Much as I planned to paint today, I found myself working on the Unknown Sounds theme for the morning, recording vocals, and new vocoder part using the MODX. The Microkorg Vocoder sounds great, the MODX not so good, but I'm unsure if it's merely a lack of presets or an inherent lack of quality. There are always so many parameters.
A great tiredness hit me for the second half of the day, and swollen gums, perhaps I'm a little run-down, induced by a sleepless night. In the late afternoon I sang a the last few vocals for the new album, some 'aah' sounds in the sky for 'Breakfast Of Delight'. I'm thinking of releasing All Controlled By Someone as a single, and if so I'd like to add a B-Side (even though Emubands awkwardly consider a 2-track release an album). I've got a few older songs that are just about finished, so I dug up 'I Can Heal' from the ancient times of my first experiment with vocals with The Harlequin Kings.
Gosh how low the vocals are. I can sing it instantly better now than I could then, even in this low register, but my voice doesn't sound good there, it's like a guitar with loose strings, hard to get a good tone or volume, and few overtones. I sang it all though, but I think it would be better to rewrite the melody (I can actually sing the entire song an octave higher than originally, but this is a bit too high), so I've improvised it up a fifth or seventh here and there. The tune fits the chords but it doesn't seem to sound natural... perhaps I'm used to the old melody so much.
I'll keep trying, but perhaps I should forget this for now and move wholeheartedly towards painting.
