Team members present: Mike, Lee and Bob
What was planned
To record bass guitar and a clean sounding rhythm guitar. Add eq, compression and reverb/chorus effects to these tracks.
What was achieved
Bob played his idea for the intro to Mike and Lee and they both liked it. As it was created using Cubase 6.5, Bob will need to export the new intro sound from his computer as a wav file to be incorporated intro our Cubase 5.5 project at Confetti.
Mike's guitar was connected directly to Cubase via a DI box. Clean (i.e. undistorted) guitar chords were played. This new guitar track was then EQ'ed with a high pass filter and some top end frequencies were boosted to brighten the sound to stop it being smothered in the mix. As the input signal was very dry, reverb was added as a send effect in Cubase to make it sound more natural.
Mike also used a bass guitar to record a bass track. Again this was DI'd directly into Cubase. Compression was added to smooth out the bass sound. The threshold was set fairly low and a ratio of around 4 to 1 applied to ensure that some louder bass notes were pulled back to give an even and punchy sound. Chorus was added as a send effect to thicken the sound and add definition. The bass was also EQ'd with a high pass filter to remove frequencies below 40Hz. A low pass filter was also applied to remove high frequencies. This was done to keep the bass guitar sound from conflicting with the distorted guitar sound, i.e. to help keep the bass well defined in the mix.
Mike's guitar was connected directly to Cubase via a DI box. Clean (i.e. undistorted) guitar chords were played. This new guitar track was then EQ'ed with a high pass filter and some top end frequencies were boosted to brighten the sound to stop it being smothered in the mix. As the input signal was very dry, reverb was added as a send effect in Cubase to make it sound more natural.
Mike also used a bass guitar to record a bass track. Again this was DI'd directly into Cubase. Compression was added to smooth out the bass sound. The threshold was set fairly low and a ratio of around 4 to 1 applied to ensure that some louder bass notes were pulled back to give an even and punchy sound. Chorus was added as a send effect to thicken the sound and add definition. The bass was also EQ'd with a high pass filter to remove frequencies below 40Hz. A low pass filter was also applied to remove high frequencies. This was done to keep the bass guitar sound from conflicting with the distorted guitar sound, i.e. to help keep the bass well defined in the mix.
Next Steps
Incorporate Bob's new intro into the Cubase 5.5 project.
Perform final mix and master the track.
Start work on 'Behind the Sun' remix.
Perform final mix and master the track.
Start work on 'Behind the Sun' remix.
