Today is the recording day of our band, should go pretty smoothly because it's not a hard song to play at all, because I can't write complicated stuff and most of the time when I tried to write complicated part it just turns into noise, which is not a bad thing but I don't think it will suit well with this kind of song.
Hanako picked a studio half an hour from my house, apparently it's also a live house at night. I might want to see a little bit of the local scene itself, because I don't know anyone here, and maybe bother Hanako again to get us a stage lol.
I do have to pick up my slack and not rely on her too much though, I know she is rich but that support won't last forever if we show little to no progress. And no, selling out and make soulless pop music is not the way to go. I want people to hear my thoughts and feelings, and I can't do it that way.
We arrived there just before 12, and surprisingly Olivia is not late this time. I actually never went inside a studio other than the one in my campus, so it's something new, maybe even for all of us. I usually record everything in my bedroom by myself, because that's all I need honestly, though not many people wants to listen to the distorted noisy mess that I record, not that distorted and noisy is bad, just not most people's cup of tea.
Hanako already set up a schedule, sort of, of who is doing what and when. Because it is impossible to record drums from home without olivia' parents got real angry at her, so we prioritize the drums first.
I got to say, Olivia is pretty good, at the very least she is much better than I can do in an app. She is adding fills and much more needed soul in it. Looks like she is very into it, with how her expression follows the song, especially the part where I shout for the entire thing and she just explodes.
After she is done doing her part, she goes to the mixing room with big smile on her face, "that was fun. it's been a while since I've played something that touch me."
I gave her my biggest thumbs up, "I'm glad you like it, you did an amazing job too."
"Thanks."
And since we, or me anyway, decided that we want to do all of this by ourselves, I am doing all the mixing and productions, at least for the productions I can make it sounds like it's actually my song, a better mixing could help though.
After that, it's the bass, it's pretty simple so should go smoothly. Before we went inside the studio, I asked her earlier, "do you like the song?" and she gave me a whole review on how much she enjoys it and how she relates with her current situation right now in the school.
I hugged her very tightly like I'm hugging a cat, because I'm very happy to hear it directly.
For Hanako's part, is it necessary? it's just a violin played with midi controller and I want it to stay that way. I don't think better midi controller matters because at the end of the day it's just midi. "Hana-"
Hanako stepped on my line, "I want to add something to the song, tell me if you like it." then basically rewrite all the violins in the last part of the song minus the hook with her spanking new keyboard that have those fancy pitch bar or lever that is loaded with a free plugins that I used.
She did an amazing job too, makes me kind of nervous that people around me are better at playing their instruments.
Now it's my time, I go to the vocal booth and wear the headphone. I am too used to singing with USB mic without any pop filter, so I'm not used to be this far from the mic, but I just need to sing like I usually do.
So I start singing and pours all of my heart into it, to hopefully make my emotion clearer, because it's a better setup and all.
After that I also need to record the guitars on my beloved pink stratocaster that probably seen better days, it have scratch and scuff all over the place. Actually, I don't need to do it since I already recorded it directly into my laptop.
So all is done, and I just need to add the finishing touches later when I'm back. That was surprisingly quick for the first time we do something at studio, well I have some experience but not actually on the recording side. Only recording one song and having it pretty much finished do help a lot though.
We took a photo together in the studio and announcing the song is coming soon because we don't have a release date yet, because Olivia wants a music video. I'll wait for Olivia cook some idea and arrange the situation for the music video.
I walk outside of the studio first, there I see across the hall my former colleague surrounded by what it looks like her producer and manager that honestly, kind of weird. I thought someone like her would book a better studio.
Though I'm more pissed that she is one of those colleague that talk shit on my works.