That Veil of Yours (feat. Voice Actor)
This was actually the last track completed for the record. Often when recording an LP you reach a point where you’re still missing that intangible something. It can prove quite elusive figuring out exactly what that is.
We were about a week out from mastering when the idea of approaching Noa came up. There was an instrumental version of this that was very different. I basically stripped it down and started again with the kick and a couple of percussive elements.
The main pad sound is just a basic detuned oscillator played by hand with no sequencing involved. It’s so heavily processed that not much of the initial sound remains. Much of what you hear is actually a reverb reacting to its input. I played it loosely over the beat, didn’t quantise the recording, and just left it feeling loose and human. After that I recorded some other notes and reversed them for these sucking sounds that play around the main melody.
I received the vocals from Voice Actor maybe 48 hours before we mastered. I ran them through an Overstayer Modular Channel to clamp down on dynamics and add some grit, then into the computer where I applied some subtle ring modulation and reverb. As soon as it came together it felt like something had clicked into place for the record as a whole.
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