Originally Posted by Michael Zaneski
Hi Gavin,

I started out fully engaged and like it overall but observed my attention drifting and thought (at that point) that there's too much here and that a little preening would help out a lot.

I think maybe, though, you were going for it to be a comedic effect from the barrage of questions?

I remember in Napoleon Bonapart's "They're Coming To Take Me Away' (I was a big Doctor Demento fan) that they raise the pitch of his vocal (while he does his main rant) so it sounds cartoon-ish by the end and thought, maybe you could have fun with this song in a like manner. I was imagining the tempo constantly increasing until it was practically unmanagable towards the end. You could try that with the overall finished file but that would do the Napoleon Bonapart thing to you vocals. If you kept increasing the tempo in BIAB it would sound like YOU all the way through, and could be pretty funny cuz you would sound more and more harried and manically inquisitive as you sang through the material.. And if you did that, I'd recommend keeping ALL the words.

Just some random thoughts on the breadth one is allowed when producing novelty tunes..I've done my share, LOL..

Mike


Thanks for the detailed response, Mike. Much appreciated. In an earlier response, David Snyder also suggested that it could do with a little pruning, so I'm going to think about that. I had actually thought of speeding it up towards the end and making the vocals more and more manic. It occurred to me after I finished and listened to it. I'm not sure if I can carry it off vocally, but I might give it a try. I'm not sure if there is a way in BIAB to gradually increase the speed the way a live band could or whether I'd have to do it by importing a whole lot of versions of the same track at slightly increasing speeds and use them for successive sections of the last verse, hoping that the ear interprets it as a gradual increase in tempo.

Thanks again for the feedback.

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