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  1. Today Iron Maiden released their 17th studio album, Senjutsu, here is another cover of one of their songs:
  2. Maybe some of the higher end units from TC Helicon will have that amount of control over compression, but if you really need all this, you are probably better off buying an actual compressor/delay/etc. Guitar pedals won´t work well on vocals because they often have high/low pass filters, and don´t handle balanced signals so keep that in mind.
  3. Reaper has a pitch correction tool that you can pretty much use for free, not as powerful as other tools but should be enough.
  4. On the aspect of difficulty, you just don´t have the same public appeal, people don´t just get together in their garages to do Opera, nor it´s something you will find on local pubs and smaller venues. Because of that, the dude that mumbles Riders on The Storm in exchange for a couple of beers will be very far from the quality he needs to get even a minor role on some Opera, so the bar to get in is indeed a bit higher, but once things get more serious the competition can be even harder on popular styles. Think for example someone on a corporate band, where you have to do multiple styles and shows can be ridiculously long. Or Heavy Metal where plenty of songs would make Ah! Mes Amis melody seem kinda low in comparision. Or a session singer, when you just have to show up and deliver sometimes without even the opportunity to prepare. Music Theatre has auditions all the same, the difference is, you will be competing also with the kid that has been performing professionally since age 5 and can go from Opera to Rock and all the variations people WILL ASK for on those pieces, without breaking a sweat, lol. In short, everything will be hard once you get serious about it. And everything is rather easy when limited to karaoke at home 😛
  5. Opera companies are commercial institutions like any others, with perhaps the exception of government maintained instances, and they will choose the singer based on the result achieved *on the singing*, no matter how many years of training, technical demonstrations or certificates are presented (even in the case of the govnt maintained ones, for the lead roles hardly they will do something different). Some allow volunteering, which of course will be for minor roles but will allow the person to get in. If you take an audition for a role, you will be asked to sing a couple of pieces, the conductor can also test you to see how you work, but the nature will be practical because well, they want to get someone good for the show so that they make money out of it. Granted that for someone in Opera learning technique would probably be a good idea, it´s just a tool, and not the goal. Some of the most acclaimed tenors had no training when they started their carreers. Many have radically different backgrounds. The common part is that they could/can sing the living hell out of their parts. Opera has a focus on virtuose, yes, and that´s why technique is probably a good idea if you are not some sort of genius, but you can find the same in many genres and it won´t prevent you from performing lesser roles IF you can perform the piece of course.
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