Saturday was our third day of vocal recording, and marks the completion of the main vocal takes! I did a few takes of Five Faced Fist, then some retakes from a couple of tracks I felt needed a bit more energy than my previous takes had given them; I was much happier with my performance this time around.

The next step is to go through each track and find the best combination of takes to put the vocals for each song together. We don’t believe in micro-editing a song too much, as we feel it takes away from the integrity of the song a bit, so we will be trying to keep large chunks of each take intact as much as we can. I’m sure there will be a few bits in each song that we’ll need to do pick up takes of, however!

Trevor and I have started authoring our tracks for the Rock Band Network, which is coming along great; it’s pretty damned cool seeing our songs as they’ll look in the game, even though we can’t test them out on the game itself yet for region control issues (don’t get me started).

I remembered to bring the camera and the memory card this week, so here are some photos of the vocal recording setup:

The view from within the recording 'booth'

Rob and Trevor at the monitoring station

The monitoring station being, of course, Rob's hallway.

Rob's trademark style is all over this set up!

A frustrated Rob re-adjusts his gear after Ben absent mindedly twiddles all the knobs

Rock Band Network authoring begins!

The songs aren’t finished yet, but the tools are out so I’m itching to get going on authoring our songs for Rock Band. If all goes well, we’ll be able to release the tracks alongside or soon after the album!

Today was the second day of vocal recording for Containment Failure, and we’ve now laid down tracks for 9 out of the 10 tracks on the album. A few of them will need a few more takes to make sure we have all the material we need, and then we’ll be spending some time on backing vocals and other miscellaneous bits and pieces.

No photos yet, but I will make sure to have the camera working correctly next week so we can get some pics of Rob’s awesome set up!

A lot of discussion (mostly between Trevor and I) has also focused on getting our tracks into Rock Band via the new Rock Band Network which will be released in the coming months. We’re looking forward to seeing our tracks in game and having another method of getting our music out there.

Day one of the vocal recording for Containment Failure is complete! Rob has set up a remarkable home recording studio, graciously disrupting his hallway walking space for the period of recording, but it’s worth it because the sound quality is fantastic! We managed to do 4 full tracks on Saturday, as well as a couple of takes of our party song (which will require a few weeks to do because it tires my voice out so much). We got through more than we expected so at this rate we will have all the tracks done in one or two more sessions, and we can move on to backing vocals and a few other bits and pieces.

Because of the way we’ve been recording the tracks, Saturday was also the first time I’d heard the final guitars for all of our tracks, and I’m pleased to say they sound awesome! I think we’re going to have a great sounding album on our hands once we’re finally finished.

That’s all from me, if we’re lucky Rob will pop on and post a few photos of the recording setup!