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The Minstrel Boy (Rebsie Vocal Mix) by VicDiesel [Email]
Genre: A Cappella

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Uploaded: Jul 23, 2007 - 12:18:02 AM
Last Updated: Jul 23, 2007 - 12:25:59 AM
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My entry in the V4C competition. With a voice like that, who needs instruments?

Lyrics:
traditional

Hardware:
nope.

Software:
Logic with tons and tons of effects.
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Well &mdash 07/23/07 - 01:32:13 AM
done Victor - great entry. Inspirational.
Cheers
Len



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What effects did you use? &mdash 07/23/07 - 01:40:13 AM
This sounds great

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Effects &mdash 07/23/07 - 06:42:52 AM
Delays: Logic stereo delay, PSP Nitro, MFM2
Pitch shifter: ForeverForNow diatonic shifter
Reverb: Logic space designer
Rhythmic samples: cut and paste
Other: Reaktor Grainstates, SFX machine

In spite of it sounding fairly natural, this is by far the most processing I've ever done on a single track.

Victor.

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lovely!!! &mdash 07/23/07 - 03:00:13 AM
a sensitive, intelligent and thoughtful approach to the vocal - bravo!!! and thank you

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Lovely! &mdash 07/23/07 - 05:19:54 AM
Stunning and beautiful!!

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The Minstrel Boy (Rebsie Vocal Mix &mdash 07/23/07 - 05:30:33 AM
a winner ...!

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Permutations &mdash 07/23/07 - 07:11:23 AM
Wow! Not only does it sound really nice, but it's fascinating to hear all the permutations on Rebsie's voice you have come up with! Very, very nicely done.

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Magical &mdash 07/23/07 - 07:57:02 AM
Gosh, this is really nice ! I love the Laurie Anderson-like bit in the middle.


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Laurie Anderson &mdash 07/23/07 - 08:02:08 AM
I thought that bit sounded familiar!

Victor.


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Simply brilliant - &mdash 07/23/07 - 08:08:03 AM
Excellent manipulation and rearranging. I wish I had your skill and resources to lend to my effort. You did a really great job with this - and you're right - Rebsie alone is all we need for music.

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Resources &mdash 07/23/07 - 09:46:25 AM
Yeah, I guess you could accuse me (not that you're doing that) of buying an arrangement. There is a certain amount of dollars that went into all those effects.

But hey, I'm still the one wielding them!

Victor.


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um... &mdash 07/23/07 - 08:48:47 AM
....wow!
very cleverly arranged
very well placed together!
nice job!

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KILLER &mdash 07/23/07 - 09:47:30 AM
i wish i would have used this vocal mix for my song!!!!!!! logic is phenominal!!! the sing-song part really gets me. beautiful piece of musicarry...

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Sing song &mdash 07/23/07 - 09:53:53 AM
If you're referring to the two-part harmony, check out the Diatonic Shifter from ForeverForNow. Only $10, and it's really cool.

Btw, I didn't comment enough on your guitar soloing. For an off the cuff solo that was really good. I'm a big Jeff Beck fan. His tone is pure attitude. And skill, of course.

Victor.

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... &mdash 07/23/07 - 12:45:48 PM
lovely lovely lovely! and sweet! and very inventive and brilliant in its simplicity. a great song!

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... &mdash 07/23/07 - 12:55:12 PM
I thought you'd like it....

Victor.

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Looks like we have a winner!!! &mdash 07/23/07 - 02:42:39 PM
This is fantastic. I still have to scrape my mouth off the floor. Sounds simple, technically and creatively brilliant and very beautiful. Easily puts mine to shame. Thank you and well done, I'm still amazed. Its the kind of track I would have loved to have done.

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Surreal &mdash 07/23/07 - 03:23:52 PM
Wow ... I've never heard so much of myself in one place!

Very well done.

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What can I say.... &mdash 07/23/07 - 03:36:50 PM
One can never have too many, eh, too much Rebsie.

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Yes... &mdash 07/23/07 - 03:32:16 PM
... that Laurie Anderson reference was spot-on. Also reminded me a little of The Art of Noise. But what stands out is the delight you have for the original vocal and your imaginative and thoughtful take on it. I think this would be great for my music podcast show, if both Rebsie and yourself were happy for me to play it.

