Klez the Conquerer - Recording session and edit 1

Reached home after an annoying night of getting on and off buses. Finally got home, bag off, and crushed up some boxes that had been sitting about for a few days, fed the cats, had a little something to eat, and settled at the computer.

I fired it up, and before getting the music equipment out, I felt that the volume levels on 'http://www.ireallyhatetherealworld.com' could be improved as it was too quiet as a recording. So edited that, which actually took far longer than I expected. The process was: alter levels, export the file to wav., move it to appropriate folder and listen to it. If the smallest thing annoyed me, I'd have to edit it again and go through this process again. I had gone through this process 4 times, and by that point was starting to feel like giving up.

So I swiftly moved on after I felt the job was done. I set up all the music equipment. Set up the electric as I have had an idea for a while.

One night, on the 6th of January, I recorded a riff that I was coming up with on my electro-acoustic, on my Blackberry. It is a very quiet, poor recording, but I did it to remember it, as I had no idea when I'd get a chance to get back to it. I had come up with lyrics seperately on my bus journeys. That night I had the idea to put the lyrics with the tune, and 'Klez the Conquerer' worked out quite well.

Since that night I began recording an electric version of 'Klez the Conquerer', but I had recorded the bass and it was terrible. The sound quality and effect I used were shockingly bad. However, in this recording I had made up a couple of beats, and even though very basic, were quite good.

So, last night, I thought to myself, instead of making the bass a distorted mess, I'll make it on the electric, because it will probably sound better that way. So I started a new version on making waves, and got a good effect for the electric riff. Managed to record it after a few attempts. After recording it I kept the 'new version' opened and opened the original file 'klez3'. I put the two together initially without editing to see if, just by chance, it'd sound awesome!...it clearly didn't though. Nothing in time, sounds all terriible. So I took out the horrid bass from the original, and edited the beats on it, with the new riff I recorded. I unfortunately this morning only had about 20 minutes to try and edit the beats, so the song has a long way to go, but it is a start.

Watch this space,
Wullae

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