Jan 04 2005
♫ A Raccoon in My House
The Beatles are gonna get me for this — Rocky Raccoon, as performed by me. Me, that is, trying to remember the words to the song. Me, that is, talking through the song instead of singing it. Posted to Steel White Table only because the vocals inadvertently come off sounding a bit like Greg Brown. Maybe.
excellent rendition
Did you record that using 2 tracks, singing along to a track of your playing? It’s excellent in any case.
I didn’t sing along to anything. Nothing that fancy going on here. Two mics plugged into my cheap-o AMX-100 mixer, panned completely left and completely right. The output of the mixer plugged into my PC, recording through GoldWave. I recorded a bunch of stuff. “Rocky Raccoon” seemed the most entertaining. I maxed the vocals and maxed the guitar. Then I played it back through jetAudio and turned on the “Hall” reverb effect, and recorded that back to GoldWave.
So basically all I did was record two tracks at the same time and added reverb afterwards through jetAudio.
I also recorded this Tom Waits song in the same key. I’d like to re-record both of these songs some day, and do a good job on them.
For the true completists out there, here’s the other song I recorded during the big recording session that produced my rough renditions of “Rocky Raccoon” and “So It Goes.”
This is not so much a song as it is me repeating a single chord progression, looking for a melody. The badly-improvised lyrics are nonsense. But I still like the chord progression — a chord progression I call If I Was.