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Xmas Member Assignment 2024 - Fatboy Slim Tribute - Win Avenger 2!

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I actually thought I might be first to post, as there was nothing on here when I checked yesterday - ah well! Great job, Transpire.
As Petter has mentioned, I also struggled with this one. My first attempt was a complete disaster. I'm a little happier with this one, although I think despite using several Big Beat techniques (automated filters, phased drums, repeated/stuttered sections) I may have drifted into a more standard kind of EDM (if there is such a thing) - who knows, maybe I've actually created a new subgenre, so just in case I've decided to name it "Big BDM"!
Anyway, here's my track - hope you like it
https://community.producertech.com/technic-tone/uploaded_audio/446/shake-it-loose

updated by @technic-tone: 01/13/25 04:47:53PM

It's Christmas!

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Thanks, looking forward to another assignment

It's Christmas!

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Hi all,

I decided to get into the Christmas spirit and have a bit of fun (with more than a slice of festive cheese)!

Here's my Christmas song I've just finished.

Hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I did writing it

Merry Christmas!

https://community.producertech.com/technic-tone/uploaded_audio/444/santa-will-come-bouncing-down-our-big-chimney

8 TRACK ATTACK! New Member Assignment

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Wow, this was a tough one - I've never used so much automation for the various effects. Definitely an interesting exercise, but what I can say with some certainty is that I will not be adopting the minimalist approach moving forwards!
I'm not very good with genres, but (hopefully) this is a house dance kind of style. My eight tracks are listed below. Fingers crossed, this one is a little more on target than my David Essex entry last time!

https://community.producertech.com/technic-tone/uploaded_audio/439/dancing-on-the-rooftops

8 tracks:
vocal
synth 1
synth 2
bass synth
clap
hi-hat
snare
kick

8 TRACK ATTACK! New Member Assignment

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No David Essex and only eight tracks - I'm not sure how I'll cope!

Just to clarify, do the eight tracks have to contain the same instruments all the way through, or so long as we don't use more than eight different instruments (tracks) in any one section, can we vary them?

Thanks

Build a Banger - Member Assignment

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Hi everyone,

Here's my entry:

https://community.producertech.com/technic-tone/uploaded_audio/427/a-winters-tale

And, yes, before anyone says anything, I know it's not Christmas! - but I've always loved this song, and it's a classic 'banger' in my opinion.

I hope I've done the original justice. A fun assignment, thanks

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This is great Tone! Really digging it. I can see you going up and up the ranks in these comps!

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Thanks Samuel

Build a Banger - Member Assignment

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Hi everyone,

Here's my entry:

https://community.producertech.com/technic-tone/uploaded_audio/427/a-winters-tale

And, yes, before anyone says anything, I know it's not Christmas! - but I've always loved this song, and it's a classic 'banger' in my opinion.

I hope I've done the original justice. A fun assignment, thanks

updated by @technic-tone: 06/23/24 10:55:02PM

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Hi Petter,

That's great, thanks for the info. I was surprised in the video how high he'd got the side-chained dynamic EQ set to duck the vocal (almost 5 kHz), although I suppose it did have quite a wide Q.

Thanks again,

Tone

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Hi Samuel,

Yes, I couldn't believe the quality of the synthesized vocals compared to what I've used before - I'd even say they're better than a few of the real singers I've hired on Fiverr!

Even now that I understand what compression does and how it works, I still seem to struggle to hear it at times. With most of the sounds being electronic (and even the singers too now, I guess!) I don't tend to use compressors that much, other than on the vocal tracks and during the mastering stage, so if it's getting a little squashed it must be during that part of the process.

I recently saw a cool technique using soothe2 where a producer side-chained the lead vocal to the instrument bus and then got the plugin to carve out some space, which seemed to work really well, but as I don't own soothe2 I'll have to keep at it manually for the time being!

Thanks for your feedback, much appreciated

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Hi Petter,

Thanks so much for such detailed feedback. I'm glad you brought up automation as I really ought to start using it more. I seem to spend a lot of time these days trying to get vocals to sit better in the mix - Rob's tutorial on the subject really helped - but it often feels like a battle between trying to get the lead vocal to shine through while still retaining a reasonable amount of the accompanying tracks. I think your suggestion of low filtering that gradually builds could help in this area.

I recently purchased Synthesizer V, along with the Natalie voicebank. It can take a little bit of tinkering to get it to sound how you want, but I think that's the beauty of the software as there are a lot of elements that you can control. Having previously used Emvoice, which was a great placeholder until finding a real singer, I'm very impressed with how natural you can get this virtual voice to sound.

Thanks again for your feedback - certainly a lot there to think about