Tracks!

[mdlbear]

Didn't do much today, but I did put down two takes. One of High Barratry that wasn't enough of an improvement to keep, and one of Demon Lover [ogg] that's (finally!) almost passable as a demo. (These two are convenient to do together because they're both capo 2, so I don't have to re-tune.) (Aside to cflute -- let me know if you want a version with your part missing. Or would you like the whole 138MB Audacity project to play with?) In any case, I won't vouch for my pitch accuracy of the high voice on the last verse, and there's a word wrong in the low voice (worlds souls).

I learned a lot about editing:

For one thing, I learned that there's enough bleed-through from the vocals to the guitar track that it's basically impossible to suppress a cough or a false start -- that's what killed "Barratry". I successfully deleted the two verses I had to do over, but the one where I had a false start... no way -- it's still there on the guitar track. OK, next time I'll remember to just back up and do the whole verse. (I also learned that deleting a bungled verse is pretty easy, and not as quite as touchy on the timing as I thought it would be.)

So for "Demon", which is a duet, there are really only two choices: record a totally clean solo guitar track and try to put down the vocals cleanly on top of it (hard -- I tried that once and failed miserably), or record a reasonably clean guide track and add all three parts separately. At least that's symmetrical.

Well, I guess there's another possibility, which would be to record the whole thing live. I think I'll pass on that one for now. Though I will attempt it at Consonance.