Oh Mammy Look – 281009

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I was busy this morning with non-musical matters, so I wasn’t able to start my session until the afternoon. Managed to get down 6 main vocal tracks on the Tascam, and was starting on the backing vocals when the voice started breaking down. That, plus the fact that one of the neighbours started mowing their lawn (I’d forgotten part of the unwritten code of suburbia – no mowing until after lunch), meant that I had to abandon the session after about 90 minutes.

Still, I got my 6 tracks down, so that was something. I also discovered that I’d either written too many or too few words. I’ll have to sort this out in the editing process. Part of the problem here was that I haven’t yet had a chance to track guitars, therefore there is no solo in situ at present and I’m not exactly sure where it will go at the end. So that confuses the issue of the number of verses and choruses required in the song.

Still, we love a challenge, don’t we?

And, as a bonus, I managed to achieve something I’d been thinking of doing for a long while. There’s a fantastic natural spring-type reverb sound in my landing. I wanted to capture that sound before I move house, so I spent a few minutes in my hallway recording the reverb from a series of handclaps. I hope to be able to use the reverb sound as a convolution reverb effect in the future. If you don’t know what a “convolution reverb” effect is, AA 3 describes it as an effect which  ”reproduces rooms ranging from coat closets to concert halls. Convolution-based reverbs use impulse files to simulate acoustic spaces. The results are incredibly realistic and life-like.”

We’ll see about that in the sweet by-and-by.

Regards,

djp

~ by happydaysinthegulag on October 28, 2009.