The final track off the EP, ‘The End’ was the second song we decided didn’t require a full band set up. This is similar throughout therefore to find changes I started off with just guitar and vocals then included strings. I built up more string sections adding violins and cellos to reach its peak during the middle of the song before slowly bringing it back down again fading each string section out as the track came close to the end, before mellowing in it out completely again.

 

My inspiration for the ideas in this track came from Oasis – ‘Songbird’. It uses the same chords as ‘The End’ and similarly to Songbird, it adds string sections and other instruments as it the goes on. After showing Songbird to Lizzie, we agreed that a similar style of instrumentation would work as it has already worked for Oasis, being a big hit for them and we agreed this would be a good direction for this track to go in.

Oasis – Songbird – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KJgBkreAuw

 

Key Editing

After recording, when I sat down to edit the track I noticed that when we recorded this there was some bleed from the headphones when Lizzie came in to sing her vocal parts. The way I went in combatting this was to add a noise gate and to mute any parts where there isn’t any vocals.

It worked effectively on parts where there was no vocal and it cut all the bleed from the headphones apart from the highest peaks in the waveform. However, the noise gate had cancelled out the bleed to where it would be noticeable. And some fine EQ’ing later help tackle this issue.