Posts Tagged ‘david bottrill’

Just got a new Roland sound card, so finally I can properly record music again.
I don’t recommend ever using M-Audio by the way; my Fast Track Pro was causing way too many issues.
Been recording lots of vocals lately and while trying to go through the whole recording process properly, I came up with the following ‘vocal rules’ that I think are essential to follow for the best results.
Thought I’d post that up, in case some of you awesomusicians might find use in it.

Top 10 Vocal Recording Guidelines

1. Always demo a temporary vocal track first, so you can listen back to it, hear all the imperfections, mistakes and unclear parts, and then re-record your vocals again from scratch with that in mind.
2. While recording, remember to sing equally and control your volume by changing your distance from the mic, according to how much you’re projecting. Use a pop filter.
3. Never use default pre-amps. Use Avalon or Universal Audio pre-amps if you can. Tube mics are better than condensers.
4. After recording, compress the recorded vocals manually, as much as you can. That just means turning down vocals that sound too sharp or loud, and turning up unclear quieter parts.
5. Try to sing as in tune as humanly possible. When you do, the clarity of your tone will also improve, because the precision of your singing intensity will improve. Yes I know, with today’s music industry it seems like you don’t have to know how to really sing. Trust me, that’s crap. You MUST know how to sing.
6. Autotune, but just enough to fix harmonies or some slightly off-key notes. NEVER do the T-Pain robot bullshit.
7. Make sure other listeners understand at least 60% of the lyrics you’re singing. If it’s a pop song, go for 80%.
8. Choose a method to make your vocals sound more interesting. Doubling, harmonies, an interesting reverb or an effect could all work.
9. Compress and reverb the final vocal, but not too much. Also EQ the vocals with respect to the rest of the track and use a De-esser.
10. Don’t Suck

Ahoy

Here’s a free track by Everyone’s Talking. It’s ‘Dragonflies II‘, a self made electro remix of the track from our debut album. The original rock version ‘Dragonflies‘ was produced by David Bottrill. This one includes mainly just vocals from the original, the rest is produced and mixed by me.

Dragonflies II

This is a recent review of the album in the Carry You Away blog.

And here’s an interview that we did for Promos4awareness.com

Will make the remix package for Dragonflies II available soon! Sick fun!

There’s also T-Shirts here

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More shit will go down in the near future. Keep in touch.

Too long of a break between posts. Gotta change my ways now and post like a real blogger
This summer has been quite eventful though. Everyone’s Talking has finished recording our album with producer David Bottrill and are now preparing for the release.
A new website and a myspace is in the works, and this blog will get a new touch very soon.
Way too many things are in the works at the moment, including a new piano e.p.

For now here’s the single from the new Everyone’s Talking album:

Everyone’s Talking – Dragonflies

What do you think?

I’m very excited to announce that my band Everyone’s Talking is working on its next release with Grammy award-winning producer David Bottrill. David is best known for his work with the band Tool, producing three critically and commercially successful albums for the group. His credits also include Muse, Peter Gabriel, King Crimson, Coheed And Cambria and many others.
We are heading into the studio next week to start recording the yet-to-be-titled 6-track mini album. The songs on the album will range from solid rock tunes to progressive epics with instrumental madness. We hope to finish everything and have the album out by September. Here’s the tentative track listing.

1. Dragonflies
2. Silent Crime
3. War (Part 1)
4. War (Part 2)
5. Between You And Me
6. Lady

Stay tuned for more updates, and some studio goodness that I will be posting from my twitter.
Can’t wait to share everything with you!

Dani