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Studio moments.
May. 12th, 2009 01:12 pmSo Sooj is recording a song at Monkey Brains that includes some panting rhythmic breaths. It's not the first time I've worked on a recording that included this kind of sound, Rozalind also does that on one song on the EP we made together. It sounds very cool on recordings.
I remarked to Sooj how we could do a pitch treatment on the alternating breaths, like Lindsey Buckingham did for the studio version of Big Love. Sooj hadn't yet known that Lindsey had done a pitch trick there, assuming, like everyone else, that the higher voice on Big Love was one of the female band members.
I always assumed that the pitch trick was something Lindsey did as a demonstration, intending it to be re-recorded by Christine or Stevie, but it ended up sounding realistic enough that they just kept the demo track on the final version.
Sooj had a different idea of how things must have transpired. She said, "yeah, it was probably Christine...
(English accent, Christine McVie impression, one side of a telephone conversation)
No, Lindsey. Fuck off. No, I'm not going to come into the studio and BREATHE for you. I can do that fine on my own. You can bloody well do it yourself, I've got better things to do..."
She riffed on that for about five minutes... I guess you had to be there, but it was hilarious.
(For the record, I much prefer the live version on The Dance. Lindsey's guitar work on that piece is just amazing.)
I remarked to Sooj how we could do a pitch treatment on the alternating breaths, like Lindsey Buckingham did for the studio version of Big Love. Sooj hadn't yet known that Lindsey had done a pitch trick there, assuming, like everyone else, that the higher voice on Big Love was one of the female band members.
I always assumed that the pitch trick was something Lindsey did as a demonstration, intending it to be re-recorded by Christine or Stevie, but it ended up sounding realistic enough that they just kept the demo track on the final version.
Sooj had a different idea of how things must have transpired. She said, "yeah, it was probably Christine...
(English accent, Christine McVie impression, one side of a telephone conversation)
No, Lindsey. Fuck off. No, I'm not going to come into the studio and BREATHE for you. I can do that fine on my own. You can bloody well do it yourself, I've got better things to do..."
She riffed on that for about five minutes... I guess you had to be there, but it was hilarious.
(For the record, I much prefer the live version on The Dance. Lindsey's guitar work on that piece is just amazing.)
