[jsonar] Re: A track i would love feedback on!
- From: Calvin Botha <djdarkness.botha@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: jsonar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 14:20:35 +0200
Hay danny. Thanks for that fantastic essay☺!! A bit of motivation is
always greatly Appreciated!
Can't agree more with you about poorly reflective surfaces and less
then optimom "bedroom" environments. Eventually when i have graduated
from varsity (which fortunatley will be this year) and actually start
working, I'm going to start building up a propper mixing and
monetoring environment. Indeed, i did produce the instrumental and
absilutely love doing my own bvs as i know what sound i want from my
tracks!
I am currently using sonar 8.5 producer with jaws and jsonar as my
main daw and a saffire pro24 as my audio i/o box.
Will definitely post up more of my stuff once things have cooled down
a bit here and i have time to record some of the tracks that I've
written.
Again, feedback greatly appreciated Danny!
Kind regards.
DJ D@rkn3ss
On 11/6/12, Calvin Botha <djdarkness.botha@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Wow Brian! Thanks for that one man! Greatly appreciated! Glad you
> think its that proffessional☺! Once i have a propper studio with the
> propper equipment and my ears have been even more finely trained, my
> stuff will hopefully be at a commertial level☺!
>
> This was actually quite a complex project, especially on the vocal
> side of things. Generally the way i track my vocals is doubleing up
> each portion i do. I know similar affects are possible with certain
> vsts and as well as some hardware like the TC stuff, but nothing is
> more natural then doubleing up the vocals "manually", so to speak.
>
> I suppose the easiest way to describe the mix is the mind set i had
> for this spicific track. Every vocal part imparted a certain character
> to the track, so i felt that, instead of letting all the vocals fall
> together in one great "mush", i would do something spicific to each
> section to let it stand out and give it its own "space" in the mix.
> For example, the timing and type of the delays on the chorus vocal is
> slightly different to those on the harmony, melody and the bridge. I
> also used equalisation and certain types of reverb to annunciate this.
>
> I used Sonar to produce the instrumental, track the vocals and mix the
> track. For the instrumental i used various virtual instruments ranging
> from sylenth1 (where i often create the synth sounds i want from
> scratch), to NI's kontakt and others like nexis.
>
> I generally don't use pitch correction often, and when i do, its
> generally for suttle corrections. i love using it more on harmonies,
> as it gives that proffessional, and often heard shene on commertial
> albums, when used correctly. For pitch correction i used a combination
> of audition 1.5 (a relic, but i love the character) and autotune 5.
>
> I could mention the tools i used for the delays, reverbs, compression
> and other effects, but i believe its not the tools you have, its the
> way you use them! Its all about what sounds right to you, and what
> effect you're trieing to create.
>
> Now that my rant is complete, hope this is sufficient☺?
>
> Thanks again for the compliments Brian.
>
> Kind regards.
>
> DJ D@rkn3ss.
>
> On 11/6/12, Brian Olesen <brian@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi Calvin,
>> Oh my God! You've got star quality young man!
>>
>> You've done an amacingly professional job with this recording.
>> First I thought. Hmm on which cd is this number located... grin
>>
>> Well if I really go hard on it I can tell super small issues, but nothing
>> that the ordenary audiance would notice, and nothing at all that even
>> comes
>>
>> close to real critizism. Music both have to be perfect, and alive, and
>> your
>>
>> recording definately has both qualities.
>>
>> Then I gave the acapela version a listen, and noticed all your
>> automations,
>>
>> and fine stuff there.
>>
>> Out of curiosity could you please explain to us which plugins and tools
>> you've used?
>> How did you create this nice doubler effect? I feel that you might have a
>> tc
>>
>> voice processor of some kind. is that right?
>> I'd be very interested to hear about how you've acheeved such a nice and
>> smooth r&b alike result of this nice pop tune.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Best regards
>> Brian
>> to real
>> -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
>> From: Calvin Botha
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2012 11:52 AM
>> To: jsonar
>> Subject: [jsonar] A track i would love feedback on!
>>
>> Good day to all.
>>
>> Thought I'd share a recent project that i did to test out my new Rhode
>> NT2a Microphone. It initially started off as a couple of vocals and
>> before i knew it, it had turned in to a fully fledged production. Wish
>> i could say that i owned a studio as the monitoring and recording
>> environment (my bedroom) wasn't ideal, but hay, we all have to start
>> somewhere right?
>>
>> On to the track. Its a cover of Danny Fernandes' - Fantasy. I did all
>> of the production and mixing! Please, any comments and feedback would
>> be greatly appreciated! Here is the DL link to the zip archive which
>> not only includes the track, but also the acapella and instrumental
>> versions.
>>
>> https://dl.dropbox.com/s/jvbq0n0vm8unaet/DJ_D%40rkn3ss_-_Fantasy%28cover%29.zip?dl=1
>>
>> Enjoy!
>>
>> --
>> Kind regards.
>>
>> DJ D@rkn3ss
>>
>> Check me out on Soundcloud:
>>
>> http://soundcloud.com/dj-d-rkn3ss
>>
>> as well as on Youtube:
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/user/CalvinBotha/videos
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Kind regards.
>
> DJ D@rkn3ss
>
> Check me out on Soundcloud:
>
> http://soundcloud.com/dj-d-rkn3ss
>
> as well as on Youtube:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/user/CalvinBotha/videos
>
--
Kind regards.
DJ D@rkn3ss
Check me out on Soundcloud:
http://soundcloud.com/dj-d-rkn3ss
as well as on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/CalvinBotha/videos
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