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HEY YOU!
Welcome to teh VA Club! If you wish to join, see the rules HERE.
YOU ABSOLUTELY NEED A VOICE SAMPLE OR DEMO OR ELSE!!!

Phew. Glad that's over with.

Anyways, I need ONE MORE voice for my "Spaced Out!" series. Same rules as before, you must send me an audition. The character I need is Stan, a freaky anthropomorphic cat. I'm looking for any voice, really. YOU MUST BE WILLING TO DO THIS EVERY EPISODE. THIS WILL BE A LONG-RUNNING SERIES.
To audition for this part, send me an e-mail at marionluigi@hotmail.com with this audition line:
"I can't go to jail!! You know what they do to people like me?!"

CHECK OUT THE INTRO!!!

grim_studios - Excellent work, dude. Can't wait to see how it all plays out on the big screen. ;)

Kagome: Really good job recording yourself! I'm impressed. A huge step up from the jambox-playing-in-background song you did the other day. As far as singing higher with more power... just gotta practice. Don't hurt yourselt too much, but the more you do it the more you'll expand your range. And when you're singing along with another vocal track, listen to yourself more that the original, otherwise it's easier to get out of tune. It's actually EASIER to sing to just an instrumental track.

Bezo: That. Was. Hilarious.
Seriously, and all because of your story. Otherwise it's just weird operatic singing making no sense. But I want to see you flesh this out into tru Wagner grandiocity... 23.5 hours of non stop dwarven singing!!

I have been fighting the urge to put this up for some time. But I just can't do it anymore with all you's all posting these singin' stuffs. So, here it is:

"Take Me Home (DJ F-rogz Techno Remix)"

OK, all done. Filled up the spot in less than an hour! A new personal best! Thanks for the auditions.

Most opera doesn't make sense unless you know the story beforehand.

hey everyone im finally going to be able to post my first flash in awhile so beware andyways i decided to cut the mr nice guy episodes in half so there will be 12 episodes there was originally supposed to be 24 episodes but there will be twelve now since not too many people are into love storys (damn it) so i just wanted to let everyone know especially my voice actors for this flash which are

Kagome: Samantha

Zodiak (think thats how its spelled): Rick

Oh and by the way if you two wanna know the secret of this flash just ask me and ill tell you so later

*returns from a really boring weekend with no internet*

wow.... so many pages in 2 days.... amazing... really it is

Sorry, I wasn't on for a few days. What'd I miss? (don't feel like rooting through six pages :P)

Still needing VA's =\ anyone???

At 4/18/05 04:26 PM, Shalamaseskia wrote: *returns from a really boring weekend with no internet*

wow.... so many pages in 2 days.... amazing... really it is

Shalamaseskia : you didnt answer my question on page
110

>ricem0nsta
Sorry. ^^;
i loved the original movie though. It was hillarious...
maybe if i could pull off sounding like one of the guys in the movie...

>Kagome-chan
Yay! You're a trendsetter. *lol*

Acually, i already have one song up on NG...
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/view.php?id=1042019&sub=16949
It's an old one... really, really repetitive, but i like it still.

more old stuff are on SoundClick
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/6/rekimusic.htm
Planning to re-record and make an actual Demo CD.

I am working on a Mach movie (machinima) for Morrowind and it is a spoof of MTV cribs, i need 2 voice actors. A cauckasian (hopefully spelled right) male 13-20 that can act like a wigger and make people laugh.
Also someone with a good talk show/narrating voice.
Send all demo's to coconut_ddd@hotmail.com and add me as well.

FULL CREDIT WILL BE GIVEN

You all talk far too often.

Kagome: It could be that the high notes you're trying to hit are just not in your range. You have to be careful not to hurt yourself. If it hurts, you probably shouldn't do it.

Yeah, trying to hit notes out of your range is the fastest way to put yourself out of commission vocally. Well besides doing really loud reverse phonation.

sorry i missed so much guys. been so fukin busy, it's insane.

i got a couple of major parts in other people's projects elsewhere, and hope to help out Philljc, as soon as i make a new demo, which i hope to do soon.

in any respects. i still wonder about u guys but am busy and have HW out my ass.

just a check in.

Rydoik: try sending it to THIS adress instead

At 4/18/05 09:52 PM, Isca wrote: Kagome: It could be that the high notes you're trying to hit are just not in your range. You have to be careful not to hurt yourself. If it hurts, you probably shouldn't do it.

Yeah probably...except I can go into high ranges when voice acting [as I'm sure you all have observed] and it doesn't hurt at all x_x So...I don't know.

>Kagome-chan
In regards to high notes... belting them might not be a good idea, especially if you haven't trained to project correctly. (o.O;;;

i've heard there's a technique where you mix your head voice (usually sounds thin and light and ...choir-y ^^;; ) with your chest voice (voice you use to belt with) that'll result in producing a nice projected high note.

