Monday, April 23, 2007

Saturday, April 21st

A GREAT day of recording! Everything was clicking today and we hammered out ALL of the lead vocals. This leaves us with just background vocals and keyboard parts for the final 8 songs.

Coop uses this incredible Pro Tools plug-in called Antares Auto-Tune - it's basically the standard in studio pitch correction. When anybody goes into a studio to record vocals, the vocal will go through several "filters" (e.g. compression, reverb, EQ) during the mixing stage of the album. One of those filters is pitch correction. It's not as amazing as you think - it can't make Britney Spears sound like Christina Aguilera but it can smooth out all the tiny imperfections in a vocal track. Hearing it applied to my vocal was pretty neat - it just gives it that little "pro" touch.

We're almost done!

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