Soaked
By Sub Delay on August 16, 2014 6:01 pm
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How everything sort of falls in with their backs turned. I love it.
Synths, bells and textures and all
beautiful atmosphere. Just love the way how you manage to melt these "aged vintage" sounds with the wonderfully open pads. (btw. how do you manage to create these "aged" sounds like in the beginning. Are you using a special vst and/or are you doing it manually by filtering, adding noise, crackling etc.?). Regardless it sounds so wonderful.
nice sketch illustrating and condensing all the past events at the deck of the ship ... cinematic. great!
Perplex On wrote:
beautiful atmosphere. Just love the way how you manage to melt these "aged vintage" sounds with the wonderfully open pads. (btw. how do you manage to create these "aged" sounds like in the beginning. Are you using a special vst and/or are you doing it manually by filtering, adding noise, crackling etc.?). Regardless it sounds so wonderful.
Thank you so much! Regarding the "aged sounds", I guess I sort of try out different techniques from track to track...
For example for the intro to Box Klavir, I recorded some stuff using softsynths, and then played it into the room through my speakers, while recording the result back in with a mono microphone I had sitting on my desk just to make it sound...well "crappier" I guess 
For the part you mention in this track however, it was a chopped-up recording of a music box that already had a bit of noise in it, so I just tried my best to exaggerate that, and also even added some "manual clicks" by playing in some filtered percussion that I then used as sidechain on the music box to make it sound like it was cutting out whenever the clicks were heard.
...Hmmm that sounds crazy complicated now that I try to explain it! I guess the short answer is that it's not any particular VST, but more like you say filtering/adding noise etc. I even have a small library of recordings of various noise/static that I'll mix in every now and then, although I think I sometimes tend to go a little overboard with these things!
Btw, I love talking about this kinda stuff, thanks for asking! I'm also still playing around with the drum bus you shared. Fascinating and good fun! 
Sub Delay wrote:
Perplex On wrote:beautiful atmosphere. Just love the way how you manage to melt these "aged vintage" sounds with the wonderfully open pads. (btw. how do you manage to create these "aged" sounds like in the beginning. Are you using a special vst and/or are you doing it manually by filtering, adding noise, crackling etc.?). Regardless it sounds so wonderful.
wow! Thank you so much for your extended answer and sharing some of your techniques. It gave me a real flash of inspiration! Fantastic!
Thank you so much! Regarding the "aged sounds", I guess I sort of try out different techniques from track to track...
For example for the intro to Box Klavir, I recorded some stuff using softsynths, and then played it into the room through my speakers, while recording the result back in with a mono microphone I had sitting on my desk just to make it sound...well "crappier" I guess
For the part you mention in this track however, it was a chopped-up recording of a music box that already had a bit of noise in it, so I just tried my best to exaggerate that, and also even added some "manual clicks" by playing in some filtered percussion that I then used as sidechain on the music box to make it sound like it was cutting out whenever the clicks were heard.
...Hmmm that sounds crazy complicated now that I try to explain it!
Btw, I love talking about this kinda stuff, thanks for asking! I'm also still playing around with the drum bus you shared. Fascinating and good fun!
wow! Thank you so much for your extended answer and sharing some of your techniques. It gave me a real flash of inspiration! Fantastic!
Thank you so much!