Where can I look for inexpensive, original vocals?

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Posted by MIKE333ACE on Oct-06-2011 12:57:

Where can I look for inexpensive, original vocals?

I've lately been thinking about making a song with vocals in it, but I don't know where to start. I'm only 14 so I obviously can't go out to the worlds best singers and ask them to record some vocals for me, and I don't want to download an acapella of a song that's already been produced by someone elsa and then have to call it a remix, I want my own original vacals that no-one has ever used before.

So, I'm just wondering if there are any websites or organisations that allow to pay them a small amount of money to record vocals and give them to you to make a song out of.

Any Help on this would be great,
Cheers.

Posted by pointPi on Oct-06-2011 13:23:

Why not use a speech synthesizer?

Posted by MIKE333ACE on Oct-06-2011 13:26:

quote:
Originally posted by pointPi
Why not use a speech synthesizer?

Because all you get is a robotic voice, I'm wanting real vocals to make a proper song.

Posted by cristianokeller on Oct-06-2011 13:36:

Why this is important?
Well, if you date a girl that can sing, all your problems will be gone...

Posted by Fuxzz on Oct-06-2011 13:38:

Dot´t know any services like that and I doubt it exist.

Have you thought about buying a mic? Maybe you can record you own voice or know anyone through school or something that have a nice voice, just for practice.

I don`t know what level you are in at the moment but even if you can`t get the best recordings it may be a good investment for the future when you are able to work with real singers and maybe record in a studio.

As everything else you need to start somewhere and if you start this early in life I`ll bet you be pretty awesome when you get older if you just hang in there.

Posted by MIKE333ACE on Oct-06-2011 13:42:

quote:
Originally posted by cristianokeller
Why this is important?
Well, if you date a girl that can sing, all your problems will be gone...

Haha, that is deffinantly a possible solution

Posted by MIKE333ACE on Oct-06-2011 13:44:

quote:
Originally posted by fuxzz
Dot´t know any services like that and I doubt it exist.

Have you thought about buying a mic? Maybe you can record you own voice or know anyone through school or something that have a nice voice, just for practice.

I don`t know what level you are in at the moment but even if you can`t get the best recordings it may be a good investment for the future when you are able to work with real singers and maybe record in a studio.

As everything else you need to start somewhere and if you start this early in life I`ll bet you be pretty awesome when you get older if you just hang in there.

Thanks for this, i spose I could try and get someone from school or something like that to record for me.

Posted by Fuxzz on Oct-06-2011 16:19:

quote:
Originally posted by MIKE333ACE
Thanks for this, i spose I could try and get someone from school or something like that to record for me.

Np. Ye do that. If you are a singer I guess you want to sing and not everyone has a producer nearby either so that person would be lucky to.

Posted by stewart.m on Oct-06-2011 23:27:

http://www.freesound.org/ plenty of singers here still you will need to regester to dl enjoy

Posted by Nicolas Oliver on Oct-07-2011 00:56:

Lots of sample packs include vocals these days...

Posted by Zombie0729 on Oct-07-2011 03:06:

if you're willing to write it, these guys will sing it for next to nothing...

http://fiverr.com/

Posted by DjWoody on Oct-07-2011 03:18:

Talk to girls in your school's choir. I'm sure a lot of them will be willing to do it for free. Who knows, maybe you'll end up dating one of them. lol

Posted by cryophonik on Oct-07-2011 03:24:

Yeah, I agree that your best bet is to try finding someone in your school. But, don't expect to get commercial-ready vocals right off the bat and don't get discouraged by the initial results. It's going to be a learning process, so enjoy the ride and know that you'll end up with a lot of useful experience by not taking the easy way and downloading some pre-processed a capellas.

Another option is to check out Indaba Music for online collaborations. I haven't used it myself, but I know some people who have and had decent success, but I've also heard that there are a lot of flakey users there as well. I think it's probably worth the effort, though, and will increase your options.

Posted by skyhunter on Oct-07-2011 19:36:

Hey bro, welcome to the teenage producer community. I'm 15 now :]

I've met a load of signers on looperman, there are a lot of acapellas there for free download too, all you have to do is mention the singer.

Have fun!

Posted by DJ Shibby on Oct-12-2011 21:13:

Personal vocal chords!