Sing alongs....

We hit target and got the bulk of the guitars done by the weekend. Couple of riffs left to do, but the sounds were eluding us while we were thinking too hard about it, so we'll come back to them later.

So it's time to start singing. We're going about the vocals a little different this time, which is only a good thing. Last CD we just set up a mic, pressed record and started singing - doing take after take until we liked what we had. This worked pretty well, but it ended up a little boring to listen to as there weren't many harmonies, delays etc to make it sound great.

This time we started with 4 mic's (like I've said before, we can't afford a huge range), and tested each one over a verse to see how it affected the sound. The CAD mic sounded the best so we'll probably use that for the bulk of main vocals, but we'll undoubtedly us a Shure SM57 for some others too. Dan will have to go through the process as well to see what suits his voice best.

Next thing is to work on how some of the harmonies and double-tracking in the songs is going to work. Double-tracking is where you record something twice (or even more depending on the sound you want) to make it sound bigger and more powerful. Most pop-songs use double-tracking and harmonies to make the vocals sound more varied so listen out for it.

Some of the words for the record are yet to be written, I'm not panicking - they'll come when they're ready.

Max x