hypnotizing! Perfect harmony, blending of voices, phrasing.......everything!. How I wish I knew what the words are saying.......but I can imagine. Thanks so much for selecting this marvelous piece of art
In English it would be something like this: So shimmering wasn't ever the ocean and the beach ever so liberating the field, the meadows and the treas ever so beautiful and the flowers ever so lovely fragrant As when you walked by my side in the sunset, that wonderful evening when your curls sheltered me from the world while you drowned all my sorrows darling, in your first kiss
Brendan Malloy How shimmering was never the sea And the beach never so liberating, The fields, meadows and trees, never so beautiful And the flowers never so deliciously scented Like when you walked by my side Towards the sunset, evening that wonderful, When your curls hid me from the world, While drowning all my sorrows, Darling, In your first kiss. - And the original in Swedish: Så skimrande var aldrig havet Och stranden aldrig så befriande, Fälten, ängarna och träden, aldrig så vackra Och blommorna aldrig så ljuvligt doftande Som när du gick vid min sida Mot solnedgången, aftonen den underbara, Då dina lockar dolde mig för världen, Medan du dränkte alla mina sorger, Älskling, I din första kyss.
..i mig heela tiden, denna sång. Har inte löst hur vara både där, o här samma dag, samtidigt än..., så om jag besluter går på kursen i hesa, kan jag kanske inte komma, så är det bara. Kanske denna vackra version kan vara en värd att lyssna på i sånafall, sjunga med själv. Ja, om jag inte kommer efter hesakeikkan, 19 tiden... För sent?
@Blue Amy dude I said it was drenched in plug-ins, I did not mention auto tune as being one of them. What you're hearing in this recording, is like the furthest you can get from listening to an actual recording of a choir in an acoustic setting. The heavy use of limiter and compressor kills the real-world dynamics, and the extreme use of EQ, especially on the bass singers microphone, is just such an earsore, sounds overly artificial. They all sing into individual near-field microphones with individual EQ and plug-in settings, and every form of the true acoustica that were present is gone, giving an odd sense of them singing in a vacuum. I can't say for a fact, but it appears that they have recorded the voice tracks separately (they didn't sing together) The "room" or rather lack of room heard in this recording, is in fact a reverb plug-in, digitally speaking a "tiny room" preset has been chosen, with the "dry" slider set to maximun effect. If you believe this is what a choir sounds like in reality, you should quit your job. I'm also a sound engineer, on a hobby level, both working Cubase and Protools. I also sing 2nd Bass in a professional mixed chorus. You may enjoy this overly produced studio recording of a group of singers, I prefer something closer to reality. Also, I want to stress that I never claimed that this group of elite singers, needed help from plugins, they can handle them self!
@Blue Amy thank you for such a great reply, I will not try to refute anything you said. Perhaps Bass proximity to the mic is in fact what gives it that 100hz bump, instead of EQ. Just like when you softly tap your finger on a mic and it gives off that Bass boom.
@Blue Amy Alfter a second listen, I actually have to agree with you; the female vocals doesn't sound affected by EQ, but the overly compressed dynamics and individual near-field microphones really kills it for me 😜 On a side note, I'll let you know that I fell in love with this choral piece, after I performed it myself in my choir. That's perhaps why I was slightly bothered how the studio had not been able to do The Real Group justice. Also I'm not advocating that EQ is a crime, but when recording classical music and choirs, it should only be used delicately to compensate for acoustical issues with the microphone recording itself, and not to make an instrument or a voice sound altered. If careful microphone positioning itself can eliminate the 'errors' that's far better. I want to be able to listen, so we get as much fidelity as possible, or even better - actually be there!
@Blue Amy We ofcourse sang it in Swedish. We have one Swedish speaking soprano who demonstrated proper pronunciations😁 Though we're Danish. I've also heard an English version, horrendous! This song is a prime example of how beautiful Swedish can be. when we reach the final chord and I have to go down on at that low Eb2, that's simply one of the best moments of my entire choral life. The melodic progression is such a stroke of genius! I'll have to admit that X/Y and A-B microphone and also phase shifts is outside my field of expertise 🤣 But I don't doubt for a second that it's extremely difficult, and minute errors will make a recording sound amateurish.
The best version ever of this magnificent poem and melody ......
hypnotizing! Perfect harmony, blending of voices, phrasing.......everything!. How I wish I knew what the words are saying.......but I can imagine. Thanks so much for selecting this marvelous piece of art
In English it would be something like this:
So shimmering wasn't ever the ocean
and the beach ever so liberating
the field, the meadows and the treas ever so beautiful
and the flowers ever so lovely fragrant
As when you walked by my side
in the sunset, that wonderful evening
when your curls sheltered me from the world
while you drowned all my sorrows
darling, in your first kiss
those sounds... lovely...
