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I sing Silent Night for a holiday music challenge

Nigel Andreola

Nigel Andreola

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In this video, I sing Silent Night for a holiday music challenge. I composed the instrumental arrangement using virtual instruments from 8dio, Orchestral Tools, Strezov Sampling, and Eduardo Tarilonte. I used the Rode NT1 gen5 microphone to record the vocals. I think it sounds good. Before buying that mic, I bought a much more expensive mic but returned it. The NT1 gets the job done at a great price. I only needed to brighten the recording a little bit for it to sound like my real in person voice. I am not a trained singer, so I did use some pitch correction on my vocal. The piece probably could have used a pitch change for the second half, I know the instructors from Thinkspace really like students to do that, but then it would have been out of my comfortable singing range. I had fun making this piece.

 
Really nice! I have a Rode NT1, too, although I think it's Gen 1. (I bought it a loooong time ago.) It's a great mic IMO, and although I tend to usually use either a U87 or an M149 for vocals, I'm not so sure those are actually any better. (Honestly, the main reason I bring out the more expensive mics is so singers think I'm giving them the first class treatment.)

One question, though. It sounds like a close-mic recording, so is this video a lip sync? No judgements at all, mind you. (I'd totally do a lip sync for something like this, because I hate the look of microphones in videos. Heck, even the "Hi, this is Mike Greene and here are 5 reasons to get Sunset Choir" intro in my YouTube video is lip sync.)
 
Thank you for listening to my song!

Yes this is a lip sync. I am actually singing in the video, but I muted that and replaced it with a recording I made in my studio. In my video description I explain this, and the fact that I used some pitch correction. Hopefully if Wings of Pegasus happens to see it, it will appease his demands that artists be transparent about such things.

When I first started recording my vocals, I did a bunch of research on microphones. The legendary U87 would be mentioned often and many microphones would be compared to it. From what I was able to hear, microphones at around the $1000 range can sound just as good to my ears. I do not think the NT1 sounds as good as the U87. In the higher registers of the U87 sound smoother. Still the NT1 USB version I own is super affordable and comes with some great features, like 32bit recording, built in DSP, an extremely low noise floor, and ASIO drivers that are better than the ones I used to use with my old focusright saffire pro that I no longer use.
 
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