Unintended by Muse - Intimate guitar and vocal cover. скачать в хорошем качестве

Unintended by Muse - Intimate guitar and vocal cover.

Well, hasn't it been a while! I've been playing my nylon string classical guitar a lot recently. I take it along to an acoustic night, and its a nice contrast to the prevailing steel-string (plus they're easier to play for long periods). Weirdly though, I'd not thought of trying this track even though its the quintessential 'pop song with a classical guitar in it'. It was probably the vocal challenge that made me hold off for so long but actually I found provided I give it enough welly, I can just about manage it. The high notes definitely need a good amount of air behind them otherwise they can easily go... awry! I didn't quite manage the slightly more involved chromatic guitar intro. I may give this a try at some point but I just wanted to get this down on video the way I've been delivering it live. I've done at least one other Muse cover, but my appreciation of them is patchy. I don't know much else from Showbiz, or very much at all from what I'm guessing are numerous albums since. Its been a while since I recorded anything for this channel, and its interesting re-acquainting myself with the recording process and the psychology that goes with it. The mood took me pretty swiftly this evening to get this down, but its very easy for that enthusiasm to dwindle when faced with what can be quite a list of pre-requisites before a note has been recorded. Setting up, plugging in and positioning mics, getting a Logic session set up, tuning up, finding lyrics, setting up phone camera such that I'm at least vaguely in the shot, going to the loo, getting some water, setting up headphone mix etc... it can all take time and occasionally by the time its all ready, the last thing you want to do is actually record! Another interesting note is the difference between how record-ready a song is in your head and how actually record-ready it is. Its only when you start recording do you release if you actually truly know how to, or at least how you're going to, play / sing a particular phrase. I've been playing this song at the acoustic night for a while but have I ever actually decided the finger-picking pattern? Not precisely enough it would appear, as evidenced by the first 4 or so takes being aborted. The final thing of interest I noted tonight is that when you're recording with headphones in particular, you (or at least I) hear the track is its being recorded as if it is already a record, particularly if you've got a little bit of processing on the tracks (comfort reverb, compression etc), so it becomes really obvious across multiple takes when you consistently do something 'wrong'. With this, it was a particular note in the vocal melody (and not one of the 'showy' ones that just kept landing flat. Never noticed it before, but I definitely did after multiple takes of the same bum note in the same place, even as it was being recorded (I don't go back and listen until I have the take I'm going to proceed with - here it was maybe take 7 or 8, I put that down to being a bit out of practice). As always, there is absolutely no auto-tuning here (or indeed any AI intervention!). There is the usual smattering of de-essing, EQ, dynamic control, reverb, delay (with a little bit of now customary feedback automation at the end!), saturation and limiting. For the techie minded... guitar was recorded with an AKG C414 (plenty of vocal creeping in). Main vocal is an SM58 (much EQ needed to get that to sound normal, particularly because I tend to eat the mic). Pair of AKG C451s up in the room... not terribly useful and thus not terribly loud in the mix, and then of course the obligatory iPhone mic which I tend to tuck into the mix as it really does seem to blend things together in a way that you miss if you don't use it. So yeah, here we go. Hopefully I'll get round to another (maybe piano) pretty soon as I've got a couple of days away from the day-job. Hope you enjoy.