The next few weeks went by in a blur. There was little time and too much to do.. this was my most ambitious project to date.. I spent a lot of time arranging the song ... Don had suggested some changes to the song to make it slightly shorter (previously I was clocking over 6 minutes for the song) and to add more interest to the ending. I adopted these changes. When the final structure of the song was settled, we set about to recording it. I made a rough version of it at home.. and went to the studio to record it. .. this took about two sessions, for the guitar track and then the vocal track. ... but only later, I realized that the timing was off. By that time, we had only about 3 or 4 sessions left. So the next best thing was to record it in my room before going for the next session. So I did that.. it turned out pretty ok, with the help of a condenser mike and quite a few takes.
When I brought my work to Don, we spent time talking about effects, and he showed me how to create an atmospheric effect for the song as we both felt that the song needed to exist in a space. It was very interesting learning these techniques. In addition I learnt abit more about auto-tuning, creating my own sample library, mixing, eq-ing and beat-mapping.
I also got my brother to play the violin part for the song and mix it in with the sampled strings to make it sound more realistic. But before that, Jeanie Beans and I messed around on the violin for larks. (That's Jeans in the photo above)
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