This is about a track called:I started working on this track at my day job when I needed to test out my new computer and the software I installed on it. So it's basically a test track.
Inspiration for this one came from the brilliant movie "District 9". I loved it's realistic approach to scifi, the themes it touched and well just about everything about it. I wanted to create something on a similar basis.
As the basic ideas and inspiration behind this track were quite opressive I wanted to create a gritty sound. This in turn gave me a good chance to get familiar with NI Guitar Rig 3, which I hadn't used before. Also getting my hands on FM8 was something I had waited for a while. I used quite a lot of distortion and compressing on a lot of the instruments to get that dirty sound. I found that Audio Damage's RoughRider gives out a quite nice crushed sound so I used that quite a lot on different tracks.
The biggest new technical thing on this track was mixing it in surround sound. It's a whole new world for me and experimenting doing a surround mix took some time. The first four or five mixes were totally and utterly incomprehensible. But after a few mistakes I found the right kind of balance for everything so that the track sounds good in normal stereo and surround. Listening to in surround gives a few more little things to the listener, but it's not necessary.
With a lot emphasis on the grittiness and harshness of sound I wanted to bring a "human" element into the track. I chose a set of natural sounds from an up close and personal violin to warm ethnic percussions and Arabian Oud lute. I used them to round out the overall sound and to get a more vibrant air. The middle between the earthy natural instruments and the gritty synthetic side I filled with orchestral strings and brass.
Overall I'm pretty satisfied with the results and will definately continue exploring along these lines.
Gear used for this track:
DAWs and editors:
- Cakewalk Sonar 8
- Sony SoundForge 7
- NI Kontakt 3
- NI FM8
- u-He Zebra
- NI Battery 3
- NI Massive
- Cakewalk TTS-1
- NI Guitar Rig 3
- NI Kontakt 3 Library
- Sonivox Flying Hand Percussion
- Cakewalk TTS-1 Library
- NI Battery 3 Library
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