Monday, June 14, 2010

Peter Gabriel Remix

Its been a really long time since ive been on the blog, took forever to remember my password... We did that really long Gravity Remix project but most of us were to stupid to know its a terrible idea to stream our project peices from Stublic... Sorry Mr. Rabuse.
Anyways, my remix. I didnt particularly like either song choice for this time around, but I decided the Peter Gabriel song had most interesting stems. I started off this project by rejecting the vocals and then playing each stem in reverse (used the option in Edison). I Loved the way certain parts of that sounded. I used these parts at various parts of my remix, most notably the intro. I put a TON of effects on this remix. More than I have ever used by far. My new favorite tool is the Multiband Compressor. It is exactly what ive wanted all year, you can do practically anything with it. And I pretty much used it on every little peice of this project. I used plenty of delay, panning, and pitch automations, and practically every other tool/effect I could think of at some point of this remix. I really cant name all the effects I used, but im trying to name the interesting ones. I used phaser on the bass which easily turned out nicely. I used a delay effect on the synths which wasnt totally neccesary, but I liked how it came out.
I had two big problems on this project. I had a ton of static from pumping too much through all the different channels in the mixer with the mess of all the effects. But this wasnt actually a problem at all, when I exported all the noise was gone. I remembered when first opening FL Studio in class and listening to the song by Zircon I was amazed to hear alot of static in a professionals work, but when I exported that (to get a free MP3 of a really nice song) I remember the noise was gone, so why shouldnt it do the same for my project? My other problem was that, even though I had so many effects and such to make the stems sound much fuller, I had a sound that really was missing something pretty important. I listened to the original a few times and decided I had no choice to add the vocals. I only put them in sparingly, where it was really needed. The effect on the vocals is also courtesy of the Multiband Compressor, I used the radio preset, but I had to open up the filter a little to make it a bit clearer and less harsh. The female vocals also have the M-B.C. on them, but that was only a slight effect I came up with. I put that on the vocals to make them more full and interesting, along with delay. I also added a second bass line at parts to try to fill in the silence. The riff I came up with is fine in my opinion, and the placement is pretty good, but I only had ten minutes to come up with the sound in Sytrus (maybe should have tried BooBass) so im not entirely happy with it, but its the very basic idea of what I wanted. I felt I needed it because at points the supplied bass stem wasnt really contributing much low end. I think my bass line goes well with the background synth (the one that also ends the song), and if I had a few more minutes I could get it to go perfectly, but oh well, my class time is done.
Ive posted my remix along with a music video of the original song (since most people did the other song choice). This is an old song so I figure the stems I used were recreated or cleaned up or something, because they were alot sharper (brighter?) and duller sounding (if that makes any sense).