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After a long day at work (nothing quite like three or four interviews to just make the day fly by), I headed back out to the studio for today's vocal work. Nick and Mike were going out at noon to finish up the guitar tracks from the night before, and then switch over to vocals.
As I walked in, Nick was walking around the control room, singing to himself as the music tracks played in the background. He would go through a verse and a chorus, then start over. So it would seem that the guitar parts were done and now they were getting ready to do the vocal tracks.
Mike was on the couch, and he let me know that the three of them had been working on the lyrics and melody pretty much all day, to the exclusion of the guitar parts. Scott did make a few edits on the supporting track (evening out the snare hits, modifying my sixteenth notes in the chorus to use a segment I had laid down with a more even attack).
I really couldn't hear what Nick was singing all that well for the first part of the night; the backing music was up fairly loud and he was singing mostly to himself and Scott. After a while, I was able to pick out what he was doing, and I think that it works pretty well with the song. As I usually do with the vocal line in these situations, I tried to find harmonies that would work for the song (both the placement of the notes as well as the pitches themselves).
After a few more rounds of practices and tweaking the line, we broke for dinner. I had grabbed some food on my way in, so we sat around the couch, munching on burgers and talking shop. Scott was telling us stories about some of his experiences on the road, as well as some of what his clients have been through (both in the studio and afterwards).
Back to the singing, though. Nick practiced it a few more times. It was getting kind of late, so the decision was made to scrap trying to lay down the vocal track for keeps; rather, Nick went into the booth, warmed up a bit, and then put a scratch vocal to tape (or, to disk, I suppose I should say for accuracy).
We'll be heading back to the studio in a few weeks to round out the vocals as well as tweak any instruments still needed. Scott is getting married this weekend (congratulations again, Scott!), so any recording is going to have to wait until he gets back (for obvious reasons).
Posted by Casper at April 5, 2004 10:42 PM