SillyBilly is working on 3rd album!

[SillyBilly]

Well Fans, friends, and extroardinairs,,,, Song number two is complete on my new cd, I decided to actually use my real name for this album, "Billy Pettit", instead of what I went buy for years, "Ethan Miles Band". The new album is called "Grievance", you can download the new song at:
https://cid-e2ce70f050c9f68a.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Ethan%20Miles%20Music%20and%20Lyrics%20In%20Here/Grievance/You%20Make%20Me%20Wanna%20Pull%20My%20Hair%20Out/You%20Make%20Me%20Wanna%20Pull%20My%20Hair%20Out.mp3

And Song number 2 is here,,, https://cid-e2ce70f050c9f68a.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Ethan%20Miles%20Music%20and%20Lyrics%20In%20Here/Grievance/Just%20Help%20me%20make%20it%20through%20another%20day/01^_Billy%20Pettit^_Grievance^_Just%20Help%20Me%20Make%20It%20Through%20Another%20Day.mp3

I am trying to get it on the player here,
www.myspace.com/ethanmilesband

Let me know what ya think!!!
 

Thanks for everyones support
SillyBilly

[SillyBilly]

  Never thought I was that bad of a musician,,,, Milli Vanilli Made it for a few months and never sang a word,  I write it,  play it, sing it , record it, , Produce it,  all by one person???  I got 30 views, no replies, and 2 of them actually went and listened???? ,Wow , Maybe I need to handle the management and marketing too!! , Welp,???? Self???? I thought I rocked, and keep up the good work SillyBilly!!

[|iR|Focalor]

I downloaded the first song. Not really my kind of music though. Put together pretty well.

If I could make a few suggestions regarding your vocals...

I'm not a decent vocalist myself, but I do think I know a little bit about what makes vocals good. Your vocals sound kinda closed off and too labored from the throat alone. Try practicing singing while pushing more air through your nasal passages, it'll probably give your voice a little more power. Try forcing the same amount of air from your nose that comes from your mouth. It may decrease your ability to sustain notes and phrases, but it'll probably thicken your voice. Since you're recording, you'll always have the luxury of being able to multi-track segments of phrases if you just don't have the lung capacity to do it all in one continuous phrase.

Also the reverb you used for the vocals sounds kinda cheap. These days, people aren't typically using as much reverb and delay in their vocals. The one you chose sounds like it has a very defined almost slap-back delay or spring reverb from an old Fender amp. Maybe something a little more subtle and with smoother roll-off. If you're using some kind of typical loop based software for mixing like ACID or something similar, here's one technique I've discovered to add some thickness and interesting depth to tracks, especially vocals:
Duplicate a track. Pan one left and the other one right at equal percentages. Zoom in as far as you can and stagger the entire second track by fractions of milliseconds while playing the mix back until you find a sound that suits you. You can kinda create stereo effects and weird delays this way.