Wednesday, 12 June 2019

FINAL PRODUCT EP


I produced or co-produced all of these tracks as well as mixed them but unfortunately, I am missing the project file for "Sad" as it on UJs computer and he uses reason and I use logic.
Nostalgia: This song intros with an arpeggiated bass line with another track created using a bus which has the cut-off of the bass manipulating constantly. There are multiple.

This is the audio file for the bass cut off, you can see the sound changing throughout the song.

Joseph also helped me with all the drums on this track.

Sad: This track consists of just drums and a guitar. The guitar is quite clean and same with the drums. None of it is particularly complicated. Unfortunately I don't have the project file as I done this around UJs and don't have access to the file.

Hill: This song is the beginning of the heavy reverb and chorus pedal guitars on my project. I used some of the information from my pedal research to decide what to do with the sound. I had a lot of reverb on this guitar track and it sticks to a similar theme to the first one, it being primarily drums and guitar.

I put tremolo on one of the guitar tracks that comes in at around the minute mark.
It has a lot of depth so the majority of the strumming gets drowned out as I didn't like what I done originally. I also set it to 1/16d to make it feel a little off.

I also reversed the main guitar melody to use that as the pay off for the big build up it has.

Tension: This song is the only acoustic one on my EP, made by myself and Dean and it is partially inspired by a lot of the work on Bon Ivers debut album "For Emma, Forever Ago". The acoustic riff is very simple and makes up most of the progression of the track.  Dean done a bass line with the top 2 strings of the acoustic following the same progression. This track included me doing an electric guitar melody over it which first started off as a synth melody. This is because it fit way nicer into the mix with a guitar and even then I feel like I should've turned the guitar down a bit.

Final Draft: I made this track by myself and reversed an acoustic guitar melody playing the same one as the electric to make the intro as I felt like the acoustic was slightly out of time but didn't want to just scrap it so I used it for that. William also came around and done backing vocals on the track which are used when the hats come in. I have a guitar that plays the chord every bar which has a ton of flanger on it, I feel like this can be a bit overpowering.

No comments:

Post a Comment

Bibliography for EXP

Beattie, S. (2010).  Guitar Flanger Pedals - Your Ultimate Guide from Andertons Music Co.  [online] Andertons Music Co. Available at: http...