Your biggest UTAU screw ups

JurianChibo

Teto's Territory
I recorded an entire voicebank + my little sister's utau on OREMO without properly setting my microphone so the quality was literally shit.
We had to re-record them ENTIRELY!

...yeah...
 

kimchi-tan

Your local Mikotard
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My biggest mistakes are always the in the mixing, either the vocals being off-time or too loud.
 

Taikutsu-namake

Ruko's Ruffians
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"Recording" a full VCV then finding out my good mic wasn't plugged in. I made that mistake years ago when i first bought my blue snowball. I cried. I really cried.
 
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Emu

Teto's Territory
Being under the assumption that UTAU Synth is a fully functioning, glitch free program.
 
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PaintedCz

VCCV UTAU English
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Yes, hello.

That old CVVC English back of Cz's from 2012 that people are still using......
I recorded it with the mic facing the wrong direction. :3

EDIT:
Wait can I just add:
Inventing CVVC and giving it to the rest of the world before I was ready to.

There I think that covers pretty much everything. OTL
 
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Vivification

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Setting my OTO so that consonants were in the middle of the actual consonant and overlap was extreme.
 

IrisFlower

Precious Flower with Thorns
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You mean aside from thinking I could continue to live my life in a sane manner after joining this fandom and community?? I'd say Iris's entire first bank.

No not her Act 1 cause while that was bad it's still 1000x better than the bank that was Murasaki Yorune. Her entire concept was a disaster. Her name, her design, her voice, and I just don't like to talk about it. And yet here I sit. I reiterate that statement about my sanity.
 

shinami

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Yes, hello.

That old CVVC English back of Cz's from 2012 that people are still using......
I recorded it with the mic facing the wrong direction. :3

chezzie plz power append czloid for cvvc tone (I was actually super fond of it actually, but VCCV is 1000% times clearer/better, why not both?)

Murasaki Yorune

obligatory comment about her being mimi's evil twin sister who she was never told about

Anyways, sillies aside! It's really embaressing when on your first ever UTAU video posted there is no oto, timing is off, mixing is awful, and you go around claiming you prefer her to Teto. DX But anyways, I cry 1000 tears every time people use my Lulu Magical Luka Luka Hoi! UST because it has a completely wrong section that I MENTION PLEASE FIX but no one does. *cries forever* I need to like rerelease all my USTs haha.

Oh oh oh and when I made a UST I was super proud of, but the mixing was SO BAD it's almost unlistenable.

(Can I just make a new YT channel and redo like everything sobs)
 
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moonst4r

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obligatory comment about her being mimi's evil twin sister who she was never told about

Omg just imagine an evil twin who's also a witch. That would actually make an interesting story

Ehh I think my biggest screw up was making a cover that was missing some phonemes in the bank and so there were pauses in the singing u_u

Not to mention the bad accent in my first VCV bank OTL
 
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RollieRyttle

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THIS STUPID THING.
I cannot count how many times I have ruined otos by double clicking the Alias box, and accidentally hitting enter. Why is this even a feature, UTAU automatically calls the sample if you put its filename in the note!
Kill it with fire.

Also, personally, this non otoed mess...
Kinda mistake, kinda fun, not sure if I would do again, if I went back to 2012.
I have to admit that this kicked me into gear for learning how to actually use UTAU.
 
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zipperworks

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I mean, there's the usual first cover with no oto and slapped-together mixing and being proud of that at one point for some reason. That's a thing. ...Actually, everything about my first UTAU is "a thing." But I mostly just pretend she doesn't exist.

But I think probably my greatest shame is making a new CV bank for one of my UTAU and chopping off most of the consonant when I was cropping the sample, because pfft, who needs those? :orly: And then being super-indignant that she sounded fine until I went back months later...
 

수연 <Suyeon>

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Act 1: accent and tone were gross. Act 2 and 3 were a little less gross. CEJK was okay, but that el cheapo Mic... This current bank is better and the accent is getting better (t samples are still a struggle as far as Japanese is concerned).
 

NicolaCola

Ruko's Ruffians
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Recording an entire stringed English CVVC bank without watching any kinds of tutorials first, and singing all of the sounds one after the next like VCV when there's supposed to be a pause between them. And doing the recording on the last day I would have access to that microphone for a few months, so that I definitely couldn't rerecord those samples correctly after I found out it was a problem.

Also, recording complete VCV banks with a low-quality microphone just to test out a certain tone of voice. And also waiting 3 years after starting UTAU to buy myself a nice mic so I could stop borrowing my sister's and Shinami's microphones.
 

aplusod

Teto's Territory
The first VB I made was really really bad. The oto didn't have anything but the overlap and end of note set. There were english R's and the O's sounded funny. I also pronounced "wo" like you would in Chinese rather than "o".
I wanted the release date to be something cool. It was January 1st. I had been using UTAU for less than 48 hours. (Somewhat related: g-flagged Melt UST)
I also didn't know regenerating frqs was a thing until a couple months in, so when one needed to be regenerated, I rerecorded the sound and stuck it in said first bank as [soundname]2. This made up about a solid third of the voicebank.

About three or four months in, my computer freaked out and someone had to reinstall Windows XP completely. But without service pack 2, so I couldn't change locale and any text in other languages just showed up as squares. I bought a copy of Windows 7 about a month after this incident.
Maybe two years into UTAUing, I had to get a new computer. I made the mistake of not getting one with an audio port thing so I couldn't plug my mic into it. I spent from then until recently using the built in webcam mic.

I also have a terrible tendency to record an entire VCV voicebank and then forget to oto (or only partially oto and never finish) it for two, three, even four years....and by then my voice changed just slightly enough to not be able to rerecord correctly.
 

HoneyPai

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Recorded a falsetto for a falsetto. Spent an hour recording the second falsetto, realized after I was done once it was in utau that it was too strong and high and ended up sounding nasily
 

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