I figured I’d better start doing some of these since I’m not getting any younger and I’ve already lost substantial range and power from my voice. That said, this is pretty much off the cuff. What you’re listening to is a cover of Audioslave’s “The Last Remaining Light.” Since I don’t have instruments or a band, I had to find a karaoke track and record the vocal over it. There’s some minor effects on the vox, a little reverb and delay, but NO autotune or pitch correction (and you’ll know it if you’re a musician or singer).
As I can’t be 100% certain of the provenance or licensing I’m only publishing this to this site, not on any other platforms. For whatever it’s worth, it’ll probably sound better in headphones than through a phone speaker.
I’m sure there’ll be a few dinguses who want to point out that I screwed up a lyric somewhere or I’m a little “pitchy” or whatever. I don’t care. This was one take, cold. Didn’t warm up my vox, didn’t even listen to the original first, just dragged the karaoke MP3 into Audition and sang, through a Blue “Yeti” microphone into my computer at my desk.
So yeah. It doesn’t sound like it was produced by Butch Vig and recorded at Electric Ladyland, and I’m okay with that. I just wanted some kind of proof I can do this out in the world, because ya know what? There’s about three people who know I’m capable of it, and I think that’s a shame.
The audio track I recorded over is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqhUzz_avvY You can hear for yourself there are NO vocals there.
No, it’s not perfect. Little off here, little thin there, little out of breath in another place, maybe a bad lyric somewhere. I don’t care. I also don’t care if some cheeseball poser with 50K worth of equipment and all the free time in the world to rehearse for weeks can do it better. This is what I did, and I did it well, and I’m proud of it, and if anyone’s got anything negative to say about it they’re welcome to just keeeeep walking.
Here’s the original for reference, too. Audioslave – The Last Remaining Light.
