Almost Done!

Miced up Amp!

So we're coming closer to the end! In the 'actual timezone' the songs are ready and done, but in the time zone of this blog they're moving more and more to the final state.

We're at the last third of the recording process:

THE REAMPING

Saturday, 29th of December 2012

As with the previous blog post, most of it will be narrated by the video I cut together. Full of stupid jokes in german and showing myself how I fail at cables again but also slightly filled with some more clips of the guitar parts from the 2 songs we recorded, so if...IF you can't wait to listen to the fully recorded song, you might see in what direction they developed and enjoy those clips a little bit!

Reamping: [quote 'Wikipedia'] "Reamping is a process often used in multitrack recording in which a recorded signal is routed back out of the editing environment and run through external processing or reverb chamber. Originally, the technique was used mostly for guitars: it facilitates a separation of guitar playing from guitar amplifier processing—a previously recorded audio program is played back and re-recorded at a later time for the purpose of adding effects, ambience, or modified tonality. The technique has since evolved to include many other applications. Re-amping can also be applied to other instruments and program, such as recorded drums, synthesizers, and virtual instruments." [/quote]

So that's basically what we did the whole day, and that's why Gundi, our vocalist, got a hold of so many goofy clips from that day on camera.

You can see the USB Interface on the far right of this pic...

We set everything up, searched for the right sounds and just let the computer play the guitar for us which we previously recorded. Or so you think...after i set up the Mic's for the amp, we tried to use my little USB Recording interface for playing the dry signal AND recording the wet signal from the amp which resulted...well basically it resulted in massive feedback (which you can see and hear in the video for just a second...srsly u don't want to hear it longer than that!).

I think I've seen this fellow around here before!?

After fixing our ears first, we called Jules to come over and bring the interface we used for the drum recordings with him and set that up. It finally worked! We recorded some parts and listened to them to figure out if the sound was any good or not. The right sound and mic placement had been found and we recorded the first song completely just to have me discover that I had some false routing settings set up in cubase, so we had to record everything again...yay me! But at least the very talented computer guitarist had to play everything again and not me! :P

The last note rang out, and we packed everything up and Gundi drove me home where I immediately started mixing the guitar sound, which as you would guess got changed quite often until it sounds like the one does now.

And we are:

ALMOST DONE!

It's just one more part left to record. Vocals to be precise, but this is another story which will be told in the next and final update before we will reveal the 2 Demo songs we recorded! :)

Cheers,



Martin

Look at this mess!

Breaking The Silence!

Max riffin' it up!

It has been quiet for a while around here. Yeah...so I had no time to update this blog and was busy with the ongoing recordings of the bass, guitars, reamped guitars and vocals and the mixing and mastering of the two songs and I was a bit busy with work and illness...so yeah here it is the new update!!! Mostly is going to be narrated by the videos I made (which kept me away from updating the blog too...) So I hope you can enjoy them and see how we record our songs, what our methods were and I hope you enjoy our german retardedness a bit...so sorry it is mostly spoken in german, but yeah...we're germans speaking german to each other, just this blog is in english. Don't ask me...I don't know why!

Thursday, 27th of December 2012

On thursday Denno came over to drop the bass and he did quite a good job for his first time recording anything ever! Props to him! I forgot to took any pictures of him while playing so this section is without one :( But he is featured in the video! :)
After he finished recording the bass quite fast, I tried to figure out the sound for it and found some nice sounds, which in the end sound a bit different now ( in 2013 ;) ) than at that time.

Friday, 28th of  December 2012

Ghost hand!

It's friday, friday...oh shut up...

Max came to my place to record his parts and we figured out that he learned some parts different than I personally thought he would play during rehearsals...because you know...during our rehearsals it's always quite loud and I don't always recognize what he does. So we cleared that up and recorded the first song, the short one, after a few more takes and experimenting with some playstyles.

Max using a footrest to play more efficient.

The second song though...was quite a frustrating experience with all those clean guitar parts...we had to take more time for this song because you can hear every missplay when playing with the cleanest sound there is, so there was nothing to hide and it took us quite a while. But we eventually finished so that Max could catch the last bus driving from my place.

And yeah I lied in the previous blog post...I too had to rerecord some parts that I didn't play good enough the first time I recorded them...shame on me! But I got that cleared out too and I could finally do something else than recording related stuff...yay!



So that's it for now. As I said this post will be mostly narrated by the video I cut together.
I will update the Blog soon enough with another video I made during the reamping process with some more funny german jokes!

See ya'll!

Martin