An audio clip of some practice on the loopstation very heavily based on vocals/singing. All improvised live, recorded as one channel into Ableton without any internal effects or mastering.

This is what it sounds like to practice vocal work. Sometimes it sounds good, sometimes it doesn’t. Sometimes it takes a while for rust to wear off. Professional recording artists can sometimes go through hundreds of takes to record that one singular sound bite, one line from a chorus. Usually there’s a master production team on the other end of the microphone, recorded into it’s own channel and effected – often beyond recognition even to the recording artist. Live shows at this point also have production teams monitoring the output.

The point of this explanation is that vocal work is tough. Real vocal work takes a lot of time and patience, you’re going to sound bad long before you sound good and even professionals have off days. We used to know this, but polished technology has obfuscated the path to get there for someone outside of the loop. If you’re a vocalist or singer and get frustrated because your vocal work doesn’t appear to sound like what’s on the radio, or being played by your favorite artists, you actually may be a lot closer than you think, just never stop practicing and you’ll get to where you need to be 🙂