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Here is the final mix...
I have been uploading weekly evolutions of this song on a
different account and some of you have been listening and
making comments.
A friend of mine Kari, asked me to help her mix some music that
she was working on as part of her music degree. So she turns up
at my house about 6 weeks ago with a midi file, a PDF score and
said 'see what you can do with this'
The midi file was the music you hear here sans drums, bass and
vocals.
The first thing we did was to re-do the instrumentation replacing
the sounds in the midi file with the East-West Symphonic Gold
orchestral sounds. We did the orchestral sounds on Logic 5.5 on
the PC and then bounced them down and transferred them to
Logic 8 on the Mac.
Immediately I found the tricky thing for me was the tempo
changes that Kari had programmed into the midi file (either on pro
tools or finale)
Next step was the vocals. We recorded them about 4 weeks ago -
doing many takes. From these we created a composite of all the
best bits. A little bit of tweaking in Melodyne and we had our vocal
tracks.
At this point, Kari asked if we could add guitar, drums and bass -
something I hadn't accounted for at the beginning of this project
and it was something I knew I was going to find extremely difficult
to do.
This was for 3 main reasons - the aforementioned tempo changes
meant that it was impossible just to drop loops into the track. The
fact that this is a style which I have absolutely no experience with
put me outside of my comfort zone. The final reason was to do
with a limited amount of time I had available due to a forthcoming
trip to England. This meant I had to work to a very strict deadline
as well as try to fit in a number of other projects I am concurrently
working on not to mention other non music related obligations.
I tried to add guitar but failed miserably so I decided to focus on
drums and bass (using Battery 3 and the ES1 synth in Logic). I
played every drum beat manually - snare, hi hat, kick etc...and
then painstakingly pulled and pushed them in to place using the
matrix editor.
The bass was done similarly.
After hearing a mix with these additions, we realised the vocals
were now in need of extra timing pushes. So out came the digital
scissors and more cutting and splicing took place.
Kari had heard some of the other pieces I am working on at the
moment and fell in love with mellotron sounds I used on some of
those tracks (which are yet to be posted). So she asked if she
could try it in this track and added some mellotron sounds this
morning.
Today we worked on the overall mix levels of the track and
corrected a few outlying drum, bass and vocal timing issues.
We added the reverbs we wanted and little bit of vocal delay
effect on one vocal section.
So given the fact that 'I' have run out of time for any more work on
this, here is the final mix in its imperfect glory of Kari Kraakevik's
'Judas', probably the most un-bibanova/particledots-like track you
will ever hear from me on macjams.
It is something we may tweak in future after I get back from the
UK in Sept, but it is very unlikely.
Step aside Andrew Lloyd Weber
Music, Lyrics, Vocal Performances, Mellotron sounds and
arrangement by Kari
Production in Logic Audio 5.5 and 8.01, attempts at drums and
bass on a tempo fluctuating track by me.
(many thanks to Cat for the helpful suggestions over the last few
weeks and also to Feter for his support and comments each week
as new mixes were posted)
Here is the final mix...
I have been uploading weekly evolutions of this song on a
different account and some of you have been listening and
making comments.
A friend of mine Kari, asked me to help her mix some music that
she was working on as part of her music degree. So she turns up
at my house about 6 weeks ago with a midi file, a PDF score and
said 'see what you can do with this'
The midi file was the music you hear here sans drums, bass and
vocals.
The first thing we did was to re-do the instrumentation replacing
the sounds in the midi file with the East-West Symphonic Gold
orchestral sounds. We did the orchestral sounds on Logic 5.5 on
the PC and then bounced them down and transferred them to
Logic 8 on the Mac.
Immediately I found the tricky thing for me was the tempo
changes that Kari had programmed into the midi file (either on pro
tools or finale)
Next step was the vocals. We recorded them about 4 weeks ago -
doing many takes. From these we created a composite of all the
best bits. A little bit of tweaking in Melodyne and we had our vocal
tracks.
At this point, Kari asked if we could add guitar, drums and bass -
something I hadn't accounted for at the beginning of this project
and it was something I knew I was going to find extremely difficult
to do.
This was for 3 main reasons - the aforementioned tempo changes
meant that it was impossible just to drop loops into the track. The
fact that this is a style which I have absolutely no experience with
put me outside of my comfort zone. The final reason was to do
with a limited amount of time I had available due to a forthcoming
trip to England. This meant I had to work to a very strict deadline
as well as try to fit in a number of other projects I am concurrently
working on not to mention other non music related obligations.
I tried to add guitar but failed miserably so I decided to focus on
drums and bass (using Battery 3 and the ES1 synth in Logic). I
played every drum beat manually - snare, hi hat, kick etc...and
then painstakingly pulled and pushed them in to place using the
matrix editor.
The bass was done similarly.
After hearing a mix with these additions, we realised the vocals
were now in need of extra timing pushes. So out came the digital
scissors and more cutting and splicing took place.
Kari had heard some of the other pieces I am working on at the
moment and fell in love with mellotron sounds I used on some of
those tracks (which are yet to be posted). So she asked if she
could try it in this track and added some mellotron sounds this
morning.
Today we worked on the overall mix levels of the track and
corrected a few outlying drum, bass and vocal timing issues.
We added the reverbs we wanted and little bit of vocal delay
effect on one vocal section.
So given the fact that 'I' have run out of time for any more work on
this, here is the final mix in its imperfect glory of Kari Kraakevik's
'Judas', probably the most un-bibanova/particledots-like track you
will ever hear from me on macjams.
It is something we may tweak in future after I get back from the
UK in Sept, but it is very unlikely.
Step aside Andrew Lloyd Weber
Music, Lyrics, Vocal Performances, Mellotron sounds and
arrangement by Kari
Production in Logic Audio 5.5 and 8.01, attempts at drums and
bass on a tempo fluctuating track by me.
(many thanks to Cat for the helpful suggestions over the last few
weeks and also to Feter for his support and comments each week
as new mixes were posted)
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Char
Kari is my daughter's name too. Enjoyed this. Thanks.