JiveTurkey wrote:Your voice kind of reminds me of the dude from Barenaked Ladies, actually. I dig the enunciation but some vocal dirt would do good as well. I definitely sympathize with your recording situation. It sucks having to force a vibe when you are in an environment where said vibe is next to impossible to achieve.
Hey man; cheer up! You sound good! JerEvil once compared my voice to Clevelands from Family Guy You got it much better off! I tried to get everyone to agree on Chickety China the Chinese Chicken song suggestion at practice once but no one would take the bait
For the record, you achieved the vibe; just having to track vocals while your family stands and stares is probably difficult
Thanks man. Yeah the hard part was my wife has been super stressed lately and it was getting late and she wanted to rest so I had to hurry, I didn't have but 20-30 minutes to just hurry up and lay tracks. And for whatever reason I get general recording anxiety. I don't really get performance anxiety.. it's a different phenomenon. Obviously it's even harder to deal with when you're recording with tired people in the room who want you to finish quickly.
but it's been an interesting set of adjustments I've had to make and I'm trying to make the best of it. I've preached mixing up your routine to shake you out of phases and ruts and this whole situation at home has definitely presented some interesting curve balls that I've had to learn how to deal with. But it's actually facilitated the singing part more than guitar since I don't have the room for fucking around with tone tweaking and pedal swapping and all the other bullshit I would waste time on and I needed to do some work in regards to the singing/song writing so here's to making lemonade!
GRIMESPACE wrote:I'm kinda the opposite - I'm mostly listening to the guitar, and usually don't give a shit what the singer's got to say:)
Mike's doing a great job. I think he definitely has a good voice for this stuff - just needs to (imo) rough it up a bit. Takes cajones to do what he's doing with the family present
Or, he's going to start sounding like the guys in our church band
Dumb question - you did turn the phantom power off with the 57, right?
FOR THE LAST TIME IT WASN'T A 57!!!!
Hahahha
That's what I get for skimming the thread. I must have subliminally seen '57' several times as I was fast-scrolling to the bottom so I could blather
You got it much better off! I tried to get everyone to agree on Chickety China the Chinese Chicken song suggestion at practice once but no one would take the bait
Yeah the hard part was my wife has been super stressed lately and it was getting late and she wanted to rest so I had to hurry, I didn't have but 20-30 minutes to just hurry up and lay tracks. And for whatever reason I get general recording anxiety. I don't really get performance anxiety.. it's a different phenomenon. Obviously it's even harder to deal with when you're recording with tired people in the room who want you to finish quickly. 
