Damn Murphy and His Laws

Anything that can go wrong, will.

I have been investing 8 to 12 hours per day working on my recording project, and have successfully managed to fix the errors as indicated in the last post. Amidst editing the audio, I uncovered one other major issue.

I am a singing drummer. It was something that I stumbled upon early in my career, and it has made me more employable than many of my peers because of such. Thus, the tracks that I recorded last weekend had me singling while playing drums.

This is the reason I uncovered another major issue. While listening to my vocal track, I discovered there was a lot of bleed from the snare drum into my vocal microphone. I would usually let this slide, however, the transient of my snare drum was much louder than my vocal, and it was coloring the snare track.

My first thought was to EQ the transient out, but this would have left my vocal track incredibly muddy and useless.

Given the time available to me, I decided on drastic action. I overdubbed my background vocals for about half of the songs in my home studio.

The truth of the matter is, that I'm not exactly happy about the situation. But in the end, I should have a product that will meet or exceed my expectations.