My Newest Recording – Happy
March 19th, 2011 . by Alexander Fisher
I wrote Happy about how in the face of hardship or other difficulties, it is so easy to be negative. Instead of depending on others to make you happy, rely on yourself to keep yourself that way. You can be mad or sad, but why not just be happy?
“Happy”
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I wrote the song and sang all the vocal parts. I used a Shure SM-58 microphone to record all the vocals. I played my Takamine G-Series acoustic and Fender Stratocaster guitars on the recording. All of the other instruments were played using a Roland MIDI keyboard and Roland Octapad drum pads, except the tambourine, which is real. The acoustic bass and violins are from the Dimension Pro synthesizer. I used TruePiano for all the piano sounds. The drums are from Session Drummer 3. Everything is played live, one track at a time. No performance has been computer generated. There was no Auto-Tune used in this recording. I didn’t use any rhythm track or metronome to keep musical time, or any post recording beat synchronization process.
I recorded this song entirely on my desktop computer using Cakewalk Sonar v8.5 Producer and Sony Sound Forge v9. The master is recorded at 24 bit 96 kHz resolution.
