To record, at the very least, one scratch lead vocal track for each of the potential songs for the album I'm working on by the end of this week. This means, of course, that all songs will have to have lyrics. It seems like a lot, but I have very low standards for what the vocals need to sound like. They can be pitchy, crackly, noisy, I don't care. They just have to be there.
I just set up a VERY simple vocal recording rig. In order to avoid potential distractions, I am moving myself away from my desk and it's 24" iMac. It's so pretty, sometimes I just stare at it for hours, accomplishing nothing. So I've plopped my trusty laptop onto my coffee table with an audio interface and mic and that's it. I even designed a highly utilitarian template in Logic that does not have any synths at all in it. Just 8 mono audio tracks to record vocals to and one stereo track for the demos I'll be singing along to.
Already I've ruined my own plan, of course. As I finished burning a disc of the demos on the iMac to bring over to the lappy, I remembered that I had decided to change the key of the very first track. Its melody will never accommodate my narrow baritone as it is and needed to be dropped about 3 half steps. For a moment, I thought I'd make a concession and just import the whole project but then I thought, "IRREGARDLESS!" The theme of this week is imperfect presence, as opposed to imagined perfection. So the demo for this song will have a strained uncomfortable vocal track. So what. Nearly nobody is ever going to hear it. It's just for me to play in my car to get more ideas of how to make the whole thing better. I'll just work on it in the wrong key and then transpose everything down before I record the better-possibly-final vocal.
So it's going to be a pretty busy week. I hope my neighbors are cool with hearing my voice all crackly and pitchy and with no effects or background tracks. Actually, I don't care if they are. They play horrible music at all hours of the night. I honestly think they were playing Rusted Root last weekend.
On another subject:
When I was little, I used to get so excited about things like birthday parties and Christmas that I would actually throw up. I thought I had outgrown this. But the other night, I was doing some recreational praying with my bestest bunch of friends ever and I actually got so excited praying that I had to run to the bathroom and throw up.
Just think about that for a minute.
2 comments:
Nearly nobody is ever going to hear it.... please say it isn't so. I'd love, love, love to hear it.
That is an interesting trait. And I can honestly say I've never known anyone else who does that. It's actually kinda cute.
Lil' Bo
As far as no one hearing it, I only mean that nearly no one will hear the demo versions. Everyone who wants to will hear the finished product. Even a lot of people who don't want to hear it will be made to listen to it.
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