Recording a Musical Product 18/04/12

On the 10/04/12 I recorded one last song for my musical product. This was James Morrison's "You Make It Real." Once again we recorded the guitar and vocal seperately using all of the same equipment as before. The songs that I planned to orignially do0 were: At Last by Etta James, Make You Feel My Love by Adele, Guns and Horses by Adele and Mercy on Me by Christina Aguilera. However I ended up doing the songs Make You Feel My Love and Hometown Glory by Adele, You Make it Real by James Morrison and At Last by Etta James.

Instead of recording Christina Aguilera's song I decided to record You Make it Real because we were having problems recording the guitar for the original song. We started by playing the guitar along with the original track (playing through the headphones) however found that it was at a much faster pace then how we normally like to play it. We then tried recording both the vocal and the guitar together before playing the guitar to the previous track we recorded so that it was at our pace. This didn't work. The last thing we tried doing was recording a few bars of the guitar and putting it on a loop as it is also (like Adeles song) got a repetitive guitar part. This worked and then we tried adding the riffs in between however we found that they would not stay in the right place or would sound too different to the main guitar part.

So instead of recording Mercy on Me we recorded a different song. This was a lot easier. We recorded the guitar beforehand and then recorded the vocal in a few takes afterwards. After this we added the effects that we had used on Adele's song Make You Feel My Love.