हमारी मेहफ़ील, सा रे ग म प Options Rating

[OMkar]

Dear Friends,

As we always wanted to start हमारी मेहफ़ील under correct name, let us all join together and start a lovely सुरीला सीलसीला which continue to grow forever.

हमारी इस मेहफ़ील मे सबका स्वागत ह.ै आईये हम सब मीलकर इसे रोशन करे !

In the beginning, I am presenting the song of Kishoreda which he use to sing while starting his Mehfil (live shows)

[King Rafi]

Yes I didn't realise sanjay saying he records using some other software. Which means he needs to check only step 3 as the first 2 shd be correct.

@omkar, I guess, when he records, he gives the source as 'mic' instead of 'mixer'. So even when he plays the karaoke music on the background (using any software), only what goes through the mic gets recorded. He then simply 'drags and drops' the 2 files in audacity. Of course, he needs to 'time-shift' the second wave which he can do for the first line only, and the rest will automatically fall into place.

btw, i hope u guys use headphones while recording, else a part of the music u listen will also get fed into the mic, and clarity will be lost.

HK

[OMkar]

Yes I didn't realise sanjay saying he records using some other software. Which means he needs to check only step 3 as the first 2 shd be correct.

@omkar, I guess, when he records, he gives the source as 'mic' instead of 'mixer'. So even when he plays the karaoke music on the background (using any software), only what goes through the mic gets recorded. He then simply 'drags and drops' the 2 files in audacity. Of course, he needs to 'time-shift' the second wave which he can do for the first line only, and the rest will automatically fall into place.

btw, i hope u guys use headphones while recording, else a part of the music u listen will also get fed into the mic, and clarity will be lost.

HK

I tried to do this by adding time-shift to the second wave, but it need to be perfect and its sometimes difficult to calculate the exact timeshift. Is there any other way, Sanjay? Please let us know.

Oh yes, Harish, I use headphones while recording otherwise it will be really bad bad bad recording. I am only worried for my current mic quality. Hope to resolve it in coming few months. Lets see how it goes!!!

[sanjkash]

Yes I didn't realise sanjay saying he records using some other software. Which means he needs to check only step 3 as the first 2 shd be correct.

@omkar, I guess, when he records, he gives the source as 'mic' instead of 'mixer'. So even when he plays the karaoke music on the background (using any software), only what goes through the mic gets recorded. He then simply 'drags and drops' the 2 files in audacity. Of course, he needs to 'time-shift' the second wave which he can do for the first line only, and the rest will automatically fall into place.

btw, i hope u guys use headphones while recording, else a part of the music u listen will also get fed into the mic, and clarity will be lost.

HK

I tried to do this by adding time-shift to the second wave, but it need to be perfect and its sometimes difficult to calculate the exact timeshift. Is there any other way, Sanjay? Please let us know.

Oh yes, Harish, I use headphones while recording otherwise it will be really bad bad bad recording. I am only worried for my current mic quality. Hope to resolve it in coming few months. Lets see how it goes!!!

Friends,
Except few things, much of Harish said is correct (drag and drop is not a good idea).
So this is how I ususlly recorded
1) In Audacity, upload the music Karaoke track (listen to it see if it fits to vocal band then if necessary play with "Effects-Pitch" to get to whatever you want. May not be necessary for different singers)
2) Select "Microphone" as source for recordning
3) Start recording button and singing (this will play the karaoke track but will not be recorded, but whatever you sing into the microphone will get recorded into a new track)
4) Once the Karaoke track is finished you stop the recording
5) Now choose, the "Stereo Mix" as the playing source and push "Play" (this will play both the tracks, the karaoke track as well as the voice recorded track), listen and see if this is OK. The Timing in this case is always right as you listened the track and sang accordingly.
6) "Stop"
7) Now "Start recording" (push record button) using still the "Stereo Mix" as the source for playing (at this time the two previous tracks will played and you can listen the two tracks playing, while) a new track will be created using the input of these two tracks.
This is your final recorded track (karaoke plus voice).
8) "Stop" and "Save" the file and present to HF community and get the pleasure.
Hope this helps. You may have your own way of recording (if different and easier please share)
Sanjay

[King Rafi]

Yes I didn't realise sanjay saying he records using some other software. Which means he needs to check only step 3 as the first 2 shd be correct.

@omkar, I guess, when he records, he gives the source as 'mic' instead of 'mixer'. So even when he plays the karaoke music on the background (using any software), only what goes through the mic gets recorded. He then simply 'drags and drops' the 2 files in audacity. Of course, he needs to 'time-shift' the second wave which he can do for the first line only, and the rest will automatically fall into place.

btw, i hope u guys use headphones while recording, else a part of the music u listen will also get fed into the mic, and clarity will be lost.

