Another great idea:
Take lyrics that are (by virtue of them being somewhat older) definitely among the public domain body of works, combine them with some very aggressive sound, deliberately opt for a “crappy” sound – and my first ever hardcore/metalcore track, Aeneis, is on its way.
For today, that meant:
- defining drum sounds: Using Battery 2′s “Multi-Mic Kit” and of that using only the “Trash Mic” channels, and then sending that through a heavily pumping compressor paved the way for a really bad drum sound.
- bass guitar: kinda lemmy, but with a hidden fully embodied fundament.
- guitars: screaming!
- vocals: to be done later.
The piece goes in four parts (rather an intro and three distinctive parts). The lyrics are spread through the three main parts – and they take about one to two lines from the Aeneis by Vergil (Latin language). That, however, still needs to be done.
So for most of the day, I had to fight with instruments I don’t master (read: guitars), and playing them really fast – or trying to get Cubase to fake that for me, which is kinda tricky, as Cubase has a myriad of strategies for reacting to tempo changes (i.e. VariAudio, AudioWarp, Slicing, realtime timestretch, whatever), and all those work together (or not) in a very peculiar fashion.
Having said that: no track for today (I’m only done with the introduction, and the drum and bass parts for sections one – no vocals yet), so I leave you with some photo shots.
