HOW WAS 'SATISFY THIS ITCH' MADE?

Hello hello, today I will be telling you wonderful people just how ‘Satisfy This Itch’ came to be!

'Satisfy This Itch' Single Cover (released by Georgia Carter, January 27th 2023)

‘Satisfy This Itch’ is one of two pre-album singles - the second of which is dropping 10th March 2023 (exciting, I know).

The track is inspired from my own experiences coming out and realising I am queer. ‘Satisfy This Itch’ is not only the title, but also embracing the realisation, acceptance and pride in ones own orientation/preferences. It originally began as a solo project, until I played it to my good friend Angus, who this track ended up being in collaboration with. In just two sessions, Angus and I had managed to get the track to what is it you listen to today - our aim of achieving the ‘weirdest’ sound we could. But what about HOW those sounds were created? WHY is there a siren? WHY is there a dog barking? In the following blog I will take you through the vocals, synths and samples.

VOCALS:

The vocals feature a mix of clean, crisp vocals and harmonies - mixed using a ‘Speaking Voice Improve’ Channel EQ, Studio FET Compressor, ‘Dream Hall’ Space Design and a DeEsser. In the chorus, however, this changes to gritty vocals which are created through using a ‘Phone Filter Notch’ Channel EQ, Studio FET Compressor, ‘Modern Classic’ Guitar Amp and a DeEsser. Now you might be wondering ‘a guitar amp? On vocals?’ And yes, I get it - but in all honesty it will CHANGE YOUR LIFE, I find it provides a distortion only commonly found in instruments.

SYNTHS AND SAMPLES:

The synths you can hear are a 90s Stereo Synth Bass (+ overdrive and tape delay), Vox Box Lead, Hypersweep (+ delay) and Edgy Synth Bass. These were used to give a nostalgic sound from the early 00s or 90s (with some binural panning for a sense of live space). Now onto my favourite part, the samples! Spot them all: a Police Motorcycle passing, City Traffic, Falling Rain, and a Dog Barking. I’d love to have a backstory about these, but truth be told it’s simply because I wanted to. That’s it really - I believe anything can be made musical - even someone reciting the six times table… it just so happens when I was writing the track I wanted those sounds.

There’s so much more about the track to talk about, but that would end up being pages and pages of me going on a music production tangent about pedals and plug-ins. Be wonky and confusing to your hearts content, life’s too short to worry about what people may think of you or your art.

- Georgia