EPISODE · Jun 14, 2026
Week 24 - alterationx10 - Midnight Obsession
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Picked up last week's instrumental, and recorded a vocal track. And a shaker! The song is based off the idea of "Revenge Bedtime Procrastination" The Internet wrote: Revenge bedtime procrastination is the act of intentionally sacrificing sleep to enjoy personal downtime because you feel you lack control over your schedule during the day. It’s a common coping mechanism where you "retaliate" against a busy, demanding day by staying up late to scroll, stream, or relax I had intended to try and use the shaker to mask the sound of the metronome I accidentally recorded along with the acoustic guitar part, but it didn't work. I had recently bought some FabFilter plugins, and wow - that made it easier! There's an "analyze" feature, where you can just hover over the spectrum, and it will build up the peaks and label them. I took the metronome wave files, and made like 5 notch filters to drown it out as best as possible and saved it as a preset to put over the guitar part. In the mix, I think it works really well! Since I already recorded the shaker (in mono), I did a neat thing where I ran it through an Elysia karacter and processed the left/right a bit differently, and it gave it some cool stereo width. I almost did the same with the guitar part, but I had a rare "less is more" moment. Also, my singing is especially atrocious this week. I didn't think it was possible to be so out of key, but by golly, I did it. It was so bad, I bought Melodyne to make it better the next day. And, It's still not great. 2026 CC Attribution Noncommercial (BY-NC)
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Picked up last week's instrumental, and recorded a vocal track. And a shaker! The song is based off the idea of "Revenge Bedtime Procrastination" The Internet wrote: Revenge bedtime procrastination is the act of intentionally sacrificing sleep to enjoy personal downtime because you feel you lack control over your schedule during the day. It’s a common coping mechanism where you "retaliate" against a busy, demanding day by staying up late to scroll, stream, or relax I had intended to try and use the shaker to mask the sound of the metronome I accidentally recorded along with the acoustic guitar part, but it didn't work. I had recently bought some FabFilter plugins, and wow - that made it easier! There's an "analyze" feature, where you can just hover over the spectrum, and it will build up the peaks and label them. I took the metronome wave files, and made like 5 notch filters to drown it out as best as possible and saved it as a preset to put over the guitar part. In the mix, I think it works really well! Since I already recorded the shaker (in mono), I did a neat thing where I ran it through an Elysia karacter and processed the left/right a bit differently, and it gave it some cool stereo width. I almost did the same with the guitar part, but I had a rare "less is more" moment. Also, my singing is especially atrocious this week. I didn't think it was possible to be so out of key, but by golly, I did it. It was so bad, I bought Melodyne to make it better the next day. And, It's still not great. 2026 Creative Commons CC Attribution Noncommercial (BY-NC)
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