Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Shit, forgot how difficult recording is. I'm not a very clean acoustic player, and a lot of the defining tracks on my songs are acoustic tracks. There's this weird buzzing coming from my guitar. The strumming is awful and messy. I'm so exposed. I've yet to figure out how to produce my songs. I'm not sure which tracks to make louder than others or how loud I show make them, etc. But Luke can help me with that kind of stuff. Today's recording session was a nice slap to face. When you're stoked on a project, you always envision it coming out perfectly like a record that was produced in a professional studio or a film that is really smooth and nice. I forgot how rough or rather, how Garageband-y, my songs sound. I also forgot how long it takes to put together a song. I spent close to an hour setting up and getting a decent acoustic track, which I'm going to throw out and re-do anyways. It's okay, though. I haven't lost hope. I'm way too excited to finish this thing to pussy out now.
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I would say that you should perform the song live, with vocals, a couple of times and then edit the best parts together, then overdub on top of that. That way, the noises and tiny things that annoy you are organic to the performance and part of the vibe and mood of the piece. It becomes "low fi" rather than sloppy.
ReplyDeleteYou have to choose to be ok with the humanity of it, and then it will sound good. Besides, no one else other than a scant few will hear any of the problems you're hearing.
Also, try to leave all your stuff set up so you can just plop yourself down and record.
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