Cover of Duran Duran's Planet Earth.
1 Bassline, 3 PCMSynth, 2 Beatbox, 3 Modular, 1 8-bit, 2 vocoders.
Guitar and 'vocal' loops recorded on a Tascam DP24 (guitars with M-Audio Blackbox, vocals with generic condenser mic), audio edited in Caustic 3. Mastered in Caustic (additional Tube-compressor and limiter in Audition used for MP3 encoding).
EP Album 'Oblivion Messages Out Now'
Wow, this sounds amazing. The live guitars really set it off.
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Thanks. The guitars are just two different loops (I think there are three guitars in the actual loop) running through PCMSynth. It's probabaly less than five seconds of actual playing - I love samplers :)
Yeah, I am really enjoying samplers as a way to mix up my playing. For a cover, I guess you are somewhat stuck w/ sticking to the original but I love to just play along and get a couple cool phrases, chop 'em up and mix 'em back together. You get some stuff that's still your sound/feel but are phrases you never would have (and never did!) actually play. Or, like on the last track I did, I accidentally pitched a sample of my guitar playing by an octave and it just all of a sudden worked perfect in the mix when I was struggling w/ it before.
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This is much slower than the original, but after trying lots of things with the vocals (ie trying to sound like Simon LeBon) I discovered the joy of vocoders (Caustic makes them easier to sequence than anything else I've ever tried) and so I tried it. I did a more punk cover which is all live instrumentation and quite enjoyed it, but I think this the best thing I've ever produced - the loops (especially the bass and the guitars) are quite relentless.
Realistically, you are just not going to get that Simon LeBon sound w/o drastically altering your hair so the vocoder is a good second option.
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Very nicely done. I like it slowed down from the original
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Thanks. Two separate guitar loops (I count three guitars in the real loop) were processed by PCMSynth to create the final guitar sound. I'm a sucker for samplers, so the actual playing time is probably less than five seconds at most. geometry dash