Artist Statement:
The original idea for Feel Good Inc. came from Ethan! Ethan originally wanted to play the song in 10th grade for class then, but it never fully came together. He brought up the idea to Dylan and the two began working on it. Spencer didn’t come in until later when they started looking for a bass player, and he happened to already know the song. The song gave a great opportunity for everyone involved. It let Ethan really work on his drums, Dylan to learn how to play bar chords and work on rhythm, and for Spencer it was a great chance to work in Logic Pro with mixing. We decided to record in class and began by recording all together alongside the original recording with a metronome in Logic. This let us hear the original as well as each other and really feel the groove of the song. Once we laid down this initial recording, we layered a second guitar on top of the initial to add fullness to the mix.
After we felt confident in these instrumental parts we began recording all the vocals. To do this we individually recorded the entirety of the vocals, and had Dylan go back to add the “shoobadooba’s” throughout. With all of this together Spencer finally sat down and worked on the levels, effects, as well as the general mix. One of the ones worth noting is the pitch shifter he placed on his voice in the second verse which duplicates his voice, with one being digitally pitch shifted 2 octaves lower. This helped get the booming deep voice heard in the originals. Another worth noting is the silververb (a reverb plugin) heard on almost all the vocals. Finally Nick came in and helped put some final touches on and it was done! We had a lot of fun making the piece and hope you enjoy it!
Credits:
Originally composed by The Gorrilaz
Ethan (drums, vocals)
Dylan (guitar, vocals)
Spencer (bass, vocals, production)
