Cadenza offers its club members opportunities to record covers for Cadenza’s instagram page. I decided to sign up and cover Olivia Rodrigo’s “drivers license,” which blew up almost instantly.
Prior to actually recording the cover, I had to sign up on a Google Form and send in an “audition” recording. After being approved, I was able to take the microphone home and record the audio. The process of recording was extremely difficult. I live on a busy street, so I had to make sure that when I record, the microphone will not pick up background noise of the traffic. This was also why I could not play the backing track with my piano for the cover because there were too much traffic noise. Eventually, I decided to just use a karaoke track. I re-recorded many parts of the song since I didn’t like how a lot of the parts turned out. I finally got all the audio after about 3 hours. My voice in the final product sounds a bit more choppy as there was still a lot of static, so it was edited out. There were also harmonizing added, which makes the song sound fuller. I was really glad to see that there was positive responses to the cover. I hope that I will be able to cover another song soon.
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