Corinne Lucy

[Strattosphere]

Hi

I've just finished producing a song called Strange To The Limit written by my daughter Corinne Lucy (clever monkey!).

It's here - http://bit.ly/4pQYWU

Corinne's Myspace is here - www.corinnelucy.com

Thanks to XITE-1/4LIVE for the tips about using LE-1 and Helter Skelter on the B2003. Fantastic results!

Enjoy!

Strattosphere

[erminardi]

[Strattosphere]

Hi

I've uploaded the song Strange To The Limit here.

Cheers

Stratt

[dawman]

My favorite parts are the oddly seductive background vocals.
I have recorded and performed for decades and can't say I have heard background vox done so differently.
The intonation and pitch sounds like the Harmonizer/Vocoder effect Cher made kind of popular, but actually these are raw well pitched vocals..................or am I wrong?
Break down the recording if you would.
Scope parts, synths, etc.
The Bass sounds awful full for an mp3 too.

Hat's Off 2U Sir..

[Strattosphere]

The intonation and pitch sounds like the Harmonizer/Vocoder effect Cher made kind of popular, but actually these are raw well pitched vocals..................or am I wrong?

You're quite right. The vocals are just well sung with no pitch correction anywhere. I've attached a small MP3 of some of the backing vocals on their own.

The pad synth is Embracer VST (Steinberg) and the big distorted synth is the Creamware Pro12 through a TQDrive.

I've used a B2003 and separated the Upper and Lower manuals into two audio tracks for better control, then fed that through the Helter Skelter.

Drums are a Kickme Too! for Bass drum, one of many samples for the snare, some cymbals from the Drums: Hits & Ambience collection that I won years ago in a Sound On Sound competition.

The brass is actually 9 tracks with slightly different voices from my Yamaha SW1000XG card. I have a Kenton Control Freak that I've used to control the cc for XG filter cutoff on all 9 brass voices separately to get the brass crescendo effect. All 9 voices are at different positions in the stereo field.

There's a xylophone in the middle 8 from the SW1000XG that I've recorded on 6 tracks to get a big panned sound, similar to the brass, then put that through the LE-1 to give it some presence.

There's a guitar that coincides with the big synth sound that I've track duplicated then octaved and time shifted the duplicate track to get a nice 60's ringing quality.

The bass is one of the fretless ones in Trilogy.

I've sent all the brass and drums out through my Alesis Microverb 4 set to a short room, the Harmony vox into a Masterverb Pro set to another short reverb and the main vox, pad and synth into a longer Masterverb Pro.

Stratt