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Wow &mdash 07/23/07 - 03:37:06 PM

focusing on the vocal was a great and novel approach Victor.. my favourite bits are the harmony section and then when you created the 'beat' part under (in keeping with the A Cappella genre/style).. the delayed parts and clever panning got a bit much for me to be honest ..bit swirling and disorientating *thud*... like the
'reversed'? bits or 'really mashed' through something
too .. breathy ..

Wouldn't have minded hearing Richard in too: doing some
bass 'boms' here and there, contrasting Rebsie... ah well .. kudos, great entry. Thanks for sharing.

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absolutley love the &mdash 07/23/07 - 05:52:46 PM
perfect blend of technology and reativity... without creativity it's just a bunch of diodes and ones and zeros... very impressive...


I wish I'd done that



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Vocal Symphony &mdash 07/23/07 - 06:49:27 PM
Great use of a beautiful voice.

Thanks
Bill

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What you did to this is... &mdash 07/23/07 - 07:54:18 PM
...so so cool!


Love it!


Hah ha hah... - Yep! - made me sport a loud smile

Thanks! Macca

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oops! &mdash 07/23/07 - 07:55:36 PM
My bad... - You have a wonderful singing voice Resbie! Very pleasing to listen to.

Thanks, again. Macca

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Clever stuff Vic &mdash 07/24/07 - 06:25:25 AM
Very cool use of fx and Rebsie's fantastic raw material.
Neil

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Nice stuff! &mdash 07/24/07 - 08:01:54 AM
Clever use of the voice and effects.

Cheers

Dick

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A feast for the ears! &mdash 07/24/07 - 09:45:12 AM
This is so cool and creative. I really like how you layered Rebsie's vox to make it so rich.You're right- her lovely voice doesn't need instruments! Really great mixing skills there!

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Very interesting &mdash 07/24/07 - 01:25:03 PM
take on this. Kinda sounds a little like Imogen Heap. I like the vocal beat and this sounds really relaxing.
Nice work! :)
Nice wind gusts too!

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wow &mdash 07/24/07 - 05:07:06 PM
i am totally blown away by this. you win.

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Very clever arrangement &mdash 07/24/07 - 05:18:23 PM
First a tribute to the beauty and purity of Rebsie's unadulterated voice (with which I concur, absolutely), then a "round" apropos to the period, on to child-like harmonies and finally a street-corner acapella rhythm just for fun. I was always wondering, "What's going to happen next?"

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Next.... &mdash 07/24/07 - 05:29:02 PM
After the street corner quartet came actually a granular delay effect, but that didn't really come out the way I intended it.

Thanks for listening and commenting.

Victor.

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Am I... &mdash 07/24/07 - 07:21:57 PM
the only one who can't get to hear this song? I click to play then the quicktime icon shows but is blanked out and doesn't play, All other songs play fine, M

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Back to write board again..lol &mdash 07/25/07 - 12:27:54 PM
I was going to do it with only voices too..ha ha.
Okay! I have to do some thing different.
This one was very original.Bravo

Take care
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Mistake! &mdash 07/25/07 - 03:08:32 PM
You shouldn't have listened to other entries before you make your own.

Just go on and do what you were going to do. It may still turn out intreresting.

Victor.


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Effects? &mdash 07/25/07 - 01:22:30 PM
You may have tons of effects, but it all sounds transparent, like Rebsie is right here.

OK, now I hear the effects!

Love these early American tunes.

The polyphony is spooky, in a good way.

It's very nice to hear a total absence of MIDI-dependent instruments.

Very cool track!

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:) &mdash 07/25/07 - 11:46:21 PM
cool

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Very Cool &mdash 07/26/07 - 01:55:15 PM
Rebsie's fantastic voice is really well suited to this kind of processing and layering. Cool, creative song, very nice to listen to.

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Funny &mdash 07/26/07 - 02:25:01 PM
I stopped listening to the entries after two because I didnt want to be influenced by anyone. So I sat for about 8 hours in front of my comp until I came up with mine . Yours is a much better vocal take on it I love the harmonic vocal swithches great job . Go check out mine to see what im talking about . I swear I didnt hear yours until just now after posting I wanted to check out the rest . How interesting that similarities in music production happen miles apart .

