Board Thread:Beginning Singers/@comment-28763773-20150702022010/@comment-213.120.234.106-20151017205005

Your voice is really great! This doesn't sound like a first cover to be honest, the pitching is very impressive. There are a few dodgy moments in the pitching, mostly during fast/jumpy sections, but on the whole it's impressive. You're looking for improvements, so here's some (I do mixing and a bit of singing sometimes so I guess this should be useful?) I read the other comments but I'll repeat some points that others have made, for emphasis' sake or something like that.

-Use some (more/further-back-sounding) reverb on your voice, and this will make it sit back in the mix more instead of being as in-your-face as it is now. You could also try reducing the volume a little, though that might not be necessary after having added reverb to it.

-Use a compressor plugin on your voice if you're not already, and the notes will sound more even in volume. Even audacity should let you do compression, though it's clunky. I don't know what software you're using, but I recommend Reaper or Poduim (both free). Whatever you get, having 3rd party plugin support is important. Compression is a thing that needs experimenting with, and if you find a 'female vocals' preset I reccomend using that and tweaking it to suit your voice and recording.

-The rhythms are a little off. This song is insanely hard in that respect, but I guess a lot of vocaloid songs are like that. I'd say that just takes practice and knowledge of the song's lyrics without having to think about it too hard :P

-I know they cost money, but it's worth getting a better mic. At least, if you continue covering songs and want to improve the mixing a more professional level, that's something you should consider. Although, it might just be the mixing that needs to be improved. It's possible to make a not-amazing-quality mic sound good with the right kinda mixing. It's hard for me to tell, but try the mixing stuff with the adjustments I suggested and it should sound better to some extent at least.

-One final point, the audio distorts a little in the chorus (I think), which means that you need to either sing a little further from the mic, turn the gain down, or turn on a 'pad' on your mic if there is one (google it if you're unsure). Whatever you do don't restrain your voice in an attempt to not distort the signal, there are much better ways around distortion x)

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I just realised how long ago this post was made after having written all this, but hopefully this will be of use in some way or another. I said way more than necessary so there'd better be something good in there. I wouldn't worry about all of it though.

Good job! ^_^