Nights are Forever Without You
Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2019 5:12 am
https://soundcloud.com/drdrdaddeo/nights-are-forever
After weeks of home studio work producing a high quality copy of England Dan and John Ford Coley’s, “NIGHT’s ARE FOREVER WITHOUT YOU”, the song is finally finished and uploaded to SoundCloud. It was recorded track by track over many weeks in two different home studios using MTS for iPad, a 9.7” iPad Pro, and a Presonus Audiobox iTWO digital interface. It contains lead, 2, 3, and 4 part vocal harmonies recorded direct to MTS via an APOGEE USB MiC. There are two tracks of twelve string guitar (Taylor Acoustic Electric), five tracks of 6-string guitar (all Stratocaster), 1 track of electric bass (Godin hollow body), 4 percussion tracks (click track, live Bongo drums and two tracks of percussion loops and fills (Drum Loops HD), and 1 track each of solo violin, string ensemble, and electric piano (all from SampleTank). I could never get the exact sound that I wanted on the two lead guitar tracks using my Strat direct into MTS with MTS’s built-in effects. My Les Paul would probably have sounded thicker but I would never have been able to adequately pitch bend its heavier strings.
This 24bit, 48 KHz recording is fairly large, containing 18 separate tracks (all effects are from MTS). I always use AudioShare to convert waveforms in and out of MTS into lossless .m4A files which are quite compact but high quality (final .m4a mix is only 2.5 Mb). They can be quickly up- and down-loaded to Dropbox, easily edited exactly like .wav files, and/or sent to my musical collaborater as simple text attachments (e-mail, iTunes and DropBox are not really needed). The keyboard track was originally a Midi track played from an ALESIS Q88 USB keyboard, then MIDI edited in MTS and rendered to a stereo audio file using SampleTank as an IAA instrument. The final stereo mixdown contains a bit of master compression and master limiter. NAFWY was a two man project. My partner, Dave, sang the lead and middle vocals, and I did the falsetto and low tenor vocals. Dave played bass, bongos, and both 12-string tracks. I arranged the drum tracks, played the five 6-string guitar tracks, the keyboard track, the violin track and the string ensemble track (via MIDI), and did all the editing and mixdown work. The master compression/limiter effects added in the final mix greatly clarified the sound and maximized headroom without any clipping.
Fun project that turned out pretty nicely.
Drdrdaddeo
After weeks of home studio work producing a high quality copy of England Dan and John Ford Coley’s, “NIGHT’s ARE FOREVER WITHOUT YOU”, the song is finally finished and uploaded to SoundCloud. It was recorded track by track over many weeks in two different home studios using MTS for iPad, a 9.7” iPad Pro, and a Presonus Audiobox iTWO digital interface. It contains lead, 2, 3, and 4 part vocal harmonies recorded direct to MTS via an APOGEE USB MiC. There are two tracks of twelve string guitar (Taylor Acoustic Electric), five tracks of 6-string guitar (all Stratocaster), 1 track of electric bass (Godin hollow body), 4 percussion tracks (click track, live Bongo drums and two tracks of percussion loops and fills (Drum Loops HD), and 1 track each of solo violin, string ensemble, and electric piano (all from SampleTank). I could never get the exact sound that I wanted on the two lead guitar tracks using my Strat direct into MTS with MTS’s built-in effects. My Les Paul would probably have sounded thicker but I would never have been able to adequately pitch bend its heavier strings.
This 24bit, 48 KHz recording is fairly large, containing 18 separate tracks (all effects are from MTS). I always use AudioShare to convert waveforms in and out of MTS into lossless .m4A files which are quite compact but high quality (final .m4a mix is only 2.5 Mb). They can be quickly up- and down-loaded to Dropbox, easily edited exactly like .wav files, and/or sent to my musical collaborater as simple text attachments (e-mail, iTunes and DropBox are not really needed). The keyboard track was originally a Midi track played from an ALESIS Q88 USB keyboard, then MIDI edited in MTS and rendered to a stereo audio file using SampleTank as an IAA instrument. The final stereo mixdown contains a bit of master compression and master limiter. NAFWY was a two man project. My partner, Dave, sang the lead and middle vocals, and I did the falsetto and low tenor vocals. Dave played bass, bongos, and both 12-string tracks. I arranged the drum tracks, played the five 6-string guitar tracks, the keyboard track, the violin track and the string ensemble track (via MIDI), and did all the editing and mixdown work. The master compression/limiter effects added in the final mix greatly clarified the sound and maximized headroom without any clipping.
Fun project that turned out pretty nicely.
Drdrdaddeo