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A new shiny thing

Anyone who might follow me online knows I hang out in a handful of karaoke streams.

Also anyone who knows a bit about me will know I am easily distracted.

I noticed a little-known song that I had liked ever since I heard it had not received a karaoke treatment. This might be fair. I don’t know many people who know the band Trust Company and they are defunct as of this writing. But I liked the short anthemic song “The Fear.” I wanted an instrumental track to sing it or karaoke for it.

I had not tried this for a while. In the early ’00s, I was buying and collecting karaoke discs for an archive. I’d expanded the archive considerably with files that were unfortunately stored in one place and that place crashed. I do remember the last time I was making a CD+G it was hard and complex.

This time I didn’t have anything instrumental except the original track. At least CC Karaoke and R3V1Z10N KARAOKE helped me with this. Today, we do have x-minus.pro. I submitted the track to them and received partitioned vocals and instrumental files. Now there might be free alternatives, but I had a little less direction here so I used Karaoke Builder. The learning curve was a bit longer, in fact, several minutes. I managed to craft a lyric sequence that would play in an MP3-CD+G rig.

I’d lost my old SilverNotes title cards. Therefore, I made new ones, made variations for title cards and then, ported the CD+G to video.

After updating my Premiere app which has been less utilized lately, I created a video project of the original tightened up with clean cards and timing. I’d realized only after I exported it, that I’d left out the backing vocals. I laid down my track of my own, processed it a bit in Audacity to a somewhat “right” sound, and added that to the video project. So, I have a version with and without backing vocals.

So now I have a karaoke on my channel of Trust Company’s “The Fear,” owned and claimed by Geffen(UMG), but there nonetheless.

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