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just wanted to &mdash 07/26/07 - 06:56:17 PM
tell you how much I loved this one again very cleverly done indeed .

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Maximized Minimalism &mdash 07/29/07 - 09:27:21 AM
multiplied to a degree of singularity where a multitude becomes one. (Too much coffee for Rik, I think!)

Like others I've listened to, what seems to be an interesting experiment goes well beyond into a realm of unexpected surprises. It started out simple and straightforward, but then you take it off into a landscape of technical wizardry that blows me away - and the wonder of it is that the techno-whizzbang aspect never takes away from the simple beauty of Rebsie's voice. There's something almost Dr. Suessian about the whole thing.

Wow.

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Mission accomplished &mdash 07/29/07 - 10:39:14 AM
Judging by your comments I seem to have succeeded in what I set out: use a ton of effects, and still make something that stays faithful to the source material.

Thanks for commenting!

Victor.

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Fantastic... &mdash 07/29/07 - 04:09:54 PM
...just fantastic! I can't imagine what possessed you to take this approach Vic, but I'm sure glad you did.

VIVA REBSIE!!!

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great ideas, well implemented &mdash 07/30/07 - 10:27:26 AM
Very well constructed canon, sweet harmonizations, and cute-but-not-over-the-top sampling/stitching at the end. I like the way you build upon her voice over time. The only thing that stood out as distracting was at about 2/5ths in, you start a new section, with one of her sampled voices singing a 5th higher than normal for harmony, and that was a little much to push the pitch up, she begins to sound like a chipmunk... I liked the harmony, so maybe lowering the volume slightly, cutting off some of the high frequency to make it more like humming, and maybe adding extra reverb on that one track to make it blend more, would make it sound less prominently "weird soounding." That's the only thing that stuck out, otherwise, this was indeed a very well-thought-out arrangement. It also helps to have a really well-sung sample to go from (Kudos Rebsie!)... her singing layered upon itself really sweetly, which means she was hitting those notes very nicely. What a great piece you've created here, really crisp recording, even when the voices get thick!
ttfn,
Drakonis

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Chipmunk &mdash 07/30/07 - 11:43:20 AM
thanks for your thoughtful reply.

Yes, I'm aware of the chipmunk effect. The shift was only by a third, but still it was quite noticeable. I tried shifting the formant with EVOC20, but it didn't really help. And I don't have Melodyne, which could have done this without problems. So I left it like this. The volume is already turned down, but maybe a bit more would have improved it.

Thanks for listening and commenting. When is your version going up?

Victor.

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,-) &mdash 07/30/07 - 03:14:03 PM
Voice, the voice!...WOWWWWWWWWWW!


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That's something else! &mdash 07/31/07 - 09:25:03 PM
As everyone else has already said what a great job this is, I will stand in respectful silence.




Thank you.


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Impressive &mdash 08/01/07 - 12:47:07 PM
My computer's hooked up to my sound equipment and you had my head turning from speaker to speaker on this one. Very clever. Thanks.

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cannonic... &mdash 08/12/07 - 01:06:37 AM
in places....wonderful voice...wonderful arranging..... perfect use for percussive/pulse effect.....great great stuff.

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Superb &mdash 12/29/07 - 05:53:03 AM
cappella. One of the best I've heard so far.

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close &mdash 02/02/08 - 10:08:15 AM
Despite a tad of unnatural vocal tone, it's amazing the pitch shift worked so well. Nothing I've got would shift it so cleanly without a serious 'warble' in the results. The delay works well too, I think, and I like the 'voice for instrument' tactic you used - quite creative there....

. - Harold

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he Minstrel Boy (Rebsie Vocal Mix) &mdash 02/10/08 - 12:35:32 AM


Thank you

Oh this is so very sweet and you sing like an angel and I like the doubling
echo's and the various takes brilliant mixing of voice. Vibrations,

Totally out this world in the nicest possible way Well done loved it.

Dee.




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creative &mdash 02/17/08 - 09:03:10 AM
what a treat, great acap!

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simply a fantastic &mdash 02/26/08 - 07:16:40 AM
acap and a very impressive voice...wonderful.

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