Focusing on vocals August 25, 2010

I’m into vocals recording since last week-end. And I’m quite confident, for I feel it’s easier for me to track them, comparing to what I did for Untimely Tales. The first takes were quite decent but I had to rehearse a little bit, in order to focus not only on the pitch, but also on the expression.

Because I’ve got extra time for the release date (more about this later), I’m doing lots of takes in order to get the best feeling I can. I’m alone at home, so the goal is to finish them on sunday. I still have a lot of spare time to work on them, when I’m home at night or during the week-end.

I’m also thinking about how to mix the songs, and how to track those vocals. I can choose simple tracks, or doubled tracks, either by sending the vocal to another track and add some EQ and delay, or by recording a second take. I could also work on vocal harmonies.

I guess I’m going to choose the simple path and focus on the main vocal expression and add a second track with delay. I listened to several tracks in order to analyse what I could do. Here is a tracklist with different options, only low vocals of course… Of course the vocal sounds are not the same, each voice is unique on its own. I also added one of my now former songs to that tracklist, The Narrow Road Home…

I enjoyed listening to those songs, of course, I’m not only into analysing every bit of detail.

At the same time, I’m on something else, cheers…