Portfolio final

Finished Tracks

Song 1:
The first song was made by me and Joseph and was heavily inspired by Gus Dappertons song "Ditch". The lead synth is the main thing that is similar to the song as well as the fact that it is extremely synth heavy. Every single instrument on the first song is synth.

I put an arpeggiator on the synth bass that begins the track during the chorus to add some more dimensions to the sound.

As you can see by the gain staging I done in the image below, everything is very quiet and a lot of the channels are panned very widely to each side of the speakers. This is because there are points where everything is playing during the song so it all needs to be relatively spread out so it doesn't sound too crowded.

Song 2:
The second song was made by me and Zeff inspired a lot by Bon Iver's acoustic songs. I wanted a lot of different layers to the music so I have 4 different guitar channels. One playing the intro melody consistently through the song, the other playing a simpler melody, another playing the simpler melody speed up and an electric guitar. There is also a lot of delay on the guitars just to add another sound to the mix. The electric guitar wasn't recorded well so this is something I need to take into consideration next time.

The beginning is the guitar melody reversed and cut up at places. Zeff tried it and it sounded really nice so we used it the intro.

Song 3:

This one was made by me and Joseph and started off when I recorded the guitar on it in my home and then Joseph helped me make the full track. I wanted it to be reminiscent of The War On Drugs' long synth intros and I think I accomplished that to a level. I've learned I quite like synthesizers so I'm going to continue working with those a lot. 

I then went to the studio with Dean and recorded the piano you can hear on the track rather than the midi one that was on the previous version.

Song 4:

This is one of the songs that consists of a lot more logic instruments rather than synths I've programmed myself or live instruments. It is probably my least favorite one I've done for this task. I just find it very boring and typical. 

I attempted to make it more exciting by adding a synth melody to try and get a memorable part for the song but it just doesn't really fit. I made this a while ago so I'm not really in the same frame of mind anymore I was when I first made it.