The Mandelbrot Set: Let’s Get Rolling!

[Encubed]

Oh yeah, just wanted to drop in to say I couldn’t record anything, my mic is broken and I’m getting really busy with studying for an exam.

[MaW]

Congratulations… it’s a song!

However, if we’re going to have choral lead vocals, we’re going to have to use one as a reference timing and get everyone to record one that matches it perfectly, or harmonises or whatever, but at the moment it’s a bit scrappy around the edges of notes. I also feel like I can hear my line really strongly, but maybe it’s because it’s burned into my memory from so many bloody takes.

If we’re not having choral lead vocals, we need to pass it around somehow. Hmm. I hope everyone didn’t peak on the same verse.

And, of course, we need the zombie chorus.

[Covenant]

@MaW
You’ll always hear you’re own voice coming through on a recording like this…

The rest will probably hear their’s in the same way ! ;’ )

[Colleenky]

Thanks for putting together a preliminary mix, Lunacy. I think the current version sounds a little chaotic, but I’m guessing that’s just because you were kind of throwing everything together to see what we have so far. Maybe the mix could use some judicious pruning, maybe picking certain instruments to be featured in different sections of the song (with bass continuing throughout)? And I agree with MaW that his vocal level was a bit overbalanced. I’m in favor of passing the lead vocal around from verse to verse. Also, Shruti’s flute is about half a beat behind.

@Shruti: Your tone is lovely, and I especially like the riff leading into the chorus, but unfortunately, I hear just a few places where the pitches don’t quite mesh. I feel awful for saying so, because I know that you put a lot of effort into it. Please don’t hate me. :-S

@Jsten: What happened to the zombie chorus horde you had lined up?

I could also take a crack at a mix, but it probably wouldn’t be until after this weekend.

[Shruti]

Not hating at all. Just wanted confirmation. Will re-do. Hopefully I have time in the near future.

[Shruti]

question, what riff into the chorus are you talking about.

also, for the record, I don’t understand the bridge.

[Colleenky]

Now that I think about it, what I should have said was the riff in the second half of the verse, which, of course, leads into the chorus (e.g., “I think I speak for all of us when I say I understand,” etc.). I can’t remember the pitch names, but the solfege is la, ti, do mi sol mi re mi re do la, do ti, – and the rhythms speed up. Nice countermelody. 🙂

[Lunacy]

Thanks for the comments everyone.

@Colleenky: You’re welcome. Yes it does sound chaotic and your guess is correct. Everything was thrown together as a taster, with a view to pruning (usually a better method for me than adding bit by bit). My intention was to split the vocals across verses as suggested, with perhaps the last verse as a combined effort, but quite happy to change if that doesn’t work. I just felt that MaW’s voice seemed to naturally come to the foreground as a good lead vocal, so just left it at that. For my next bash I’ll try a couple of different folk at each verse and see which ones work best…. Won’t be until next week though. Will also sort the bass out, as there are some sloppy bits in there too.

@Shruti: Not sure what happened with the flute – everything else lined up perfectly – it may well be something I did. The flute does sound great, though.

Maybe we should start a new thread – “Zombies Wanted. Tone Deafness an advantage, but not essential.” ? I can provide a few zombies to add to Jsten’s, but I’d guess the more the better.

[Colleenky]

All of us with mics should probably just go ahead and record zombie chorus vocals ASAP – instrumentalists and vocalists alike! Maybe multiple tracks each, in different octaves and varying degrees of in-tune-ness. 🙂

[mtgordon]

I’ll give it a shot this weekend. At concerts, I often don’t even bother singing lyrics, but instead just try to moan a harmony part.

[MaW]

I’ll look into zombie vocals after work 🙂

[MaW]

Also I got an Akai EWI4000s today, so maybe I can lend that to the instrumentals for something… when I’ve learned to play it!

[Shruti]

Working on recording now. Last version involved a messed-up flutter tongue at the beginning of the solo, damn it. Starting over. Crossing my fingers. Etc.

Let me know, by the way, if the occasional popping sound in the version-to-come isn’t my computer’s speakers being somewhat screwed up. (Although I’m pretty sure it is, and that furthermore it is a result of my having dropped the beloved macbook last week.)

[Percephene]

At concerts, I often don’t even bother singing lyrics, but instead just try to moan a harmony part.

I like that your zombie is so far-zombified that he can’t make out words but he can do a harmony 😛

[MaW]

Maybe he can make out the words, but lacks the physical capability to form them anymore so can only moan a complex harmony instead.

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