Week #40 - Grief

The theme for this week was grief, and I thought I'd try to represent the 5 stages of grief through a series of progressions. Unfortunately, I only got 3 of them done. So I ended up making an arrangement out of what I had. In the end I dropped the drum part because I wasn't happy with my playing and added the pad sound.



Description:

The bass part could have been recorded better and I really wanted to get a usable drum part, but other than that I'm pretty satisfied with how this piece is coming along. The sections I have are meant to roughly represent Denial, Anger, and Bargaining from the Kubler-Ross model of the five stages of grief. I didn't get to Depression or Acceptance, but the idea was to create a piece that moved through the various stages. I never planned to go straight through them, but rather weave in and out of them as human experience is rarely linear.

Tools:

Ableton Live 7
Propellerhead Reason 4
PSP Vintage Warmer 2
BBE Sonic Maximizer
IK Multimedia Vintage Compressor 670
IK Multimedia CSR Hall
Studio Devil AMP

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Notes:

- I wish I'd given myself more time to work on the bass recording. I wanted acoustic bass for the first part and I decided to record rather than use samples, but I didn't have enough time to experiment and really get it right.

- I'm really happy with the sound I got on the two rhythm guitars. I debated adding a lead part, but it didn't seem to fit here. The new Studio Devil AMP plugin is simply amazing. Much easier to use than Guitar Rig, Amplitube, or POD Farm (all of which I own in one form or another), and it just sounds amazing. It really sounds like miking up a real amp to me.

- I'm not satisfied with the pad sound. It was a last minute addition to help on the transistions because I ditched the drum part. I just ran through presets until I found something somewhat in the general direction, but I didn't have time to tweak and perfect the sound.


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