Wasakan Week 2007 Post #1

Dear Diary,

Tonight will mark night 2 of the Love One Another Wasakan Week (featuring marathon recording and inuman sessions)! Last night we accomplished a lot of stuff! One of the major buzzwords from the July 23rd session was "portamento" haha. I don't really know what it means and maybe I can google it but I'd rather the mystery be left to the word so it would be more magical. Haha. It is an effect of Heidi's Yamaha CS-10 that we abused in the synth parts of Together Forevers. I love that song now. The synths really make the song. I can't wait to hear the finished version!

(Yamaha CS10)

In other news, we also did a lot of vocal cures! We ironed out the vocals in SMS, Bato, my parts in Themesong (omg my voice on that song sounds so ETHEREAL haha, POWER-BALLADY even..) and another composite run of Patintero/Habulan/Larong Kalye. That song is so hard to sing in the studio, particularly because the melody of the vocal lines are so fast and close together that it really takes my (and Selena's) breath away (considering we are both asthmatic haha) and even though it would probably be easier doing a lot of partial vocal takes, there's a quality to the out of breath delivery that really really really sounds good with the song. So we have to strike a balance between good takes, and "natural" takes. or we can try to keep doing it until we have "good natural" takes. Haha. I'm not making sense.

Another interesting event last night was the presence of Scratch and Sniff cards (promos of the upcoming Disney Pixar film Ratatouille) given to Selena by Kathy, and at the end of the night (we finished at around 130am) Engineer Marc De Vera  had his eyes closed and Engineer Joey Santors was scratching cards for Marc to sniff, and guess what the scent was. That was funny, even if I was on the other side of the glass barrier separating the control room and the recording booth. Also, Heidi and Selena had an informative discussion on boobs.

Tonight we will be doing vocal cures for Ean's Sasamahan Ka Pa Rin, and Tsuper Duper harmonies after Engineer Marc "makes usog-usog" the "bagsakan" in the song that isn't "sabay" haha.

I love one another!

-Owel