Up-front confession: I’ve sort of recreated the lonely broken church organ sound from my other submission for this Disquiet, but from a very different starting point.
I’ve studiously avoided doing any form of singing/vocals in my projects. The thought of it almost induced a panic attack. However, I then read @krakenkraft’s post about adding vocals to a track when he obviously had little to no confidence in his singing abilities. But did that stop him? No. It did not. I was - genuinely - inspired. There’s something about putting your voice out there that I think takes quite a bit more courage than shoving samples through various effect plugins, i.e. what I usually do.
Ran an RNG and got halF unusuaL & Blunderspublik. Played it through a few times and then started recording wordless vocalese-y phrases on a Tascam DR05 jammed up against my throat. On the fifth or sixth run I got something I wasn’t totally unhappy with, at which point I did my usual piling on of effects because I’m still a coward about my singing. Main processing was running it through a totally wet plate reverb and waveshaping in Absynth (of course). I did also gradually fade in a +1-octave pitch shift of my voice-noise which is just about discernable from about 1’35".
And the result, as I say, is quite similar to the organ-y drone on my other submission, but this has an organic quality I find quite pleasing. Hey, it’s a start. When I take The Voice by storm in a few years’ time, let this be noted as the point where it all began. Yes.
I hope @halF_unusuaL and @blunderspublik are OK with my addition.
Edit: @blunderspublik - just seen the Oliver Coates video you posted - wow! Nope, never heard of him but definitely going to check more of his stuff out. Love it!
