10-08-2013, 12:50 PM
(09-08-2013, 08:57 PM)Don Perignon Wrote: Wow! I'm impressed! First thing I noticed is how big the instrumental is. Very nice use of the synth! I really like the auto-tune on the chorus, it's the perfect amount. The amp on the ad-lib is cool, I wish I would've thought about that. And what is that sound at the end, it's like a bell or something? I like it.
Thanks!
The auto-tunes are set on "little over-the-top settings", like an effect of it's own. It seems to emphasize the "pop" aspect of the chorus nicely.
I'm hearing this "amp" thingy quite a lot on Kanye West's "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" (which is probably my favourite recent hip-hop album production-wise).
The "bell" sound is actually just the melody piano pitch shifted one octave up (with some artifacts kept intact, I'm a sucker for glitchy sounds) with some added delays. I felt the last chorus needed like a small last straw to really push it up to eleven so I came up with that.
(09-08-2013, 08:57 PM)Don Perignon Wrote: The vox were tracked in a room with no treatment except for an AE-F Pro from Soundkitz. Mic placement could have been better and unfortunately some mics just don't play well with some voices. But that was well over a year ago. I've learned a lot since then.
Anyways, great mix!
I guess I wasn't necessarily referring the mic placement and such, but more about the emcees themselves. It seems to me one can get technically really decent vocal recordings with simply singing close enough to the mic and not recording in a one square meter cement closet
. After that it's all about the vocalists. I guess I felt the rappers could benefit couple of vocal lessons to get their voices "heard".