HK

I tried to do this by adding time-shift to the second wave, but it need to be perfect and its sometimes difficult to calculate the exact timeshift. Is there any other way, Sanjay? Please let us know.

Oh yes, Harish, I use headphones while recording otherwise it will be really bad bad bad recording. I am only worried for my current mic quality. Hope to resolve it in coming few months. Lets see how it goes!!!

Friends,
Except few things, much of Harish said is correct (drag and drop is not a good idea).
So this is how I ususlly recorded
1) In Audacity, upload the music Karaoke track (listen to it see if it fits to vocal band then if necessary play with "Effects-Pitch" to get to whatever you want. May not be necessary for different singers)
2) Select "Microphone" as source for recordning
3) Start recording button and singing (this will play the karaoke track but will not be recorded, but whatever you sing into the microphone will get recorded into a new track)
4) Once the Karaoke track is finished you stop the recording
5) Now choose, the "Stereo Mix" as the playing source and push "Play" (this will play both the tracks, the karaoke track as well as the voice recorded track), listen and see if this is OK. The Timing in this case is always right as you listened the track and sang accordingly.
6) "Stop"
7) Now "Start recording" (push record button) using still the "Stereo Mix" as the source for playing (at this time the two previous tracks will played and you can listen the two tracks playing, while) a new track will be created using the input of these two tracks.
This is your final recorded track (karaoke plus voice).
8) "Stop" and "Save" the file and present to HF community and get the pleasure.
Hope this helps. You may have your own way of recording (if different and easier please share)
Sanjay

Sanjay,
What I was telling OMkar was, 'what Sanjay was probably doing when he was not able to record through Audacity'.

BTW, I did not understand your step No.7. What is the need of it? Our voice track is already recorded in step No. 3. You can simply export as an mp3 file and that is it.

[sanjkash]

Yes I didn't realise sanjay saying he records using some other software. Which means he needs to check only step 3 as the first 2 shd be correct.

@omkar, I guess, when he records, he gives the source as 'mic' instead of 'mixer'. So even when he plays the karaoke music on the background (using any software), only what goes through the mic gets recorded. He then simply 'drags and drops' the 2 files in audacity. Of course, he needs to 'time-shift' the second wave which he can do for the first line only, and the rest will automatically fall into place.

btw, i hope u guys use headphones while recording, else a part of the music u listen will also get fed into the mic, and clarity will be lost.

HK

I tried to do this by adding time-shift to the second wave, but it need to be perfect and its sometimes difficult to calculate the exact timeshift. Is there any other way, Sanjay? Please let us know.

Oh yes, Harish, I use headphones while recording otherwise it will be really bad bad bad recording. I am only worried for my current mic quality. Hope to resolve it in coming few months. Lets see how it goes!!!

Friends,
Except few things, much of Harish said is correct (drag and drop is not a good idea).
So this is how I ususlly recorded
1) In Audacity, upload the music Karaoke track (listen to it see if it fits to vocal band then if necessary play with "Effects-Pitch" to get to whatever you want. May not be necessary for different singers)
2) Select "Microphone" as source for recordning
3) Start recording button and singing (this will play the karaoke track but will not be recorded, but whatever you sing into the microphone will get recorded into a new track)
4) Once the Karaoke track is finished you stop the recording
5) Now choose, the "Stereo Mix" as the playing source and push "Play" (this will play both the tracks, the karaoke track as well as the voice recorded track), listen and see if this is OK. The Timing in this case is always right as you listened the track and sang accordingly.
6) "Stop"
7) Now "Start recording" (push record button) using still the "Stereo Mix" as the source for playing (at this time the two previous tracks will played and you can listen the two tracks playing, while) a new track will be created using the input of these two tracks.
This is your final recorded track (karaoke plus voice).
8) "Stop" and "Save" the file and present to HF community and get the pleasure.
Hope this helps. You may have your own way of recording (if different and easier please share)
Sanjay

Sanjay,
What I was telling OMkar was, 'what Sanjay was probably doing when he was not able to record through Audacity'.

BTW, I did not understand your step No.7. What is the need of it? Our voice track is already recorded in step No. 3. You can simply export as an mp3 file and that is it.

Harish,
At step 3 you recorded only the voice track (no background karaoke music track, which was just playing, which you could listen through your headphone and use it as an aid while recording voice).
At step 5 you are just listening the two tracks together (the karaoke track and the one you recorded in your voice) to check if everything s OK.
At step 7 now you are ready to record the two tracks togeter into a new one. At this step the two tracks are played together while a new is automatically generated which is recording the two track together into one. This is the one you can then export as an mp3 file.
Hope this is clearer now. Let me know.
Sanjay