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Blow your mind Uploaded by Beamline Start following on December 02, 2008 03:27
Made this track a few months ago but I've given it a rework. It's quite busy with lots of melodies complementing each other and a ridiculous amount of automation and sidechaining.. Took a while to get this one right although there's still things I'm unsure about. Let's see if you spot the same is... - Shape and Form Artwork
Shape and Form Uploaded by Beamline Start following on November 20, 2008 18:10
A mix of different things on this track, some soulful moments followed by wide synths. Check it out!
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great stuff again man,vocals are a lil dry for my liking.also the female vocal here is panned to one side,because the male one is coming down the middle.maybe try use a delay to bounce it over to the opposite side too so its coming out both speakers but not down the middle.if you use logic you can use stereo delay for this.but thats nitpicking,i really like this track :)
@seannash: You're quite right about the vocals, this is virtually my first time recording vocals, and too be honest I don't know what I'm doing yet! they do sound a bit dry, I'm really not sure how to treat them... will do research and experiments. Sometimes I add a vocoded layer on top like I did for "shape and form" but I'll try your delay idea so I don't mess with it too much. Or maybe pan the male vocals left, female vocals to the right and bounce across with delay. I also spotted a missing cymbal crash! grrr Glad you liked it! Let me know if you have any other ideas for vocals, much appreciated!
@Beamline: i think you have the male vocal in the right place,its th stronger vocal so it should be coming right down the middle,the female vocal is alot more like a backing vocal so maybe do the delay trick on that one.as for treatment of the vocal,more reverb on it.id maybe do another channel with a copy of the vocsl but set the channel up so the vocal sounds like its coming over a radio.to do something like this give the vocal a boost in the mids and then apply alot of compression to it also if you have a guitar amp plugin look at running it through that iwht a slight bit of delay or echo on the end.mix this with the original dry signal and you should get a nice gritty vocal that i think would suit the track.but im honestly no expert when it comes to vocals but this has worked for me in the past :)
I figure it needs some heavy autotune, Pendulum-style. Do a google search for GVST - they have a free plugin called GSnap that should do the trick. Also it seems like the timing might be a little off in some places. Great track though.
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