"Screeching Sounds Coming Out Of The Depths From The Loung Pressed Out Via The Throat Of Demons" - aka Vocal Recording

REALLY WE'RE ALMOST DONE! TRUST ME!

We're getting REALLY close to the end of the recording process! Coming to the last bit, the recording of vocals, I cut a little video together again, that will show you (again) how we joke around instead of work.

So let's get this Blog started:

Sunday, 30th of December 2012

Dat 'stache!

I got picked up by Gundi early in the noon driving to the rehearsal room while listening to some The offspring to meet up with Jules....yeah I know we're trve!

We arrived, set up the computer, set up the interface, set up the mic's and voilá Gundi-san can start warming up! He wanted to get some reverb on his voice so he wouldn't hear just his dry voice. We wired up Gundis effect interface with the recording interface and of course we would fool around with it instead of starting to record!...geez that discipline! Soon Julian had left us because he had to do some other stuff and it was just Gundi and me from now on and we finally started to record for real this time.

So we tried around with some different vocal styles for the first song, and Gundi finally warmed up enough so yeah let's record that voice...or go eat something. We decided to eat some delicious döner kebap and got back to the rehearsal room and continue recording the vocals for the first song! We also changed around the lyrics until we were satisfied with them and I got to record some screams too and by doing that I crushed my voice for about 3-4 days...that's what happens if you don't use any technique and just scream around like an idiot.

The last vocal parts for the first song were finished and Gundis voice weakened a bit so we decided to stop right there and start the second song the next day.

Monday, 31st of December 2012

Trollface?

For the last day of the year 2012 I got picked up early in the morning, because we had not so much time that day because we were going to a new years party later that day. So we got to the rehearsal room early where everything was still set up from the day before and we started to record the second song...or do we? Gundis voice decided to troll us and got worse, he caught a cold and his voice was weakened so much that we had to improvise with the stuff like changing the position of the microphone so he could sing better and stuff but we were close to stop it right there and leave it be...but we wouldn't be cool if we couldn't find a way to make it work, right?

So I experimented with some delays and reverbs in cubase with the test recordings for the second song and I found a way we both were satisfied with, so we continued recording with those settings, and it sure does fit the song in our opinions!

We finished up, packed our stuff up, and drove home where we would have enough time to just change and take a shower (seperated of course :P) to get to the new years party...so yeah...Recordings are DONE! Finally!

That doesn't mean I'm done with it. Sometime after new year ( I can't remember exactly when ) I started mixing and mastering the two songs, which got changed a few more times until they sound like they do now. We're really happy with how far we got with the know how and possibilities we have to record songs on our own, without spending too much money for it.

We are going to release the songs on Sunday the 3rd of February at around 01:00 p.m. CET via this Blog, our Facebook page, our Youtube channel and our SoundCloud page!

We will write some narrations to the songs which you can read here on this blog, too!

You will hear from us!

Stay Tuned

Martin