Recording Day
Today, I did almost nothing except record. I woke up at about 10:30, fed my neighbor’s (who is out of town) cats and then walked to the guitar store. I bought a new XLR cable for the new microphone I got for Christmas from my grandparents and a new guitar cable. I got home, restrung my guitar and from 12-8 did nothing but record.
I redid a few songs, and added some minor adjustments and little changes to others. I really enjoyed myself and Lauren’s going to get the Christmas present that she asked for tomorrow morning. I used the Line 6 preamp, and I’m really learning how to use it properly, and find what it’s good for and what it’s bad for. Some of the aspects of the songs that I did, I don’t like as much as the old ones, and some I really was impressed with the machine.
The preamp has some great vocal models and effects. I play around with them quite a bit… one you’ll hear that’s more extreme is in my remake of “Zombie” by the Cranberries. My dad didn’t much like what I did with it because it sounds rusty and like I’m in a box, but I thought it was neat. Of course, no one else has really listened to it. I did some cool stuff… It starts out with my voice very distorted and during the prechorus, it fades into a clean voice with some flange and reverb. I really liked how it turned out. The others were all very fun. Tell me what you think of them… there are mistakes. One day I’ll go back and redo everything and make it all sound a lot better. The production was great, but the performance is okay. The beginning of the new Linus & Lucy is a little odd… I actually tried to get it to sound normal for quite a while, but didn’t have much time to mess around.
The songs that are not different or redone or new are…
Hey Ya- redo
Spilt Milk- redo
Zombie- new
Dance of the Sugar Plums- minor adjustment
Linus & Lucy- redo
Give it to Me- minor adjustments
And to my mother! I did use the bongos today, but they do not appear in any of these songs… when I recorded them, they sounded awesome, but I’m really off¬†beat so I really need to work on learning how to play the more accurately. I’ll get there.