Only, i've never succeeded in doing so, so i can't tell you if it's a surefire thing or not. (x.X:;

i'm an alto, actually, and when i hit the high notes i use my head voice and bring my mic very close to my mouth. *lol* Only problem is, there's such a difference in head/chest voice it's really hard to bear... (;_; i'd also like advice on how to expand my range...

i wish i knew what to suggest to you... ^^; i guess gradually expand your chest-voice range by practicing? But don't hurt yourself. Also, it's not very healthy for your vocal chords to stress the beginnings of vowels. (i hope that makes sense...) For example, instead of singing "Ah," put a very subtle breath almost like "hAh" and it won't strain your glands as much. i learned this in Chorus at college...

Hope that helped somewhat. (x.X;;;

I find that the best way to discover a singing range is take singing lessons. ^_^ I thought I was both a poor singer and someone who could sing nothing but low notes until I took lessons. I was pleasantly surprised to discover I'm actually a Soprano with talent. =P

Good lord, haven't been in here for a while! :P I've been going out alot more often these days since we've been having beautiful weather this whole week. Nothing like nice long walks to clear your mind and fresh air doesn't hurt too ;)

Isca: I never got to say, "Welcome back!" so ... welcome back! (Welcome Back Kotter Theme Plays)

Welcome back,
You're dreams were your ticket out.
Welcome back,
To the same old things that we laughed about.

Wow ... tired.

-Hobbes

Has the Voice Acting Club suddenly been turned into the Singing Club? @_@;

Seriously, though. To all who posted up their singing clips and whatnot: those were awesome! (I especially liked Frogs' and Aimi's) We're an awfully talented bunch, aren't we? Hmm, maybe I'll post a short singing clip in a while. Nothing too fancy though; maybe just a quick recording of me singing over some song. I really don't have the patience (or time) right now to mix a recording and a song together, make sure timing's right, etc. I'm lazy like that.

And regarding 'the hitting those high notes advice', I would agree with what Isca had said. Because she's the besterest. <3

In Japan, you can't be a voice actor unless you can sing. ;)

So it's good to keep in practice.

At 4/19/05 12:35 AM, KagomeHigurashi wrote:

At 4/18/05 09:52 PM, Isca wrote: Kagome: It could be that the high notes you're trying to hit are just not in your range. You have to be careful not to hurt yourself. If it hurts, you probably shouldn't do it.

Yeah probably...except I can go into high ranges when voice acting [as I'm sure you all have observed] and it doesn't hurt at all x_x So...I don't know.

Voice Acting and Singing (when it comes to range) are actually very very different, if you've ever tried singing in a character voice I think you'll see what I mean, because it's all about placement.

I took private voice lessons for 4 years and this Chest Voice/Head voice thing was something me and my teacher worked on for a while, so I'll give a stab at saying what has helped for me (though it may not be whats wrong for you).

When it is time to hit higher notes, we as singers tend to freak out a bit, because we don't want our voices to crack or sound bad, and the place we put the note tends to fall back too. Into the back of your throat. Where you need to place the sound is in the middle of your head, possibly even closer to your nose, this will 1) help get rid of the "light airy-ness" you speak of, 2) Make it hurt less, and 3) Even out your tone overall.

It's not easy. 6 years later and I'm still working on it. But it is really helpful.

There is also the possibility that it just isn't in your range. I know my range because I've been in choirs since I was 8, but I don't know yours. Like a lot of people have said, if it hurts, its best to back off a while. As VAs our pipes are the most precious things we have. Gotta take care of them.

((Oh, and if the song is really challenging, don't drink milk or eat chocolate for a while before hand, that can gunk you all up. ^_^))

And there is DarkKnightDamsel's long rant of possibly useless advice.

Here's my little advice for singing and songwriting:

I find that if you are singing with just a normal kind of singing voice (The kind where you don't want to have your parents hear in the next room) then you'll practically have to go into falsetto to hit some high notes. When you are alone (I live on my own now thank god) you can kinda belt out things and perhaps hit those notes. But like many have said in their posts, it may just be out of your range. Not everyone will be able to sing like Sheryl Crow or Martina McBride. A nice little trick is transposing the whole song. I had guitar class in high school since it was an easy course 'cause I already knew alot on guitar, and one thing I noticed when we played songs at the end of the class is that my teacher would not have the real chords. The patterns were all the same, but instead of A, E, D, they were like G, D, C. People in the class didn't notice, but I did since I learned alot before taking the class and kinda had a good ear starting to develop. He most likely couldn't hit some of the tough notes in the song when he sang them, so he just transposed everything a step down or so. Some people just go half a step, if they can pull it off. It's a neat trick, but in Cool Edit transposing sounds really weird, so playing an instrument with the new arrangement is most likely more ideal.

-Hobbes

I did a mini-practice rant using the Soundwave effect and it ended with Soundwave proudly declaring that he was Cybertronian in his heritage, but Canadian by choice. And so then I decided to have him sing O Canada.

And here it is!

Omahdon - Ok, the fact that you liked my opera snippet AND made reference to Glod gives me hope that you're a Terry Pratchett fan. Is this the case? ;)

Is there a way to silence the white noise inbetween words without creating a click? I've tried Audacity's hard limiter, silencer, and probably some third thing that I forgot or never existed, and there's always a click from the sudden drop. Any way to cover it up?