Vamika - Session 6 - 30th October 2012

Session times: 8pm-10pm

Amy (Vocal) and Dave (Guitar) came to the session.

Long Way To Venus

We had recorded the drums, bass and guitar on previous sessions, so we were just going to record vocals on this session.  After setting a good microphone level, we started out with Amy laying down a vocal for the whole song and then went back to re-record the sections where necessary.

1,2,3...It's a..

The chorus lyric starts "It's a long way to Venus", and for some reason on the 2nd Chorus, Amy couldn't get the "It's A" in the right place.  We tried and tried and tried, but Amy had a brain blockage.  The 1st and 3rd choruses were fine, but the 2nd she just couldn't get right.  We tried various techniques including just singing the "It's A" on one take and the "Long Way..." on another.  Anyway, eventually we got the take required, so we moved on to backing vocals.  The song doesn't really lend itself to harmonies, so we went with some echo vocals (we the main line is re-sung sort of sounding like an echo, but not really).

We had a couple of listen throughs to see if we could think of any more vocals, and Dave thought it would be good if we could put some growling guitars on at the beginning. Rather than trying to remember that for next time, he got Amy to sing the part, which sounded so good, we decided to leave it in.

We wrapped up the session with a quick mix and the guys left with a CD of tonights efforts plus everything else we have up to now.