Recording Heat Stroke Pt. 2

Last time, I talked a lite bit about what inspired me to begin recording Heat Stroke. Today I’m going to get into the actual music-making side of it.

Before I tackle how I’m recording these new songs, I’m going to explain how most of my older songs were recorded, as embarrassing as it is to admit.

Let me start by saying that any piece of recorded audio that didn’t sound like white noise was by pure luck practically. Back in the day, I would record vocals with cheap USB microphones and usually record everything else straight into my computer. That’s about as low tech as you can get.

Shortly before the beginning stages of Heat Stroke though, I got a powered USB mixer. I’m running everything through that, and it’s crazy how much easier and better everything is. The guitar tracks I’ve recorded so far is spectacular, at least compared to anything I’ve recorded previously. I record vocals while monitoring a drum track in a pair of headphones. (I used to play the drum track quietly over speakers instead, and it was very difficult to keep the drums from basically taking over the vocal track: super-ghetto.)

To date, I have two songs semi to totally completed: a short intro track and a song I’m super proud of called “Hotter Than a Mothereffer.”
The main reason why I haven’t gotten further along with it is because it hasn’t been very hot this summer, so far.

In other news, I’m having issues with my web host, and that’s interrupting some things I’m working for on this site. I suppose I could be considered a web designer/administrator of sorts, and having to wait on seemingly clueless people about web issues bugs me a little.

That’s all for now. Next time I’ll probably include an audio sample or two. Maybe “Hotter Than a Mothereffer” will be the main focus.