BTS: Villain in the Studio pt.3 (Patreon)

DAY 2!!

This is just a little clip of me chatting with the audio engineer (Pherbie). He's in my headphones, so you unfortunately can't hear him, but I think you get the gist 😅

Being able to joke around like this and really just chat with Pherbie like a friend between takes was the most helpful thing for my studio experience. I'm always going to be nervous going into the studio and recording vocals. But because of Pherbie, I didn't start panicking until I was already at the studio and getting ready to go into the vocals booth this time! As compared to the first day, when I was having anxiety about it from the moment I woke in the morning 😅😬

When I'm in the booth, Pherbie can also hear literally everything I'm doing. So I made sure to let him know when I needed to burp, and inform him that I was dancing or jumping to assist with the nerves. So he had context for all the sounds! 😂 I am who I am 🤷‍♀️

Whenever I needed a break to get out of the room or just get out of my head, I'd join Pherbie in the sound booth and we would just chat about whatever until I felt okay to go back in and face my anxiety (again) 😅👍 So now he texts me a picture when he finds cool potato chips 💁‍♀️

You may also notice that we made the room purple this time! That was for two reasons:
1. The songs I was recording were less ominous and more sad (For Your Sins) and playful/sassy (YOU SUCK, "Picture Perfect"), so purple felt like a good colour for that vibe, and

2. That's the colour it was when we turned it on and I didn't feel like changing it 😂