Hi Friends,
I was at Gold Adlabs last evening to watch Eklavya. Ok Ok Movie. Had reached the hall pretty early. So checked out the Karaoke-Stall. There was a booth where you could sing on the original music of songs with the vocals removed. After you sang, there was a guy who did all the editing on a computer. He'd mix the best lines from all u'r attempts and put all the pieces together. In the end, you'd get a cd with the final song written on it. He was charging Rs 9.00 per minute. And the whole process - listening (first to the original song), singing, editing, mixing, cd-writing - normally took around 25 mins (according to the guy), that is around 225 bucks. That's pretty costly. So you really can't afford to spend a lot of time on things like listening many times to the original song, or singing each piece multiple times to get it right, etc.
From the list of available songs to choose from, I chose the song Ae Ajnabi from the movie Dil Se. I chose a difficult song. But mood struck and I decided to go with it. The timer starts the moment the guy inserts the cd into his computer and stops when your song is written on a cd for you. I listened to the original song once. I knew it well. So listening once was enough. Then I went inside the singer's booth, wore the head-phones and sang into the mike there. The head-phones were to listen to the music and sing with it. Have been out of practice. But managed ok ok. Goofed up a little in the high-pitched lines. I was always apprehensive about that. Came out of the singer's booth after singing the whole song. Was not happy with the second stanza. So sang it again. It came out better. But I was still unhappy with some of the lines. Couldn't afford more attempts. So I left it for the guy to mix and edit. It took 30 minutes in all. The guy charged 250 bucks. Should have charged 270, but I got a discount!
Here's the link: ae_ajnabi_sridhar.mp3. Download, listen and Enjoy...if you can ;-)
Sorry about the poor quality. I hope you like it. Your comments are most welcome.
I was at Gold Adlabs last evening to watch Eklavya. Ok Ok Movie. Had reached the hall pretty early. So checked out the Karaoke-Stall. There was a booth where you could sing on the original music of songs with the vocals removed. After you sang, there was a guy who did all the editing on a computer. He'd mix the best lines from all u'r attempts and put all the pieces together. In the end, you'd get a cd with the final song written on it. He was charging Rs 9.00 per minute. And the whole process - listening (first to the original song), singing, editing, mixing, cd-writing - normally took around 25 mins (according to the guy), that is around 225 bucks. That's pretty costly. So you really can't afford to spend a lot of time on things like listening many times to the original song, or singing each piece multiple times to get it right, etc.
From the list of available songs to choose from, I chose the song Ae Ajnabi from the movie Dil Se. I chose a difficult song. But mood struck and I decided to go with it. The timer starts the moment the guy inserts the cd into his computer and stops when your song is written on a cd for you. I listened to the original song once. I knew it well. So listening once was enough. Then I went inside the singer's booth, wore the head-phones and sang into the mike there. The head-phones were to listen to the music and sing with it. Have been out of practice. But managed ok ok. Goofed up a little in the high-pitched lines. I was always apprehensive about that. Came out of the singer's booth after singing the whole song. Was not happy with the second stanza. So sang it again. It came out better. But I was still unhappy with some of the lines. Couldn't afford more attempts. So I left it for the guy to mix and edit. It took 30 minutes in all. The guy charged 250 bucks. Should have charged 270, but I got a discount!
Here's the link: ae_ajnabi_sridhar.mp3. Download, listen and Enjoy...if you can ;-)
Sorry about the poor quality. I hope you like it. Your comments are most welcome.
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