Alright, so I rushed it last time. I had burned a compressed signal of the kick drum and forgot to mute the original, so there were two kick tracks in that last mix. Bad bad bad. I tweaked some other things and redid the vocal tracks. Overall I think it sounds much better than the original.
Let me know what you think.
Leftovers. Decided to finish this tonight. It’s been sitting on my hard drive for a while. I’ve also put it up on MeMeMeGimmeGimmeSpace, something I haven’t done in a long time.
The only really exciting thing I did in this song is the synths in the beginning and rubbing snares across a mic grill. If you consider that exciting.
Comments/criticism is welcome, musical or engineeringical. Bring it.
There’s a newer mix of this song here
Started this a while ago. Sort of finished it the other day. It’s a weak ending, but I like the rest of it. Plus, I got to overuse my new Pro VLA II.
I’ll post the corresponding Live set soon.
Take it away, Creative Commons…
The samples in the live set (most notably the drum machines) are too large to zip up and put here for download. Let me know if you really really want it and we’ll work something out.
Original song is here
This is an Ableton Live Pack (.alp) for use with Ableton Live. I created the set with Live 7 and I’m not sure if it’s backwards compatible. The set file should be, but I do make heavy use of some of the new features of 7:
There are a few instances of Operator, too. I’m sure you can find viable alternatives3 to these.
I’m also using a couple (free) third-party plugins:
I’m having fun with my new copy of Live 7. I think it was definitely worth the student discounted price I paid for it, and I will surely use it for educational purposes only.
John Locke Syndrome by Ross Brown is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
1 I think this was introduced in Live 6, but I believe it got some tweaks for the new version.
2 This replaces Compressor I and Compressor II from earlier versions and is way better.
3 Might I point you to studiotoolz?
This is a piece I’ve been working on for a while. I tried to experiment with things I don’t usually do, and I’m pretty pleased with how it turned out.
I’ve also uploaded the Live Set if anyone wants to play with it.
Here’s a little test song I did mainly with the Cascade Fat Head.
Drums: MS Stereo — MXL 991 as Mid and Fat Head as side. In front of and about two feet above kit. About a foot right (low tom side) of snare to try and stereo image the toms a bit more. My high tom is right above the snare, and MS accurately depicts that. SM57 on snare and some cheap Nady kick mic in front of the kick. I was more concerned with the overhead sound. No EQ on Fat Head, scooped out some high mids on the MXL.
Electric Guitar (both): Fat Head about 6” from speaker, on-axis.
Acoustic Guitar: MS Stereo with Fat Head and MXL 991.
Bass: Fat Head about 4” from speaker, on-axis. Rounded off low frequencies at 100hz.
Tambourine: Fat Head. Duhhhh.
There are no effects on any tracks, save for some EQing I talked about above and light compression on the drum bus and master track.
I talked about the Fat Head a little more in my original post.
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