"The T-Pain of Kirtan"

I spent some time today doing a little recording. My goals today were to start to iron out a work flow for recording, in preparation for the World Sankirtan Party album recording slated for next month, to play with a tune that I really like, and also to play with auto tune.

Here's the result:

• Bachhu's Tune Demo (mp3, 2:24, 3.3MB)

There are three guitar tracks (one rhythm, one lead, one harmony), a bass guitar track, two keyboard (gospel organ) tracks, and a lead and backing vocal. I used autotune on both the lead and backing vocal.

A few observations:

• Autotune rocks, and is the next evolutionary level in music in general, and recorded kirtan in particular.
• Autotune works better when you give it the scale to work with, rather than allowing it to work chromatically.
• The main vocal, which I did in one take, could benefit from a retake to get rid of some of the "warbling" that autotune produces when the pitch is indecisive.
• Getting a good result with autotune requires a particular singing technique (with no vibrato) which I will have to work to master.
• This tune rocks. I heard it from Bachhu when he came up to Brisbane for Maha Kirtan 2.