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Produced by: Madmusik
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2:39; solid 4/4; gritty, rocking, driving; piano, guitars, bass, drums, organ
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This one is essentially a rock-based track that came to me quite quickly but then needed a lot of work to try to get sounding ‘right’. The problem is when attempting to mimic live sounds and particularly live sounds in a given context. Trying to emulate a rock band, with all its energy and quirks, is quite a difficult task and perhaps futile. It can be fun though and may throw up ideas along the way that are useful.
The underlying piano phrase presented itself and demanded to have a half-time rock feel applied to it. This in turn wanted some growling bass and screaming lead guitar, which suggested overdriven organ as well. With a second guitar to dirty things up further, I thought I was home and dry but the drums just didn’t seem to ’sit’. In fact the whole mix has had a lot of processing applied, which I won’t go into as it’s quite tedious but involves EQ, compression, limiter and delay applied in various ways throughout the mix, to both individual instruments and the mix as a whole. But that still didn’t fix it musically. In the end, what makes the track almost successful for me, is the use of double-time drum phrases, going back to half time during the stepping unison sections.
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Composer's Blog
This one is essentially a rock-based track that came to me quite quickly but then needed a lot of work to try to get sounding ‘right’. The problem is when attempting to mimic live sounds and particularly live sounds in a given context. Trying to emulate a rock band, with all its energy and quirks, is quite a difficult task and perhaps futile. It can be fun though and may throw up ideas along the way that are useful.
The underlying piano phrase presented itself and demanded to have a half-time rock feel applied to it. This in turn wanted some growling bass and screaming lead guitar, which suggested overdriven organ as well. With a second guitar to dirty things up further, I thought I was home and dry but the drums just didn’t seem to ’sit’. In fact the whole mix has had a lot of processing applied, which I won’t go into as it’s quite tedious but involves EQ, compression, limiter and delay applied in various ways throughout the mix, to both individual instruments and the mix as a whole. But that still didn’t fix it musically. In the end, what makes the track almost successful for me, is the use of double-time drum phrases, going back to half time during the stepping unison sections.