I’ve waded into the (muddy) waters of background vocals. I sang a lead over my bass & canned drums track, then had some fun experimenting (different than the type in college). Oooh, ooohs in a questionable range for me to be sure, but I think I can take a few nuggets away from the sketch. Here it is (beware: some, if not all, of it is quite awful):

Audio Clip Notes: There are two tracks of background vocals. I played with compression and reverb a touch on the lead vocal.

I will have to control myself with regards to the background vocals as I really dig the different and crazy stuff. It’s one of the reasons I love the early XTC stuff (see Helicopter) . I think I may “let loose” on Future Psychic Girlfriend.

I did pick up the third edition of “How to Build a Small Budget Recording Studio from Scratch,” by Mike Shea and F. Alton Everest (the acoustics engineer I mentioned in my previous post), from our public library (sorry Dave). With that and the current issue of Recording magazine (focused on recording vocals), I have my research projects for the week.

Making mistakes on my way to the pop.

-Angel Drawers