First of all I would like to thank JapaneseGIRL for her help with the translating.

The particular Steel Samurai theme in question would be the 2008 concert one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zepvc_fotG4)

I'm attending a local anime and manga convention so I decided I'd perform it in English, ergo, here's the translation!




Here's a bad, crappy quality clip of me singing the lyrics
http://media.putfile.com/Ibans-bad-quality-singing-clip

(Yeah, I realize it's not spot on and I almost choked with the FLY HIGH parts, but it's audio)

Wooo! Nice song!
Thank you!
Kakkoii!

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Lol, you rock Iban!

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Lol, you rock Iban!

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Thanks I'll try to do better in my live-performance

Your voice is okay, but your breathing was off more than once as well as a very, very slight stutter at the beginning. There were also parts where the vocals sounded a little too illegible.

My tips (even though I don't sing well myself):

-Try to take deep breaths in between lines or when there is a pause in the song.
-Do your best to hold the note longer or shorter to match the Japanese vocals. It's very hard, but we all believe in you.
-Do multiple takes! I cannot stress this enough! If you hear even the slightest stutter in your voice, it's better to do the audio again.
-Record in sections! Just because the one singing is doing the song in its entirety doesn't mean you have to! When there is a good break in the lyrics, stop recording and, if you need to, take a very brief break and come back to it.
-Articulate! When singing, try your best to articulate your words as you sing! It allows others to hear what you are singing instead of slurring words together and having so many syllables sound alike.

I wish you the best in your next attempt!

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Thanks for your feedback. I have to emphasize the fact that I used a bad microphone and I literally had to yell in the mic so my singing was louder than the background. (Sound Recorder ftl!) I couldn't control the tone of my voice as well as I would be if I was doing it normally ^^"

If that's the case, and you're using Audacity, there are some fixes to help you.

-The "Amplify" Tool. This will increase the volume of your recording by the number of decibels you desire. Perfect for those with microphones that don't record well.

-The "Noise Removal" Tool. When you use the "Amplify" tool, you will notice significant white noise in the background. Basically record a brief recording (about 2-3 seconds) of absolute silence. Next, amplify that silence by the same amount as your voice recording, then select the silence recording and use the "Noise Removal" tool. There should be a button that reads "Get Noise Profile". After you click that, close the "Noise Removal" tool, then highlight your vocal recording with the select tool. Click Noise Removal and, after fiddling with the settings a little (Do NOT click get noise profile), click Ok and it should eliminate the White Noise.

-Volume Control and Importing. Instead of recording music with your microphone, you can use a tool called "Free Studio Manager" to directly rip the audio straight from any Youtube video into a nice and neat MP3 Format. After that's done, you can import the MP3 into Audacity and listen to it as you are recording. Also, you can adjust the volume levels of any audio tracks in your recording on the left-hand side of the recording. Using these, you can lower the volume of the music you use as well as increasing the volume of your recording as you see fit.

That should help significantly.

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