journal: more backing vocals!! (Patreon)

I know I've said it before, but every time I arrive at Wyatt's studio feeling emotional or tired, he finds a way to coax the greatness out of me with his warmth and optimism.

For the past couple of sessions, we've been working on backing vocals for Akathisia and All The Mirrors In My House Are Dirty. Both are now wrapped recording-wise and are ready to be mixed and mastered.

Mirrors is a very big, dramatic, dynamic song and at the end of the night we both admitted to each other how scared we were of this song before we conquered the backing vocals. It has some vaguely Queen moments, and others are more like a crazed church choir.

I spent so much of the night getting several good layered takes of a singular vocal part, getting several good layered takes of a single harmony part, and writing and memorizing ya-di-das, oohs, and ahs and trying to get the most out of my voice. Stacking things and shaping the song's energy. If I had to guess, there are around 60 individual vocals that we kept.

I take good care of my voice. I drink a lot of water, do warm up vocal exercises in the car, and use a nebulizer. This all makes a massive difference in how i feel and sound when I sing!

I'm exhausted from the session but I'll post again on Thursday. I close my eyes and hear all the lines I've been recording / my backing vocals and am starting to doze off (it's 3:30am here). Thanks for supporting my work ❤