So now it’s time for the vocals!
Luke kindly offered to step in and perform for us this week. How noble. But, credit where it’s due, he did a great job, and when it comes to mixing, I’m sure it won’t sound half as bad as he expects.
So for recording vocals, we were fortunate enough to be able to use the Neumann U87 condenser, in terms of microphone quality, it doesn’t get much better than this for vocals. Consider it the holy grail of microphones, if you will.
We chose to record the vocals in the dead room so that we got a nice, clear and crisp vocal track. Recording the vocals was relatively straight forward, once we’d got the levels set, (and won the battle with the headphone levels) we were ready to go. We did one take, and then decided to do another, again multitracking like we did the guitar. This created a really cool effect, almost like a chorus which sounds really nice on the vocals, almost as if there are two singers at once, each singing a slightly different line from the other.
And really, that’s it for vocals. No messing around with playlists this time. Nice and straightforward, just as it should be. Just don’t break the £2,000 mic!
– Anthony.