I was away for the holidays, and I just came home yesterday, so the next morning I've found one of my loops I made few months ago, really liked it and got on it to expand it into a song. I had much fun with this track and in my eyes I now consider it as another demo/basis for my first Frozen Waves album. Even though I had limited time today to make the track and post it for the challenge, I dedicated my time to make it good for the end of this season. The mix had some challenges to produce due to the vast sounds it has and the amount of time I've had, so I needed to experiment little bit with the side chaining to clear out the headroom, the results were good in the end, listen it below...
I've set out to make this track with some serious oomph, the first part I made in Trip Hop style while adding some Industrial elements to it, I've looped this for awhile and enjoyed my time improvising, after some time I decided to add the trumpet into the mix, and the whole track started to get some Balkan sound to it 😎finally I decided to electrify the beat even more with some dirty lead using Massive synth. When all that was over and my stems were finished, it was all post production and head nodding on my part, see below more details about what equipment I used on the track, and of course also very happy New Year to you...
- MY audio interface is a very small but useful Focusrite Scarlett 2i4
- Headphones are Beyerdynamic DT 990 Pro
- Beats are made with the Disco Neu kit loaded in Battery 4
- Trumpet comes from Native Instruments "Cuba"
- Most of the synth layers in the mix are made with Waldorf Blofeld synth
- Soft synth is again the incredibly useful Massive from Native Instruments
- Orchestral instruments are Masse by Spitfire Audio that is loaded in Kontakt 5 sampler
- The bass I've used is MODO Bass from IK Multimedia
- Individual track compression and dynamics I made with iZotope Neutron 2
- I've mastered the track with iZotope Ozone 8 Vintage Limiter and EQ
- Reverb is Lexhall by Lexicon and Ableton built-in Reverb
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Found out more about the instruments being used in the track in the links below
BEATS: Battery 4
HARD SYNTH/MIDI: Waldorf Blofeld
SOFT SYNTH: Massive
ORCHESRTA: Masse loaded in Kontakt 5
BASS: MODO Bass
COMPRESSION: iZotope Neutron 2 / iZotope Ozone 8 /
REVERB: Lexhall
Shoutout to the creators and judges of this contest @chiefmappster, @danyelk, @derekmiller, and @andrewlyte
@ivan.atman 02 January 2018
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