Vocals complete (I think)…
Audacity is finally completed. Had a great session over at Matthew’s last Friday afternoon, and the final double-tracked vocals slotted into place after our usual warm-up beforehand.We had a bit of time to review a couple of the other songs too, in particular I wanted to add more seriousness and weight to the arrangement on Daytime. I’m concerned that because I’d chopped it and speeded it up slightly (to make it shorter, on Matthew’s advice, and more commercial) that it’s lost it’s impact. My original ‘demo’ version, recorded at Rick’s (Rooster’s) used a droning synth bass (Rick’s Yamaha TX81Z), that I’d […]
Still recording…
I was over at Matthew’s yesterday, putting the backing vocals onto Audacity. I had elected to multi-track the backing vocals, a three-part harmony that I’d worked out, but to double-up each vocal to add some fullness to the backing, and to add more potential for a wider stereo spread in the final mix.We got most of these done in the hour-long session, though my voice was straining a bit towards the end, and I’ve had to defer the last harmony to another session next week, as my throat was getting really raspy by the end of the hour. Seems I’d left the […]
Acoustic Solstice
A great all-day event, with three stages going on what turned out to be the hottest day of the year so far…Hosted and organised by Pete Long, who does the Acoustic Circus open mics on Sundays, it had a great atmosphere with a pretty full pub, and plenty of drinks flowing! My set began around 6:30 in the end, a little later than scheduled, and though we had a few feedback issues to begin with, and lost most of the impact of the first song, Audacity, the rest of the set went down ok I think. With the temperature at 34 degrees outside, and even hotter […]
Shocking News…
Mixing courseA couple of weeks ago I tried logging onto the mixing course website to complete my final module of the course. The site returned a 404 (site not there) error. I texted Matthew to get the reply that that part of the business has closed. Anyway, after messaging back my disappointment that day, Matthew, some 3 days later, did send me the assignment files so I could at least complete the final assessment mix. I’ve not had chance yet, with having to re-arrange my studio-space recently, but I will do this as soon as the audio equipment is re-wired.PerformanceI have also been […]