heathen wrote:Even riding faders on reverb and other fx can have dramatic effect on soundstage and keeping a track interesting, especially with delays, bringing them in riding them up and dropping them out can all make for a really interesting mix. Though being subtle is the key. Backing voc can come up a bit in places, more fader riding.
That's very interesting, I'll have to really think out what I'd like to do in that arena. Lots of experimenting no doubt!
I told the singer that you thought her voice was sweet. She didn't take it as a compliment. lol. She doesn't think she has a sweet voice. I told her she definetely doesn't have a harsh or throaty or manly voice and surely sits right in the sweet side of the threshold. ha ha. Sigh...anyways...
...and she doesn't like the idea of a breathy performance. We've got to re-record those vocals. Main focus is on a larger hip-hop performance in a month or so. Meant to have finished working on that song last week. But I want to change the verse guitars. Pretty boring at the moment and a bit harsh. Might use Amplitube 2 for them and put a little bit of interesing high register lead licks in there. It's not very layered or progressive at the moment in the verses.
I did manage to get another track almost finished tonight that I started today with no inspiration. Found a 'midi groove' in the BFD2 library. I've never created a 'boom boom' hip hop track before so I was completely uninspired. The groove started something though. THen I grabbed the kick part of the midi and swapped it to this Orca Synth Instrument that I got free with BFD2.
I'm honestly not a synth guy, so I mucked around with that orca thing which is pretty cool fun! Added the usual guitars and lead. Solo is not a keeper and needs some serious comp and eq as it's right in your ear.
But I was happy at being able to create a 'phat-ish' beat from scratch. Pork Pie Kick and layers of that Orca gives a fairly good thrust.
http://www.hollands.com.au/R21Studios/Audio/HipHop2.mp3