Clear Cuts #2 - my cover of "Little Conversations" by Concrete Blonde

Hello again, Hive! For this week's video, I chose a song that was a bit shorter, hoping the files would be easier to manage. That turned out to be true, but I kept messing up while recording, and had to do so many takes, it still ended up taking longer (and coming out less perfect) than I'd hoped.

I'm very happy with the guitar and bass recordings, which ended up being as near to perfect as I can expect. I wanted to record a more forceful, angry sounding vocal, but after several failed attempts, I've decided to stick with these sad and distant sounding performances.

This is the same camera and audio setup I used in Clear Cuts #1, which I'll continue using until I buy better gear, or take the time to record in one of my friends' studios.

I mixed this one a bit differently, doing a complete mix in Audacity, then using only that mix for the audio in OpenShot. This saved me a lot of time in the video editing, since I didn't have to worry about the audio from the video messing things up in the final mix.

This is one of my favorite songs, from one of my favorite bands. I can never really do true justice to the original, but I'm still fairly pleased with how this came out. I hope you enjoy watching and listening as much as I enjoyed making this!

(Actually, I hope you enjoy listening MORE than I enjoyed making this. A lot of very tedious work goes into making these videos, and it takes a bit of the fun out of performing)

Let me know what you think, I'm always open to criticism!

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