Klez the Conquerer (New Version) - Recording Session and Edit (1)

So yesterday I sat there on the bus, downloading as many drum samples as my mind could take. After downloading numerous, I got bored and stopped. I then sat and listen to the different beats on my phone, and wrote on a note in my phone what beats I'd use and in what order. I knew that it maybe hard to put them all together, even impossible, but at least I had some idea.

So that night I had a few hours and got to work on creating a whole new version of Klez the Conquerer which I felt I could make much much better. So I began by putting the beats up in the order I predicted would work. Did they? No. Not exactly anyway, but two did. The first two that I kept aside as an introduction and for the beat for the rest of the intro into the first verse. I tried the other beats for different bits such as the chorus. I slowed the tempo, altered them, moved them, etc, but it just wasn't working. So getting sick of this, I pure repeated the beat I already had, and decided to move onto the guitar.

Got the guitar set up, some good distortion, and recorded. The first take was a roaring success. I was happy. Guitar sounds good. So then I got to work on the three solo areas: after first chorus, after second chorus, and the outro. I recorded the solo after the second chorus first. Managed to do it in one take, and sounded great. I then moved onto the one after the first chorus. I couldn't remember what the solo went like in the original version, so I made a new solo. It is a lot more odd, and very experimental. Sounds great. I then recorded a distorted version of the same solo and put them together. Sounds even better. I then recorded another solo after the second chorus, but was too much so left it out. I then improvised a messy ending for the outro. Perfect.

I then moved onto the vocals. I knew exactly how I wanted it to sound, but it can be difficult recording the vocals to a shouty song. But on the first take I got it. And it sounds great.

Not happy with just the constant beat, I tried different beats behind it. Spent a while doing this, and nothing really came of it. So I cut up the beat I already had. Made different bits of it come out left and right speakers, added a reverb on on part of the drums. I then used a single beat, repeated it, and used it as the back dance beat.

I have edited it a little this morning and it sounds class. Still got a good bit to do to it, but it is essentially there, in one day. Good good times. It's up on youtube, incomplete, at wullaewrightmusic.

Watch this space,
Wullae

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