XITE-1/4LIVE wrote:
The intonation and pitch sounds like the Harmonizer/Vocoder effect Cher made kind of popular, but actually these are raw well pitched vocals..................or am I wrong?
You're quite right. The vocals are just well sung with no pitch correction anywhere. I've attached a small MP3 of some of the backing vocals on their own.
The pad synth is Embracer VST (Steinberg) and the big distorted synth is the Creamware Pro12 through a TQDrive.
I've used a B2003 and separated the Upper and Lower manuals into two audio tracks for better control, then fed that through the Helter Skelter.
Drums are a Kickme Too! for Bass drum, one of many samples for the snare, some cymbals from the Drums: Hits & Ambience collection that I won years ago in a Sound On Sound competition.
The brass is actually 9 tracks with slightly different voices from my Yamaha SW1000XG card. I have a Kenton Control Freak that I've used to control the cc for XG filter cutoff on all 9 brass voices separately to get the brass crescendo effect. All 9 voices are at different positions in the stereo field.
There's a xylophone in the middle 8 from the SW1000XG that I've recorded on 6 tracks to get a big panned sound, similar to the brass, then put that through the LE-1 to give it some presence.
There's a guitar that coincides with the big synth sound that I've track duplicated then octaved and time shifted the duplicate track to get a nice 60's ringing quality.
The bass is one of the fretless ones in Trilogy.
I've sent all the brass and drums out through my Alesis Microverb 4 set to a short room, the Harmony vox into a Masterverb Pro set to another short reverb and the main vox, pad and synth into a longer Masterverb Pro.
Stratt
