Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-24343444-20140120235648/@comment-14494460-20140413163900

75.120.76.116 wrote: Neru's voice should be a higher pitched Miku. Neru was derived FROM Miku. Her model is even based off of MIKU. Neru was first acquired from trying to use MIKU and FAILING and the joke was that she was a LAZY Miku. Neru is SHORTER than Miku and RIN! Generally shorter peope, like me, have high pitched voices. Neru and Haku are based from MIKU. Neru is high Miku and Haku is low Miku. This is how they were ORIGINALLY made. Fans have changed their voices for whatever reason but in Neru's official songs, her voice is HIGH.

I feel that I am just like Neru. Lazy and having a high voice. I am also pretty tsundere at times. Even though Neru is based off of Miku, it doesn't mean Miku has to be her voice source. And I know how Neru's high-picthed Miku voice is used in her "official songs," but I prefer a low-picthed Rin because the voice is a bit lower and easier on some ears. Here is Neru's cover of Meltdown using low-pitched Rin. As you can hear, the voice has a resemblence to Rin's yet is still original in a way. It does sound natural (in my opinion) for a seventeen year old girl to sound like this. Compare Neru's Rin voice to Miku's voicebank and Rin's voicebank. (This is compare and contrast in the age/voice department.) Rin is described as a fourteen year old girl, Miku is sixteen and Neru is seventeen. Rin's voicebank happens to be higher than Miku's because Rin is a younger Vocaloid. Miku's voice is more mature because she is older than Rin, but still a bit high. Then we have Neru. I'd normally expect it to be lower than Miku's or Rin's because she is basically an adult. (Close enough, in my opinion.) And just for credit, I'm going to add this. Oh, and here's a Neru/Nero cover of Karakuri Burst where the author took advantage of Len's voice and made it Nero's voice.

But as I listen to Neru's cover of Toeto, we see that sometimes Neru's low-pitched voice can sometimes backfire if not properly pitched. And sometimes, as we see in Neru and Rin's Okay Green is the Enemy, the producer used some serious mixing. From the sound of Neru's voice, he had Rin sing the whole song (maybe double layers when the two duet) and went back to manipulate Rin's voice to create Neru.

And after dealing with low-pitched Rin and high-pitched Miku, what's left?

Low-pitched Miku.

Here's a cover of Neru's Love is War where low-pitched Miku is used. It somewhat resembles Rin's low-pitched Neru, but in this certain cover you hear a bit too much of Miku's voice poorly manipulated.

And for everyone else, here's a new Neru we can use. High-pitched Rin. Still sounds more Rin-ish, but something new to bring.

How was my lecture? :)