Klez the Conquerer - Recording Session and Edit 3

I had no trousers!

My trousers last night were manky and in the wash. So for work today I had none. But lucky I got up early and put on an early wash. So after typing up notes for work (which took a few hours), I hung the washing up - specifically putting the jeans on a radiator, fingers crossed that they'd dry in time. So with no trousers and essentially nowhere to go, I thought I'd record a little. Turns out this recording session went very well indeed.

I listened back to 'Klez the Conquerer', and edited bits here and there. It was sounding good. I thought I'd try and add bass to it. I was determined I could get a bass riff for it that would sound good. Messed about with different effects, recording a couple of cleans riffs, a distorted one and a partially distorted one...all not working. The song was never destined for a bass riff at all it appears.

So I thought I'd try and fill in a gap I had in the song for a guitar solo. I set up the guitar, messed about with my zoom pedal, and managed to record after the second try a really good sounding guitar solo, which I just came up with in 5 minutes.

So I then set up the keyboard. I was determined to also get a drum beat behind the repeated one. But first of all I started messing around with different keyboard sounds, and managed to get a really good futuristic sound. Recorded that on a first try, and slightly improvised.

I then tried to come up with an interesting drum beat. At first I was struggling to come up with anything. But then I started messing about and managed to come up with an cool sounding beat. I have also kept the repetative beat in.

The last thing to be recorded was a synth keyboard part with the echo machine pedal and zoom pedal. I messed about with the 'time' and 'repeat' switches, as the recording was in progress. Sounded excellent, but not really with the song. The only bit that was quite good was the outro part.

So after I had finished recording it all, I began the process of editing out bits of the song I didn't like or think was necessary, and edited volumes etc. I cut out most of the guitar part that I recorded last, no bass was put in, edited the sounds to come out at different times. All in all, it is a great wee recording. Listening to it on the bus just now, and there are small tweaks here and there, but it is essentially finished. Three in the bag. Happy days. Next: Don't Feed the Trolls (Pt. 1)...

Watch this space,
Wullae

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