Transposing A Female Song to a Male Voice?

[Lewis1]

Hello to all. I wanted to get some opinions on this topic.

Here is a short backstory:
I remade a few female songs but in my voice & I was told that everything was out of key ( I recorded it by ear)

So I decided to use the pitch/time effect In Adobe Audition to lower the original song To a key I was comfortable singing in and used it as a template for recording my version. I was still told that it was out of key because, the lowered vocals & the instrumental both had to be in the original key for it to be fully in key.

So here are my questions.

1) Is using the method of lowering the original and using it as a guide a good use of reference?

2)Is there a difference between being "Out of key" & being "off key"?

I know that if I am lowering the key than it is obviously a different key so I am not understanding the whole transpose process lol

thanx in advance

 

[Emmapeel9]

Don't understand this too well, could you re-phrase?

I do see that you are using something that says pitch to alter the key; this doesn't sound right as pitch affects the tuning and is not really to change key.

Could you explain your initial recording a bit more. I'm not clear about what you did there.

EP

 

[Lewis1]

Don't understand this too well, could you re-phrase?

I do see that you are using something that says pitch to alter the key; this doesn't sound right as pitch affects the tuning and is not really to change key.

Could you explain your initial recording a bit more. I'm not clear about what you did there.

EP

Sure , For the first recording I just did it by listening & just singing to what "sounded" right to me. The second time I altered the pitch using the program & followed along with that assuming that everything would be more in tune

 

[Emmapeel9]

So you just recorded your vocal based on the original song and not the instrumentation too?

If this is the case then you've either sung it out of tune (Poor pitch) or sung the wrong notes.

The easiest way to get it into a key that is comfortable to sing is to record the tune on a midi instrument into the computer. Then use the midi transpose function to alter the key until you find one that is comfortable. Then copy your vocal from that.

EP

I was still told that it was out of key because, the lowered vocals & the instrumental both had to be in the original key for it to be fully in key.

This is incorrect. As long as you transpose all the instruments equally then things should be fine whatever key it is in. Assuming everything sounded fine in the first place off course.

I am still trying to work out what has happened here but it might just be my bad.

EP

 

[Chaotic Legacy]

They must've meant the pitch might've been more off in terms of the vocals not actually hitting it pitch perfect.. If you know what key the song is in, its helpful to watch a meter.. Im still new at this, but the Autotune plugin is helpful for metering.