MIDI To MAXI

In this track I spent a couple afternoons trying to find a nice guitar melody to play over the piano that i had created on midi. When i had found it out on logic I when to the studio to work on it by playing  around with the pitch bender. I got someone i know from the studio to play what i wanted. Once we had got the best recording for that i went hope and chopped it up and added all the effects on it like reverb and delay. We used and electric guitar which was plugged into a Breakout box (Delta series 66) The bass we used was the same breakout box, but with a different sound choice chosen. None of the instruments were recorded with microphones as we wanted the clearest sound with the effects used from the breakout box. Effects like the low pass filter were used to create an atmosphere whilst the guitar was panned left to right. 

               









   

Finally the Keytar that i used was borrowed off Grant when i had some free time in the studio. It was easy to plug in and had allot of different instruments to choose from including strings piano's and pads, I actually went for the strings and used enough reverb and filter to create it into a pad and adjusting to my original sound i had created. This sound was used to back up the track during the verses where the guitar wasn't involved. Once again no microphone was used in this recording.
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In this project I have 4 layered Steinway pianos which are all separate, in the sense that each one of them is either panned to the left or right or they have different reverbs. I've done this so that the piano is spread across the track as it is the main aspect. I will have to look into different mic's so that i can decide which one would be perfect for the piano, I know it will be a condenser, but I will have to do more research into which one.


The Glacier pad is used to fill out the lower end of the track as the piano is playing quite high notes. It shares the same riff but is played an octave lower around the middle C and is playing single notes without it also playing an octave higher like the piano does.

The track currently has no drums on it because i wanted to mix the style of UK Trap with the 808's with some live recorded drums. whether or no they will work together, I would still like to experiment with the two which is why i have made it a target for my next step. Also you can see it is clipping on the mixer which is another point that i will look into once the drums have been recorded and mastered. Usually i would use a lot of reverb on my snares and drum pads, but if i record them live i may choose a Titan mic to record it with so that i can get a really get the sound of the room.


We finally finished this track which was created by Me,Josh and Jack. It was originally used to created as a trap beat but with help from by the performers they created it into a live set instrumental. This one was quite hard to cut and mix which I think can be noticed. Personally i prefer the Trap version! For this track I had Josh work on the drums which were used with many different Mic's. We had the audix for the Hi tom, middle and Low part of the kit, We then had the sm57 for the snare and the D6 for thee kick to capture the punch of it.



We then were all in the same studio so I used the piano once everyone had recorded to play my piano which wasn't the hardest. We used the sm57 to record the piano because it was already set up. It does sound a little distorted but fits well in the track.
I then had Jack recording the bass through out. Unlike my first recording of bass We used the sm57 mic again to record the bass from the speaker rather then it being plugged in directly. He suggested using the fretless bass which actually sounded really nice and was a good choice from him.
I personally prefer the first track to the 2nd because I feel it was easier to cut up because of the tempo and I enjoyed using the drums from logic although Josh's gave a nice live sound.