Vocals experiment, vol2

Continued with the vocals experimentation tonight. With some good results! First I went and sang & recorded the song I tried experimenting yesterday - re-recorded the other channels vocals completely and the result turned out so much better. Now it feels it's approaching the vision I'm having for that song ...

Then I went and started looking other song's lyrics - noticed that I had to write some more lyrics for that song, mainly crafting a weird repeat verse of sorts and then the story returns to certain key point. Felt bit surprising that I had to twist so much more lyrics for the rather short song, but that's how it went ... so be it.

As I got the lyrics fully finished for that other song, I recorded all the lyrics for that song, channel 1. Clean(ish) vocals. Yes! Or should I say yikes? Following the intuition here. Then I went and recorded all the lyrics again, channel 2 - in all different style than yesterday. Combining the two styles the result is kind of surprising. In a good way.

That's not enough though, since I have an idea for getting yet another channel / layer of vocals for that second experiment, but I won't be doing that tonight. Simply because I need my voice to be in good state for tomorrow at my job. :) ... there's also a certain kind of simplistic choir idea for some vocal parts, in some of the songs - gotta see how it goes, lots of things to experiment. Seems that the long break from this project gave all new fire for continuing it and heading to the final stages of this album creating.

Vocals experiment, vol1

Spent some three hours tonight experimenting with recording vocals. A humble beginning of sorts, but it turned out rather interesting and even promising. Recorded one song's vocals twice - different vocals for two channels. Certainly not straight vocals in the traditional doom metal sense, ... but it feels fitting to experiment with scifi doom metal project, ha!

I don't know yet if these vocals shall be final ones for this song, quite probably not, but now I have a real clue about where I'm heading with the vocals. Gotta give these ears rest for one day and tomorrow evening I'll continue with the experiments. As I get the ball rolling, I think it will all go rather smoothly then. Hope so, anyway!

Mentally advancing

I had over 5 weeks complete break from not even touching the new material, mainly thanks to having started at new job. Yesterday I returned to the material as I listened it all through once. While listening, I noted how this unplanned (but kind of predictable) break came into perfect place: Now I could listen it all with fresh ears and with bit more objective mindset.

How did it feel now then? Well, first of all I didn't notice anything I would want to fix, but everything felt very smooth. Bit coarse, but in a good way. Still, smooth, flowing and very enjoyable to me. Time seems to flow fast even that it's about one hour long set. Good sign to me personally.

I should be getting the one guest intro from friend in the coming week or two, too. That's the only musical thing clearly still missing, from one specific song. I also have a feeling that as the vocals have been recorded, there might be place for some guitarsolo or two, here and there. We'll see how it goes. I still certainly aim to get this package finished during 2016.