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\r\n\r\nI am about a year into producing an album for a new artist known as \"altered boy<\/em>.\"\u00a0 This young man has been\u00a0 classically trained as an opera singer and is a countertenor (really high voice for a male, imagine a voice higher than Michael Jackson).\u00a0\u00a0 According to Wikipedia, the counter tenor voice went through a massive resurgence in popularity in the second half of the 20 century, partly caused by the increased popularity of baroque opera and also due to a need of male singers to replace the castrati roles in opera.\r\n\r\nGetting a pop vocal performance from a classically trained opera singer has been a challenge for both of us.\u00a0 opera singers are trained to sing in a way that projects their voice. A lot of the emotions in Opera, are a bit less intimate than what I look for in a vocal.\r\n\r\nI am also getting used to making room in my tracks for lead vocals that reside in the reaches of high midrange (a location that I had not previously become acquainted <\/span>with.\u00a0 A task which should not be taken lightly.\r\n\r\nHowever, the challenges were what got me excited and thinking about how to make it all work.\u00a0\u00a0 altered boy<\/em> was up for the challenge, but probably did not anticipate the tortures that were in store when I got him behind the mic.\u00a0 When I was producing records with EXUDE, and NC -- 17,\u00a0 I relied on my brother, Vince's, skill at picking and synchronizing rhythms and beats.\u00a0 Without him to help I have developed my sensitivity to the rhythm and groove of a track, but it wasn't a sense that came to me naturally and I knew I wasn't the best man for the job.\u00a0 About two days ago altered boy<\/em> introduced me to\u00a0 Adam Dugan, whose expertise and many talents include (but are surely not limited to) being a DJ.\u00a0 Adam has the rhythm intuition that escapes me, and in a first listen to one of the tracks that I play for him he picked out and added that I thought I had hidden.\r\n\r\nIt wasn't long before I told Adam that it was great to finally find someone else who had been dropped off of the same space ship (which led to a productive discussion on methods of coping with earthlings).\r\n\r\nThe next step is acquainting Adam with the software I am working with (acid, and Pro tools LE) so that I can turn him loose to do what he does best.\r\n\r\nHe should be here any time now so I'd better get things ready.\r\n

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I am about a year into producing an album for a new artist known as \"altered boy.\"\u00a0 This young man has been\u00a0 classically trained as an opera singer and is a countertenor (really high voice for a male, imagine a voice higher than Michael Jackson).\u00a0\u00a0 According to Wikipedia, the counter tenor voice went through a…<\/p>

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