Monday 19th November marked the tracking session in which Vashti and Lindsay recorded vocals for Losing My Religion.
We used a mic input from the ‘dead’ room. The microphone we used was a Neumann U87 along with a pop guard. This microphone is ideal for recording vocals and acoustic sounds. It can handle levels of up to 127db without distortion therefore is a good choice for close up sounds such as these. The pop gurad was used to minimise the sound of hisses and lisps as well as the explosion of air that is present when pronouncing the sounds ‘b’ and ‘p’.
We also used compression on the two vocalists voices and double-tracked Vashti’s voice to cater for our own desired sound.