Hi people, hi Mister Fox,
I occasionally take a look at whats happening on mix challenge, since I've been a song provider in the actual
mix challenge for a few times and really enjoyed that. So when I now stumbled across this months songwriting competition I kinda wanted to join, so that's what I did
However, I should have actually worked on other projects, so I decided to squeeze this into a 3 hour limit, so it's a little rough, but that has it's own advantages.
MP3:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xlgqioib0w4cd ... e.mp3?dl=1
WAV:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/kfwonpovowmy6 ... e.wav?dl=1
I kept a lot of the samples I used in a state close to their origin. Partly because of my time limit, but even more because this community scramble pack is NUTS!! So many unique and crazy sounds, I love it. So I kinda wanted to implement some of the raw nature of the sounds.
I briefly went through all samples and colored them according to my general color scheme (expl.: drums=green, bass=brown etc.). I just went by my gut feeling as to what I could use things for and so that I get a better idea of what is available. I then decided to give the track a strong groovy beat as a backbone so I can go crazy on everything else. I chopped up single one shots out of everything I marked green(=drums), made a kick first by layering some of the fitting samples together and cleaned them up a bit, and then I threw every other one shot percussion I found into a sampler. I started with the kick pattern and added th rest on top. In order to get a unique sound, but overall coherent, i threw a really really short room reverb on all of the percussion hits. I worked at night and couldn't check on speakers so I may regret that later, but who cares.
Now to the main things you can hear besides that:
Bass(ish)
That one was kinda already there. I cleaned it up a bit and actually left the timing exactly as it is. I added some saturation on top.
Whooshy Lead
There's one sample with a starting motorcycle in which that sound was in. I cleaned away as much of the motorcycle as I could with RX and then went for the loudest of the sounds I wanted, so they were isolated enough. Then I randomly threw them over what I had and just tweaked it a bit.
Laughing(ish) sound
That was a snuffling dog with just a bunch of aggressive processing. That I played back and forth (reverse). Formant shifting, 2 octaves up, formant filtering and a bit of automation with volume, eq and pitch.
Pad
Went a little crazy here, because I didn't want to pick one of the obvious samples as a harmonic element. So that's the coffee maker. I EQ'd, used reverb, pitch shifting, tuning, threw it into a sampler, added vibrato and tremolo, more reverb, more pitch shifting, more reverb and saturation.
I think that's it. Now I'm very very curious about the other productions!
