WHY YOU SHOULDN'T USE SPLICE VOCALS

We had a pretty sick BRH track with my friend, but we had a splice vocal. Label said that is the vocal over used. So I decided that I would never make a track based solely on splice vocal. 🙏

Thanks for presenting alternatives and useful information 👌👍

Hiring a singer is expensive , especially for beginners , so this advice doesn't work for all

I’d rather make shitty tracks of my own that take me a year to write than throw a bunch of samples I didn’t make. And give it to the underground culture. Creating bass sounds and drum sounds from scratch is where it’s at.

Tbh just do whatever the f u want sample or not, if it’s fire then you’re good xx

Great video! What about if I want to publish on my own a song through Spotify and it has a vocal previously used by someone else?

A lot of Splice users who rely on Sample Packs to make music are upset in these comments

While you make some good points, I think there is a major flaw in your argument. Using a splice vocal isn't much different than making a remix of a song using a pre-existing vocal. Multiple remixes are often made of the same song, using the same exact vocals, and many producers' careers got jumpstarted by the initial recognition they got from making popular remixes. While I agree there are skills required to record/produce a live vocalist, there are also creative choices being made when using a sample. Samples were responsible for a large portion of hip-hop and house music. Entire genres were built on it. Some very popular songs use samples that are plainly obvious as to where they came from, yet despite that those songs became wildly successful. The misconception here is that music is made FOR the producer, but that's just an exercise of ego to think only purely original things are creative. If you want to be extreme with that line of logic, then you should only use vocals that you personally write/sing, you should play all your own instruments, and you should sound design every sound from scratch. While it is acceptable to do those things, it's not necessary, because music isn't made for the producer, it's made for the listener. If someone listening to your song likes it, they don't care if the vocal is a sample or original. They don't care if you made the song in 3 minutes or 3 years. It's irrelevant. If they like it they like it. That's it. So just make good music... any way that you can.

You lost me as soon as you called the producer shitty work. As a pop Award winning producer my self I find your advice misleading. Don't take it personal I lived in Freiburg Germany for years I know you might think your opinions matter but honestly your wrong. The fact that these producers are picking vocals no 2 producers will produce them the same. I get paid to record vocals for producers and yet I still don't mind the creative use of vocals being used however way they like. Stop thinking too much just enjoy the music. It's equivalent to Dr Dre kanye west sampling an illegal vocal from the 80s many producers sampled the same Vox. Which sounds completely different from each other because of the production even though I'm a really good music producer (all genres) based in L.A. I must say you should stick to other areas and not giving music producer advice. God bless!

Story time: I recently sent a demo to a very well-respected house label from NYC. The A&R emailed me back telling me straightaway that he recognized the vocal one-shots that I used; they were from splice and he told me numerous other submissions had used the exact same ones. Using them seems innocent enough until you're listening to hundreds of demos a day and then you start to hear the same samples over and over again, especially the ones that rank the highest algorithmically there. In a nutshell I made a bad first impression and learned a valuable lesson; this video only reinforces that.

I'd say splice samples are ok if you're starting out and don't plan on sharing the tracks anywhere, but once you think you're ready to shop the track to a serious label it needs to be original.

I fully appreciate your perspective here! Very motivational I have just had my first few House tracks released on Labels, with editing, re-arranged Splice vocals. I'm currently working on one actually, I love it; took a lot of time editing using two vocalists all changed.

Would you recommend I continue using Splice just to get my career going or slow work rate drastically at such a "crucial" time as I would like to generate fans through some sort of consistency in terms of release dates.

same thing with MIDI presets and stuff

You can always pitch the vocals down and then change the key

Who u talking to 😂

I think the most important thing is to make music people want to listen to. Nobody listening cares about the process. Don’t let pride and ego get in the way of making great tracks.

Thank you for your Guidelines...

bro thats so shitty. like i did a full song without vocals and then found a great vocal from splice that fit with the song and it sound amazing so why tf you say it is not even producing when you put a vocal on top of a finished GOOD and INTERESTING instrumental............

AMEN

I use splice every day. Team splice all the way works a treat for me 😂

Lol. Sum it up in short term. Don't use splice samples cause I don't like to and I'm going to try to make you feel like your not good if you use them. But hey check out my generic as fuck edm productions 🤣🤣🤣.

The industry does not give a flying fuck how any of us make our money, bare that in mind.