Magiskt vackert
Helt fantastiskt vacker!!
lovely
Still love Marie Fredriksson's version the most
Ein nytelse å høyre !! (Bør avspelast på surround anlegg for å yte denne framføringa rettferdigheit)
Big fan of this song. Not sure what's being said though. English translation?
Brendan Malloy
How shimmering was never the sea
And the beach never so liberating,
The fields, meadows and trees, never so beautiful
And the flowers never so deliciously scented
Like when you walked by my side
Towards the sunset, evening that wonderful,
When your curls hid me from the world,
While drowning all my sorrows,
Darling,
In your first kiss.
- And the original in Swedish:
Så skimrande var aldrig havet
Och stranden aldrig så befriande,
Fälten, ängarna och träden, aldrig så vackra
Och blommorna aldrig så ljuvligt doftande
Som när du gick vid min sida
Mot solnedgången, aftonen den underbara,
Då dina lockar dolde mig för världen,
Medan du dränkte alla mina sorger,
Älskling,
I din första kyss.
Malene Maare Wow that's really nice. Thanks so much!
..i mig heela tiden, denna sång. Har inte löst hur vara både där, o här samma dag, samtidigt än..., så om jag besluter går på kursen i hesa, kan jag kanske inte komma, så är det bara. Kanske denna vackra version kan vara en värd att lyssna på i sånafall, sjunga med själv. Ja, om jag inte kommer efter hesakeikkan, 19 tiden... För sent?
helt rätt.. det finns ingen beskrivning...
goblina sent me
Och den här sången aldrig så vackra
A shame with the overly synthetic sound, certainly there must be hidden actual human voices, somewhere behind all those digital plug-ins.
@Blue Amy you're deaf
@Blue Amy dude I said it was drenched in plug-ins, I did not mention auto tune as being one of them.
What you're hearing in this recording, is like the furthest you can get from listening to an actual recording of a choir in an acoustic setting.
The heavy use of limiter and compressor kills the real-world dynamics, and the extreme use of EQ, especially on the bass singers microphone, is just such an earsore, sounds overly artificial.
They all sing into individual near-field microphones with individual EQ and plug-in settings, and every form of the true acoustica that were present is gone, giving an odd sense of them singing in a vacuum.
I can't say for a fact, but it appears that they have recorded the voice tracks separately (they didn't sing together)
The "room" or rather lack of room heard in this recording, is in fact a reverb plug-in, digitally speaking a "tiny room" preset has been chosen, with the "dry" slider set to maximun effect.
If you believe this is what a choir sounds like in reality, you should quit your job.
I'm also a sound engineer, on a hobby level, both working Cubase and Protools.
I also sing 2nd Bass in a professional mixed chorus.
You may enjoy this overly produced studio recording of a group of singers, I prefer something closer to reality.
Also, I want to stress that I never claimed that this group of elite singers, needed help from plugins, they can handle them self!
@Blue Amy thank you for such a great reply, I will not try to refute anything you said.
Perhaps Bass proximity to the mic is in fact what gives it that 100hz bump, instead of EQ.
Just like when you softly tap your finger on a mic and it gives off that Bass boom.
@Blue Amy Alfter a second listen, I actually have to agree with you; the female vocals doesn't sound affected by EQ, but the overly compressed dynamics and individual near-field microphones really kills it for me 😜
On a side note, I'll let you know that I fell in love with this choral piece, after I performed it myself in my choir. That's perhaps why I was slightly bothered how the studio had not been able to do The Real Group justice.
Also I'm not advocating that EQ is a crime, but when recording classical music and choirs, it should only be used delicately to compensate for acoustical issues with the microphone recording itself, and not to make an instrument or a voice sound altered.
If careful microphone positioning itself can eliminate the 'errors' that's far better.
I want to be able to listen, so we get as much fidelity as possible, or even better - actually be there!
@Blue Amy We ofcourse sang it in Swedish. We have one Swedish speaking soprano who demonstrated proper pronunciations😁 Though we're Danish. I've also heard an English version, horrendous!
This song is a prime example of how beautiful Swedish can be. when we reach the final chord and I have to go down on at that low Eb2, that's simply one of the best moments of my entire choral life. The melodic progression is such a stroke of genius!
I'll have to admit that X/Y and A-B microphone and also phase shifts is outside my field of expertise 🤣
But I don't doubt for a second that it's extremely difficult, and minute errors will make a recording sound amateurish.