TGF Do Something Challenge - Season 11 Week 2

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Week 2 of Season 11 is OVER!
Results are posted here! You will also post your Week 3 submits at that link!
Kudos and thanks to those who participated in Weeks 1&2 of Season 11, so glad to have each and every one of you stepping up to the Challenge!!!
You can still comment, like, etc. in this thread if you choose to do so!!​

 

[nightlight]

Wow, that’s a lot of chug. Well done.

Thank you!

 

[László]

#orig

Almost didn't have time to do one this week, and just got caught up on checking out what everyone has been doing. Great stuff all around!

This one is a song I wrote a long time ago when I was an angry young man, so I'm warning you there are some F bombs in it. The lyrics came back to me a few weeks ago and I threw together a quick demo of it just for fun yesterday and finished it this morning. I probably had more verses back in the day, but here it is, an old man singing about the anger of his youth!

Oh, the tech details, drums are Logic drummer, bass was direct through the UAD console Ampeg sim, and the rhythm guitars were my Les Paul Studio into my Mk IIC+ (left), JP2C (middle), and Synergy Killer Kali (right). Lead was Killer Kali, Vocals are all me with some processing,

I freaking love the guitar solo. Nice song, too.

 

[László]

Let me know if this is a bad idea. If it’s okay I’m gonna submit my progress on Lenny. I’ll do it weekly and see how much progress I make by week 8. Here is where I’m at now, and tonight is the first time I’ve strung these sections together. Hopefully I hit less bad notes as it goes on.

#cover

Sounds terrific.

 

[László]

#orig

Another late night idea. Stayed up past my bedtime.
I used my white tele and yellow strat, Fender Mustang and Rumble native plugins, Helix Native too. SD3 drums. Knifonium synth in there a bit.
Carcosa fuzz and Mystic edge pedals for solo boosts.

If only I had your chops! I always say this. But it's 100% true.

 

[László]

This weeks damage.



#original

As always. superb work.

 

[FuzzyAce]

If only I had your chops! (I'd come up with better tracks lol) I always say this. But it's 100% true.

FIFY.

Appreciate the kind words!
I always enjoy your music when you post.

 

[László]

FIFY.

Appreciate the kind words!
I always enjoy your music when you post.

Thanks!

I just wanted to have something weird as background music for aliens in a picture, etc.

 

[FuzzyAce]

Thanks!

I just wanted to have something weird as background music for aliens in a picture, etc.

Sounds right to me then!
What plugs did you use for this one?

 

[László]

What plugs did you use for this one?

There's an upright piano sound, heavily treated and washed in reverb, using Lekko, by Felt Instruments. That's doubled with a celeste, done with Spitfire Orchestra. The tympani rolls are Spitfire's Hans Zimmer Pro library. I used Spitfire's Albion Solstice for the folk fiddle sound that comes in and out.

The lower midrange arpeggiated synth is Synthmaster 3.

I used 3 instances of Ffosso for all other sounds: the stones rattling, the string sounds that aren't really strings (saturation/slight distortion via Plugin Alliance's Looptrotter Sat2Rate 2). Very low in the mix is an electronic kick I did with Softube Heartbeat.

I used Eventide's Temperance Lite for the Felt piano reverb, in a heavy wash. The overall reverb is ADPTR Utopia.

All instrument tracks were run through SSL's 4000E console emulation; from there into buses where I used SSL's Bus Compressor 2. I generally have buses for piano, strings, orchestral percussion, miscellaneous percussion, synths, and combinations, like the Ffosso stuff.

The stereo bus was treated with SSL/Harrison's mastering EQ, another instance of SSL's Bus Compressor 2,

That's it.