Fascination (Alphabeat)

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A high energy backing track in the style of Alphabeat.

This version is the radio play version of Fascination and is a great tune to sing to a lively audience. A brilliant backing track.

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Heartbeat (Scouting For Girls)

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A brilliant backing track, I just love this tune.

Not to be confused with the old Buddy Holly song of the same name, this song may have the same name (Heartbeat) but it couldn’t be more different!

It’s a high energy song and definitely a song that will please a lively audience. Highly recommended backing track.

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Heartbreaker (Will I Am)

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This is a great hip hop tune that has crossed the boundaries and in to the pop charts.

It was a massive hit on both sides of the Atlantic (in the UK featuring Cheryl Cole) and this is a great backing track version of it.

Don’t confuse this song with the other song of the same name (Heartbreaker) which was written by the BeeGees and sung by Dionne Warwick back in the eighties - this Will I Am song is a completely different tune…

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Home recording quality issues

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Yesterday, one of our customers, Ayshana contacted me with a problem she’s having with her home recording. Here’s what she wrote (and my answer beneath):

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Hi Kenny, 
I wanted to ask for some advice. I sound almost perfect
when performing, but when i record in a studio i sound
very nasal and the quality of the CD is very low. Do you
know why? P.S- thanks for the article.
Ayshana
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Hi Ayshana

Without sitting in front of your computer and seeing exactly how you are recording it’s difficult to say exactly what’s going wrong. However, there are a couple of possibilities which immediately spring to mind…

1. Often singers can sing much louder, much higher in pitch and with much more force when they sing live. So, it’s possible that when you sing in the confines of a small studio, you are not really opening up your voice as much as you would when live onstage in front of an audience, so that’s why the vocal is sounding different.

2. The quality of the soundcard in your computer may be affecting the quality of the recording. If it is only the vocal that doesn’t sound right, then it’s most probably the first possibility above. But if the sound of the music is very nasal too, then it is the quality of the whole recording process (ie your soundcard) that is causing the problem…

3. Recording at low bit-rates can also cause quality to be deteriorated. You should always record your master in WAV format. If you want an mp3, you can always encode the WAV to mp3 afterwards…

Hope this helps…

Regards

Kenny


Cry for you (September)

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A great dance backing track - September Cry for you really moves along with a great thumping dance beat that will fill the dancefloor.

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Can’t speak French (Girls Aloud)

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The girls notch up yet another top 10 hit with this tune.

Can’t speak French is a great backing track and one of the catchiest tunes of the year. A brilliant backing track.

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Wow (Kylie Minogue)

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The hits just kept coming for Kylie in 2008.

Keeping with the dance tempo of most of the other songs she released around about this time, Wow is a great dance backing track and an easy song for any female singer to sing.

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Call the shots (Girls Aloud)

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Another biggie from Girls Aloud. Call the shots is a great backing track with an uptempo beat.

Older singers have commented that this tune is reminiscent of an eighties Bananarama sound and I have to agree…and that’s a compliment!

A great backing track which will suit any female singer of any age.

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Sun goes down (David Jordan)

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This backing track of Sun goes down by David Jordan is an excellect arrangement and is a great song to get the whole audience singing along to.

The sitars and drums give this backing track a real Eastern feel and atmosphere. Brilliant.

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Black and gold (Sam Sparrow)

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A surprising hit but none-the-less a great song by Sam Sparrow.

For this backing track, we’ve produced a longer mix of Black and gold which lasts just under 5 minutes - you can never get too much of a good song!

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