(Discussion Thread) - Fretboard Challenge #4- Entries

Grunfeld

thomasross20 said:

Very atmospheric - was that your voice!?

@thomasross20 -- yep, sounds like me.  I tried a text-to-speech program but it sounded like Stephen Hawking which was not what I was aiming for!

thomasross20

Wow, lots of FX lol!!

Grun, cool voice then lol... 

thecolourbox

Ha indeed, masks the playing underneath somewhat...

thomasross20

Nonsense!

Lev

Wow, can't believe I've picked up a few votes, genuinely chuffed at that.

My recording process was this:

Created 2 tracks using my Alesis Q49 keyboard with Air Ignite instruments. One track was a vocal choir effect and then added the piano riff on top of that. I had experimented quite a bit with adding drums but it just didn't seem to fit the video. In the end I decided to bring the piano to the forefront and let that drive the rhythm.

Imported these tracks into Reaper and recorded a bass line with a Zoom G3 and then the guitar bends with my Baja Tele into the G3 (Twin models with reverse delay).

All the sound effects were just cobbled together from various Google searches and imported into Reaper. As I said earlier Reaper added the video as a separate track so it was pretty straight forward to sync up the effect clips.

thecolourbox

I for one love hearing how the tracks came about, almost as much as listening to them. I'm noticing the g3 (and indeed telecasters!) are getting a good workout on this one in particular