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The Thin Sallow Face

By Paisleyfrog on February 4, 2024 4:02 am

This one came from inspiration from last week, where MRDRCAT told me about In the Nursery, and reminded me of the orchestral/electronic music I've done in the past. I started working on music in that vein, but it was FIGHTING me...and I realized it's been a solid eight years since I've written in that style. So I decided to crib from myself and do a complete rewrite of one of my old songs for this week, using methods and techniques that I've learned in the past nine years. Previous mix used samples from Detour (among others - public domain). New samples in this mix (from The Midnight Phantom, public domain).

The funny thing is, I still wasn't happy with how my original mix turned out - so I went back to my original song project, and took a few notes on what the hell I actually did the first time around. Turns out that Logic has removed some of the plugins that I leaned very heavily on before in the current version...but you can still download them as a legacy version. I also took some notes on what I did to make the drums sound huge and clean...it was sort of a mess the first time around.

Mixed in Logic Pro
Hardware: TD-3, RD-6 (run through the 256XL effects rack)
Orchestral sounds via EastWest Symphony Orchestra samples

Nice one.  I can see how you invoked In the Nursery, gave the track a kind of cinematic quality to it.  And switching from a sort of electro-industrial opening (which the samples kind of double downed on) to the orchestral music worked really well.

Really dig the how the orchestral and electronic parts intersect, like having timpani hits over an electronic beat. Epic!

You are on the way to becoming one of my favourite industrial bands

Yeaaah! Love how the cinematic vibe develops around 1:30.

building up to that massive action sequence

dude, this goes so hard, and I love the strings for that
epic drums, too
- Ebrit

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