Hi! First time posting to a forum like this, but I'm really not experienced enough to know where my direction should be from here.
Be warned: this is messy. Sorry in advance.
So I wanted to make an UTAU vb. I bought a fifine AM8 and read/watched a bunch of tutorials and I kind of knew what I was doing. Kept the foam on the microphone (came with it) and I recorded an entire 7-mora reclist with the mic just sitting on my desk, which is in the corner of the living room and there's a vent right above it. Yeah, lol.
Then I saw advice to record under your desk for better results, and I just wasn't very satisfied with my old bank, so I tried that, but recording under the desk really was not possible for me. Got advice from an audio nerd friend who said I could instead drape a towel over myself, so I did that and recorded a few lines. The thing is, I don't have a 'best' version of my samples to compare with the ones I recorded/am recording, so I've just been slapping my old VB in UTAU and comparing the way the syllables individually sound.
While I was doing that, I found it really weird that 'ka' seemed to sound better in my old VB, and no matter how many times I rerecorded the new sample (now with towel) I couldn't get a result that sounded as good.
Now, I'm not entirely sure whether the old 'ka' is actually good or not. And I'm not experienced enough to tell what exactly is the thing that's making them sound different. The first 'ka' is an individual CV style sample, and the second 'ka' is pulled from a VCV style sample. I'm not sure if that would make this difference.
I've attached a recording of how the two sound (first is old, second is new) . Any experienced ears are appreciated. (Also any general instructions/advice is also very appreciated.)
Be warned: this is messy. Sorry in advance.
So I wanted to make an UTAU vb. I bought a fifine AM8 and read/watched a bunch of tutorials and I kind of knew what I was doing. Kept the foam on the microphone (came with it) and I recorded an entire 7-mora reclist with the mic just sitting on my desk, which is in the corner of the living room and there's a vent right above it. Yeah, lol.
Then I saw advice to record under your desk for better results, and I just wasn't very satisfied with my old bank, so I tried that, but recording under the desk really was not possible for me. Got advice from an audio nerd friend who said I could instead drape a towel over myself, so I did that and recorded a few lines. The thing is, I don't have a 'best' version of my samples to compare with the ones I recorded/am recording, so I've just been slapping my old VB in UTAU and comparing the way the syllables individually sound.
While I was doing that, I found it really weird that 'ka' seemed to sound better in my old VB, and no matter how many times I rerecorded the new sample (now with towel) I couldn't get a result that sounded as good.
Now, I'm not entirely sure whether the old 'ka' is actually good or not. And I'm not experienced enough to tell what exactly is the thing that's making them sound different. The first 'ka' is an individual CV style sample, and the second 'ka' is pulled from a VCV style sample. I'm not sure if that would make this difference.
I've attached a recording of how the two sound (first is old, second is new) . Any experienced ears are appreciated. (Also any general instructions/advice is also very appreciated.)