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remixing older stuff
I made some demos of the ideas I had the last time I had a place to work, but on a really slow computer for the task. and with the result of a lot of deficiencies even for demos.
but people seemed to go for a lot of it, I think the music is sound.
So, I'm remixing, and just rearranging and even reworking most of it. there are a couple things where there were no deficiencies in the tracks and I managed to have them mastered, but that's about 10% of what I had.
One thing is the title sequence for a Godzilla movie I wrote, yep finished an entire screenplay.
The arrangement is very sort of overdone, a gigantor of a sound, and it's been a bitch to mix.
I may just have to lose some things in it which seem essential. there are a lot of orch cymbals, which might be in the way of the drum kit, which is loaded with china cymbals and gongs. and these orch drum rolls, all kinds of thunder, and clashes. a 130" tamtam ringing kind of crowds the room a bit....
it's probably starting to sound like someone with a loss in hearing in the highs, though I'm fine, it's just so much midrange (and I can't seem to scoop ENOUGH), and low mids, that I am overcompensating with some highs that are shrill;
I have taken steps to acquire a plugin suite which is SO ANALOG it's sick, but he's been windows-only until now, and the thing which (sub)-hosts it is what will even enable it to run on OSX, and that's brand new.
(Small developers who I am dealing directly with, eager to please, so I'm good.)
I used the host, 'Nebula' on some tracks which aren't hurting so much, and instant sort of rounding off using the 'tube limiter', sounds instantly more like I'm running tape, so could be just the next step as far as getting a decent sound out of these digital objects.
but people seemed to go for a lot of it, I think the music is sound.
So, I'm remixing, and just rearranging and even reworking most of it. there are a couple things where there were no deficiencies in the tracks and I managed to have them mastered, but that's about 10% of what I had.
One thing is the title sequence for a Godzilla movie I wrote, yep finished an entire screenplay.
The arrangement is very sort of overdone, a gigantor of a sound, and it's been a bitch to mix.
I may just have to lose some things in it which seem essential. there are a lot of orch cymbals, which might be in the way of the drum kit, which is loaded with china cymbals and gongs. and these orch drum rolls, all kinds of thunder, and clashes. a 130" tamtam ringing kind of crowds the room a bit....
it's probably starting to sound like someone with a loss in hearing in the highs, though I'm fine, it's just so much midrange (and I can't seem to scoop ENOUGH), and low mids, that I am overcompensating with some highs that are shrill;
I have taken steps to acquire a plugin suite which is SO ANALOG it's sick, but he's been windows-only until now, and the thing which (sub)-hosts it is what will even enable it to run on OSX, and that's brand new.
(Small developers who I am dealing directly with, eager to please, so I'm good.)
I used the host, 'Nebula' on some tracks which aren't hurting so much, and instant sort of rounding off using the 'tube limiter', sounds instantly more like I'm running tape, so could be just the next step as far as getting a decent sound out of these digital objects.
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Comment by Jan Civil on July 13, 2009 at 5:35pm -
right on!
Huh. I didn't see that, that's just an 'About me' page.
there is a whole series of things about analog and his process of...
which I cannot find! just some very detailed descriptions of the products.
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Comment by Ray Kemp on July 13, 2009 at 3:24pm -
OK we better let folk read his mission statement Jan,
find it here
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Comment by Jan Civil on July 13, 2009 at 3:14pm
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Yeah. I had to buy the Nebula knowing nothing, except a smallish kind of fanatical fan base I found on his forum. I expect to run maximum buffer sizes, here is 1024, for any cute mixing. I do need to use things like compression and multiband limiting in the chain while arranging, for that I use Vienna Suite, which somehow is very light here.
The one thing I tried in on in the original project, with all the vstis still thawed, it didn't seem to strain the CPU any. But that isn't with the Angelarts thing in it.
Anyway, just a big thumbs up and recommendation regarding Mr Angel. He was willing to give me money back if I couldn't use the things, in just a very attentive series of emails, he's a swell guy, as well as having something rare to offer.
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Comment by Ray Kemp on July 13, 2009 at 3:05pm
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It was the CD Soundmaster collection by Michael Angel that swung it for me. I bought Nebula 3 on the strength of his emulations.
Only trouble is these tools are for mixing and mastering because the high latency is no use for real time playing earlier in the signal chain.
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Comment by Jan Civil on July 13, 2009 at 2:58pm
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Yes, that's it. I tested 'Nebula free' to make sure it worked. That one had one of these really 'stripped down' GUIs if ya know what I mean. But it's really the sound. The one guy Michael Angel of CD Sound Master is one of these geniuses who model things mathematically. His mission statemen, (kind of a long read) describes how he wanted to get all the best things of an analog mixing chain and take out all the garbage what builds up in such a chain. It was so good-sounding, (and I based it on the most drastic processing he has up in the demo, which obviously color the sound the most, and it is analog as far as I'm concerned), that I bought a couple things even though it's windows executables and I don't have any windows set up. Anyway, the guy's a sweetheart and hipped me to the Nebula character, which is just now porting this host to OSX. so there is this sort of secret format which is the shit. And it's not very expensive. The Nebula can REALLY boost your signal exponentially, you go for a 1dB boost and it's massive with that 'tube limiter' preset. I don't do maths at all, donno what that's about.
But I'm going for a pretty dirty sound with the rock stuff, which sounds like crap even with a good clipper, and I found this to round off the top instantly. I need to study mastering more in depth now.
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