commercial. It wasn't the same at all as the original, but still seemed to fit.
I transcribed the words this time, but always have the problem of actually seeing them while recording in garage band. I used the Air Display app on my iPad with the Mac to just show TextEdit on the iPad while I kept garage band open on the Mac. Perfect.
I still have problems getting the volumes correct between the music and vocal tracks. It sounds correct in garage band, but when I export the m4a, its way off.
The other thing I did was add a fade out at the end. Pretty simple.
I learned that my enunciation isn't as good right off the bat. I need to work on that. I still need more modulation. When I go up, it sounds a bit strained too.
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