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For I am the Moon - Sunshine Garcia Band - Daniel Y - 05-09-2013 This is my take on the song, For I am the Moon. I will say this is probably one of the most challenging songs I've had to mix, just the sheer number of vocal tracks was pretty daunting at first. Also, I found it incredibly hard to combine some of the parts. When I started auditioning the parts they didn't quite line up to my satisfaction, so I took quite a bit of liberty in the editing and arrangement. I had initially started to combine the four lead parts(2 alto and 2 soprano), but quickly found each was pretty much their own solo performance. Sometimes subtle words were changed from performance to performance and the phrasing varied quite a bit from each performance as well, making it near impossible, without some serious editing and time realigning to make things work. I ended up scrapping the alto part because it was just too different from the soprano to make it work. Not that it didn't sound good, all the vocals sounded amazing, I just chose to build the song around the soprano as the lead. I also omitted the beatbox vocals and the bass synth tracks, they just seemed strange to me and seemed to muddy up things I thought were more important and I wanted to give it some space and room to breathe. Anyways, let me know what you think. Thanks! RE: For I am the Moon - Sunshine Garcia Band - mik123 - 05-09-2013 (05-09-2013, 12:44 PM)Daniel Y Wrote: This is my take on the song, For I am the Moon. I will say this is probably one of the most challenging songs I've had to mix, just the sheer number of vocal tracks was pretty daunting at first. Also, I found it incredibly hard to combine some of the parts. When I started auditioning the parts they didn't quite line up to my satisfaction, so I took quite a bit of liberty in the editing and arrangement. I had initially started to combine the four lead parts(2 alto and 2 soprano), but quickly found each was pretty much their own solo performance. Sometimes subtle words were changed from performance to performance and the phrasing varied quite a bit from each performance as well, making it near impossible, without some serious editing and time realigning to make things work. I ended up scrapping the alto part because it was just too different from the soprano to make it work. Not that it didn't sound good, all the vocals sounded amazing, I just chose to build the song around the soprano as the lead. I also omitted the beatbox vocals and the bass synth tracks, they just seemed strange to me and seemed to muddy up things I thought were more important and I wanted to give it some space and room to breathe. Sorry, but this is no right decision to excitement song! Google translate! RE: For I am the Moon - Sunshine Garcia Band - takka360 - 05-09-2013 I think this is a very good myself. Great space in places,a very live sound. RE: For I am the Moon - Sunshine Garcia Band - Daniel Y - 07-09-2013 Made some adjustments after listening back. I thought the djembe sounded too boomy in places. RE: For I am the Moon - Sunshine Garcia Band - KAMAZI - 21-11-2014 Nice work !! |