Only My Railgun

This is "Only My Railgun", from Toaru Kagaku no Railgun, originally by fripSide, arranged for three parts atop the official instrumental. It's a super fun song, not something I'd normally sing, but it has a lot of really great harmony. It doesn't fit my voice at all, though. XD

Do make sure that when you sing this, you have proper breath support. Due to the speed of the lines and the repetitiveness of the notes on the chorus, it's very difficult to maintain the necessary energy to get through the entire thing. The notes aren't difficult to remember, unlike perhaps some of the arrangements I've posted in the past, yet I think this is a much more difficult song to actually record than the others.

As far as the track mix goes, the melody exported really soft, so you'll want to adjust the other tracks with that in mind. Regardless, drag the instrumental down to about 50%. For listening altogether, the other tracks being at 80% will give a decent mix.

Parallel Hearts

This is Parallel Hearts, the opening for Pandora Hearts, composed by Kajiura Yuki and performed by FictionJunction. I really tried to go through my recordings library and pick something non-Kajiura, but there really wasn't much to choose from once I eliminated all of Kalafina and FictionJunction! Since this one is pretty complex, I picked it anyway.

The applet has it for five parts, but it's completely possible to combine the overlaps into Keiko or Kaori's lines and make it possible for a quartet to sing. In fact, FictionJunction, a four-part group, has performed this live perfectly fine. The only reasons why they're split into the overlap track is because of technical issues with recording the lines. The only line that can't be combined into Keiko's part is the last chorus. "Bokura wa" can be sung by Kaori's vocalist, and the rest of the melody can be put back on Wakana's line. (This is how it's sung live.)

To listen to it altogether, drag the instrumental down to about 50.

I haven't got a lot of feedback on these arrangements, but I hope they're helping you all record beautiful covers! Please share your creations with me! If you have any requests, let me know!

godsibb

This is godsibb, from Kajiura Yuki's Xenosaga Episode 3: Also Sprach Zarathustra soundtrack. The original vocalist is Itou Eri. I've arranged it here for three voices atop an instrumental. This instrumental was never officially released, but you can find it online, probably at canta-per-me.net. Don't quote me, though. I'm not 100% sure anymore, since it's been a long time.

This one also seems to be pretty decently mixed volume-wise for some reason. If anything, drag the alto down to about 70% to listen to it all together. It's not the most polished of arrangements either, but due to the repetitive notes in the harmonies, it's a bit challenging to keep in tune. I don't like using auto-tune, so I have to use my own vocal control to achieve that.

Unlike pretty much every other vocal arrangement I've put up here, I found this one actually loops correctly. I think importing the audio in as wav instead of mp3 solved a lot of my problems. Before, they wouldn't be in sync and I'd have to add silence at the beginning of some tracks until they were. No longer!