Day 3 Tuesday 2nd Nov 17:00 - 22:00
Tracking Vocals
Went in at 17:00 to pick mic’s etc. up and set everything up. This included routing microphone, setting up reflection filter, recording some practice vocals to see everything was running smoothly.
Set up a foldback mix of every track for the vocalist to hear.
Sent some reverb down the foldback on the vocal channel.
Prepared a quick mix for the band to listen to
Whole band arrived including vocalist at 18:00
Vocalist had not yet finished writing lyrics or fitting them to the songs so he spent an hour with the track looping in his headphones perfecting the vocals.
19:00
Started recording first vocal takes, recorded many takes for the first verse and chorus.
Tried different techniques when recording the verse as the vocals were fast and the vocalist was running out of breath by the end so experimented with recording each line separately, the band decided this did not sound natural enough so went back to record it in one take.
Gave the vocalist advice about singing directly into the mic, he kept looking at lyric book and were were not getting a consistent volume throughout the phrases.
Mic was sounding ‘phasey’ so repositioned the SE electronics reflection filter.
By know vocalist had warmed up and got a lot more confident and sang first verse and chorus in 1 take.
Short Break
Vocalist came in control room for listen and was reassured as it sounded much better here than it did in his headphones.
Tracked the second verse and second chorus, vocalist was getting much more confident now.
The whole band went in to the live room and gathered around the mic to record a ‘chant/wowowoo thing’ in the breakdown. Which ended up being dreadfully out of tune so was scrapped. The vocalist then did this on his own.
Doubled up the breakdown vocals
Tracked vocals for final chorus and extended chorus, took afew takes for this to come together.
Went back to double track the whole vocals in one take.
Recorded rough mix to CD for band to take home.
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