Thanks a lot ido, DM, jamie and heat for coming back in. I cringed every time I heard the earlier one with the pitch issues and weak bits, but I was too burned out on it to face re-recording. Anyway, after a break, I enjoyed getting back to it and I'm much happier with the result - being stronger, it's buried under less vst gunk than last time around, and so has a better clarity I think. Good to hear other folks think so too.
ido - nice to hear the vocals sound pretty smooth. The main vocal is four tracks - one loud one centred, thickened by a left, a right and a centre panned take much lower.
The recording chain is an
SM58/pop shield into an old yamaha 4 track that I use as a pre-amp, fed into an even older tascam us-122 and then into Ableton. In terms of processing, I used a similar chain to what I normally use for vocals - the spitfish de-esser, ableton's stock Compressor 2 (which I still like more than any other comp plug-in I've tried), a couple of saturation/warmer plugs, a stock ableton EQ as a high pass filter, Smartelectronix' Nyquist EQ to give a little more
presence in the mids, the stock ableton reverb and then the Analogic Delay at the end. Other than that it's all entirely
natural
Jamie - I could have endlessly tweaked delay levels on this - in the end I pushed them a little as I think it adds to the slightly psych feeling of the song. Thanks for your thoughts.
IThis is another good lesson for folks the new folks on board that shows the process to make a really good presentation of material. Nice job.
Yeah, I always enjoy Ray's threads for this
reason too - you sometimes get to see stuff develop from an earlier stage than where most posters are prepared to share. It was cool to be involved with