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Post by z3d on Mar 16, 2015 22:11:54 GMT
Hi there I'd like to expand my CD/digital songs collection while I wait for Ember to come to my house and in order to be ready for some serious, long and really astonishing headphone listening through it (her?) and I want just to be settle for a while, songs wise. I though about creating a thread taking the inputs already spotted on here in the forum from Ian and other member likings and preferences but I'd like to put some order in doing that, dividing the voices by similar aspects so we can discover new voices that we never heard about Do you think it could be interesting and useful? I think so! Just a request: please help me with english words, finding the right ones for describing the voices and be patient, it's not my main language :> MALE VOICESHoarse, raspy, visceral engagment: Fabrizio de André (Italian); Deep, strong, impactful: Layered and textured: Bombino (Nigerian); 30 Seconds to Mars (group, American); Delicate and smooth: Balanced: Le Vibrazioni (group, Italian); Baustelle (group, Italian); Manu Chao (French); Noir Désir (group, French);
Acute, sharp, high pitched: Imbalanced, weird, unconventional: Serj Tankian (American); FEMALE VOICESHoarse, raspy, visceral engagment: Deep, strong, impactful: Barbra Streisand (American); Tarja Turunen (Finnish); Enya (Irish); Layered and much textured: Mina (Mina Anna Maria Mazzini, Italian); Lana del Rey (American);Delicate and smooth: Dido (British); Balanced: Ylamar (group, Italian); Annalisa (Italian); Acute, sharp, high pitched: Imbalanced, weird, unconventional: PS: Maybe we could add even the genre played?
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Post by z3d on Mar 16, 2015 22:13:45 GMT
Some of Ian's inputs: [..] Roger Daltrey for his rough cut edge style of delivery. Chris de Burgh for his fantastic story telling abilities. The King Crimson (later) vocalist who has this really clean delivery and ringing tone to his voice. Pavarotti for his sheer power. Placido Domingo for his pathos. Mario Lanza for that rough edged operatic voice. Richard Tauber for his silky tenor delivery. The yodelling singer from Focus!! I actually liked Ozzie's voice. Pete Gabriel's voice actually affects me!! The young Robert Plant. The lilting tenor voice of the Fairport Convention. (Chris Lesley) The young Tom Jones. Poor little Frankie Lymon. Charlie Drake? Wonderful Freddie Mercury. Weird Michael Jackson's voice. Mad as a hatter but voice was spot on. Charles Aznavour. Mr Sign a Tray. (Sinatra) Neil Sedaka. Al Jolson. Paul Robeson. Could you please elaborate more about those?
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Post by Rabbit on Mar 16, 2015 22:22:35 GMT
Phew!! That's a list and will take some description. I'll have to think carefully about them. I certainly remember writing them.
I guess, first of all, I might separate them into operatic and pop singers.
Then the pop singers into clean sounding singers and growlers.....
Vocals are just so individual and many might well disagree as well!!
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Post by gommer on Mar 16, 2015 22:34:44 GMT
To me, it's a weird thought rating a voice. IMHO, a voice comes with the music (usually) and it's the complete picture that makes the difference. In the negative sense, some voices (or rather performers) put me off so badly that I can't listen to their music though (thinking Joss Stone now). Same goes for some music I dislike, no matter how much I like the voice, it won't work for me (thinking Herman Van Veen, I detest the cheap sounding synths he uses).
But a good example of what I mean is Nina Simone. To me, she definitely does not have a beautiful voice, but her performance is so authentic, emotional, passionate that I adore her music (performed by her).
Cheers, Marc
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Post by Rabbit on Mar 16, 2015 22:42:12 GMT
Others, like Frank Sinatra kind of represent a time and they even have their own sound based on the recording techniques of the time as well. Bing Crosby is another one. Singers who changed the sound of the voice in order to let a microphone do the reproduction work as 'part'of their vocal timbre.
Those guys used microphone technique as part of their sound.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2015 12:19:39 GMT
Others, like Frank Sinatra kind of represent a time and they even have their own sound based on the recording techniques of the time as well. Bing Crosby is another one. Little-known fact about Bing Crosby - he is the man responsible for kickstarting the modern era of recording (onto tape). From Wiki - "Crosby exerted an important influence on the development of the postwar recording industry. He worked for NBC at the time and wanted to record his shows; however, most broadcast networks did not allow recording. This was primarily because the quality of recording at the time was not as good as live broadcast sound quality. While in Europe performing during the war, Crosby had witnessed tape recording, on which The Crosby Research Foundation would come to have many patents. The company also developed equipment and recording techniques such as the laugh track which are still in use today.[8] In 1947, he invested $50,000 in the Ampex company, which built North America's first commercial reel-to-reel tape recorder. He left NBC to work for ABC because NBC was not interested in recording at the time. This proved beneficial because ABC accepted him and his new ideas.[8] Crosby then became the first performer to pre-record his radio shows and master his commercial recordings onto magnetic tape. He gave one of the first Ampex Model 200 recorders to his friend, musician Les Paul, which led directly to Paul's invention of multitrack recording."
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Post by Rabbit on Mar 17, 2015 16:25:26 GMT
Absolutely. Using the mic as part of the 'sound' and singing in a lower volume voice in order to pick up more of the mic sound itself. Sinatra as well.
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Post by z3d on Mar 17, 2015 17:55:21 GMT
Well, I think that some of us could have differents thoughs about the same singer and we can discuss about that without any problem. The main reason of this thread to me is to catch easily some good singers that we could like because they share the same voice-traits (?) of those singers that we know and we enjoy listening at. It's always nice for me to discover new singers, whether those already famous or those in the underground music market Some days ago I listened to her: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IChJ6eO3k48&index=18&list=PLcZwn03ZW3QsOO3iVQEpOcuxv9FVC5TB7Someone knows a singer who shares the same type of voice which I could resume as lush, golden and smooth but also thick..?
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