First vocal session finished. We started off with microphone selection, which was easy for the clean vocals since we just used the best condenser microphone available. For the growls we tried out three different options, my own Audix OM-5, a Shure SM-58 and an instrument mic from the studio. The instrument mic was ruled out fast, but the OM-5 and SM-58 sounded fairly similar. In the end we decided to go with the good old SM-58.

We only had one song that we could work on since the other songs were missing some crucial guitars. The chorus, which is a rather high raspy clean, was actually recorded fairly painlessly. In the verses, which are in a low growl, Janne had a few very good pointers on which vowels to stretch so that pronunciation sounds right when sung. Great stuff. Altogether we recorded that one song in less than an hour.

A very good start for the vocals. Next session with Janne is tomorrow and it’s going to be three hours. Hopefully we can then concentrate on singing all the clean vocals for all of the songs.

Added a few photos to Flickr.

Also, here’s a few clips:

-Sami / Embreach