It’s bin a while since I’ve bin here!
So hello again. I posted a lot of electronic stuff the last years, but since september 2012 I went back to
songwriting again.
My latest audio/video recording:
How it’s made:
- Programmed a klicktrack so you have natural tempo changes between different parts.
- To that click I played a guitar and sung words for a slave track.
- Removed the click except for pieces where there is no guitar.
- Set up the first video shot for Cajon.
- Played the cargon to the slave track.
- Removed the guitar and vocal parts.
- Set up video for guitar
- To the cajon part I played the guitar (i still have click on the open pieces)
- Set up video for base and recoded it.
- Then video for vocals, backing vocals and percussion
Every track is recorded live as a whole take.
Mics:
Cajon 4 mics A drumegg in the Cajon, two large diagrams (Rode NTK and Stagg) on the outside and a pencil (Rode M3) on top.
Bas and guitar, line in, no mics where used.
vocals Rode NTK tube mic
percussion Stagg large diagram
Mixing audio:
Cajon
Mixed the balance and stereo between the mics. On the drumegg I used the Cubase envelope shaper to make it more tight plus Cubase Amprack (just a speaker simulator to let the sound cut through)
Routed all 4 tracks to a grouptrack and put a UAD 1176 and Pultec Pro on it. The compressor is set heavily with attack and release on a minium.
Guitar
Send to a FX channel with Cubase Amprack. I used only a speakercabinet and some reverb and panned that a bit and mixed it with the dry level. In the pieces with no drums I bring in the grouptrack a bit more.
Bas
Line in and no more processing.
Vocals and percussion
Some compression, eq and reverb.
Mastering:
UAD: 1176, Pultec Pro, Cambridge EQ and Precision Limiter.
rolled of the low, and did a heavy compression so that the loudest parts had an -6 RMS value.
This because I want the Youtubeversion to stand out also on Phones etc.
I hope you like it!!
Greetz Dylan.
