Original song just recorded

[SamHaga]

Hey everyone, I am 17 still in high school and just recorded this song. I just wanted to here some feedback on it, and any suggestions on the singing or recording are more than welcome! I know the singing isn't very good, but i'm working on it! Anyways, I hope you enjoy it, let me know!


http://www.angelfire.com/music6/samhaga/


The song is called Surf Trip (Hatteras Song) just click and it should download, if anyone has trouble let me know, just threw it up on a website so others could here it.

[DoughyMidget]

hey, i just listened to ur song, its not too bad. I liked the guitar work and the lyrics. I am just not too sure about the singing, u should record more stuff and share it

[JeffreyBongo]

its good bro...its not your voice its the actual singing...i think it needs to flow a lil better...sound quality is great though....what you use to record with..mic and shit?

[SamHaga]

Thanks, yah, I am workin on the singing... hopefullyI can get some lessons out of my friends mom..(she teaches singing at a college).


Anyways, I just used my computer and used a program called audacity to do the recording, which is free to download, and I got an adapter so I could put the input from my guitar right into my computer. As for the mic.. its an old radio shack mic that I scrounged off an old karaoke machine we had in the house and used the adapter for that input as well.. the program does all the mixing but it comes out pretty clean


Workin on some more recordings and multiple songs right now, i'll post em when I finish and see what ya'll think, thanks for the feedback

[JeffreyBongo]

so you dont play into the mic? you play right into the computer? Hmmm how does that work bro?

[SamHaga]

My guitar is an acoustic electric, so I can plug the cable into the guitar and I got an adapter that changes the 1/4'' Jack into a 1/8'' jack that i can plug into my computer's sound card, which has an input slot... the adapter is like this... http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=CTLG&am (http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=CTLG&product%5Fid=274-366) p;product%5Fid=274-366


hope that helps

[slidin]

Hey good shit. Nice little melody you got going on there. Question, I hadn't done any recording on a PC before, but reading over and listening to your post made me check into it a bit. I DL'd that audacity, and had to DL some other "lame" file to convert to mp3. Problem I ran into is I may have done something wrong in obtaining that lame file. LOL Know what I mean? What the hell am I doing wrong?

[SamHaga]

haha I had the same problem.. I was never able to use audacity to convert to mp3 format, so instead I justused aduacity to convert it to .wav format and then used "itunes" player to convert it to .mp3


glad you like it! gonna work on a new recording of it today,I have changed some things around, mostly guitarEdited by: SamHaga

[slidin]

Good deal. I'll keep at it, you too. I'll put my chit up as soon as I figure all of this out.

[robertt8]

Hey! listening to it now...it's actually some pretty clean
guitars...i'm guessing you plugged them in...assuming that is an
acoustic, you'd get a better sound with micing it and a touch of
reverb. not bad for some early stuff (in my oppinion)...i think the
melody could use a little tweaking to strengthen the "hook".

keep plugging away!