Document A Construction by Sam F
April 22nd, 2006 11:34 AMUgly original idea
Reverb added to soften tone, make more ambient
Delay to create more ambience/texture. Adds drama to the bass drop
EQ to fix some clicking, mellow tone
Cheezy straight ahead loop added from a jazz drumkit with slight modifications
Drums modified to sound more appropriate. Loop is spliced up and decays are diminished to produce short, stabbing drum sounds. Some are repeated quickly to create buzzing rolls
Drums are compressed for more hard-hitting effect, and reverb is added for no real reason
Thickened the bass line
Sequenced synth adds to the harmony
Lead synth added, for a cheery, cheezball sound
Final mix involves changing levels, adding small effect on lead to mellow it out and scatter frequencies. (Forgot to mention, also added multi-band compressor and adaptive limiter to maximize volume accross all frequencies, not shown in screenshot).
As usual, I'm unhappy with the result.
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Wow, that is the most hardcore documentation of music making I've ever seen. So good. I think my favorites are step 3, step 6 and especially step 2. Step 2 is so fucking good. You should make a kicking pop song with vocals, saw synth lead and live drummer with it.
Wow...that was actually a lot of fun to go through. Nice.
Good work, Samus.
Sounds pretty frooty loopy. But I figure you're using better software.
Yeah, there's something nice about the raw forwardness of the first loop. It just gets more...typical as the steps progress, but then again that's the point.
I used Logic Pro with some plugins. It's capable of so much more, but somehow listening to all that µ-ziq has made me create stuff like this more often than I'd like.
I'm considering returning to my academic phase (all I care about is phrasing, the rest be damned) so that this stuff doesn't churn out any more...
Excellent. I liked 8 a lot. 6 = "I, I'm thinking it's a sign/That the freckles in our eyes are mirror images/And when we kiss they're perfectly aligned."
Overall my personal preference was for more ear-crushing drums.
my favorite is step1; it gets worse and worse as you continue. still, i enjoyed listening for the differences. what program did you work in?