Haha, I can't figure out where the heck to post this.
So after like a year and a half of having this instrumental track, I've finally tried laying down a vocal track for it. Eight or twelve takes later, I have something that... isn't awful. It's a work in progress.
Direct link. (It's a parody of American Idiot.)
I know my voice sounds strained, I'll have to work on that (I haven't been singing for about a year now, it's hard to get back into). I'm more concerned with what to do on the mastering side (this version has been normalized and 2:1 compressed, which is what I usually do for spoken things, and it kind of sounds exactly the same after as before), as well as any tips on keeping tempo, which I am apparently not good at doing. It could just be the song I'm using, I don't know.
This is pretty much my first song, for all I can claim it's "mine" (the instrumental is not my work, it was done for me, so I can't really do anything about it). I hope making this post will help me produce stuff that doesn't sound like some jerk singing over top of the radio. Advance thanks.