r/RandomQuestion • u/Big-Pension-3628 • 4h ago

What do you think I should do?

So, I have a song and I have done a vocal take. There is one vocal take that is by far the best one and I definitely have the best emotion then the other vocal takes but the problem is that that uses lyrics which I eventually rewrote to having better lyrics. The other vocal takes that uses the better lyrics sound a lot more soulless and lifeless plus they all have at least one mistake in them. Like one takes had the sound of the microphone moving around in my hands, another captured a weird stomach growl I did. Ugh. Also this so g is entirely an acapella. It is literally just a single lead vocal so the song lives and dies if the strength of the vocal

So what should I use?

  1. Vocal that captures the best emotion and overall singing but uses inferior lyrics

  2. Vocal takes that uses better lyrics but have at least one distracting artifact and has more soulless singing

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u/thepathtoenlightment 4h ago

I would continue to try more takes of the new lyrics until I got something I was atleast satisfied with. And if I still didn't like it in the final song I would just edit in he one with more emotion

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u/Embarrassed_Goal_832 4h ago

Honestly, I’d go with number 1 if the emotional difference is really that noticeable. For an acapella song, a genuinely great performance is probably more important than having the slightly better lyrics.

You could always rewrite the lyrics again to fit that take, or record a few replacement lines and stitch them together if the timing allows.