Day 1 of vocals.
Finally we found a weekend suitable for everyone in the band to gather and record the only thing left on the record: vocals. I (Stefan) picked up Dave around ten:ish and drove out to the studio to find Mikael and Viktor already out there, with newly made coffee and cheerful attitudes. Sat a while and discussed the agenda of the day, while drinking some coffee and such.
Started out with some growl verses on the song ROOM 101 ony to find out that Viktor needed more time to warm up those particular abilities before really nailing any growl parts. Instead we tried out the clean chorus parts, with harmonies. Ten vocal tracks later, the first chorus, with harmonies and all, was nailed. A real hit-song potential in that song!
Video: Viktor and Stefan discussing harmony parts (20 MB)
Video: The band enjoying the vocal harmonies on ROOM 101 (6,6 MB)
After that, Viktor felt warmed up enough to nail the remaining growl parts of the song, and so he did. Six or seven hours later, we finally declared the vocal parts to be completed and we quickly (i.e. after another coffee break) moved on to the song SPAWN which Viktor seemed to nail in just a matter of an hour.
Video: Viktor doing some "blargh"-noises (8,9 MB)
More will follow later this day, or perhaps tomorrow. But one thing's for sure: Terminal Function is back in business!
Coffee & cookies - important!
Back in the control room we, of course, encountered computer problems. It took us about one hour to get started with those darn sound drivers that seem to f**k up once in a while. Also, bringing out the ultimate vocal sound from both Viktor and the microphone/pre-amp/compressor took us some time. For this recording, we're using a ADK Hamburg mic ---> TL Audio 5001 pre-amp ---> Samson S-com compressor ---> Behringer MX8000 mixing desk ---> DAW.Started out with some growl verses on the song ROOM 101 ony to find out that Viktor needed more time to warm up those particular abilities before really nailing any growl parts. Instead we tried out the clean chorus parts, with harmonies. Ten vocal tracks later, the first chorus, with harmonies and all, was nailed. A real hit-song potential in that song!
Video: Viktor and Stefan discussing harmony parts (20 MB)
Video: The band enjoying the vocal harmonies on ROOM 101 (6,6 MB)
After that, Viktor felt warmed up enough to nail the remaining growl parts of the song, and so he did. Six or seven hours later, we finally declared the vocal parts to be completed and we quickly (i.e. after another coffee break) moved on to the song SPAWN which Viktor seemed to nail in just a matter of an hour.
Video: Viktor doing some "blargh"-noises (8,9 MB)
More will follow later this day, or perhaps tomorrow. But one thing's for sure: Terminal Function is back in business!
posted by Stefan Aronsson at 09:56
2 Comments:
Heya guys! I'm so glad I see you back in action... I was starting to wonder what happened to you :). Good luck with the album, I can't wait for the release! Greetings from Croatia.
Hey zweistein! Great to hear that you're following our blog. We discussed your post this weekend and we were all glad to hear that Croatia is tracking us! :)
Look out for further posts, probably later this day.
Talk to you soon,
Stefan Aronsson
Terminal Function
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