Dave Couper (formerly the bassist for Aussie prog rock band CALIGULA'S HORSE) covers the vocal parts of PERIPHERY's "Racecar", the twelfth track from "Periphery" (c) 2010 The All Blacks B.V/Roadrunner Records.
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Undertaken on the afternoon and evening of Sunday, the 26th July, 2020, somewhere in Brisbane, Australia, after deciding to take a break from doing Dream Theater vocal covers for a fleeting moment!
Video recorded on a Samsung Galaxy 9+ phone. Vocal audio recorded into Cubase Pro 10 with a Rode NT2A microphone.
The main part here was my first and only full take, and I wanted to treat it as a live runthrough, doing both the singing and screaming parts as Spencer would at a show. Did the harmony parts separately.
For this video, unlike the Dream Theater ones, I have replaced a small number of bits I was not happy with, mostly in the clean singing funnily enough! “Follow the light” and the final “in your eyes” were the main redos.
I know my screaming/growling sucks, so I’ve been working on it a bit. How much more I work on it probably depends on whether I’ll need it going forward, but it was fun to try for this one.
Added reverb, distortion, and compression. Tweaked the EQs, and put on the necessary HP filters to try to mimic the original (my vocal production definitely needs work). On hearing some very good Periphery vocal covers by a couple of talented dudes, I took advice from their song blurbs and purchased the Howard Benson Vocals plugin from Joey Sturgis Tones, and applied a couple of slightly modified presets to each of the clean, distorted, and backing vocal parts. While I re-recorded some parts as mentioned, once they were done, no further tuning plugins have been applied.
If I thought “Metropolis Pt.1” by Dream Theater was a difficult track to sing live last week, then doing this just once was always going to be interesting for a non-screamer like me, so I’m just happy to have had a crack at it, and will happily take technical advice from anyone competent at the heavy vocal stuff 😊
Rightyo, back to the non-growly prog metal I go 😉
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