I can't get into my music equipment properly now. Pain in my arse. Last night my wife and I rearranged the order of the flat, and moved the sofa/pull out bed into the spare room. Now due to a shuffling of furniture, there is a table infront of the cupboard door.
So with much struggling, I managed to get my two leads (one yellow, and one red), microphone, electric guitar, 4-way, and power supply from the cupboard. With stuff lying all over the floor from trying to get it from the cupboard, I set it all up and connected it to the computer.
Had opened the song - known as 'Dance1', but is the working title for 'Hacktivists (Welcome to the Anonymous)' which I had an opportunity to edit the other day. So today I had even longer to work on it. Had wanted to work on the idea I put in the previous blog, about the guitar techinque largely influenced by Bloc Party, with each strum of the guitar coming out of alternate earphones or speakers.
Got recording after messing around with effects. I wanted a very dry, tinny tone to the guitars. Wanted one to be very clean, and one to have a little reverb. So recorded a couple of times, but the effect wasn't right. So began messing around with the pedal again, and edited the effect '32'. Recorded one strum part, and then listened back and came up with the other rhythm section. Was quite awkward at first trying to come up with something, even though the chords are very basic. Eventually got it recorded however and listened back. I had recorded it the length of the song, but it didn't really work as well as I thought it would in the chorus, so I edited it outta there. Then edited it out from the whole beginning of the song, as it just didn't work well. However after the first chorus I put it in for a verse, and then edited it out at the chorus again. I left the bulk of the strumming parts in the outro after the 2nd chorus. Got to admit, sounds fucking excellent. And it has given what was essentially a dark dance song, to having a raw indie edge to it. Something I never envisaged for it at all. So sounding great.
I then tried to record a quiet clean lead part from the intro to chorus, however after recording an idea, I realised this wouldn't suit the song at all and just deleted this.
I then thought about recording a vocal in the background of the original, saying the ends of each sentence, but again this didn't work very well. However everytime I had listened to the song on my ipod when deciding what to do with it at the time of writing the previous blog entry, I had thought the line where I sing 'Information' at the end of a sentence in bits should be cut up and made a bit of a mess. So I added another set of vocals singing 'in-for-ma-tion', and recorded another vocal this time distorted and messed about with that too. I also cut up the distorted and normal sang lines, and put them on a new line on audacity. All the effort into one line is worth it, cause it sounds cool. Not mindblowing, but good.
I also want to at some point use the microsoft voice you get on the pc - it use to be microsoft Sam, but now it is microsoft Anna on mine...not the same. Liked Sam better. Anyway, I want to use it in a recording, hopefully an idea I have called 'Ctrl+Alt+Del', but I'll need to wait and see. I thought I'd use Anna on 'Hacktivists', and recorded her saying 'Welcome to the Anonymous' and sounded ok; but nothing special, so took it out. Also recorded her saying the first few lines of the song and put it at the end of the song...but again, was ok but I didn't think it was working that well.
Overall with the song it needed a good bit of editing. Took bits out, and edited some bits down. Other bits I added or looped. Some made tones better or added effects. And fixed the sound levels in all the parts. Trying to get the sound perfect in a finished song is a bit of a pain, because the way it sounds on audacity, is different from windows media player, and is different from my ipod. But listening to the finished version on all three, I'm very very happy with the results. I'm very excited about putting this up on the internet and soundcloud. When I get the chance I will. I have also put a video advert for Anonymous in general on facebook and am hopefully going to do it for yotube too. The advert is short and simple, but I like it.
That's one song in the bag. Hopefully there will be a lot more to come. Welcome to the Anonymous.
Watch this space,
Wullae
www.soundcloud.com/welcome-to-the-anonymous (coming soon)
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