the pain of vooooooxxxxxxxxx

19Nov07

Argh I got like four hours of sleep last night and I think I am going insane.

Sarah and I slacked off on recording bizness last week due to social obligations and general sloth but then we kicked it up a notch this weekend. Thurs. and Fri. we went through all the solid instrumental takes that I had earmarked and picked out the no. 1 solid gold takes of each song. Then on Saturday and Sunday we went to the practice space and started recording vocals. And let me tell you man that it is difficult stuff recording vocals, especially if you are a not-so-hot singer like me. We only got through like four songs on Saturday and then my voice was shot, cracking up if I aimed for anything melodic at all. I think I’m doing something wrong, like forcing my voice way more than I normally do, because I don’t normally have these difficulties.

Anyways, I think we finished the weekend with completed vocals on seven or eight of the eleven tracks. We did a lot of doubling of vocals, especially back-up vocals, which is funny because if you mix them right it sounds like a chorus of alien insects singing along in the background. Then on Sunday Ben came in and we worked on trying to record this crazy faux-free jazz saxophone solo that I wanted to try on one of the songs (thanks to Jody for letting us borrow her sax). But uh I don’t think it really worked out so it will probably hit the scrap heap or will maybe just be subliminal.

We’ll probably take a little break from recording over the Thanksgiving holiday and then try and wrap it all up after that, just FYI.

Here are some pictures:

This is Sarah listening to instrumental tracks.

Tapes, 8-track.

Recording notes.

Sarah recording vocals, duh.

Apparently I make really dumb faces when recording vocals.

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