Matt Bowen's minutes of music, photography, et cetera
My guest singer has returned to great effect in definitely the most energetic track I’ve done so far. I still have a lot to learn about mixing, particularly with vocals, but I’m not going to pretend I’m unhappy with this track. Having a blizzard on Saturday probably helped, because it gave me an excuse to spend all day working on it.
This one’s a milestone; there’s a vocal track. It follows the same basic construction of other minutes of music: it started with bass (me on my Schecter, slightly distorted) and drums (mostly a loop, but I did add the crash cymbals myself), then I added the lead synth and real guitar. But then, I had one verse of lyrics I’d written, and I convinced «name redacted to protect the innocent» to sing them over the instrumentation. The vocal tracking took about an hour from warmup to mixdown, which seemed pretty good, considering this is the first time I’ve recorded vocals for one of these. Now, hopefully there will be more to come.
